Dr Aidan Arnold

Senior Lecturer

Physics

Personal statement

I work in a variety of areas of atomic physics, focusing in particular on ultracold atomic systems and Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), but also covering four-wave mixing in atomic vapours. Recent work in our labs on microfabricated atom traps was published as the May 2013 cover story of Nature Nanotechnology.

My DPhil at the University of Sussex led to the first BEC in the UK in 1998. The first Scottish BEC was made in my lab in 2003, and the same experiment was extended to create one of the world’s first magnetic storage rings for BECs, and high-contrast (now 95%) matter-wave interference.

In addition to my experimental work, I have published on theoretical projects both as sole author and collaboratively.

My undergraduate studies (BSc(Hons) in Mathematics, and MSc in Physics) were carried out at the University of Otago in my hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand.

Publications

High-precision control of static magnetic field magnitude, orientation, and gradient using optically pumped vapour cell magnetometry: Ingleby S. J., Griffin P. F., Arnold A. S., Chouliara M., Riis E.; Review of Scientific Instruments Vol 88, (2017); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4980159
Grating chips for quantum technologies: McGilligan James P., Griffin Paul F., Elvin Rachel, Ingleby Stuart J., Riis Erling, Arnold Aidan S.; Scientific Reports Vol 7, (2017); http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-00254-0
Magnetometry optimisation in unshielded environments: Arnold Aidan, Griffin Paul, Riis Erling, Kale Yogeshwar, Ingleby Stuart, Henderson Victoria, Elvin Rachel, McGilligan James Patrick; 47th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, (2016)
UK National Quantum Technologies Hub in sensors and metrology: Bongs K., Boyer V., Cruise M. A., Freise A., Holynski M., Hughes J., Kaushik A., Lien Y.-H., Niggebaum A., Perea-Ortiz M., Petrov P., Plant S., Singh Y., Stabrawa A., Paul D. J., Sorel M., Cumming D. R. S., Marsh J. H., Bowtell R. W., Bason M. G., Beardsley R. P., Campion R. P., Brookes M. J., Fernholz T., Fromhold T. M., Hackermuller L., Krüger P., Li X., Maclean J. O., Mellor C. J., Novikov S. V., Orucevic F., Rushforth A. W., Welch N., Benson T. M., Wildman R. D., Freegarde T., Himsworth M., Ruostekoski J., Smith P., Tropper A., Griffin P. F., Arnold A. S., Riis E., Hastie J. E., Paboeuf D., Parrotta D. C., Garraway B. M., Pasquazi A., Peccianti M., Hensinger W., Potter E., Nizamani A. H., Bostock H., Rodriguez Blanco A., Sinuco-Leon G., Hill I. R., Williams R. A., Gill P., Hempler N., Malcolm G. P. A., Cross T., Kock B. O., Maddox S., John P.; Quantum OpticsProceedings of SPIE Vol 9900, pp. 990009-1-990009-7, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2232143
Design and fabrication of diffractive atom chips for laser cooling and trapping: Cotter J. P., McGilligan J. P., Griffin P. F., Rabey I. M., Docherty K., Riis E., Arnold A. S., Hinds E. A.; Applied Physics B: Lasers and Optics Vol 122, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00340-016-6415-y
Diffraction grating characterisation for cold-atom experiments: McGilligan J. P., Griffin P. F., Riis E., Arnold A. S.; Journal of the Optical Society of America B Vol 33, pp. 1271-1277, (2016); http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/JOSAB.33.001271

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Professional activities

External PhD Examiner University of St. Andrews: External Examiner; 2012
Seminar at Imperial College: Invited speaker; 2011
Seminar at University of Sussex: Speaker; 2011
Quantum Optics workshop: Ross Priory: Speaker; 2011
Chips for atom/ion trapping: University of Nottingham: Speaker; 2011
External PhD Examiner University of Cambridge: External Examiner; 2011

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Projects

Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Johnson, Matthew: Riis, Erling (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Johnson, Matthew (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2016 - 01-Oct-2019
Quantum technologies using Diffractive Optical Structures (Phase II): Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Pritchard, Jonathan (Co-investigator); Period 01-Mar-2017 - 01-Mar-2018
QuDOS II: Quantum technologies using Diffractive Optical Structures (Phase II): Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Pritchard, Jonathan (Co-investigator); Period 01-Mar-2017 - 28-Feb-2018
All-Optical Diffractive Element Approach to Compact, Simple, Rapid BEC Creation in Space: Griffin, Paul (Principal Investigator) Arnold, Aidan (Co-investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator); Period 02-Jan-2017 - 01-Jan-2019
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTA - University of Strathclyde) | Offer, Rachel Frances: Arnold, Aidan (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) Offer, Rachel Frances (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2014 - 01-Apr-2018
EPSRC Doctoral Training Grant - DTA, University of Strathclyde | McGilligan, James Patrick: Arnold, Aidan (Principal Investigator) Riis, Erling (Co-investigator) McGilligan, James Patrick (Research Co-investigator); Period 01-Oct-2013 - 01-Oct-2017

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