Dr. David Adu Smith

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Former Team Leader / Senior Postdoc of the KRb Mixtures Lab
Now at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

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Phone: +49 30 8413 5743

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF MINE

Apr 2012 – Present Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Berlin

Aug 2011 – Mar 2012 Schmiedmayer Group, Vienna Center For Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), Atominstitut, TU Wien

Aug 2009 – Jul 2011 Marie Curie Fellow, Schmiedmayer Group, Atominstitut, TU Wien

Nov 2007 – Jul 2009 Lise Meitner Fellow, Schmiedmayer Group, Atominstitut, TU Wien

Dec 2006 – Oct 2007 Projektassistent, Schmiedmayer Group, Atominstitut, TU Wien

2006 MYU Research KK, Tokyo, Japan

2001 – 2005 Ph.D. (Dunelm) in the AtMol Group, Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK

1997 – 2001 Masters Degree in Physics (Physics MSci. Hons. (Dunelm)), Department of Physics, University of Durham, UK

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PUBLICATIONS

PUBLICATIONS INVOLVING NON-EQUILIBRIUM MANY-BODY QUANTUM SYSTEMS

Relaxation Dynamics and Pre-thermalization in an Isolated Quantum System
Michael Gring, Maximilian Kuhnert, Tim Langen, Takuya Kitagawa, Bernhard Rauer, Matthias Schreitl, Igor Mazets, David A. Smith, Eugene Demler, Jörg Schmiedmayer
arXiv:1112.0013

PUBLICATIONS INVOLVING QUANTUM GASES AND ATOM CHIPS

p-wave stabilization of three-dimensional Bose-Fermi solitons
Nick Parker and David A. Smith
Phys. Rev. A 85, 013604 (2012)
arXiv:1108.3453

Absorption Imaging of Ultracold Atoms on Atom Chips
David A. Smith (1), Simon Aigner (2), Sebastian Hofferberth (2,3), Michael Gring (1), Mauritz Andersson (2,4), Stefan Wildermuth (2), Peter Krüger (2,5), Stephan Schneider (1), Thorsten Schumm (1), Jörg Schmiedmayer (1,2)
Optics Express Vol. 19, Iss. 9, pp. 8471-8485 (2011)
arXiv:1101.4206
(1) Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology, Atominstitut, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria, (2) Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany, (3) Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms, Harvard University, USA, (4) School of Information and Communication Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, (5) Midlands Ultracold Atom Research Centre, University of Nottingham, UK

Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates on Atom Chips
T Schumm, R Bücker, D A Smith, S Manz and J Schmiedmayer, Book Chapter in “Atom Chips“, Eds. J Reichel and V Vuletic, p.211; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH (2011)

PUBLICATIONS INVOLVING THE SPECTROSCOPY OF ALKALI ATOMS

The role of hyperfine pumping in multilevel systems exhibiting saturated absorption
David A. Smith and Ifan G. Hughes
Am. J. Phys. 72, 631 (2004)

Polarization spectroscopy of a closed atomic transition: applications to laser frequency locking
C P Pearman, C S Adams, S G Cox, P F Griffin, D A Smith, and I G Hughes
J. Phys. B 35, 5141 (2002)

PUBLICATIONS INVOLVING PULSED MAGNETIC FOCUSING

Experimental single-impulse magnetic focusing of launched cold atoms
D A Smith, A S Arnold, M J Pritchard and I G Hughes
J. Phys. B 41, 125302 (2008)

Double-impulse magnetic focusing of launched cold atoms
A S Arnold, M J Pritchard, D A Smith and I G Hughes
New J. Phys. 8, 53 (2006)

Single-impulse magnetic focusing of launched cold atoms
M J Pritchard, A S Arnold, D A Smith and I G Hughes
J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 37, 4435 (2004)

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