Staff Profile
Dr Steven Wrathmall, MPhys, PhD, FHEA, MInstP, FRAS
Member of the Quantum Light and Matter
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 43763
(email at s.a.wrathmall@durham.ac.uk)
Responsibilities within department
Administration and Teaching database design, development and maintenance (mysql and php scripting).
Research Interests
- Atom-light interactions within thermal atomic vapours
- Physics of ultra cold atoms and molecules
- Quantum nonlinear dynamics
- Atomic and Molecular Collisions
- Interstellar Physics
Teaching Areas
PHYS4213 - Level 4 project
- Academic Adviser
- PHYS1101 - Discovery Skills in Physics - Bridge projects
- PHYS1101 - Discovery Skills in Physics - Error analysis lectures
- PHYS1122 - Foundations of Physics 1 - Chair of Paper 2 Committee
- PHYS1122 - Foundations of Physics 1 - Level 1 tutor
- PHYS3611 - Physics into schools
Publications
Journal Article
- Ogden, Thomas P., Whittaker, K. A., Keaveney, J., Wrathmall, S. A., Adams, C. S. & Potvliege, R. M. (2019). Quasisimultons in Thermal Atomic Vapors. Physical Review Letters 123(24): 243604
- Keaveney, James, Wrathmall, Steven A., Adams, Charles S. & Hughes, Ifan G. (2018). Optimized ultra-narrow atomic bandpass filters via magneto-optic rotation in an unconstrained geometry. Optics Letters 43(17): 4272-4275.
- Billam, T. P., Wrathmall, S. A. & Gardiner, S. A. (2012). Variational determination of approximate bright matter-wave soliton solutions in anisotropic traps. Physical Review A 85(1): 013627.
- Haxton, Daniel J., Wrathmall, Steven A., Lewandowski, H. J. & Greene, Chris H. (2009). Theoretical study of the quenching of NH(Δ1)molecules via collisions with Rb atoms. Physical Review A 80(2).
- Wrathmall, S. A., Gusdorf, A. & Flower, D. R. (2007). The excitation of molecular hydrogen by atomic hydrogen in astrophysical media. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 382(1): 133-138.
- Wrathmall, S A & Flower, D R (2007). The rovibrational excitation of H2induced by H. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 40(16): 3221.
- Wrathmall, S A & Flower, D R (2006). A quantum-mechanical study of rotational transitions in H2 induced by H. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 39(11): L249.