Blair Blakie

Physicist, quantum mechanic, atomtronic technician, eternal fan of quadrature and DVRs.

[PhysicsOtago @PhysicsOtago]

Dr Andrew Underwood completed his PhD in the Blakie Group this year and published a wonderful new paper outlining a practical new simulation technique for ultra-cold gases. He is now heading to Innsbruck to begin a postdoctoral fellowship. https://t.co/tVuVz7YLT7

[PhysicsOtago @PhysicsOtago]

Physics@Otago-Highlight: Shout-out to the A-Team! Our amazing admin crew on the first floor is the engine room of the department — the hardest-working (and most fun!) team around. Thank you for everything you do.

[PhysicsOtago @PhysicsOtago]

Physics@Otago Highlight: We celebrate Mr Paul Yates, Senior Teaching Fellow, retiring after an incredible 41 years of service. Paul has guided tens of thousands of first-year students—and he may even return to teach a PHSI191 lab next year! Thank you, Paul!

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

"New Zealand’s historic university town of Dunedin claims second place " [in Australasia]: https://t.co/yApqnITPBa

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

Re NZ's economy over the past decade: "The first step is to acknowledge that we have a big problem". https://t.co/SO3hCiD9jQ

[Ferlaino Group @FerlainoGroup]

🚀 Exciting times ahead! Our new Dysprosium Lab is taking shape in San Sebastián at @DIPC 🧪✨ Join us on this great adventure—PhD, post-docs, and researchers are welcome! Just send us an email! 🌟 RT to spread the word! 🙌 #ScienceInnovation #JoinOurTeam #NewBeginnings

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

My new year's present: Dirac Points and Shear Instability Induced Crystal Transitions in Honeycomb Supersolids https://t.co/uiD37gfDIG

[Charles W. Clark @g8ge]

Supersolid stripe mode observed in ultracold gas of potassium atoms
https://t.co/YSghSjDMEj @ICFOnians @UABBarcelona @kpcallaghan_ @JQInews @JILAscience @NIST @BlackPhysicists @OPNmagazine @iqoqi @quantumotago @Science_Cast

[Physical Review A @PhysRevA]

PRA Letter: Absence of the breakdown of ferrodark solitons exhibiting a snake instability
https://t.co/UpBFKqD7o5
@bblakie @PhysicsOtago

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

Absence of the breakdown of ferrodark solitons exhibiting a snake instability https://t.co/8nGiL5A1Q9

[PhysicsOtago @PhysicsOtago]

Congratulations to Blair Blakie (Outstanding Researcher) and Hannah Kasenich (Best Research Paper) for their divisional awards 2024!

https://t.co/iTwIAu2Ufh

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

@FerlainoGroup @Nature Congratulations!

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

@V_Lab_ @fhi_mpg_de congratulations!

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

The excitations & emergence of a shear modulus in a dipolar supersolid. The result of a collaboration with the @FerlainoGroup and a summer visit by PhD student Elena Poli:
Phys. Rev. A 110, 053301 (2024) - Excitations of a two-dimensional supersolid https://t.co/0Jc0gLtBsl

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

Result of a nice theory collaboration with Innsbruck - optical and acoustic phonons, and a spin-Higgs mode, arising in a binary supersolid:
Phys. Rev. Lett. 133, 103401 (2024) - Excitations of a Binary Dipolar Supersolid https://t.co/lD8agH9qc8

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

This has been a consuming and exciting adventure for the past year and a half. It is quite amazing how well hydrodynamic theory can work for complex systems.

Phys. Rev. A 110, 023320 (2024) - Sound waves and fluctuations in one-dimensional supersolids https://t.co/waTVGuPYQm

[Charles W. Clark @g8ge]

Interesting result in quantum gas thermodynamics: in a cycle, quantum coherence can be converted to work, which may exceed that produced by classical mechanisms @UQ_News @quantumotago
https://t.co/nzKy0OFpFF

[Blair Blakie @bblakie]

Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 103401 (2024) - Measurement of the Excitation Spectrum of a Dipolar Gas in the Macrodroplet Regime https://t.co/Jz0TEO86gm - It was fantastic to be involved with these beautiful experiments probing into the curious excitations of a quantum droplet.

[Nature News & Views @NatureNV]

Configuring an optical lattice of atoms to interact through long-range interactions paves the way to the rich physics of quantum materials, explain @bblakie & Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone https://t.co/jGTKZKE0jf

[IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi]

Deep look into the dipolar #quantum world: Dipolar quantum solids observed with new quantum gas microscope https://t.co/B28vW7FIN0 @nature @FerlainoGroup @harvardphysics @oeaw @uniinnsbruck
More: https://t.co/6ZJZHeKyjP #Physics