Our BEC and Atom Trapping publications

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Latest Paper

Observation of vortex dipoles in an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate.
T. W. Neely
, E. C. Samson, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, and B. P. Anderson
Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160401 (2010)

 

Publications

2010

Formation, Dynamics, and Decay of Quantized Vortices in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Elements of Quantum Turbulence
Tyler William Neely, University of Arizona PhD dissertation, April 2010. [PDF, 7.2 MB].

Observation of vortex dipoles in an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate
T. W. Neely
, E. C. Samson, A. Bradley, M. Davis, and
B. P. Anderson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 160401 (2010).  [PDF] 

2009

Manipulation of vortices by localized impurities in Bose-Einstein condensates
M.C. Davis, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, Z. Shi, K.J.H. Law, P.G. Kevrekidis, and B.P. Anderson, Phys. Rev. A 80, 023604 (2009).  [PDF]


2008

Spontaneous vortices in the formation of BECs
C. Weiler, T. Neely, D. Scherer, A. Bradley, M. Davis, and B. Anderson, Nature 455, p. 948, 16 October, 2008. [PDF]

Structure and stability of two-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensates under both harmonic and lattice confinement,
  K.J.H. Law, P.G. Kevrekidis, B.P. Anderson, R. Carretero-Gonzalez, and D.J. Frantzeskakis, J. Phys. B 41, 195303 (2008).  [PDF].   (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv e-print condmat/0803.3240.)

Dynamics of Vortex Formation in Merging Bose-Einstein Condensate Fragments
    R. Carretero-González, B.P. Anderson, P.G. Kevrekidis, D.J. Frantzeskakis, and C.N. Weiler, Phys. Rev. A 77, 033625 (2008). [PDF]  (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv e-print condmat/0711.0375)

Experiments on Multidimensional Solitons
   Joachim Brand, L.D. Carr, B.P. Anderson, ArXiv e-print condmat/0705.1341.
   Review paper, in Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment, edited by P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and R. Carretero-Gonzalez (Springer-Verlag), 2008.

Dark Solitons in Bose-Einstein Condensates: The First Experiments
    Brian P. Anderson
    Review paper, in Emergent Nonlinear Phenomena in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Theory and Experiment, edited by P. G. Kevrekidis, D. J. Frantzeskakis, and R. Carretero-Gonzalez (Springer-Verlag), 2008.

Vortex Formation by Merging and Interference of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
    David R. Scherer's
PhD dissertation,  PDF  (3 MB).
    Includes a technical description of the construction of our BEC apparatus, and a discussion of our BEC merging experiment (among other things).

 

2007

Vortex Formation by Merging of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates
    David R. Scherer, Chad N. Weiler, Tyler W. Neely, and Brian P. Anderson
,  Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 110402 (2007).  [PDF]   (This journal publication supercedes ArXiv preprint condmat/0610187.)

 

2001-2006

Nonlinear Atom Optics
B. Anderson and P. Meystre, Contemporary Physics 44, 473-483 (2003).

Atomic-phase interference devices based on ring-shaped Bose-Einstein condensates: Two-ring case
B.P. Anderson, K. Dholakia, E.M. Wright,  Phys. Rev. A 67, 033601 (2003) / PDF

Manipulating the critical temperature for the superfluid phase transition in trapped atomic Fermi gases
C. P. Search, H. Pu, W. Zhang, B. P. Anderson, and P. Meystre, Phys.  Rev.  A 65, 063616 (2002) / PDF

Nonlinear Atom Optics
Brian P. Anderson and Pierre Meystre,  Optics and Photonics News, June 2002.

New Twists in Bose-Einstein Condensation
Elizabeth A. Donley, Brian P. Anderson, Carl E. Wieman, Optics and Photonics News, October 2001.

 

Prior BPA publications

Work done at JILA, 1999-2001 (postdoc in Eric Cornell's group)

Watching dark solitons decay into vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein condensate
B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. A. Regal, D. L. Feder, L. A. Collins, C. W. Clark, E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2926-2929 (2001) / PDF

Using Surface Wave Spectroscopy to Characterize Tilt Modes of a Vortex in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
P. C. Haljan, B. P. Anderson, I. Coddington, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 2922-2925 (2001) / PDF

Vortex Precession in Bose-Einstein Condensates: Observations with Filled and Empty Cores
B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2857-2860 (2000) / PDF

Watching a superfluid untwist itself: Recurrence of Rabi oscillations in a Bose-Einstein condensate
M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, M. J. Holland, J. E Williams, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 3358-3361 (1999) / PDF

Vortices in a Bose-Einstein condensate
M. R. Matthews, B. P. Anderson, P. C. Haljan, D. S. Hall, C. E. Wieman, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett 83, 2498-2501 (1999) / PDF

 

Work done at Stanford and Yale, 1992-1999 (graduate student in Mark Kasevich's group)

Loading a vapor cell magneto-optic trap using light-induced atom desorption
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A. 63, 023404 (2001) /  PDF

Atomic tunnel arrays
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, in Proceedings of the International School of Physics 'Enrico Fermi', Course CXL, Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Gases, (M. Inguscio, S. Stringari, and C. E. Wieman, Eds., IOS Press, Amsterdam, 1999), pp. 439-452. PDF

Spatial observation of Bose-Einstein condensation of 87Rb in a confining potential
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 59, R938-R941 (1999) / PDF

Macroscopic Quantum Interference from Atomic Tunnel Arrays
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Science 282, 1686-1689 (1998) / PDF

Atom trapping in nondissipative optical lattices
B. P. Anderson, T. L. Gustavson, and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 53, R3727-R3730 (1996) / PDF

Enhanced loading of a magneto-optic trap from an atomic beam
B. P. Anderson and M. A. Kasevich, Phys. Rev. A 50, R3581-R3584 (1994) / PDF