Three further ARC Discovery Project grants won by CAOUS researchers
November 2013
After winning four ARC Discovery Project grants last year, CAOUS researchers have won a further three DP grants to commence in 2014. This represents an outstanding success for the Centre and is testament to the quality of our research and our researchers.
Project summaries for this year's successful DP grants:
DP140100637 A/Prof Xia-Ji Liu
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2014 |
$90,000.00 |
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2015 |
$90,000.00 |
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2016 |
$90,000.00 |
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Total |
$270,000.00 |
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Project Summary
At present many leading laboratories are performing experiments to simulate theoretical models of strongly interacting systems using ultracold atomic gases, a program that may be referred to as quantum simulation. At the heart of this new direction is strong correlation, which is often regarded as a domain of extreme complexity behind some long-standing problems in fundamental physics. This project aims to develop novel theoretical tools to understand and characterise emergent exotic states of matter in strongly repulsive ultracold atoms. This research will provide testable predictions for on-going experiments in Australia, the USA and elsewhere. It helps maintain Australia's leadership at the forefront of ultracold atomic physics research.
DP140103231 A/Prof Hui Hu
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2014 |
$111,514.00 |
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2015 |
$115,296.00 |
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2016 |
$119,070.00 |
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Total |
$345,880.00 |
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Project Summary
Topological insulators and superconductors are new functional materials discovered very recently in solid-state systems. They have remarkable, topologically protected states on their surfaces that render the electrons travelling insensitive to the scattering by impurities or disorder. Their potential applications in our ordinary life are far-reaching, ranging from novel energy-saving devices to realistic quantum computers. This project will obtain greatly improved understanding of the novel topological states that underlie such new generation materials, by using the highly controllable settings of spin-orbit coupled quantum gases. It will advance Australia’s position at the forefront of ultracold atomic physics research.
DP140104584 A/Prof Margaret Reid, Prof Peter Drummond
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2014 |
$100,000.00 |
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2015 |
$103,000.00 |
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2016 |
$106,000.00 |
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Total |
$309,000.00 |
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Project Summary
Evidence for the Schrodinger cat that defies macroscopic reality has emerged for systems of several atoms, ions or photons, resulting in a Nobel award in physics in 2012. However, developments in quantum science technology make these states experimentally accessible at an increasingly mesoscopic level. This project will develop a theory to test mesoscopic realism, nonlocality and decoherence in experiment, focusing on cold atom and ion trap systems. This project will study multipartite nonlocality based on Bell's theorem, the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox and Schrodinger's quantum steering. As well as having fundamental significance, these demonstrations are potentially useful for metrology, secure quantum cryptography and ultra-sensitive detectors.
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