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20142024
most citedA magneto-optic modulator with unit quantum effciency

212 citations · 479 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 9 cited

Extracting work from coherence in a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate

L. A. Williamson, F. Cerisola, J. Anders +1

We show how work can be extracted from number-state coherence in a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate. With careful tuning of parameters, a sequence of thermodynamically reversible…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024★ 3 cited

Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in a ferromagnetic superfluid: effects of axial magnetization

Andrew P. C. Underwood, Andrew J. Groszek, Xiaoquan Yu +2

An easy-plane ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose gas undergoes two Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless (BKT) transitions, associated with mass and spin superfluidity respectively. We study the…

cond-mat.quant-gas2024

Dynamics of Polar-Core Spin Vortices in Inhomogeneous Spin-1 Bose-Einstein Condensates

Zachary L. Stevens-Hough, Matthew J. Davis, Lewis A. Williamson

In the easy-plane phase, a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate is magnetized in a plane transverse to the applied Zeeman field. This phase supports polar-core spin vortic…

quant-ph2023★ 25 cited

Many-body enhancement in a spin-chain quantum heat engine

L. A. Williamson, Matthew J. Davis

We show that ferromagnetic interactions can enhance the adiabatic performance of a quantum spin chain engine at low temperatures. The enhancement in work output is particular prono…

cond-mat.quant-gas2020★ 11 cited

A damped point-vortex model for polar-core spin vortices in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate

Lewis A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

Ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensates in the broken-axisymmetric phase support polar-core spin vortices (PCVs), which are intimately linked to the nonequilibrium dynamics…

physics.atom-ph2020★ 27 cited

Optical response of atom chains beyond the limit of low light intensity: The validity of the linear classical oscillator model

L. A. Williamson, J. Ruostekoski

Atoms subject to weak coherent incident light can be treated as coupled classical linear oscillators, supporting subradiant and superradiant collective excitation eigenmodes. We id…

cond-mat.quant-gas2019★ 14 cited

Anomalous phase ordering of a quenched ferromagnetic superfluid

L. A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

Coarsening dynamics, the canonical theory of phase ordering following a quench across a symmetry breaking phase transition, is thought to be driven by the annihilation of topologic…

cond-mat.quant-gas2017★ 28 cited

Coarsening dynamics of an isotropic ferromagnetic superfluid

Lewis A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

In zero magnetic field the ground state manifold of a ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate is SO(3) and exhibits vortices as topological defects. We investigate the phase…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 23 cited

Dynamics of polar-core spin vortices in a ferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate

Lewis A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

A ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate supports polar-core spin vortices (PCVs) in the easy-plane phase. We derive a model for the dynamics of these PCVs using a variational Lagrangian…

cond-mat.quant-gas2016★ 42 cited

Coarsening and thermalisation properties of a quenched ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate

Lewis A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

We examine the dynamics of a quasi-two-dimensional spin-1 condensate in which the quadratic Zeeman energy q is suddenly quenched to a value where the system has a ferromagnetic gro…

cond-mat.quant-gas2015★ 80 cited

Universal coarsening dynamics of a quenched ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate

Lewis A. Williamson, P. B. Blakie

We demonstrate that a quasi-two-dimensional spin-1 condensate quenched to a ferromagnetic phase undergoes universal coarsening in its late time dynamics. The quench can be implemen…

quant-ph2014★ 5 cited

Cavity enhanced rephased amplified spontaneous emission

Lewis A Williamson, Jevon J Longdell

Amplified spontaneous emission is usually treated as an incoherent noise process. Recent theoretical and experimental work using rephasing optical pulses has shown that rephased am…

quant-ph2014★ 212 cited

A magneto-optic modulator with unit quantum effciency

Lewis A. Williamson, Yu-Hui Chen, Jevon J. Longdell

We propose a device for the reversible and quiet conversion of microwave photons to optical sideband photons, that can reach 100% quantum effciency. The device is based on an erbiu…