Peter D. Drummond
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Peter D. Drummond

Position

  • ACQAO Science Director at UQ
  • Professor of Theoretical Physics

Qualifications

  • BSc (Hons)
  • AM
  • D. Phil.


Contact Details

ARC Centre for Quantum-Atom Optics and Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy, Swinburne University of Technology, PO Box 218, Melbourne, VIC 3122 Australia.


Tel: (+613) 92 148 043
Personal Webpage
Email: pdrummondswin.edu.au

Research Interests

  • Quantum many-body theory
  • Quantum Optics
  • Computational Physics
  • Condensed Matter: BEC and Atom Lasers
  • Quantum Solitons
  • Photonics and Information
  • Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
  • Quantum Representation Methods

Selected Publications

  • Critical quantum fluctuations in the degenerate parametric oscillator. P.D. Drummond, K. Dechoum and S. Chaturvedi, Phys. Rev. A 65, 033806 (2002).
  • Superchemistry: dynamics of coupled atomic and molecular Bose-Einstein condensates. D.J. Heinzen, R.H. Wynar, P.D. Drummond, and K.V. Kheruntsyan, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 5029 (2000).
  • Quantum dynamics of evaporatively cooled Bose-Einstein condensates. P.D. Drummond, J.F. Corney, Phys. Rev. A 60, R2661 (1999).
  • Multidimensional parametric quantum solitons. K.V. Kheruntsyan and P.D. Drummond, Phys. Rev. A 58, R2676 (1998).
  • Coherent molecular solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates. P.D.Drummond, K.V. Kheruntsyan, and H. He, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 3055 (1998).
  • Robust algorithms for solving stochastic partial differential equations. M.J. Werner and P.D. Drummond, J. Comp. Phys. 132, 312-326 (1997).
  • Quantum correlations of phase in non-degenerate parametric oscillation. M.D. Reid and P.D. Drummond, Phys. Rev. Letters. 60, 2731 (1988).
  • Squeezing of quantum solitons. S.J. Carter, M.D. Reid, R.M. Shelby and P.D. Drummond. Phys. Rev. Lett. 58, 1841 (1987).
  • Violations of Bell's inequality in cooperative states. P.D. Drummond, Phys. Rev. Lett. 50, 1407 (1983).
  • Generalized P-representations in quantum optics. P.D. Drummond and C.W. Gardiner, J. Phys. A 13, 2353 (1980).
 
 

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