Gordon Robb
Senior Lecturer
Gordon Robb studied for his BSc (1991) and his PhD (1994) in Physics at Strathclyde. He then obtained a Royal Society Exchange Fellowship which he spent in Milan working with Prof. Rodolfo Bonifacio. He returned to Strathclyde to work as a Research Fellow, and was awarded a Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship from 1997-2001. Since then he has continued to work at Strathclyde and obtained a RCUK Academic Fellowship in 2006. He is currently a senior lecturer in the Computational and Nonlinear Quantum Optics (CNQO) group.
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Research
Most of Gordon's research involves theoretical studies of collective interactions between light and particles. In recent years, his interests have been interactions between light and ultracold atomic gases and the Free Electron Laser (FEL) but he has also studied interactions involving nanoparticle suspensions and semiconductor electron-hole plasmas. He is interested both in the optical applications of these systems and the fundamental aspects of collective and cooperative behaviour in nature. His main collaborators are Brian McNeil at Strathclyde, Nicola Piovella at the Universita degli Studi di Milano, Rodolfo Bonifacio (INFN) and Philippe Courteille at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
Highlights
Royal Society European Science Exchange Fellowship 1995
Royal Society of Edinburgh Personal Research Fellowship 1997
RCUK Academic Fellowship 2006
Member of Scientific Advisory Committee for Frontiers in FEL Physics 2007
Invited talks include NPL/CCLRC Symposia/Workshops on Fundamental Physics 2004, 2006, “Self-Assembly of Particles into Longitudinal and Transverse Structures”, Porquerolles, 2007 and Workshop on Quantum Free Electron Lasers, 2006
Awarded Royal Society International Joint Project on “Collective Atomic Recoil in Cold Atomic Media” (2003-2005), including hosting of Prof. Bonifacio (Milan)
Selected publications
G.R.M.Robb, W.J.Firth, "Collective atomic recoil lasing with a partially coherent pump", Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 70-77 (2007) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.253601
B.W.J.McNeil, G.R.M.Robb, M.W.Poole, N.R.Thompson, "Harmonic lasing in a free-electron-laser amplifier", Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 084801 (2006) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.084801
G.R.M.Robb, B.W.J.McNeil, "Sum-frequency generation in an ultracold atomic gas due to collective atomic recoil", J. Phys. B 39, 4593-4603 (2006) doi: 10.1088/0953-4075/39/22/004
G.R.M.Robb, B.W.J.McNeil, "Four-wave mixing with self-phase matching due to collective atomic recoil", Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 023901 (2005) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.023901
C.von Cube, S.Slama, D.Kruse, C.Zimmermann, P.W.Courteille, G.R.M.Robb, N.Piovella, R.Bonifacio, "Self-synchronization and dissipation-induced threshold in collective atomic recoil lasing", Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 083601 (2004) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.93.083601
G.R.M.Robb, N.Piovella, A.Ferraro, R.Bonifacio, P.W.Courteille, C.Zimmermann, "Collective atomic recoil lasing including friction and diffusion effects", Phys. Rev. A 69, 041403 (2004) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.041403
B.W.J.McNeil, G.R.M.Robb, M.W.Poole, "Two-beam free-electron laser", Phys. Rev. E 70, 035501 (2004) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.70.035501
G.R.M.Robb, B.W.J.McNneil, "Superfluorescent Rayleigh scattering from suspensions of dielectric particles", Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 123903 (2003) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.90.123903
B.W.J.McNeil, M.W.Poole, G.R.M.Robb, "Unified model of electron beam shot noise and coherent spontaneous emission in the helical wiggler free electron laser", Phys. Rev. ST Accel. Beams 6, 070701 (2003) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.6.070701
B.W.J.McNeil, G.R.M.Robb, "Self-amplified coherent spontaneous emission in the planar wiggler free-electron laser", Phys. Rev. E 65, 046503 (2002) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.65.046503
G.R.M.Robb, B.W.J.McNeil, I.Galbraith, D.A.Jaroszynski, "Collective free-carrier scattering in semiconductors", Phys. Rev. B 63, 165208 (2001) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.63.165208
G.J.Hunter, B.W.J.McNeil, G.R.M.Robb, "Effect of electron-beam momentum spread on cyclotron resonance maser operation at two resonant frequencies", Phys. Rev. E 64, 036502 (2001) doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.64.036502
Current Grants
Gordon Robb, , , , ,
EPSRC (2010-2014) £269577
Title: Modelling Condensed Matter Systems with Quantum Gases in Optical Cavities
Thorsten Ackemann, Aidan Arnold, Gordon Robb, , ,
Leverhulme Trust (2010-2013) £248948
Title: Self-organisation in samples of cold atoms
Alex Cunningham, Gordon Robb, , , ,
NERC (2011-2012) £71145
Title: NERC - Studentship
