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Dr Rob Smith

Associate Professor

Research theme

  • Quantum optics & ultra-cold matter

Sub department

  • Atomic and Laser Physics

Research groups

  • Dipolar Quantum Gases group
robert.smith@physics.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: 01865 272206
Clarendon Laboratory, room 512.10.33,241
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I am an experimental physicist focusing on using ultracold atomic gases to study many-body quantum phenomena.

Brief Biography 
The first five years of my research career were spent investigating magnetism, superconductivity and quantum phase transitions in a conventional condensed matter setting of the Quantum Matter group at Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

Then in 2008, recognising the potential for the study of many body physics, I decided to switch fields to study cold atomic gases in the group of Zoran Hadzibabic. In 2012 I became a Royal Society University Research Fellow (URF), also based in Cambridge.

In April 2018 I moved to Oxford and continue to hold my Royal Society URF. I have started a new experimental cold atom group and we are building up an ultracold Erbium experiment to study the effects of long-range dipole-dipole interactions on both equilibrium and non-equilibrium many-body quantum phenomena.

I also hold a tutorial fellowship at Worcester College.  

Research interests

Ultracold atoms

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