Prof. Kevin Weatherill, MPhys, Ph.D.

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

Research Groups

Department of Physics

• Quantum Light and Matter

Research Interests

• Cold Ion and Electron Beams from Laser-cooled Atoms
• Rydberg Non-linear optics
• Terahertz sensing and imaging using Rydberg atoms

Teaching Areas

• Leader of Level 3 Atomic and Optics Laboratories
• PHYS4121 LASER PHYSICS Lecture Course (20 hours/year.)

Selected Publications

Chapter in book

• 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.

Journal Article

• Downes, Lucy A., MacKellar, Andrew R., Whiting, Daniel J., Bourgenot, Cyril, Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2020). Full-Field Terahertz Imaging at Kilohertz Frame Rates Using Atomic Vapor. Physical Review X 10(1): 011027.
• Jiao, Yuechun, Spong, Nicholas L. R., Hughes, Oliver D. W., So, Chloe, Ilieva, Teodora, Weatherill, Kevin J. & Adams, Charles S. (2020). Single-photon stored-light Ramsey interferometry using Rydberg polaritons. Optics Letters 45(20): 5888-5891.
• Wade, Christopher G., Levi, Emanuele, Marcuzzi, Matteo, Kondo, Jorge M. , Lesanovsky, Igor, Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2018). A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour. Nature Communications 9: 3567.
• Šibalić, Nikola, Pritchard, Jonathan D., Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2017). ARC: An open-source library for calculating properties of alkali Rydberg atoms. Computer Physics Communications 220: 319-331.
• Wade, C.G., Šibalić, N., De Melo, N.R., Kondo, J.M., Adams, C.S. & Weatherill, K.J. (2017). Real-Time Near-Field Terahertz Imaging with Atomic Optical Fluorescence. Nature Photonics 11(1): 40-43.
• Šibalić, N , Wade, CG, Adams, CS , Weatherill, KJ & Pohl T (2016). Driven-dissipative many-body systems with mixed power-law interactions: Bistabilities and temperature-driven nonequilibrium phase transitions. Physical Review A 94(1): 011401.
• Ates, C., Lesanovsky, I., Adams, C. S. & Weatherill, K. J. (2013). Fast and quasideterministic single ion source from a dipole-blockaded atomic ensemble. Physical review letters 110(21): 213003.
• Carr, C., Ritter, R., Wade, C., Adams, C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2013). Nonequilibrium phase transition in a dilute Rydberg Ensemble. Physical Review Letters 111(11): 113901.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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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
• Atomic particles: Basic matter:

Supervises

• Mr Dominic Reed
• Mr Daniel Whiting
• Dr Andrew Mackellar
• Mrs. Nourah Al-muhawish
• Miss Lucy Downes
• Ms Clare Higgins
• Mr. Matthew Jamieson
• Mr. Max Festenstein
• Mr. Jonathan Mortlock
• Mr. Oliver Hughes
• Mr. Anton Charman

Selected Grants