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My research is currently centred around the field of Bose-Einstein
condensation and atom optics. A Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)
is a relatively new state of matter first observed in 1995 (and which
won the Nobel
Prize
in
Physics in 2001). They form at ultra-cold
temperatures and have similar properties to light from a laser.
One intriguing
possibility is the creation of the atom laser, which will be able to be
used in ultra-precise measurement devices.
Current research interests can be roughly divided into the following
areas:
- Dynamical
simulations of thermal Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs)
- Finite temperature excitations of
Bose-condensed gases.
- Evans-Rashid
transition in a trapped Bose gas with attractive interactions ('BCS for
bosons').
- Quantum dynamical
simulations for BEC in optical lattices
- Quantum phase
transition of an attractive Bose gas on a 1D ring
- Dynamics of
collapse and soliton formation in attractive BEC
- Quantum chaos
with BECs (in collaboration with the BEC experimental group)
I
am looking for students to work in all of these areas - either for
summer, honours, M.Sc. or Ph.D. projects. Please email me if you are
interested .
I am currently principal advisor
for the following students
- Chris Foster
(PhD) - 2D Bose gases
- Geoff Lee (PhD) - Pumped atom laser
- Mike Garrett (PhD) - Critical
exponents of trapped Bose gases
- Jacopo Sabbatini (PhD) - Defects in
ultracold gases
- Chao Feng (PhD) - Quantum
fluctuations and critical velocity of Bose gases
These students have graduated:
Current and recent
collaborators include:
- Blair
Blakie, University of Otago, New Zealand.
- Brian
Anderson, University of Arizona, USA.
- Ashton
Bradley, University of
Otago, New Zealand
- Crispin
Gardiner, University of Otago, New Zealand.
- Rob
Ballagh, University of Otago, New Zealand
- David Roberts, Los Alamos
National Laboratory, USA.
- David
Hutchinson, University of Otago, New Zealand.
- Joe Hope,
Australian National University, Canberra.
- Elena
Ostrovskaya, Australian National Univerisity,
Canberra.
- Sebastian
Wuester, Max Planck Institute, Dresden.
- Beata
Dabrowska, Massey University, Auckland.
- Brenton
Hall, Swinburne University of
Technology, Melbourne.
- Chris
Vale, Swinburne University of
Technology, Melbourne.
- Andrew
Wilson, University of Otago, New Zealand.
- Sam Morgan,
University College London, United Kingdom.
- Keith Burnett,
University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
as well as other
researchers at the University of Queensland.
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