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Head of Department

Photo of Professor Blair Blakie.

Location
Room 110
Phone numbers
4114 (Office)
64 3 479 4114 (Office Direct Dial)
Email
blair.blakie@otago.ac.nz
Research Group
Blakie Bradley Theory Group

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Biography

My undergraduate and postgraduate studies were undertaken at the University of Otago. I was a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Maryland, USA) from 2001-2004, after which I joined the Department as a lecturer.

Quantum Gases: magnetic and dipolar interactions


My research programme centres on the physics of ultra-cold gases. This is a high profile field of physics in which 8 key researchers have been awarded Nobel Prizes since 1997. I have established and lead a theory group that has interests in a variety of areas: finite temperature theory, optical lattices, probing and spectroscopic techniques. Recently my interest has been focused on Bose condensates in which the atoms have either magnetic (spinor) degrees of freedom or dipole-dipole interactions.

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Publications

Underwood, A. P. C., & Blakie, P. B. (2025). Stochastic Gross-Pitaevskii theory for a spin-1 Bose gas: Application to superfluidity in two dimensions. Physical Review A, 112, 023315. doi: 10.1103/slxb-df37 Journal - Research Article

Blakie, P. B. (2025). Dirac points and shear instability induced crystal transitions in honeycomb supersolids. Physical Review Letters, 134, 013401. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.013401 Journal - Research Article

Platt, L. M., Baillie, D., & Blakie, P. B. (2024). Sound waves and fluctuations in one-dimensional supersolids. Proceedings of the Te Whai Ao Dodd-Walls Centre (DWC) Symposium. Retrieved from https://www.doddwalls.ac.nz/ Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract

Lee, A.-C., Baillie, D., & Blakie, P. B. (2024). Excitations and phase ordering of the spin-stripe phase of a binary dipolar condensate. Physical Review A, 109, 023323. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.109.023323 Journal - Research Article

Yu, X., & Blakie, P. B. (2024). Absence of the breakdown of ferrodark solitons exhibiting a snake instability. Physical Review A, 110, L061303. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevA.110.L061303 Journal - Research Article

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