Dr Ashton Bradley

PhD, VUW

Research Fellow (NZFRST)

• Room: 416
• Phone: (03) 479 4121
• Email:

Current teaching

• PHSI453 Advanced Quantum Mechanics

Research areas

• Link to Ashton
• Vortices in nonlinear quantum fluids
• Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii theory of high temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Synchronization and the Kuramoto model
• Toroidally trapped Bose gases
• The Kibble-Zurek mechanism of topological defect formation
• Generation of multi-partite entanglement
• Computational physics and numerical methods
• c-field techniques for the treatment of quantum problems using stochastic methods

Publications

• ArXiv preprints : - [link]
• Scale Invariant thermodynamics of a toroidally trapped Bose gas, A. S. Bradley, Physical Review A 79, 033624 (2009) - [link]
• Dynamical thermalization and vortex formation in stirred two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates, T. M. Wright, R. J. Ballagh, A. S. Bradley, P. B. Blakie, and C. W. Gardiner, Physical Review A 78, 063601 (2008) - [link]
• Dynamics and statistical mechanics of Bose gases using c-field techniques, P. B. Blakie, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, R. J. Ballagh, C. W. Gardiner, Advances in Physics 57, 363 (2008) - [link]
• Spontaneous vortices in the formation of Bose-Einstein condensates, C. N. Weiler, T. W. Neely, D. R. Scherer, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, and B. P. Anderson, Nature 455, 16 (2008) - [link]