VSSUP 2012

Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics

Workshop coordinators

Joachim Brand
Massey University, NZ

Kristian Helmerson
Monash University

Andy Martin
The University of Melbourne

Peter Drummond
Swinburne University of Technology

Presenter Topic
Kenneth Baldwin

(pdf) Atom optics with metastable Helium

(pdf) Metastable Helium BEC

(pdf) Quantum statistics, coherence, and correlations

(pdf) Coherence and correlation experiments at ANU
Joachim Brand

Physics of ultracold Bose gases in one-dimensional and ring traps:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lectures 2 and 3

(pdf) Variational quantum dynamics

Peter Drummond

Gaussian phase-space representations:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2
(pdf) Lecture 3
(pdf) Lecture 4

Michael Egorov

Dimensional reduction in single-component BECs:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2

Simon Haine

Basic quantum field theory for atoms:
(pdf) (keynote) Lecture
(pdf) Problem set

Maarten Hoogerland

Atom-laser interactions and optical lattices:
(odp) (pdf) Lecture 1
(odp) (pdf) Lecture 2
(odp) (pdf) Lecture 3

Chaohong Li

(pdf) Nonlinear quantum interferometry with Bose condensed atoms

Xiaji Liu

(pdf) Main lecture set:

  • BCS mean field theory
  • High temperature virial expansion
  • Spin-orbit coupled ultracold fermi gases

(pdf) (ppt) Probing and manipulating Majorana Fermions

Andy Martin

Emulation of condensed matter:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2
(pdf) Lecture 3
(pdf) Lecture 4

Bogdan Opanchuk

PyCuda workshop:
(pdf) Lecture
(zip) Scripts

Margaret Reid

Quantum entanglement and nonlocality:
(pdf) Lectures 1 and 2
(pdf) Lectures 3 and 4
(pdf) Lecture handout
(pdf) N. D. Mermin's article

Andrei Sidorov

Laser cooling of atoms:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2

Bosonic Josephson junctions:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2

Tapio Simula

Basic BEC theory:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2

Vorticity in superfluids:
(pdf) Lecture 1
(pdf) Lecture 2

Chris Vale

(pdf) Ultracold Fermi gases

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