Prof. Peter Drummond   Professor

Qualifications

• 1979 D. Phil., Waikato University, New Zealand
• 1974 A.M., Harvard University, U.S.A.
• 1970 B.Sc.Hons (1st Class) University of Auckland, New Zealand

Expertise and Research Interests

• Over 205 research papers have been published or accepted in refereed journals, with over 7000 ISI citations and a Hirsch h–index of 43.
• Current research is in three areas:
  • Ultra–cold atomic physics: a new interdisciplinary field, at the intersection of atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics, and computational physics. The field is driven by an unprecedented level of experimental control of ultra–cold degenerate Bose and Fermi systems, at temperatures less than a millionth of a degree Kelvin. These lead to new applications in precision measurement and quantum simulation.
  • Quantum information: this field includes fundamental tests of quantum mechanics, macroscopic quantum paradoxes, quantum memories and nanomechanics.
  • Bio–informatics: This work involves novel interdisciplinary applications of computational methods in biology. The challenge of tracking the statistics of rapidly mutating RNA viruses like HIV provide an excellent application of modeling techniques taken from physics, and can be tested with available data.
• Theoretical techniques used include novel operator representations that map quantum dynamics into stochastic equations on a generalized phase–space. These methods are well–suited to current parallel computing technology, and have applications to a wide range of complex physical, chemical and biological systems, including photonics, condensed matter, Bose–Einstein condensates, strongly–correlated fermions, astrophysics, nano–chemical reactions and biophysics.

Fellowships, Prizes and Awards

• 2008 Boas medal of Australian Institute of Physics
• 2007 Moyal medal of Macquarie University
• 2004 Massey medal: highest award of Australian Institute of Physics
• 2003 Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science
• 2002 German Humboldt Research Award (Humboldtpreis)
• 2001 Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics
• 2000 Fellow of the American Physical Society
• 2000, 1999 UQ EPSA Faculty Most Effective Teacher award
• 1972 Harvard University Teaching Fellow
• 1971 Harvard University Frank Knox Fellow, US Fulbright Scholar, NZ Postgraduate Scholar
• 1970 Auckland University Physics Prize

Professional Activities

• 2009 Visiting Professor, Heidelberg University, Germany
• 2007 Visiting Professor, Ecole Normale Superieure, France
• 2002 Humboldt Fellow, Erlangen University, Germany
• 2000 Joint Editor, CCP2000 Conference Proceedings
• 1998 Participant, Institute for Theoretical Physics Workshop on BEC, USA
• 1994 Visiting Professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand
• 1992 Visiting Scientist, IBM Research Laboratories, San Jose, USA
• 1992 Visiting Scientist, NTT Basic Research Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan
• 1988 Inaugural member, Editorial Board, Quantum Optics Journal, UK

Research Grants (last eight years)

• 2009 NZ Marsden Grant ($NZ611k)
• 2008 Australian Professorial Fellowship (Discovery) Grant (A$629k)
• 2008–2010 ARC Center of Excellence Grant: researchers from UQ, ANU, SUT (A$6M)
• 2007 ARC Discovery Grant (A$278k), ARC Linkage International Grant (A$68k)
• 2003–2007 ARC Center of Excellence Grant: researchers from UQ, ANU, SUT (A$11M)
• 2002 Humboldt Research Award, Australian Professorial Fellowship (Discovery) Grant (A$602k), UQ Research Development Grant (A$25k)

Organizational Experience

• UQ Director, Australian Centre for Quantum–Atom Optics
• Australian representative for Computational Physics Commission, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP).
• Deputy Director, UQ Centre for Mathematical Physics
• Chairman: Organizing Committee, Workshop on Bose–Einstein Condensation and Quantum Information BECQI’03 (Caloundra, 2003)
• Chairman: Organizing Committee, Computational Physics Conference CCP2000 (Brisbane, 2000)
• Joint Chairman, Quantum Optics Conference (Cairns, 1996)

International Summer schools

• Australia (ACQAO Summer school, 2004)
• Brazil (Summer school in Laser Physics, Belo Horizonte, 2004)
• Australia (Summer school on BEC, 2000)
• Sweden (Nordic Summer School on Nonlinear Optics, 1996)
• Mexico (III Photonics Workshop in Oaxtepec, Mexico 1993).

Supervision of higher degree by research (HDR) (Current students)

Name	Degree	Research Centre	Start year	Role	Institution
Bogdan Opanchuk	PhD	CAOUS	2009	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne
Iurii Mordovin	PhD	CAOUS	2011	Associate Supervisor	Swinburne
Rodney Polkinghorne	PhD	CAOUS	2011	Primary Supervisor	Swinburne

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Quantum Dynamics with Phase-space Representations
The focus in this research will be towards quantum dynamics of highly entangled, undamped quantum systems as well as dissipative systems.

Invited Conference Papers (Last 5 years)

2011

• Strongly Coupled Coulomb Systems Conference, Budapest, Hungary.
• Winter Conference, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Scheffau, Austria
• Workshop on Frontiers in Ultracold Fermi Gases, Trieste, Italy

2010

• 6th Cross–Strait and International Conference on Quantum Manipulation, Beijing, China
• International Symposium on Quantum Dynamics of Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Technologies, Guangzhou, China
• International Workshop on nonequilibrium quantum many–particle correlated systems, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• NSA10: The 4th Shanghai International Symposium On Nonlinear Sciences and Applications, Xuzhou – Shanghai, China
• APCQIS5: The 5th Asia Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science, Taiyuan, China.

2009

• FFP10: Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics, Perth, Australia.
• FINESS: Finite Temperature Nonequilibrium Superfluid Systems, Durham, UK.
• PQE09: Physics of Quantum Electronics, Utah, USA.

2008

• ICAP2008: International Concerence on Atomic Physics, Connecticut USA.
• AIP2008: Australian Institute of Physics 18th National Congress, Adelaide, Australia.
• Quantum–Atom Optics Beyond Bells, Victoria, Australia.
• Nonlinear Waves – Theory and Applications, Beijing, China.
• EQD2008: Workshop on Entanglement and Quantum Decoherence, Nara, Japan.

2007

• PQE07: Physics of Quantum Electronics, Utah, USA.
• QMPA07: The 1st International Symposium on Quantum Manipulation of Photons and Atoms, Beijing, China.
• CQO07: Coherence and Quantum Optics Conference, Rochester, New York.
• APWQIS: Fourth Asia Pacific Workshop on Quantum Information Science, Singapore.

Publications: Refereed Journals, last five years

2011

1. M. Egorov, R. P. Anderson, V. Ivannikov, B. Opanchuk, P. D. Drummond, B. V. Hall, and A. I. Sidorov, “Long–lived periodic revivals of coherence in an interacting Bose–Einstein condensate”, Phys. Rev. A 84, 021605 (2011).
2. Q. Y. He, Shi–Guo Peng, P. D. Drummond, and M. D. Reid, “Planar quantum squeezing and atom interferometry”, Phys. Rev. A 84, 022107 (2011).
3. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, and P. D. Drummond, “Comparison between theory and experiment for universal thermodynamics of a homogeneous, strongly correlated Fermi gas”, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063610 (2011).
4. Shi–Guo Peng, Shi–Qun Li, P. D. Drummond and Xia–Ji Liu, “High temperature thermodynamics of strongly interacting s–wave and p–wave Fermi gases in a harmonic trap”, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063618 (2011).
5. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, P. D. Drummond, “Universal contact of strongly interacting fermions at finite temperatures”, New J. Phys. 13, 035007 (2011).
6. Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, C. Gross, M. Oberthaler, P. D. Drummond, “EPR entanglement strategies in two–well Bose–Einstein Condensates”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 120405 (2011).
7. Q. Y. He, P. D. Drummond, and M. D. Reid, “Entanglement, EPR steering and Bell – nonlocality criteria for multipartite higher spin systems”, Phys. Rev. A 83, 032120 (2011).

2010

8. Shi–Guo Peng, Seyyed S. Bohloul, Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “Confinementinduced resonance in quasi–one–dimensional systems under transversely anisotropic confinement”, Phys. Rev. A 82, 063633 (2010).
9. P. D. Drummond, T. G. Vaughan, A. J. Drummond, “Extinction Times in Autocatalytic Systems”, J. Phys. Chem. A 114, 10481 (2010).
10. X.–J. Liu, H. Hu and P. D. Drummond, “Exact few–body results for strongly correlated quantum gases in two dimensions”, Phys. Rev. B 82, 054524 (2010).
11. E. D. Kuhnle, H. Hu, X.–J. Liu, P. Dyke, M. Mark, P. D. Drummond, P. Hannaford and C. J. Vale, “Universal behavior of pair correlations in a strongly interacting Fermi gas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 070402 (2010).
12. Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “Three attractively interacting fermions in a harmonic trap: Exact solution, ferromagnetism, and high–temperature thermodynamics”, Phys. Rev. A 82, 023619 (2010).
13. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu and P. D. Drummond, “Static structure factor of a strongly correlated Fermi gas at large momenta”, Europhysics Letters 91, 20005 (2010).
14. H. Dong, Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu and P. D. Drummond, “Mean field study of itinerant ferromagnetism in trapped ultracold Fermi gases: Beyond the local density approximation”, Phys. Rev. A 82, 013627 (2010).
15. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, P. D. Drummond and Hui Dong, “Pseudo–gap pairing in ultracold Fermi atoms”, Physical Review Letters 104, 240407 (2010).
16. Q. Y. He, E. G. Cavalcanti, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond, “Bell inequalities for continuousvariable measurements”, Physical Review A 81, 062106 (2010).
17. H. Hu, X.–J. Liu and P. D. Drummond, “Universal thermodynamics of a strongly interacting Fermi gas: theory versus experiment”, New J. Phys. 12, 063038 (2010).
18. H. Hu, X.–J. Liu and P. D. Drummond, “Dynamic response of strongly correlated Fermi gases in the quantum virial expansion”, Phys Rev A 81, 033630 (2010).
19. T. G. Vaughan, P. D. Drummond, A. J. Drummond, “A retrodictive stochastic simulation algorithm”, J. Comp. Physics 229, 3777 ( 2010).
20. X.–J. Liu, H. Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “High temperature thermodynamics for a strongly correlated Fermi gas”, Physics (in Chinese) 39, 203 (2010).

2009

21. M. D. Reid, P. D. Drummond, W. P. Bowen, E. G. Cavalcanti, P. K. Lam, H. A. Bachor, U. L. Andersen, G. Leuchs, “The Einstein–Podolsky–Rosen paradox: from concepts to applications”, Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 1727 (2009).
22. P. D. Drummond, Hui Hu and Xia–Ji Liu, “Theory of strongly interacting Fermi gases”, Journal of Modern Optics 56, 2076–2081 (2009).
23. Q. Y. He, E. G. Cavalcanti, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond, “Testing for Multipartite Quantum Nonlocality Using Functional Bell Inequalities”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 180402 (2009).
24. E. G. Cavalcanti, P. D. Drummond, H. A. Bachor, and M. D. Reid, “Spin entanglement, decoherence and Bohm’s EPR paradox”, Optics Express 17, 18693 (2009).
25. Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond, “Digital quantum memories with symmetric pulses”, Optics Express 17, 9662 (2009).
26. X.–J. Liu, H. Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “Virial Expansion for a Strongly Correlated Fermi Gas”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 160401 (2009).
27. P. Deuar, A. G. Sykes, D. M. Gangardt, M. J. Davis, P. D. Drummond , and K. V. Kheruntsyan, “Nonlocal pair correlations in the one–dimensional Bose gas at finite temperature”, Phys. Rev. A 79, 043619 (2009).
28. Q. Y. He, M. D. Reid, E. Giacobino, J. Cviklinski, and P. D. Drummond, “Dynamical oscillatorcavity model for quantum memories”, Phys. Rev. A 79, 022310 (2009).

2008

29. D. W. Barry and P. D. Drummond, “Qubit phase space: SU(n) coherent–state P representations”, Phys. Rev. A 78, 052108 (2008).
30. Timothy Vaughan, P. D. Drummond, “Gerd Leuchs, Quantum limits to center–of–mass measurements (Erratum)”, Phys. Rev. A 78, 019904 (2008).
31. J. F. Corney, J. Heersink, R. F. Dong, V. Josse, P. D. Drummond, G. Leuchs, U. L. Andersen, “Simulations and experiments on polarization squeezing in optical fiber”, Phys. Rev. A. 78, 023831 (2008).
32. Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “Finite temperature phase diagram of a spin–polarized ultracold Fermi gas in a highly elongated harmonic trap”, Phys. Rev. A 78, 023601 (2008).
33. Scott E. Hoffmann, Joel F. Corney, and P. D. Drummond, “Hybrid phase–space simulation method for interacting Bose fields”, Phys. Rev. A 78, 013622 (2008).
34. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, P. D. Drummond, “Comparative study of strong–coupling theories of a trapped Fermi gas at unitarity”, Phys. Rev. A 77, 061605 (2008).
35. Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu, P. D. Drummond, “Multi–component strongly attractive Fermi gas: a color superconductor in a one–dimensional harmonic trap”, Phys. Rev. A 77, 013622 (2008).
36. Ruifang Dong, Joel Heersink, Joel F. Corney, P. D. Drummond, “Ulrik L. Andersen, and Gerd Leuchs, Experimental evidence for Raman–induced limits to efficient squeezing in optical fibers”, Optics Letters 33, 116 (2008).

2007

37. A. G. Sykes, P. D. Drummond and M. J. Davis, “Excitation spectrum of bosons in a finite onedimensional circular waveguide via the Bethe ansatz”, Phys. Rev. A 76, 063620 (2007).
38. Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu and P. D. Drummond, “Fulde–Ferrell–Larkin–Ovchinnikov states in one–dimensional spin–polarized ultracold atomic Fermi gases”, Phys. Rev. A 76, 043605 (2007).
39. P. D. Drummond, P. Deuar, T. G. Vaughan and J. F. Corney, “Quantum dynamics in phase space: from coherent states to the Gaussian representation”, J. Mod Optics 54, 2499 (2007).
40. E. G. Cavalcanti, C. J. Foster, M. D. Reid, and P. D. Drummond, “Bell inequalities for continuousvariables correlations”, Phys. Rev. Letts. 99, 210405 (2007).
41. P. D. Drummond, P. Deuar, and J. F. Corney, “Quantum Many–Body Simulations Using Gaussian Phase–Space Representations”, Optics and Spectroscopy 103, 7 (2007).
42. Hui Hu, P. D. Drummond, Xia–Ji Liu, “Universal thermodynamics of strongly interacting Fermi gases”, Nature Physics 3, 469 – 472 (2007).
43. Timothy Vaughan, P. D. Drummond, Gerd Leuchs, “Quantum limits to center–of–mass measurements”, Phys. Rev. A 75, 033617 (2007).
44. P. Deuar and P. D. Drummond, “Correlations in a BEC collision: First–principles quantum dynamics with 150,000 atoms”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 120402 (2007).
45. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, and P. D. Drummond, “Phase Diagram of a Strongly Interacting Polarized Fermi Gas in One Dimension”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070403 (2007).
46. Xia–Ji Liu, Hui Hu, and P. D. Drummond, “Mean–field thermodynamics of a spin–polarized spherically trapped Fermi gas at unitarity”, Phys. Rev. A 75, 023614 (2007).
47. Hui Hu, Xia–Ji Liu, P. D. Drummond, “Visualization of vortex bound states in polarized Fermi gases at unitarity”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 060406 (2007).
48. Mark R. Dowling, Matthew J. Davis, P. D. Drummond and Joel F. Corney, “Monte Carlo techniques for real–time quantum dynamics”, J. Comp. Phys. 220, 549 (2007).