Juha Javanainen

Professor Emeritus

Department of Physics

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Education

• D.Sc., Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, 1981
• M.Sc., Physics, Helsinki University of Technology, 1977

Research Focus

• AMO and quantum optics theory -laser cooling
• Photoassociation
• Optical properties of degenerate quantum gases
• Superfluidity in alkali vapor condensates

 

Publications

U. Shrestha, J. Javanainen, and J. Ruostekoski, “Pulsating and Persistent Vector Solitons in a Bose-Einstein Condensate in a Lattice Upon Phase Separation Instability,” http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5016 .

U. Shrestha, J. Javanainen, and J. Ruostekoski, “Quantum Dynamics of Instability-Induced Pulsations of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice,” Phys. Rev. A 79, 043617 (2009).

J. Javanainen and U. Shrestha, “Nonlinear Phenomenology from Quantum Mechanics: Soliton in a Lattice,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 170405 (2008).

U. Shrestha, M. Kostrun, and J. Javanainen, “Pulsating Instability of a Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 070406 (2008).

A. Carmichael and J. Javanainen, “Mean-Field Stationary State of a Bose Gas at a Feshbach Resonance,” Phys. Rev. A 77, 019902 (2008).

J. Javanainen and J. Ruostekoski, “Optical Detection of Fractional Particle Number in an Atomic Fermi-Dirac Gas,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 150404 (2003).

J. Ruostekoski, G. V. Dunne, and J. Javanainen, “Particle Number Fractionalization of an Atomic Fermi-Dirac Gas in an Optical Lattice,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 180401 (2002).

J. Javanainen and M. Mackie, “Rate Limit for Photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 090403 (2002).

M. Mackie, K.-A. Suominen, and J. Javanainen, “Mean-Field Theory of Feshbach-Resonant Interactions in 85Rb Bose-Einstein Condensates,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 180403 (2002).

M. Mackie, R. Kowalski, and J. Javanainen, “Bose-Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage in Photoassociation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3803 (2000).