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Quantum Mechanical 'Hurricanes'
9 March 2009
ACQAO scientists at the University of Queensland, Dr Matt Davis and Ashton Bradley, together with their colleagues at the University of Arizona have discovered that when an ultracold gas of atoms gets cold enough, it can spontaneously spin up into what might be described as quantum mechanical twisters or hurricanes. The Queensland and Arizona researchers are reporting the results of theresearch in the journal Nature. |
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Does distance make the heart grow fonder?
27 April 2008
Theorists Andrew Sykes, Matt Davis and Karen Kheruntsyan alongside Dimitri Gangardt from the University of Birmingham have generated a finite temperature phase diagram of the second-order correlation function, in a system of interacting bosons confined to move in one spatial dimension. |
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Stephanie Golding awarded UQ General Staff Prize 2008
27 April 2008
Stephanie Golding, administrator for the UQ node, has been
studying the classics and last year completed her degree. Not only
that, but she has now been awarded the 2008 UQ General Staff Prize -
for the general staff member with the best results throughout their
degree. |
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Thermal quantum physics in Lineland
9 March 2008
A team of researchers from the Netherlands and Australia has succeeded in comparing the temperature and the density of a one-dimensional quantum gas to an exact theory that was developed back in 1969 by C. N. Yang and C. P. Yang. |
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