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Prof. Peter Hannaford   Emeritus Professor

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Areas:
Physics
Centre for Atom Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy
Office:
EN134
Phone:
+61 3 9214 5164
Fax:
+61 3 9214 5160
E-Mail:
phannaford@swin.edu.au
Campus:
Hawthorn
Faculty of Engineering & Industrial Sciences (H34)
Swinburne University of Technology
PO Box 218
Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122
Australia

Projects

  • BEC on a chip
  • magnetic lattices
  • quantum coherence
  • molecular BEC
  • high harmonic generation
  • ultrafast spectroscopy.

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

NameDegreeResearch CentreStart yearRole
Christopher HallPhDCAOUS2007Associate Supervisor
Ba Khuong DinhPhDCAOUS2008Associate Supervisor
Mikhail EgorovPhDCAOUS2008Associate Supervisor
Smitha JosePhDCAOUS2008Primary Supervisor
Evelyn CannonPhDCAOUS2009Primary Supervisor
Valentin IvannikovPhDCAOUS2009Associate Supervisor
Gethin RichardsPhDCAOUS2010Primary Supervisor
Sascha HoinkaPhDCAOUS2010Co-Supervisor
Prince Kurumthodathu SurendranPhDCAOUS2010Primary Supervisor
Naylyn GaffneyPhDCAOUS2011Co-Supervisor
Marcus LinghamPhDCAOUS2011Co-Supervisor
Hoang Vu Le PhDCAOUS2011Co-Supervisor

Previously Supervised higher degree by research (HDR) students

NameDegreeResearch CentreScholarshipStart yearRole
Eva KuhnlePhDCAOUS2007Associate Supervisor

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Matter Wave Interferometry on an Atom Chip
The research project is aimed at the production of degenerate quantum gases on a microwire chip, the development of double-well atom interferometer and studies of coherence of matter waves. The project is a part of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics and is well equipped with top-performance diode lasers, a versatile computer control and a sophisticated imaging CCD system.

Magnetic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms
This project aims to use a novel approach based on magnetic lattices created by patterned magnetic films on an atom chip to study quantum phenomena associated with the tunnelling of ultracold atoms and BECs between lattice sites

Media

  • Swinburne researchers produce isolated 2D Fermi gas

    Swinburne researchers produce isolated 2D Fermi gas

    Researchers at Swinburne’s Centre for Atom-Optics and Ultrafast Spectroscopy have recently succeeded in producing a two-dimensional Fermi gas of ultracold atoms.

  • Photosynthesis comes into the light

    Photosynthesis comes into the light

    In one-quadrillionth of a second a plant can take the sun’s light and transfer it to the chlorophyll molecules (which give the plant its green pigmentation) in its light-harvesting centre.

  • Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools

    Disease arms-race looks to powerful new X-ray tools

    If you slice a second into a million billion femtoseconds, then 20 femtoseconds would be proportionate to the duration of a single eye blink within the 300,000 years since humans diverged from Neanderthals. It is an unimaginably brief timespan.
  • Atom chip to open frontiers unknown

    Atom chip to open frontiers unknown

    In an ultrahigh-vacuum chamber at Swinburne University of Technology, a million ultracold rubidium-87 atoms hover just beneath the surface of a silicon chip coated with a thin magneto-optical film.

Selected Publications

  1. One dimensional lattice of permanent magnetic microtraps for ultracold atoms on an atom chip
    M. Singh, M. Volk, A. Akulshin, A. Sidorov, R. McLean and P. Hannaford, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 41, 065301 (2008). arXiv 0801.0642
  2. Molecular Bose-Einstein condensation in a versatile low power crossed dipole trap
    J. Fuchs, G.J. Duffy, G. Veeravalli, P. Dyke, M. Bartenstein, C.J. Vale, P. Hannaford and W.J. Rowlands, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 40, 4109-4118 (2007)
  3. Condensate splitting in an asymmetric double well for atom chip based sensors
    B.V. Hall, S. Whitlock, R. Anderson, P. Hannaford and A.I. Sidorov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 030402 (2007).
  4. Effect of magnetisation inhomogeneity on magnetic traps for atoms
    S. Whitlock, B.V. Hall, T. Roach, R. Anderson, M. Volk, P. Hannaford and A.I. Sidorov, Phys. Rev. A 75, 043602 (2007).
  5. Permanent magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms and quantum degenerate gases.
    Saeed Ghanbari, Tien D Kieu, Andrei Sidorov and Peter Hannaford, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 847-860 (2006).
  6. A permanent magnetic film atom chip for Bose-Einstein condensation.
    B.R. Hall, S. Whitlock, F. Scharnberg, P. Hannaford and A.I. Sidorov, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 39, 27-36 (2006).
  7. Spectrally resolved two-colour femtosecond photon echoes.
    L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, in Femtosecond Laser Spectroscopy (Ed. P. Hannaford), Ch 8, pp. 197-224, Springer (2005).
  8. Spectrally resolved femtosecond two-colour three-pulse photon echoes: study of ground and excited state dynamics in molecules.
    L.V. Dao, C.N. Lincoln, R.M. Lowe and P. Hannaford, J. Chem. Phys. 120, 8434-8442 (2004).
  9. Permanent magnet microstructures for atom optics.
    A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, F. Scharnberg, D.S. Gough, T.J. Davis, B.A. Sexton, G.I. Opat and P. Hannaford, Acta Physica Polonica B 33, 2137-2155 (2002).
  10. Sub-Doppler laser cooling of fermionic 40K atoms.
    G. Modugno, C. Benko, P. Hannaford, G. Roati and M. Inguscio, Phys. Rev. A 60, R3373-6 (1999).
  11. Reflection of cold atoms from an array of current carrying conductors.
    D.C. Lau, A.I. Sidorov, G.I. Opat, R.J. McLean, W.J. Rowlands and P. Hannaford, Eur. Phys. J. D 5, 193-9 (1999).
  12. Specular refection of cold caesium atoms from a magnetostatic mirror.
    A.I. Sidorov, R.J. McLean, G.I. Opat, W.J. Rowlands, D.C. Lau, J.E. Murphy, M. Walkiewicz and P. Hannaford, Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 8, 713-25 (1996).
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