Friday, June 2005

 

Dr. Michael Bromley, Department of Physics, Kansas State University, USA and Faculty of Technology, Charles Darwin University, Australia

" Matter wave propagation through microstructured waveguides "

2:00 pm in room P-148

Significant experimental progress in recent years has been seen in the field of "atom chips", ie. integrated atom optics, where trapping, propagation and manipulation of ultracold atoms have all been performed above a single microchip surface. Our theoretical efforts have been focussed on exploring the nature of wave propagation through such microstructured waveguides. I will present a smorgasbord of fundamental physics, ranging from wave excitations through to interference-based vortex creation and dispersion manipulation.