Publications

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

M. A. Hoefer, P. Engels, and J.J. Chang, Matter-Wave Interference in Bose-Einstein Condensates: a dispersive hydrodynamic perspective, Physica D (2008), doi:10.1016/j.physd.2008.08.021

J.J. Chang, P. Engels, and M. A. Hoefer, Formation of Dispersive Shock Waves by Merging and Splitting Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170404 (2008)

M. A. Hoefer, M. J. Ablowitz, and P. Engels, Piston Dispersive Shock Wave Problem, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 084504 (2008)

P. Engels and C. Atherton, Stationary and Nonstationary Fluid Flow of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Through a Penetrable Barrier, Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 160405 (2007)

P. Engels, C. Atherton, and M. A. Hoefer, Observation of Faraday Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 095301 (2007)

M. A. Hoefer, M. J. Ablowitz, I. Coddington, E. A. Cornell, P. Engels, and V. Schweikhard, Dispersive and classical shock waves in Bose-Einstein condensates and gas dynamics, Phys. Rev. A 74, 023623 (2006)

T. P. Simula, P. Engels, I. Coddington, V. Schweikhard, E. A. Cornell, and R. J. Ballagh, Observations on Sound Propagation in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 080404 (2005)

V. Schweikhard, I. Coddington, P. Engels, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell, Vortex-Lattice Dynamics in Rotating Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 210403 (2004)

I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, S. Tung, and E. A. Cornell, Experimental studies of equilibrium vortex properties in a Bose-condensed gas, Phys. Rev. A 70, 063607 (2004)

V. Schweikhard, I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. P. Mogendorff, and E. A. Cornell, Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates in and near the Lowest Landau Level, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 040404 (2004)

I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell, Observation of Tkachenko Oscillations in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 100402 (2003)

P. Engels, I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell, Observation of Long-lived Vortex Aggregates in Rapidly Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 170405 (2003)

A. Callegari, R. Pearman, S. Choi, P. Engels, H. K. Srivastava, M. Gruebele, K.K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles, Intramolecular Vibrational Relaxation in aromatic molecules II: An experimental and computational study of pyrrole and triazine, Molecular Physics 101, 551-568 (2003).

P. Engels, I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, and E. A. Cornell, Nonequilibrium Effects of Anisotropic Compression Applied to Vortex Lattices in Bose-Einstein Condensates, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 100403 (2002)

P. Engels, W. Ertmer, and K. Sengstock, Magnetic guiding of a slow metastable Ne* beam, Optics Communications 204, 185 (2002)

P. C. Haljan, I. Coddington, P. Engels, and E. A. Cornell, Driving Bose-Einstein-condensate vorticity with a rotating normal cloud, Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 210403/1 (2001)

A. Callegari, U. Merker, P. Engels, H. K. Srivastava, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles, Intramolecular vibrational redistribution in aromatic molecules. I. Eigenstate resolved CH stretch first overtone spectra of benzene, J. Chem. Phys. 113, 10583 (2000)

P. Engels, S. Salewski, H. Levsen, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer, Atom lithography with a cold metastable neon beam, App. Phys. B 69, 407(1999)

U. Merker, P. Engels, F. Madeja, M. Havenith, and W. Urban, High-resolution CO-laser sideband spectrometer for molecular-beam optothermal spectroscopy in the 5-6.6 m wavelength region, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70, 1933 (1999)

INVITED TALKS / SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS

Soliton formation during the cooling, merging and splitting of BECs, invited talk at the 39th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics (DAMOP 2008), State College, Pennsylvania, May 27-31 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics in BECs ~ Quantum Shocks, Solitons, and Farady Waves, invited talk at the James Franck Institute, University of Chicago, May 20, 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics in BECs ~ Faraday waves, solitons and quantum shock, invited talk at the Quantum Lunch seminar, Los Alamos National Lab, March 6, 2008

Quantum hydrodynamics in BECs: From soundwaves to quantum shock, invited talk at the 38th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, Utah, January 6-10, 2008

Faraday waves and solitons in a BEC, invited talk given at the conference
"Bose-Einstein Condensation 2007, Frontiers in Quantum Gases", Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, September 15-20, 2007

Quantum Hydrodynamics - the peculiar superflow of BECs, invited talk given at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra, Australia, July 4, 2007

Quantum Hydrodynamics of Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensates, invited talk given in at the quantum turbulence tutorial at the APS March meeting, Denver, CO, March 4, 2007

Nonlinear quantum hydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates, invited talk in the Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics seminar series, University of Washington, Seattle, November 14, 2006

Quantum Hydrodynamics in Bose-Einstein Condensates, invited talk at NWAPS meeting, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, May 20, 2006

Views beyond the classical world - Probing Quantum Mechanics with Bose-Einstein condensates, colloquium in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, February 28, 2006

Hot topics in the ultracold, seminar talk given to Nonlinear Waves seminar in the Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Washington, Seattle, February 28, 2006

Experiencing the Quantum World - Modern Experiments with Bose-Einstein Condensates, physics seminar at the University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, October 24, 2005

Quantum Hydrodynamics - the peculiar superflow of Bose-Einstein Condensates, invited talk at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, June 13, 2005.

Experiments with Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates, Nanophysics seminar, University of Hawaii at Manoa, April 30, 2004

Physics with Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates - Exploring a Spinning Quantum World, physics seminar at CCNY, New York, March 29, 2004


Spinning up a BEC: from irrotational superfluid to crystal-like vortex matter, seminar of the NIST ion storage group, March 5, 2004

Probing Quantum Mechanics with Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates, CAMP Seminar, Penn State University, Feb. 24, 2004

Rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates - Views on a Spinning Quantum World, physics colloquium, Washington State University, Pullman, Feb. 9, 2004

Experiments in Quantum Fluid Dynamics - Vortex Lattice Dynamics and Shock Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, SIAM Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures conference, Orlando, Florida, October 2-5, 2004

Nonlinear dynamics with matter waves - experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates, invited talk at the 2003 Joint Central and Western Section Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, Boulder, Colorado, October 2-4, 2003

Experiments with large vortex lattices in BECs, invited talk at the Institute for Laser Physics, Hamburg, Germany, June 19, 2003

Experiments with rapidly rotating BECs, invited talk at the Second International Workshop: Theory of Quantum Gases and Quantum Coherence, Levico (Trento, Italy), June 12-14, 2003

Vortex lattices in Bose Gases Under High Rotation Speeds, invited talk at the APS March Meeting, Austin, Texas, March 4, 2003

Experiments with rotating Bose-Einstein Condensates - a macroscopic window into nature's peculiar quantum mechanical behavior, invited talk at the Physics Colloquium, Auburn University, February 7, 2003

Superfluidity, BEC and beyond, invited talk at the Institute for Laser Physics, Hamburg, Germany, October 4, 2002

Vortex lines, lattices and vortex rings in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, invited talk at the 2002 AAAS Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Boston, USA, February 14-19, 2002

Quantized kinks and twists - topological structures in Bose-Einstein Condensates, invited talk at the CSU Physics Colloquium, Fort Collins, USA, October 15, 2001

Experimental wavefunction engineering with BECs, invited talk at the conference "Soliton Equations: Applications and Theory", Colorado Springs, USA , August 10-12, 2001

Intrinsic Nucleation of Vortices, invited talk at the workshop "Fundamental Issues in Quantum Gases", Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, USA, 2001

FURTHER PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

JJ Chang and Peter Engels, Quantum shock and soliton dynamics in the splitting and merging of BECs, poster presented at DAMOP 2008, State College, Pennsylvania, May 27-31, 2008

Peter Engels and C. Atherton, Observation of Faraday Waves in a Bose-Einstein Condensate, talk given at DAMOP 2007, Calgary, Canada, June 5-9, 2007

P. Engels and C. Atherton, Observation of stationary and non-stationary flow past an obstacle in a Bose-Einstein condensate, poster presentation at DAMOP 2007, Calgary, Canada, June 5-9, 2007

P. Engels and C. Atherton, Observation of Faraday Waves in a Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensate, talk given at the 2007 APS March Meeting, Session W32, Denver, CO, March 5-9, 2007

P. Engels, presentation on current status of my work at the "Workshop on Quantum analog simulations of quantum condensed-matter models", Arlington, VA, April 4, 2005

S.-K. Tung, I. Coddington, P. Engels, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell: Vortex Dynamics in and around the Lowest Landau Level, DAMOP 2004, Tucson, Arizona, May 25-29, 2004

P. Engels, I. Coddington, V. Schweikhard, and E. A. Cornell: Experimental investigation of Vortex Lattice Dynamics in a Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein Condensate, QFS 2003 - Quantum Fluids and Solids, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, August 3 - 8, 2003

P. Engels, I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, and E. A. Cornell: Nonequilibrium effects in large vortex lattices, 7th Workshop on Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry, Lunteren, Netherlands, September 28 - October 2, 2002

P. Engels, I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, and E. A. Cornell: Vortex lattice dynamics in a rotating Bose-Einstein condensate, ICAP 2002 (Eighteenth International Conference on Atomic Physics), Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, July 28 - August 2, 2002

P. Engels, I. Coddington, P. C. Haljan, und E. A. Cornell: Driving BEC vorticity with a rotating normal cloud, Euresco-conference "Bose-Einstein Condensation / EuroConference on the Physics of Atomic Gases at Low Temperatures", Sant Feliu, Spain, September 15-20, 2001

P. Engels, W. Ertmer, and K. Sengstock: Magnetic guiding of a cold metastable Neon* beam, 6th Workshop on Atom Optics and Atom Interferometry, Cargese, France, July 25-28, 2000

P. Engels, W. Ertmer, and K. Sengstock: Atom lithography with cold metastable Ne* atoms, CLEO/QELS 2000, San Francisco, USA, May 7-12, 2000

P. Engels, W. Ertmer, and K. Sengstock: Kohaerente Atomstrahlstrukturierung in stehenden Lichtfeldern (coherent atomic beam structuring in standing light fields), 64. Physikertagung der DPG, Bonn, Germany, April 3-7, 2000

P. Engels, S. Salewski, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer: Atom lithography with cold metastable neon atoms, 1999 OSA Annual Meeting and ILS-XV, Santa Clara, USA, September 26-30, 1999

P. Engels, S. Salewski, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer: Patterning surfaces with a slow metastable Ne* beam, 43rd EIPBN'99, Marco Island, USA, June 1-4, 1999

P. Engels, S. Salewski, K. Sengstock, and W. Ertmer: Atomlithographie mit metastabilen Neonatomen (atom lithography with metastable neon atoms), 63. Physikertagung der DPG, Heidelberg, Germany, March 15-19, 1999

A. Callegari, H. K. Srivastava, P. Engels, U. Merker, S. Choi, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles: Regular vs. chaotic intramolecular dynamics in the first CH stretching overtone of aromatic molecules, 53rd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at Ohio State University, USA, June 15-19, 1998

G. Pietraperzia, P. Engels, A. Callegari, H. K. Srivastava, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles: Eigenstate resolved infrared spectrum of the CH stretching first overtone region of s-tetrazine, 52nd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at Ohio State University, USA, June 16-20, 1997

S. Choi, A. Callegari, H. K. Srivastava, P. Engels, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles : Eigenstate resolved infrared spectroscopy of pyrrole in the C-H stretch overtone region, 52nd International Syhmposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at Ohio State University, USA, June 16-20, 1997

A. Callegari, H. K. Srivastava, P. Engels, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles, A. Heyl and P. Botschwina: High resolution molecular beam spectroscopy of the HCN dimer in the 1.5 m region. Reinvestigation of the 1 + 2 band and comparison with theory, 52nd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at Ohio State University, USA, June 16-20, 1997

A. Callegari, H. K. Srivastava, P. Engels, K. K. Lehmann, and G. Scoles: Eigenstate resolved double resonance study of benzene intramolecular vibrational energy redistribution in the C-H stretch first overtone region: a good candidate for a successful tier model analysis, 52nd International Symposium on Molecular Spectroscopy at Ohio State University, USA, June 16-20, 1997