Professor
JA 7.06, Department of Physics,
University of Strathclyde,
107 Rottenrow,
Glasgow, G4 0NG, Scotland, U.K.
Tel. +44 141 548 4205
Fax: +44 141 552 2891
E -mail: andrew.daley@strath.ac.uk
Research Interests
My research centers on the boundary between many-body physics, quantum optics, and AMO physics. Over the course of the last 10 years, advances in experiments with ultracold quantum gases have made possible the realization of strongly interacting systems, which can be used to explore complex many-body phenomena. Motivated by and in connection with these experiments, we explore novel phenomena on a theoretical level with analytical and numerical techniques. In particular, we are interested in the non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum gases, treating both coherent many-body dynamics (e.g., transport dynamics, or the exploration of metastable many-body states and their associated quantum phases), and dissipative many-body dynamics (e.g., heating of quantum gases in optical potentials, or engineering dissipative driving to produce complex many-body states). We are also interested more generally in quantum simulation and the implementation of quantum computing in many-body systems.
For more information please see the page on quantum optics and quantum many-body systems or http://qoqms.phys.strath.ac.uk
Selected Publications
- J. Schachenmayer, B. P. Lanyon, C. F. Roos, and A. J. Daley, Entanglement growth in quench dynamics with variable range interactions, Phys. Rev. X 3, 031015 (2013). (arXiv:1305.6880)
- F. Meinert, M. J. Mark, E. Kirilov, K. Lauber, P. Weinmann, A. J. Daley, and H.-C. Nägerl, Quantum quench in an atomic one-dimensional Ising chain, Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 053003 (2013). (arXiv:1304.2628)
- H. Pichler, J. Schachenmayer, J. Simon, P. Zoller, and A. J. Daley, Dressed, noise- or disorder- resilient optical lattices, Phys. Rev. A 86, 051605(R) (2012). (arXiv:1205.6189)
- M. Foss-Feig, A. J. Daley, J. K. Thompson, and A. M. Rey, Steady-state many-body entanglement of hot reactive fermions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230501 (2012). (arXiv:1207.4741)
- A. J. Daley, H. Pichler, J. Schachenmayer, and P. Zoller, Measuring entanglement growth in quench dynamics of bosons in an optical lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 020505 (2012). (arXiv:1205.1521)
- A. J. Daley, Quantum computing and quantum simulation with Group-II atoms, Quantum Information Processing 10, 865-884 (2011), (arXiv:1106.5712).
- J. Schachenmayer, I. Lesanovsky, A. Micheli, and A. J. Daley, Dynamical crystal creation with polar molecules or Rydberg atoms in optical lattices, New J. Phys 12, 103044 (2010). (arXiv:1003.5858).
- A. Kantian, M. Dalmonte, S. Diehl, W. Hofstetter, P. Zoller, and A. J. Daley, An atomic colour superfluid via three-body loss, Phys. Rev. Lett 103, 240401 (2009). (arXiv:0908.3235)
- A. J. Daley, J. M. Taylor, S. Diehl, M. Baranov, and P. Zoller, Atomic three-body loss as a dynamical three-body interaction, Phys. Rev. Lett 102, 040402 (2009). (arxiv:0810.5153v1)
- A. J. Daley, M. M. Boyd, J. Ye, and P. Zoller, Quantum computing with alkaline earth atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170504 (2008). (arXiv:0808.1940v1)
- K. Winkler, G. Thalhammer, F. Lang, R. Grimm and J. Hecker Denschlag, A. J. Daley, A. Kantian, H. P. Büchler and P. Zoller, Repulsively bound atom pairs in an optical lattice, Nature 441, 853 (2006). (cond-mat/0605196)
- A. J. Daley, C. Kollath, U. Schollwöck, and G. Vidal, Time-Dependent density-matrix renormalization-group using adaptive effective Hilbert spaces, J. Stat. Mech.: Theor. Exp. P04005 (2004). (cond-mat/0403313)