Crispin Gardiner

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Crispin Gardiner
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Crispin Gardiner (2000)
Born
Crispin William Gardiner

(1942-10-18) 18 October 1942 (age 81)
Hastings, New Zealand
Relatives Pauline Gardiner (sister)
Crispin Gardiner
Alma mater
Known for Stochastic methods
Quantum noise
Quantum optics
Ultracold Atoms
Scientific career
Institutions
Thesis Topics in Elementary Particle Physics  (1968)
Doctoral advisor Richard Dalitz
Doctoral students Peter Drummond
Website www.otago.ac.nz/physics/staff/

Crispin William Gardiner (born 18 October 1942) is a New Zealand physicist, who has worked in the fields of quantum optics, ultracold atoms and stochastic processes. He has written about 120 journal articles and several books in the fields of quantum optics, stochastic processes and ultracold atoms. [1]

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Education

Born in Hastings New Zealand, Crispin Gardiner completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Auckland (B. Sc. 1964, M. Sc. 1965). He was awarded a research scholarship by the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 in 1965, under which received his DPhil in 1968 from the Oxford University for research in elementary particle physics.

Career

Following his DPhil, Gardiner completed postdoctoral research in the group of George Sudarshan at the Syracuse University.

University of Waikato, 1970–1995

Gardiner was appointed to the faculty of the Physics Department of the University of Waikato in 1970, and was awarded a personal chair in physics in 1992, a position held until 1995. When Gardiner arrived, the University of Waikato was only 5 years old, while the School of Science, which covered Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry, Biology and Earth Science, had only commenced teaching at the beginning of 1970, and no research facilities had been established. [2]

Dan Walls took up a position at Waikato in 1972, [3] and, working together, he and Gardiner established a major research centre for theoretical quantum optics at Waikato, building active and productive collaborations with groups throughout the world. [3]

During this period

Work in early childhood education, 1971–1991

A very significant part of Gardiner's activity over the years 1971-1991 was as a parent activist, administrator and government consultant in New Zealand early childhood education. During this period very significant expansion of recognition, provision and government funding for early childhood education occurred.

In particular [15] [16]

Independent researcher at Victoria University of Wellington, 1995–2005

In 1995 he left the University of Waikato and for the next nine years worked as an independently funded researcher affiliated to Victoria University of Wellington. This was funded by the New Zealand R&D system, which was willing to fund individuals outside established institutions, and was motivated by the opportunity to leave the increasingly bureaucratic New Zealand University system. [17] During this period his work concentrated on the physics of Ultracold atoms, developing a collaboration with Rob Ballagh of the University of Otago. They produced number of influential scientific publications, mainly concentrating on kinetic processes in Bose–Einstein condensates, funded by successive research contracts with the Marsden Fund [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] and in particular seven papers on quantum kinetic theory . [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]

Gardiner characterised this period as "In terms of productivity, it has been the best 10 years research of my life." [17]

University of Otago, 2005–2013

In 2005 he was appointed as a Research Professor at the University of Otago. In this period he was active in developing the University of Otago as a major research centre in ultracold atoms, photonics and quantum optics, which was named the Jack Dodd Centre, after former Otago professor Jack Dodd. During this period there was a major reorganisation of government research funding, commencing in 2006, which he and Rob Ballagh strongly criticised, [31] on the grounds that this would exclude university research from any major funding. Ultimately this aspect of the funding reform was not implemented, and in 2007 the Jack Dodd Centre was awarded a $6.4 million research contract [32] by the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology.

From that time on, as director of the Jack Dodd Centre, his role developed more into that of a research leader until his retirement in early 2013.

Retirement

On retirement he became an honorary professor at the University of Otago and in 2016 he accepted a position as visiting fellow at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in Innsbruck.

During this period he and Peter Zoller wrote the three books of The Quantum World of Ultra-Cold Atoms and Light. [33]

Books

Awards and honours

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References

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  2. ↑ Celebrating 40 years of Science & Engineering. University of Waikato. 2009.
  3. 1 2 Knight, Peter; Milburn, Gerard J. (2015). "Daniel Frank Walls FRSNZ. 13 September 1942 — 12 May 1999". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society . 61. Royal Society publishing: 531–540. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2014.0019. ISSN   0080-4606. S2CID   77660162.
  4. ↑ Drummond, P D; Gardiner, C W (1980). "Generalised P-Representations in Quantum Optics". J Phys A. 13 (7): 2353–2368. Bibcode:1980JPhA...13.2353D. doi:10.1088/0305-4470/13/7/018..
  5. ↑ Gardiner, C W; Collett, M J (1985). "Input and Output in Damped Quantum Systems—Quantum stochastic Differential equations and the master equation". Physical Review A. 31 (6): 3761–3774. Bibcode:1985PhRvA..31.3761G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.31.3761. PMID   9895956.
  6. ↑ Collett, M J; Gardiner, C W (1984). "Squeezing of Intracavity and Travelling Wave Light Fields Produced in Parametric Amplification". Physical Review A. 30 (3): 1386–1391. Bibcode:1984PhRvA..30.1386C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.30.1386.
  7. ↑ Stochastic Methods. Springer, (Berlin, Heidelberg and New York) 4th ed. 2004, ISBN   978-3-540-70712-7 .
  8. ↑ R P P P Grasman, E-J Wagenmakers, Rescue the Gardiner Book, J Math Psychology 50 (2006) 431-435
  9. ↑ Gardiner, C W (1986). "Inhibition of Atomic Phase Decays by Squeezed Light: A Direct Effect of Squeezing". Physical Review Letters. 56 (18): 1917–1920. Bibcode:1986PhRvL..56.1917G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.56.1917. PMID   10032810.
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  14. ↑ Gardiner, C W (1993). "Driving a quantum system with the output field from another driven quantum system". Physical Review Letters. 70 (15): 2269–2272. Bibcode:1993PhRvL..70.2269G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.70.2269. PMID   10053518.
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  18. ↑ Gardiner, C W (1997). "Particle-number-conserving Bogoliubov method which demonstrates the validity of the time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation for a highly condensed Bose gas". Physical Review A. 56 (2): 1414–1423. arXiv: quant-ph/9703005 . Bibcode:1997PhRvA..56.1414G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.56.1414. S2CID   118927457.
  19. ↑ Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P; Ballagh, R J; Davis, M J (1997). "Kinetics of Bose-Einstein condensation in a trap". Physical Review Letters. 79 (10): 1793–1796. arXiv: quant-ph/9707037 . Bibcode:1997PhRvL..79.1793G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.79.1793. S2CID   11879261.
  20. ↑ Jaksch, D; Bruder, C; Cirac, J I; Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P (1998). "Cold bosonic atoms in optical lattices". Physical Review Letters. 81 (15): 3108–3111. arXiv: cond-mat/9805329 . Bibcode:1998PhRvL..81.3108J. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.3108. S2CID   55578669.
  21. ↑ Penckwitt, A A; Ballagh, R J; Gardiner, C W (2002). "Nucleation, growth, and stabilization of Bose-Einstein condensate vortex lattices". Physical Review Letters. 89 (26): 260402. arXiv: cond-mat/0205037 . Bibcode:2002PhRvL..89z0402P. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.89.260402. PMID   12484806.
  22. ↑ Gardiner, CW; Anglin, J R; Fudge, T I A (2002). "The stochastic Gross–Pitaevskii equation". J Phys B. 35 (6): 1555–1582. arXiv: cond-mat/0112129 . Bibcode:2002JPhB...35.1555G. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/35/6/310.
  23. ↑ Gardiner, CW; Davis, M J (2003). "The stochastic Gross–Pitaevskii equation: II". J Phys B. 36 (23): 4731–4753. arXiv: cond-mat/0308044 . Bibcode:2003JPhB...36.4731G. doi:10.1088/0953-4075/36/23/010. S2CID   43776114.
  24. ↑ Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P (1997). "Quantum kinetic theory: A quantum kinetic master equation for condensation of a weakly interacting Bose gas without a trapping potential". Physical Review A. 55 (4): 2902–2921. arXiv: quant-ph/9611043 . Bibcode:1997PhRvA..55.2902G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.55.2902. S2CID   119362659.
  25. ↑ Jaksch, D; Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P (1997). "Quantum kinetic theory II". Physical Review A. 56: 575–586. arXiv: quant-ph/9701008 . doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.56.575. S2CID   119539688.
  26. ↑ Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P (1998). "Quantum kinetic theory III: Quantum kinetic master equation for strongly condensed trapped systems". Physical Review A. 58 (1): 536. arXiv: cond-mat/9712002 . Bibcode:1998PhRvA..58..536G. doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.58.536. S2CID   118983506.
  27. ↑ Jaksch, D; Gardiner, C W; Gheri, K M; Zoller, P (1998). "Quantum kinetic theory IV: Intensity and amplitude fluctuations of a Bose-Einstein condensate at finite temperature including trap loss". Physical Review A. 58 (2): 1450. arXiv: cond-mat/9712206 . Bibcode:1998PhRvA..58.1450J. doi:10.1103/physreva.58.1450. S2CID   119075101.
  28. ↑ Gardiner, C W; Zoller, P (2000). "Quantum kinetic theory V: Quantum kinetic master equation for mutual interaction of condensate and noncondensate". Physical Review A. 61 (3): 033601. arXiv: cond-mat/9905087 . Bibcode:2000PhRvA..61c3601G. doi:10.1103/physreva.61.033601. S2CID   119472927.
  29. ↑ Lee, M D; Gardiner, C W (2000). "Quantum kinetic theory VI: The growth of a Bose-Einstein condensate". Physical Review A. 62 (3): 033606. arXiv: cond-mat/9912420 . Bibcode:2000PhRvA..62c3606L. doi:10.1103/physreva.62.033606. S2CID   119399188.
  30. ↑ Davis, M J; Gardiner, C W; Ballagh, R J (2000). "Quantum kinetic theory VII: The influence of vapor dynamics on condensate growth" (PDF). Physical Review A. 62 (6): 063608. arXiv: cond-mat/9912439 . Bibcode:2000PhRvA..62f3608D. doi:10.1103/physreva.62.063608. S2CID   119012323.
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  32. ↑ "Otago Physicists Get a Cool $7m". Otago Daily Times. 19 July 2006.
  33. ↑ See Quantum World Webpage Archived 12 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine .
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