PhD Physics (2013), University of Otago

Research Interests:

Ultra-cold Quantum Gases:

-Low dimensional physics (the Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless transition)

-Dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates

-Multicomponent Bose-Einstein condensates

Selected Recent Publications:

[1] D. Baillie, R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Stability of a trapped dipolar quantum gas, Phys. Rev. A 91, 013613 (2015) (link) .

[2] R. N. Bisset, R. M. Wilson and C. Ticknor, Scaling of fluctuations in a trapped binary condensate, Phys. Rev. A 91 053613 (2015) (link) .

[3] D. Baillie, R. N. Bisset, C. Ticknor and P. B. Blakie, Number Fluctuations of a Dipolar Condensate: Anisotropy and Slow Approach to the Thermodynamic Regime, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 265301 (2014) (link) .

[4] R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Fingerprinting Rotons in a Dipolar Condensate: Super-Poissonian Peak in the Atom-Number Fluctuations, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 265302 (2013) (link) .

[5] R. N. Bisset, C. Ticknor, and P. B. Blakie, Finite-resolution fluctuation measurements of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. A 88, 063624 (2013) (link) .

[6] R. N. Bisset, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie, Roton excitations in a trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. A 88, 043606 (2013) (link) .

[7] P. B. Blakie, D. Baillie, and R. N. Bisset, Depletion and fluctuations of a trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate in the roton regime, Phys. Rev. A 88, 013638 (2013) (link) .

[8] R. N. Bisset, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie, Finite-temperature trapped dipolar Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 86, 033609 (2012) (link) .

[9] P. B. Blakie, D. Baillie, and R. N. Bisset, Roton spectroscopy in a harmonically trapped dipolar Bose-Einstein condensate, Phys. Rev. A 86, 021604(R) (2012) (link) .

[10] R. N. Bisset, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie, Finite-temperature stability of a trapped dipolar Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 83, 061602(R) (2011) (link) .

[11] R. N. Bisset, M. J. Davis, T. P. Simula, and P. B. Blakie, Quasicondensation and coherence in the quasi-two-dimensional trapped Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 79, 033626 (2009) (link) .

[12] R. N. Bisset, D. Baillie, and P. B. Blakie, Analysis of the Holzmann-Chevallier-Krauth theory for the trapped quasi-two-dimensional Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 79, 013602 (2009) (link) .

[13] R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Quantitative test of the mean-field description of a trapped two-dimensional Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 80, 045603 (2009) (link) .

[14] R. N. Bisset and P. B. Blakie, Transition region properties of a trapped quasi-two-dimensional degenerate Bose gas, Phys. Rev. A 80, 035602 (2009) (link) .