Student Theses Supervised

Here is a complete list of student theses supervised.

BSc (Hons)

• Eric Xu (Otago 2019), Scattering of Bogoliubov waves by a quantum vortex dipole
• Mathew Denys (Otago 2018), Triplet Down Conversion using Optical Phase Space Methods. Published as Mathew D. E. Denys, Murray K. Olsen, Luke S. Trainor, Harald G. L. Schwefel, and Ashton S. Bradley Optics Communications 484, 126699 (2021)
• Peter Barnett (Otago 2017), Two-Time Correlations of an Energy-Damped Bose-Einstein Condensate. Published as Rob G. McDonald, Peter S. Barnett, Fradom Atayee, Ashton S. Bradley SciPost Phys. 8, 029 (2020)
• Zaki Atayee (Otago 2016), Kohn Mode Damping in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
• Michael Cawte (Otago 2016), Vortex Dynamics and Spectra Fluctuations in a Superfluid Disk
• Tom Blennerhassett (Otago 2015) Energy Damping in Two Dimensional quantum Turbulence
• Rob McDonald (Otago 2013), Decay of Persistent Current in a Two-Dimensional Superfluid
• Malcolm Morrison (Otago 2013), A Quantum Kuramoto Model
• Matthew Reeves (Otago 2011), Two-Dimensional Quantum Turbulence in Stirred Bose-Einstein Condensates. Published as M. T. Reeves, B. P. Anderson, A. S. Bradley Physical Review A 86, 053621 (2012)
• Kyle Wright (Otago 2010), Decay of a dark soliton in a warm Bose-Einstein condensate: a variational approach
• Samuel Rooney (Otago 2009), Single Vortex Dynamics in High Temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates. Published as S. J. Rooney, A. S. Bradley, and P. B. Blakie Physical Review A 81, 023630 (2010)

Cotutelle (BSc Hons)

• Clervie Pennarun, University of Queensland 2007 (co-advisor)
  Published as C. Pennarun, A. S. Bradley, and M. K. Olsen Physical Review A 76, 063812 (2007)
• Florent Alzetto, University of Queensland 2006 (co-advisor).

MSc

• Eric Xu (Otago 2022)
• Jordan Clarke (Otago 2022), Expansion Dynamics of Vortices in Trapped Planar Bose-Einstein Condensates
• Michael Cawte (Otago 2019), Snell’s Law and Necklace States for Vortex Dipoles in a Quantum Gas
• Rob McDonald (Otago 2015), C-Field Theory of Dynamics in One Dimensional Bose Gases: The Kibble-Zurek Mechanism and Bright Soliton Arrest
• Matthew Reeves (Otago 2013), Inverse Energy Cascade in Two-Dimensional Quantum Turbulence
• Samuel Rooney (Otago 2011), C-field description of the quasi-equilibrium Bose gas: persistent currents and Kelvon-induced vortex decay

PhD

Primary Advisor

• Rob McDonald (Otago 2019), Anomalous Dissipation in Bose Gases: Analytic Theory of Energy Damping
• Matthew Reeves (Otago 2017), Quantum Analogues of Two-Dimensional Classical Turbulence
• Sam Rooney (Otago 2014), Implementation and Applications of the Stochastic Projected Gross-Pitaevskii Equation [Science Division Exceptional Thesis Award]

Secondary Advisor

• Chris Foster (Queensland 2011), Physics of low-dimensional ultracold Bose gases
  (primary advisor Prof Matthew Davis)
• Andrew Ferris (Queensland 2009), Thermalisation, correlations and entanglement in Bose-Einstein condensates
  (primary advisor Prof Matthew Davis)