Dr. David Hallwood (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics Bldg. 40, NZ Institute for Advanced Study Massey University (Albany Campus) Private Bag 102904 North Shore MSC, Auckland New Zealand Phone +64 9 414 0800 ext. 41527 Fax +64 9 443 9779 Email: D.W.Hallwood@massey.ac.nz Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/dwhallwood

Research interests

Bose and Einstein predicted a new state of matter where all particles collapse into the same state. This matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), provides a unique playground to test quantum mechanics and presents the possibility of creating devices that far outperform their classical counterparts. Until recently only poor approximations to a BEC could be found in superconductors and superfluid Helium. Experimentalists now routinely make very pure sources of BECs using ultra-cold atoms cooled to near absolute zero. My work theoretically studies BECs formed from ultra-cold atoms to investigate non-classical effects in many-body systems and the loss of quantum behavior in large systems. This is achieved by modeling ultra-cold atoms using microscopic theory.