Our paper ‘A high-speed, large-aperture 3D printed laser shutter for cold atom experiments’ has been submitted and is now available on the arXiv. In this paper, we demonstrate an improved design for an optical shutter that offers an accessible, scalable solution for cold atom and other optical experiments requiring multiple shutters with precise light control and avoids the need to resize or precision-align a beam through an aperture.

Our paper ‘Universal Draw Law in a Model of Superflow’ has been published in PRL! In this paper, we show that the classical principle of turbulence being scale invariant under the Reynolds number also exists in superfluids.

Our paper ‘Emergent Universal Drag Law in a Model of Superflow’ is on the arXiv now, find it here: https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.14049!

In this work, we study the viability of rotation sensing using phonon interferometers in Bose-Einstein condensates.

In this work, we explored the relaxation of initially non-equilibrium configurations of vortices. Impressively, the vortex configurations in equilibrium were found to closely match the predictions of the point vortex model.

Roadmap on Atomtronics: State of the art and perspective, has now been published online in AVS Quantum Sci. 3, 039201 (2021).

Our review of configured optical trapping techniques for cold atoms has been posted on the arXiv. We have aimed for a detailed technical review that highlights some of the subtleties in implementing acousto-optic deflector, DMD and SLM traps, as a complete guide to the experimentalist. The chapter will appear in Advances in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics later this year.

In this preprint, we study the high-energy phases of vortex matter in a superfluid quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensate. These phases have eluded experimental detection before due to the requirements of very low dissipation and loss in experiments.

Our group has been selected as a finalist for the 2020 Eureka Prize for Scientific Research as part of the Australian Quantum Vortex Team! The nomination stems from the recent work in our group on vortex clusters, along with that of the group of Kristian Helmerson at Monash University and Warwick Bowen's group at UQ. All together, this large collaboration resulted in three publications in Science in 2019.

We have a new publication on vortex fluids in the open access Physical Review Research! Oliver Stockdale and the theory team have shown that an expanding vortex cluster in a 2D superfluid forms a Rankine vortex, suported by experimental measurements. This process is forbidden in classical fluids due to viscosity.

Congratulations to Tom who has had his PhD thesis accepted and conferred!

Congratulations to Dr Guillaume Gauthier for winning the prestigious Springer Thesis Prize for his thesis submitted last year. Keep an eye out for the upcoming book publication from Springer!

Congratulations to Callam Manning who completed his honours project with the group and received 1st-class Honours! Callam studied the superfluid fountain effect in a dumbbell potential.

Congratualtions to Dr Tyler Neely who is one of eight Australian Research Council Future Fellowships awarded at UQ.