Dr Blair Blakie

Bsc(hons) PhD (Otago)

Associate Professor

• Phone: (03) 479 4114
• Email:

Current teaching

• PHSI231 Quantum and Thermal Physics
• PHSI131 Physical Law and its Applications (Mechanics I part)
• PHSI451 Statistical Mechanics and Condensed Matter

Research areas

• Bose-Einstein condensation
• Degenerate Fermi gases
• Quantum dipolar gases
• c-field methods

Current student supervisions

PhD.

• Mr Danny Baillie
• Mr Russell Bisset
• Mrs Emese Toth

Publications

• P. B. Blakie, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner, Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques, Advances in Physics 57, pp. 363-455 (2008).
• R. N. Bisset*, M. J. Davis, T. P. Simula, and P. B. Blakie, Quasi-condensation and coherence in the quasi-two-dimensional trapped Bose gas, Physical Review A 79, 033626 (8 pages) (2009).
• M. J. Davis and P. B. Blakie, Critical temperature of a trapped Bose gas: comparison of theory and experiment, Physical Review Letters 96, 060404 (4 pages) (2006).
• T. P. Simula and P. B. Blakie, Thermal activation of vortex-antivortex pairs in quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensates. Physical Review Letters 96, 020404 (4 pages) (2006).
• P. B. Blakie and R. J. Ballagh, Spatially Selective Bragg Scattering: A Signature for Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates. Physical Review Letters 86, 3930 (4 pages) (2001).

Administrative responsibilities

• University IT Advisory Committee
• Department Computer Committee
• Department Teaching Committee
• University Ozone Group

"Blair's research group"

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