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Hi, I’m Dr. Andrew James Steinmetz! Welcome to my personal website where I share my projects, blogs, and research in physics. I’m a Global Professor in the Department of Physics at The University of Arizona, with a role at the Arizona College of Technology at the Hebei University of Technology in Tianjin, China. My work focuses on ⚛ quantum mechanics, 🌌 cosmology, and 🧲 electromagnetism.

Recent Publications

• Rafelski, J., Birrell, J., Grayson, C., 🌟Steinmetz, A., Yang, C. T. Quarks to Cosmos: Particles and Plasma in Cosmological evolution. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2025). 10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01470-w
• 🌟Steinmetz, A., Rafelski, J. Short Note on Spin Magnetization in QGP. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. (2025). 10.1140/epjs/s11734-025-01625-9
• Birrell, J., Formanek, M., 🌟Steinmetz, A., Yang, C. T., Rafelski, J. Fermi-Dirac Integrals in Degenerate Regimes: Novel Asymptotic Expansion. Int J Theor Phys 63, 163 (2024). 10.1007/s10773-024-05695-8

🔗 Links to publications and GitHub projects are provided.

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Blog Posts

• Nov 7, 2024

  Proving that SU(2) is compact (and other group theory bits)

• Oct 17, 2024

  Einstein's mass-energy and kinetic energy

• Oct 16, 2024

  Can we ever detect the graviton?