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Postgraduate Students

Miss Anna Marchant

Postgraduate Student in the Department of Physics 

Member of the Atomic and Molecular Physics group

Biography

My broad research interest is in the field of ultracold quantum gases and the manipulation of atomic scattering properties using magnetic Feshbach resonances. My current research focuses on the production of Bose-Einstein condensates with tunable atomic interactions and their application in the study of bright matter-wave solitons. These self-stabilizing wave packets are well localized due to attractive atom-atom interactions and hence show great potential as surface probes for the study of shortrange atom-surface interactions.

Publications

Journal papers: academic 

  • A L Marchant, S Händel, S A Hopkins, T P Wiles and S L Cornish (2012). Bose-Einstein condensation of 85Rb by direct evaporation in an optical dipole trap. Phys. Rev. A 85, 053647.
  • S Händel, A L Marchant, T P Wiles, S A Hopkins and S L Cornish (2012). Magnetic transport apparatus for the production of ultracold atomic gases in the vicinity of a dielectric surface. Rev. Sci. Instrum. 83, 013105.
  • A L Marchant, S Händel, T P Wiles, S A Hopkins and S L Cornish New J. (2011). Guided transport of ultracold gases of rubidium up to a room-temperature dielectric surface. Phys. 13, 125003.
  • S Händel, T P Wiles, A L Marchant, S A Hopkins, C S Adams and S L Cornish (2011). Magnetic merging of ultracold atomic gases of 85Rb and 87Rb. Phys Rev A 83, 053633.
  • A L Marchant, S Händel, T P Wiles, S A Hopkins, C S Adams and S L Cornish (2011). Off-resonance laser frequency stabilization using the Faraday effect. Opt Lett 36, 64 .
  • T P Billam, A L Marchant, S L Cornish, S A Gardiner, N G Parker. Bright solitary matter waves: formation, stability and interactions, Contribution to: Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking, Self-trapping, and Josephson Oscillations. To appear in: Progress in Optical Science and Photonics, arXiv:1209.0560, Springer ISBN (3642212069).

Conference papers

  • Photon 12, Durham, UK (2012). Controlled formation and reflection of bright solitary matter-waves.
  • Young atom opticians conference 2009, Vienna, Austria (2009). Bright matter-wave solitons: Formation, dynamics and quantum reflection.

Poster Presentations

  • ICAP 2012, Palaiseau, France
  • MUARC 2011 Summer school, Granada, Spain
  • ICOLS 2011, Aerzen, Germany QUAMP 2010, Summer school, London, England
  • PreDoc school 2009, Les Houches, France
  • YAO 2009, Vienna, Austria
  • Introductory Course on Ultracold Quantum Gases 2008, Innsbruck, Austria

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