CTCP
Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics
at Massey University (Albany Campus), New Zealand





Dr. David Hallwood (Postdoctoral Fellow)

David Hallwood Centre for Theoretical Chemistry and Physics
Bldg. 40, NZ Institute for Advanced Study
Massey University (Albany Campus)
Private Bag 102904
North Shore MSC, Auckland
New Zealand
Phone +64 9 414 0800 ext. 41527
Fax +64 9 443 9779
Email: D.W.Hallwood@massey.ac.nz
Web page: http://sites.google.com/site/dwhallwood

Research interests

Bose and Einstein predicted a new state of matter where all particles collapse into the same state. This matter, called a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), provides a unique playground to test quantum mechanics and presents the possibility of creating devices that far outperform their classical counterparts. Until recently only poor approximations to a BEC could be found in superconductors and superfluid Helium. Experimentalists now routinely make very pure sources of BECs using ultra-cold atoms cooled to near absolute zero. My work theoretically studies BECs formed from ultra-cold atoms to investigate non-classical effects in many-body systems and the loss of quantum behavior in large systems. This is achieved by modeling ultra-cold atoms using microscopic theory.

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