BSc Hons (Otago), PhD (Otago)
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¶ Research Areas
- Spinor and dipolar Bose gases
- Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii theory of high temperature Bose-Einstein Condensates
- Computational physics and numerical methods
- Optical lattices
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¶ Select Publications
Honeycomb supersolid -- Dirac points and shear-instability induced crystal transitions
P Blair Blakie, Physical Review Letters 134, 013401 (2025)
Absence of breakdown of ferrodark solitons exhibiting snake instability
Xiaoquan Yu and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review A (Letter) 110, L061303 (2024)
Excitations of a binary supersolid
W. Kirkby, Au-Chen Lee, D. Baillie, T. Bland, F. Ferlaino, P. B. Blakie, and R. N. Bisset, Physical Review Letters 133, 103401 (2024) (Editor's Suggestion),
Measurement of the excitation spectrum of a dipolar gas in the macrodroplet regime
J.J.A. Houwman, D. Baillie, P.B. Blakie, G. Natale, F. Ferlaino, and M.J. Mark, Physical Review Letters 132, 103401 (2024)
Magnetic atoms push interactions to new lengths for quantum simulations
P. Blair Blakie and Barbara Capogrosso-Sansone,
Nature: News and Views, Oct. 2023
Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transitions in a ferromagnetic superfluid
Andrew P. C. Underwood, Andrew J. Groszek, Xiaoquan Yu, P. B. Blakie, and L. A. Williamson, Physical Review Research (Letter) 5, L012045 (2023)
Propagating Ferrodark Solitons in a Superfluid: Exact Solutions and Anomalous Dynamics,
Xiaoquan Yu and P. B. Blakie Physical Review Letters 128, 125301 (2022)
High-energy Bragg scattering measurements of a dipolar supersolid,
D. Petter, A. Patscheider, G. Natale, M. J. Mark, M. A. Baranov, R. v. Bijnen, S. M. Roccuzzo, A. Recati, B. Blakie, D. Baillie, L. Chomaz, and F. Ferlaino
Physical Review A (Letter) 104, L011302 (2021)
Quantum droplet states of a binary magnetic gas,
Joseph C. Smith, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie,
Phys. Rev. Lett. 126 025302 (2021)
Supersolidity in an elongated dipolar condensate,
P. B. Blakie, D. Baillie, L. Chomaz, and F. Ferlaino, Physical Review Research 2, 043318 (2020)
Properties of a nematic spin vortex in an antiferromagnetic spin-1 Bose-Einstein condensate,
Andrew P. C. Underwood, D. Baillie, P. Blair Blakie, and H. Takeuchi, Physical Review A 102, 023326 (2020)
Variational theory for the ground state and collective excitations of an elongated dipolar condensate,
P. Blair Blakie, D. Baillie, and Sukla Pal, Communications in Theoretical Physics 72, 085501 (2020)
Rotational tuning of the dipole-dipole interaction in a Bose gas of magnetic atoms,
D. Baillie, and P. Blair Blakie, Physical Review A 101, 043606 (2020) (Editor's Suggestion)
Dynamics of an itinerant spin-3 atomic dipolar gas in an optical lattice,
Petra Fersterer, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Bihui Zhu, Lucas Gabardos, Steven Lepoutre, L. Vernac, B. Laburthe-Tolra, P. Blair Blakie, and Ana Maria Rey, Physical Review A 100, 033609 (2019) (Editor's Suggestion)
Violation of single-length scaling dynamics via spin vortices in an isolated spin-1 Bose gas,
C.-M. Schmied, T. Gasenzer, and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review A 100, 033603 (2019)
Anomalous phase ordering of a quenched ferromagnetic superfluid,
L. A. Williamson and P. B. Blakie, SciPost Physics 7, 29 (2019)
Static-response theory and the roton-maxon spectrum of a flattened dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate,
R. N. Bisset, P. B. Blakie, and S. Stringari, Physical Review A 100, 013620 (2019) (Editor's Selection)
Droplet crystal ground states of a dipolar Bose gas,
D. Baillie and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 121, 195301 (2018)
Coarsening dynamics of an isotropic ferromagnetic superfluid,
Lewis A. Williamson, and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 119, 255301 (2017)
Collective excitations of self-bound droplets of a dipolar quantum fluid,
D. Baillie, R. M. Wilson, and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 119, 255302 (2017)
Emergent Non-Eulerian Hydrodynamics of Quantum Vortices in Two Dimensions,
X. Yu, A. S. Bradley, Physical Review Letters 119, 185301 (2017)
Ground state phase diagram of a dipolar condensate with quantum fluctuations,
R. N. Bisset, R. M. Wilson, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blake, Physical Review A 94, 033619 (2016)
Self-bound dipolar droplet: a localized matter-wave in free space,
D. Baillie, R. M. Wilson, R. N. Bisset, and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 94, 021602(R) (2016),
arXiv (Editor's Suggestion)
Multiple scattering dynamics of fermions at an isolated p-wave resonance,
R. Thomas, K. O. Roberts, E. Tiesinga, A. C. J. Wade, P. B. Blakie, A. B. Deb & N. Kjærgaard, Nature Communications 7, 12069 (2016)
Universal coarsening dynamics of a quenched ferromagnetic spin-1 condensate,
Lewis A. Williamson and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 116, 025301 (2016) arXiv
Crystallisation of a dilute atomic dipolar condensate,
R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review A (Rapid Communication) 92, 061603 (2015) arXiv
Number Fluctuations of a Dipolar Condensate: Anisotropy and Slow Approach to the Thermodynamic Regime,
D. Baillie, R. N. Bisset, C. Ticknor and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 113, 265301 (2014)
Thermally activated local collapse of a flattened dipolar condensate,
E. B. Linscott and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review A 90, 053605 (2014) (Editor's Suggestion)
Fingerprinting rotons in a dipolar condensate: Super-Poissonian peak in the atom-number fluctuations,
R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Physical Review Letters 110, 265302 (2013)
Roton spectroscopy in a harmonically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate,
P. B. Blakie, D. Baillie, R. N. Bisset, Physical Review A 86 021604(R) (2012)
Quasi-condensation and coherence in the quasi-two-dimensional trapped Bose gas,
R.N. Bisset, M.J. Davis, T.P. Simula, and P.B. Blakie, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033626 (2009)
Dynamics and statistical mechanics of Bose gases using c-field techniques,
P. B. Blakie, A. S. Bradley, M. J. Davis, R. J. Ballagh, C. W. Gardiner, Advances in Physics 57, 363 (2008)
Critical temperature of a trapped Bose gas: comparison of theory and experiment,
Matthew J. Davis and P. Blair Blakie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 060404 (2006)
Thermal activation of vortex-antivortex pairs in quasi-2D Bose-Einstein condensates,
T.P. Simula and P. Blair Blakie, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 020404 (2006)
Projected Gross-Pitaevskii Equation for harmonically confined Bose gases at finite temperature,
P. Blair Blakie and Matthew J. Davis, Phys. Rev. A 72, 063608 (2005)
Bragg Spectroscopy of ultracold atoms loaded in an optical lattice,
Ana Maria Rey, P. Blair Blakie, Guido Pupillo, Carl J. Williams, and Charles W. Clark, Phys. Rev. A 72, 023407 (2005)