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Research Areas

Ultracold quantum gases, Bose-Einstein condensates

Education

• PhD Physics, 1985, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• MA Physics, 1980, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• BS Physics, 1977, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgias, USA

Publications

1. Andrii Chaika, Artem O. Oliinyk, Ihor V. Yatsuta, Nick P. Proukakis, Mark Edwards, Alexander I. Yakimenko, Thomas Bland, 鈥�Acceleration-induced transport of quantum vortices in joined atomtronic circuits,鈥� SciPost Physics, 19 005 (2025).
2. W. LaRow and M. Edwards and C.A. Sackett, 鈥�Beyond the semiclassical approximation in atom interferometry,鈥� Physical Review A, 111 033315 (2025).
3. T. Bland, I.V. Yatsuta, M. Edwards, Y.O. Nikolaieva, A.O. Oliinyk, A.I. Yakimenko, and N.P. Proukakis, 鈥�Persistent current oscillations in a double-ring quantum gas,鈥� Physical Review Research, 4 043171 (2022).
4. S. Thomas, C. Sapp, A. Smith, C. Sackett, C.W. Clark, and M. Edwards, 鈥�Modeling atom interferometry experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates in power-law potentials,鈥� Atoms, 10 34 (2022).
5. S. Eckel, J.G. Lee, F. Jendrzejewski, N. Murray, C.W. Clark, C.J. Lobb, W.D. Phillips, M. Edwards, and G.K. Campbell, 鈥�Hysteresis in a quantized superfluid 鈥榓tomtronic鈥� circuit,鈥� Nature, 506 200 (2014).聽聽

Funding

Current Grants

1. 鈥淨uantum Thermodynamics of Atomtronic Systems,鈥� NSF Grant No. 2207476, $179,997, 09/01/22-08/31/26

Previous Grants

1. 鈥�Quantum Turbulence in Atomtronic Systems,鈥� NSF Grant No. 1707776, $165,000, 09/01/17-10/31/22
2. 鈥�Designing Ultracold Atom Circuits in Quasi-2D Confinement,鈥� NSF Grant No. 1413768, $150,000, 11/01/14-10/31/18.
3. 鈥�Quantum-Information-Science-Inspired Ultracold Atom Interferometer Design,鈥� NSF Grant No. 1068761, $131,459, 12/01/11-11/30/14.
4. 鈥淢odeling Quantum-Logic Operations with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices,鈥� NSF Grant No. 0758111, $75,000, 12/01/08-11/30/11.
5. 鈥�Modeling of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices as Analogs of Condensed-Matter Systems,鈥� NSF Grant No. 0653359, $27,500, 09/01/07-08/31/09.
6. 鈥�Applications of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates in Quantum-Computational Devices,鈥� NSF Grant No. 0354969, $120,000, 09/01/04-08/31/07.
7. 鈥�Optical Manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates,鈥� NSF Grant No. 0100634, $120,000, 09/01/01-08/31/04.
8. 鈥�Quantitative Modeling of Cold-Atom BECs and Atom Lasers,鈥� NSF Grant No. 9802547, $165,000, 09/01/98 鈥� 08/31/01.
9. 鈥�Quantitative Modeling of Bose-Condensed Atomic Systems,鈥� NSF Grant No. 9612728, $110,000, 09/96 鈥� 08/98.

Research Projects

1. Quantum Sensing with Entangled Rydberg-Atom Tweezer Arrays
2. Double-target Rotation Sensor
3. Acceleration-induced Transport of Atomtronic Vortices

Research Group

Undergraduate Students

• Ian Iucker
• Anish Goyal

Former Students

• Jeff Heward
• Sam Oni
• Oluwatobi Adeniji
• Eddie Pretorius
• Charles Henry
• Stephen Thomas