Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP160102085

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP160102085

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Riding a quantum wave: transport and flow of atomic quantum fluids. This project intends to characterise and engineer the fundamental transport properties of atomic superfluids. Lasers and magnetic fields can be used to cool tiny samples of millions of atoms to temperatures a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero. At such cold temperatures they form a superfluid known as a Bose–Einstein condensate, which flows with zero viscosity. Using tailored light fields to trap and guide the atoms, this project plans to build rudimentary atomic circuits and coax the superfluid to flow through a channel between two reservoirs, firstly with thermodynamic gradients, and secondly by building a quantum pump. Together with computer modelling, this would allow us to characterise the microscopic transport properties of superfluids and provide us with an understanding of how to use them in atomtronic devices in the future.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 31-12-2017

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $406,700.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Quantum Physics | Degenerate Quantum Gases and Atom Optics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences |

Other Keywords

Degenerate Quantum Gases and Atom Optics | Expanding Knowledge in the Physical Sciences | Quantum Physics

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