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Mark Edwards, Ph.D.

Mark Edwards, Ph.D.

Biochemistry, Chemistry & Physics

Home Campus: Statesboro
edwards@georgiasouthern.edu
912-478-0080

Research Areas

Ultracold quantum gases, Bose-Einstein condensates

Education

  • PhD Physics, 1985, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • MA Physics, 1980, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
  • BS Physics, 1977, Georgia Southern College, Statesboro, Georgias, USA

Publications

  1. Andrii Chaika, Artem O. Oliinyk, Ihor V. Yatsuta, Nick P. Proukakis, Mark Edwards, Alexander I. Yakimenko, Thomas Bland, “Acceleration-induced transport of quantum vortices in joined atomtronic circuits,” SciPost Physics, 19 005 (2025).
  2. W. LaRow and M. Edwards and C.A. Sackett, “Beyond the semiclassical approximation in atom interferometry,” Physical Review A, 111 033315 (2025).
  3. T. Bland, I.V. Yatsuta, M. Edwards, Y.O. Nikolaieva, A.O. Oliinyk, A.I. Yakimenko, and N.P. Proukakis, “Persistent current oscillations in a double-ring quantum gas,” Physical Review Research, 4 043171 (2022).
  4. S. Thomas, C. Sapp, A. Smith, C. Sackett, C.W. Clark, and M. Edwards, “Modeling atom interferometry experiments with Bose-Einstein condensates in power-law potentials,” Atoms, 10 34 (2022).
  5. S. Eckel, J.G. Lee, F. Jendrzejewski, N. Murray, C.W. Clark, C.J. Lobb, W.D. Phillips, M. Edwards, and G.K. Campbell, “Hysteresis in a quantized superfluid ‘atomtronic’ circuit,” Nature, 506 200 (2014).  

Funding

Current Grants

  1. “Quantum Thermodynamics of Atomtronic Systems,” NSF Grant No. 2207476, $179,997, 09/01/22-08/31/26

Previous Grants

  1. Quantum Turbulence in Atomtronic Systems,” NSF Grant No. 1707776, $165,000, 09/01/17-10/31/22
  2. Designing Ultracold Atom Circuits in Quasi-2D Confinement,” NSF Grant No. 1413768, $150,000, 11/01/14-10/31/18.
  3. Quantum-Information-Science-Inspired Ultracold Atom Interferometer Design,” NSF Grant No. 1068761, $131,459, 12/01/11-11/30/14.
  4. “Modeling Quantum-Logic Operations with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices,” NSF Grant No. 0758111, $75,000, 12/01/08-11/30/11.
  5. Modeling of Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices as Analogs of Condensed-Matter Systems,” NSF Grant No. 0653359, $27,500, 09/01/07-08/31/09.
  6. Applications of Gaseous Bose-Einstein Condensates in Quantum-Computational Devices,” NSF Grant No. 0354969, $120,000, 09/01/04-08/31/07.
  7. Optical Manipulation of Bose-Einstein Condensates,” NSF Grant No. 0100634, $120,000, 09/01/01-08/31/04.
  8. Quantitative Modeling of Cold-Atom BECs and Atom Lasers,” NSF Grant No. 9802547, $165,000, 09/01/98 – 08/31/01.
  9. Quantitative Modeling of Bose-Condensed Atomic Systems,” NSF Grant No. 9612728, $110,000, 09/96 – 08/98.

Research Projects

  1. Quantum Sensing with Entangled Rydberg-Atom Tweezer Arrays
  2. Double-target Rotation Sensor
  3. Acceleration-induced Transport of Atomtronic Vortices

Research Group

Undergraduate Students

  • Ian Iucker
  • Anish Goyal

Former Students

  • Jeff Heward
  • Sam Oni
  • Oluwatobi Adeniji
  • Eddie Pretorius
  • Charles Henry
  • Stephen Thomas