Hi. Welcome to my website.

My name is Matt Kafker. I am a graduate student studying theoretical nuclear physics at the University of Washington. Before grad school, I got my B.S. in physics and math from the University of Oregon.

Please see below for a summary of my work, most of which has been done during my time in graduate school.

Feel free to click on other tabs for more informal stuff.

I’m always interested to hear from new people, so if anything here is interesting to you, feel free to reach out to me.

• email: mmkafker at gmail.com

• Youtube

Scientific Publications

Google Scholar

• “Non-Equilibrium Aspects of Fission Dynamics within the Time Dependent Density Functional Theory,” A. Bulgac, M. Kafker, I. Abdurrahman, I. Stetcu, https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.03546, (2024)

• “Quantum turbulence, superfluidity, non-Markovian dynamics, and wave function thermalization,” A. Bulgac, M. Kafker, I. Abdurrahman, G. Wlazlowski, Physical Review Research (2024), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.00926 (2024)

• “Neck rupture and scission neutrons in nuclear fission”, I. Abdurrahman, M. Kafker, A.. Bulgac, I. Stetcu, Physical Review Letters (2024), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.13132

• “Non-Markovian character and irreversibility of real-time quantum many-body dynamics,” A. Bulgac, M. Kafker, I. Abdurrahman, I. Stetcu, Physical Review C (2024), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.14962

• “Microscopic evidence for scission neutrons,” I. Abdurrahman, M. Kafker, A. Bulgac, I. Stetcu, EPJ Web of Conferences (2024)

• “Spatial orientation of the fission fragment intrinsic spins and their correlations,” G. Scamps, I. Abdurrahman, M. Kafker, A. Bulgac, I. Stetcu, Physical Review C Letter (2023), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.14455

• “Measures of complexity and entanglement in many-fermion systems,” A. Bulgac, M. Kafker, I. Abdurrahman, Physical Review C (2023), https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.04843

Research Talks

• Wolfram Summer School (2024)

• Wolfram Winter School (2024)

• Wolfram Summer School (2023)

• Wolfram Winter School (2023)

• Wolfram Summer School (2022)

• Wolfram Winter School (2022)

• Wolfram Summer School (2021)

Other Projects

• University of Oregon Physics Commencement Speech (2020)

Codes

• “HardSphereSimulation” in Mathematica/Wolfram Language

Press

• Oak Ridge National Lab News: Surprising Details in a More Precise Description of Fission , also posted here: https://phys.org/news/2024-10-tracking-nuclear-fission-elusive-scission.html