Dr P Blair Blakie
Associate Professor
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Research
Link to my Research Group Page
Areas of research Interest:
Theory of ultra-cold atoms.
- Finite temperature techniques for dilute Bose gases
- Dipolar quantum gases
- Spinor quantum gases
- Optical lattices
- Low dimensional quantum gases
Computational Physics.
Selected Publications:
- Direct simulation Monte Carlo method for cold atom dynamics: classical Boltzmann equation in the quantum collision regime, A. C. J. Wade, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 84, 023612 (2011)
- Finite temperature stability of a trapped dipolar Bose gas, R. N. Bisset, D. Baillie, and P.B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 83, 061602(R) (2011)
- Thermally induced coherence in a Mott insulator of bosonic atoms, E. Toth and P.B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 83, 021601(R) (2011)
- Critical temperature of a Bose gas in an optical lattice, D. Baillie and P. B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 80, 031603(R) (2009)
- Quasi-condensation and coherence in the quasi-two-dimensional trapped Bose gas, R.N. Bisset, M.J. Davis, T.P. Simula, and P.B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033626 (2009)
- Dynamics and statistical mechanics of ultra-cold Bose gases using c-field techniques, P. B. Blakie, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, R. J. Ballagh, and C. W. Gardiner, Adv. Phys. 57, 363 (2008)
- Numerical method for evolving the projected Gross-Pitaevskii equation, P. Blair Blakie, Phys. Rev. E 78, 026704 (2008)
- Mean-field phase diagram of cold lattice bosons in disordered potentials, P. Buonsante, V. Penna, A. Vezzani, and P. B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 76, 011602(R) (2007)
- Critical temperature of a trapped Bose gas: comparison of theory and experiment, M. J. Davis and P. B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060404 (2006)
- Thermal activation of vortex-antivortex pairs in quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensates,T.P. Simula and P. Blair Blakie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020404 (2006).
- Projected Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for harmonically confined Bose gases at finite temperature, P. Blair Blakie and Matthew J. Davis, Phys. Rev. A 72, 063608 (2005).