Staff profile

Dr Kevin Weatherill, MPhys, Ph.D.

Personal web page

(email at k.j.weatherill@durham.ac.uk)

Research Groups

• Atomic and Molecular Physics

Research Interests

• Cold Ion and Electron Beams from Laser-cooled Atoms
• Quantum Interfaces: Integrating Light, Atoms and Solid State Devices
• Rydberg Non-linear optics

Indicators of Esteem

• Committees:

  Member of the Department of Physics Board of Studies and Board of Examiners.

  Member of the committee of the Institute of Physics Quantum Optics, Quantum Information and Quantum Control group.

• Conference Organisation:
  Scientific Organsing Committee for Quantum Interfaces: Integrating Atoms, Light and Solid State Devices. Chicheley Hall, UK. May 14 - 15 (2012)
  Programme Committee for Photon 12. Durham, UK. Sept 3 - 6 (2012)
  Scientific Organsing Committee for Coldbeams : ultra-COLD gas for Bright Electron And Monochromatic ion Source. Nîmes (France) 1-3 Oct (2012)
• Journal Referee: Referee for Europhysics Letters, New Journal of Physics, Optics Communications, Journal of Physics B.

Selected Publications

Articles: magazine

• Weatherill, KJ & Vredenbregt, EDJ (2012). The Next Coolest Thing. Physics World (August ): 28-33.
• Weatherill, K.J., Pritchard, J.D., Abel, R.P., Bason, M.G., Mohapatra, A.K. & Adams, C.S. (2008). Electromagnetically induced transparency of a cold Rydberg ensemble. EuroPhysics News 39(6): 17.

Books: sections

• Pritchard, J.D., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2013). Nonlinear optics using cold Rydberg atoms. In Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules. Kirk Madison Yiqiu Wang, Ana Maria Rey & Prof Kai Bongs World Scientific. 1: 301-350.

Edited works: conference proceedings

• Griffin, P.F. Weatherill, K.J. Macleod, S.G. Potvliege, R.M. & Adams, C.S. (2005). Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering. International Conference of Laser Spectroscopy, Aviemore, World Scientific.

Journal papers: academic

• Maxwell, D., Szwer, D. J. , Paredes-Barato, D., Busche, H., Pritchard, J. D. Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K. J. , Jones, M. P. A. & Adams, C. S. (2013). Storage and Control of Optical Photons Using Rydberg Polaritons. Physical Review Letters 110(10): 103001.
• West, A.D. , Hayward, T.J. Weatherill, K.J. , Schrefl, T. Allwood, D.A. & Hughes, I.G. (2012). A simple model for calculating magnetic nanowire domain wall fringing fields. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45(9): 095002.
• West, A. D., Wade, C. G., Weatherill, K. J. & Hughes, I. G. (2012). Piezoelectrically actuated time-averaged atomic microtraps. Applied Physics Letters 101(2): 023115.
• Carr, C, Adams, C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2012). Polarization spectroscopy of an excited state transition. Optics Letters 37(1): 118-120.
• West, AD, Weatherill, KJ, Hayward, TJ, Fry, PW, Schrefl, T, Gibbs, MRJ Adams, CS, Allwood, DA & Hughes, IG (2012). Realization of the Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms with a Reconfigurable Nanomagnetic System of Domain Walls. Nano Letters 12(8): 4065–4069.
• Tanasittikosol, M., Carr C. , Adams C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2012). Subnatural linewidths in two-photon excited-state spectroscopy. Physical Review A 85(3): 033830.
• Carr, C , Tanasittikosol, M Sargsyan, A, Sarkisyan, D, Adams, CS & Weatherill, KJ (2012). Three-photon electromagnetically induced transparency using Rydberg states. Optics Letters 37(18): 3858-3860.
• M Tanasittikosol, JD Pritchard, D Maxwell, A Gauguet, KJ Weatherill, RM Potvliege & CS Adams (2011). Microwave dressing of Rydberg dark states. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44(18): 184020.
• Hayward, T. J. West, A. D., Weatherill, K. J., Schrefl, T., Hughes, I. G. & Allwood, D. A. (2011). Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps. Journal of Applied Physics 110(12): 123918.
• Pritchard, J.D. , Gauguet, A. , Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2011). Optical non-linearity in a dynamical Rydberg gas. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44(18): 184019.
• Sevinçli, S Ates, C Pohl, T Schempp, H Hofmann, C. S. Günter, G., Amthor, T., Weidemüller, M., Pritchard, J. D. , Maxwell, D., Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K. J. , Jones, M. P. A. & Adams, C. S. (2011). Quantum interference in interacting three-level Rydberg gases: coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44(18): 184018.
• Pritchard, J.D., Maxwell, D., Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K.J., Jones, M.P.A. & Adams, C.S. (2010). Cooperative Atom-Light Interaction in a Blockaded Rydberg Ensemble. Physical Review Letters 105(19): 193603.
• T. J. Hayward, A. D. West, K. J. Weatherill, P. J. Curran, P. W. Fry, P. M. Fundi, M. R. J. Gibbs, T. Schrefl, C. S. Adams, I. G. Hughes, S. J. Bending & D. A. Allwood (2010). Design and characterization of a field-switchable nanomagnetic atom mirror. Journal of Applied Physics 108(4): 043906.
• Weatherill, K., Pritchard, J. D., Griffin, P. F., Dammalapati, U., Adams, C. S. & Riis, E. (2009). A versatile and reliably re-usable ultra-high vacuum viewport. Review of Scientific Instruments 80(2): 026105.
• Abel, R. P., Mohapatra, A. K., Bason, M. G., Pritchard, J. D., Weatherill, K. J., Raitzsch, U. & Adams, C. S. (2009). Laser frequency stabilization to excited state transitions using electromagnetically induced transparency in a cascade system. Applied Physics Letters 94(7): 071107.
• Bason, M G, Mohapatra, A K, Weatherill, K J & Adams, C S (2009). Narrow absorptive resonances in a four-level atomic system. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 42(7): 075503.
• Mohapatra, A.K., Bason, M.G., Butscher, B., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2008). A giant electro-optic effect using polarizable dark states. Nature Physics 4(11): 890-894.
• Bason, M.G., Mohapatra, A.K., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S (2008). Electro-optic control of atom-light interactions using Rydberg dark-state polaritons. Physical Review A 77(3): 032305.
• Weatherill, KJ, Pritchard, JD, Abel, RP, Bason, MG, Mohapatra, AK & Adams, CS (2008). Electromagnetically induced transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 41(20): 201002.
• Griffin, P.F., Weatherill, K.J., MacLeod, S.G., Potvliege, R.M. & Adams, C.S (2006). Spatially selective loading of an optical lattice by light shift engineering using an auxiliary laser field. New Journal of Physics 8: 11.
• Griffin, P.F., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2005). Fast switching of alkali atom dispensers using laser induced heating. Review of Scientific Instruments 76(9): 093102.

Theses: PhD

• K.J. Weatherill (2007). A CO2 laser lattice experiment for cold atoms. Physics. Durham, University of Physics. PhD.

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Related Links

• Joint Quantum Centre (Durham-Newcastle)

Media Contacts

Available for media contact about:

• Physics: Atom-light interactions.
• Atomic and Molecular Physics: Atom-light interactions.
• Physics: Quantum and atomic physics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics: Quantum and atomic physics

Grants Awarded

• 2012: Atomic spectroscopy with BLU-RAY laser diodes (£1440.00 from The Nuffield Foundation)
• 2011: Development of a diode laser system at 610mm (£1440.00 from The Nuffield Foundation)

Supervises

• Mr Christopher Wade