[Cnqo] Optics division seminar next week:

[Paul Griffin]

Good afternoon all,

apologies for any confusion, but Simon Gardiner's talk will be tomorrow, Wednesday the 5th November. Somewhat ironically, I forgot how the rhyme "remember, remember the Nth of November" went, and made this mistake.

Griff


On 31 Oct 2014, at 17:21, Paul Griffin wrote:

> Evening all,
> 
> Next week Simon Gardiner, from Durham University, will be giving the Optics Division seminar. Simon will be in the department from Wednesday afternoon and will be available for discussion - please let me know if you would like to schedule some time
> 
> Speaker: Simon Gardiner, Durham
> Date: Wednesday, 4th November
> Time: 3pm
> Location: JA8.13 - SUPA Room
> Title: Bright Matter-Wave Solitons, Interferometry, and Rotational Sensing
> Abstract:
> An ultracold ensemble of bosonic atoms can condense into a Bose-Einstein condensate, where it is frequently legitimate to use a classical field description, encapsulated in the Gross-Pitaevskii equation. In certain limiting geometries this tends to the one-dimensional nonlinear Schrodinger equation, which in the case of attractive atom-atom interactions, supports bright soliton solutions.  These attractively particle-like wave-forms have a number of advantages when considering the possibility of matter-wave interferometry --- using atoms or molecules rather than light to make interference measurements.  I will talk about some of the issues surrounding such interferometric protocols, discussing Sagnac interferometry (for rotational sensing) as a particular example.
> 
> regards,
> Griff

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