General Information

• Position: Associate Professor 
  
• E-mail: rafael.delamadrid@lamar.edu  
  
• Phone: 409-880-7889 
• Office: Archer 109  

Education

• PhD: University of Valladolid  
• MS: University of Valladolid  
• BS: University of Valladolid 

Links

• Personal Webpage: http://galaxy.cs.lamar.edu/~rafaelm/

Selected Publications (* denotes undergraduate collaborator): 

Theoretical Physics: 

R. de la Madrid, The Gamow and the Fermi Golden Rules, Nucl. Phys. A (accepted for publication)

R. de la Madrid, Time as a dynamical variable in quantum decay, Nucl. Phys. A 913, 217 (2013)

R. de la Madrid, The resonance amplitude associated with the Gamow states, Nucl. Phys. A 812, 13 (2008)

Wetting Phenomena: 

R. de la Madrid, C. Gregory*, H. Luong,* T. Stuck*, On the Lack of Influence of Contact Area on the Solid-Liquid Lateral Retention Force, Colloids Surf. A: Physiochem. Eng. Asp. 672, 131729 (2023)

R. de la Madrid, H. Luong,* J. Zumwalt*, New insights into the capillary retention force and the work of adhesion, Colloids Surf. A: Physiochem. Eng. Asp. 637, 128195 (2022)

R.de la Madrid, F. Garza,* J. Kirk,* H. Luong,* L. Snowden,* J. Taylor,* B. Vizena*, Comparison of the lateral retention forces on sessile, pendant, and inverted sessile drops, Langmuir 35, 2871 (2019)

Mathematical Physics: 

R. de la Madrid, The rigged Hilbert space approach to the Gamow states, J. Math. Phys. 53, 102113 (2012)

R. de la Madrid, The rigged Hilbert space approach to the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. Part II, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 3981 (2006)

R. de la Madrid, The rigged Hilbert space approach to the Lippmann-Schwinger equation. Part I, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 39, 3949 (2006)

R. de la Madrid, The role of the rigged Hilbert space in Quantum Mechanics, Eur. J. Phys. 26, 287 (2005)

R. de la Madrid, Rigged Hilbert space approach to the Schrodinger equation, J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 35, 319 (2002)