Andrew Hilliard

Dr Andrew Hilliard

BABSc (Auckland) , MSc (Auckland), PhD (Niels Bohr Institute).

Postdoctoral Fellow

Room: 512

Biography

I am an experimental physicist with background in the trapping and manipulation of neutral atoms.  For my PhD, I participated in the construction of experimental apparatus to generate Bose Einstein condensates in Rubidium 87, and conducted experiments on superradiant Rayleigh scattering by the condensate.  Presently, I am working in the group of Mikkel Andersen on an experiment to trap and probe low numbers of atoms in microscopic optical dipole traps.

Research areas

  • Neutral atoms in microscopic dipole traps
  • Bose-Einstein Condensation
  • Quantum Chaos

Publications

  • Near-deterministic preparation of a single atom in an optical microtrap, T. Grünzweig, A. Hilliard, M. McGovern and M. F. Andersen, Nat. Phys. doi:10.1038/nphys1778 (2010). - [link] 
  • A fidelity treatment of near-resonant states in the atom-optics kicked rotor ,
    P. McDowall, A. Hilliard, M. McGovern, M. F. Andersen, New J. Phys, 11, 123021   (2009) [link]
  • Rayleigh superradiance and dynamic Bragg gratings in an end-pumped Bose-Einstein condensate, A. Hilliard, F. Kaminski, R. le Targat, C. Olausson, E. S. Polzik, and J. H. Müller , Phys. Rev. A 78, 051403 (2008) [link]
  • PhD Thesis: Collective Rayleigh Scattering in a Bose Einstein Condensate [link]