Mark Sadgrove

Mark Sadgrove received his Ph.D. from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 2006 for the study of “Resonant quantum transport for kicked atoms.” He is currently a research fellow with the Japan Science and Technology Agency at the University of Electro-communications in Tokyo where he studies the quantum transport properties of Bose-Einstein condensates.

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Finding some sense in disorder

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Mark Sadgrove, Published December 15, 2008

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Disorder in a crystal tends to localize electrons and drive a transition from a metallic to an insulating state. The same localization can occur in cold atom gasses in a periodic optical trap, but since the trap is tunable it may be possible to explore this effect in multiple dimensions.