Staff profile

• cold Ion and Electron Beams from Laser-cooled Atoms
• Rydberg Non-linear optics
• Terahertz sensing and imaging using Rydberg atoms

• Quantum Light and Matter

• Joint Quantum Centre (Durham-Newcastle)

• 2020: QuanTICo Quantum Terahertz Imager using Coherent control(£77359.00 from Innovate UK)
• 2019: Electromagnetic Sensing, Imaging and Metrology using Rydberg Atoms(£568448.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2018: MACQSIMAL: Minature Atomic Vapour Cells Based Quantum Devices for Sensing and Metrology Applications(£428739.58 from Interreg (ERDF) Europe)
• 2017: Atom-Based Quantum Photonics(£1276337.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2017: QUARTZ: Quantum teRaherTZ Sensor using rydberg atoms(£165199.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2017: Quantum Technologies Hub - Partnership Resource(£172626.00 from Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council)
• 2016: Microwave and THz Sensing using Rydberg Atoms(£10000.00 from University of Birmingham)
• 2016: PhD Studentship on THz Sensing and Imaging(£36000.00 from M Squared Lasers Ltd)
• 2015: Compact ion-sources based on surface-patterned atom chips(£100136.00 from Epsrc)
• 2015: Quantum optics in thermal strontium vapour(£14944.00 from The Royal Society)
• 2015: Rydberg soft matter(£609091.00 from Epsrc)
• 2013: Cold ion production by photoionisation of ultracold atoms with stablised lasers(£6000.00 from The Royal Society)
• 2013: Paul Instrument Fund(£73694.00 from The Royal Society)

Available for media contact about:

• Physics: Atom-light interactions.
• Atomic and Molecular Physics: Atom-light interactions.
• Physics: Quantum and atomic physics
• Atomic and Molecular Physics: Quantum and atomic physics
• Atomic particles: Basic matter:

Chapter in book

• Pritchard, J.D., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2013). Nonlinear optics using cold Rydberg atoms. In Annual Review of Cold Atoms and Molecules. Kirk Madison Yiqiu Wang, Ana Maria Rey & Prof Kai Bongs World Scientific. 1: 301-350.

Conference Paper

• Chen, Shuying, Reed, Dominic, Downes, Lucy A., MacKellar, Andrew R., Almuhawish, Nourah F., Jamieson, Matthew J., Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2021), THz electrometry with Rydberg atoms and all IR lasers, 2021 46th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz). IEEE.

Conference Proceeding

• Griffin, P.F. Weatherill, K.J. Macleod, S.G. Potvliege, R.M. & Adams, C.S. (2005). Loading of selected sites in an optical lattice using light-shift engineering. International Conference of Laser Spectroscopy, Aviemore, World Scientific.

Doctoral Thesis

• K.J. Weatherill (2007). A CO2 laser lattice experiment for cold atoms. Physics department. Durham University. PhD.

Journal Article

• Downes, Lucy, Whiting, Daniel, Adams, Charles & Weatherill, Kevin (Submitted). Rapid readout of terahertz orbital angular momentum beams using atom-based imaging. Optics Letters
• Downes, Lucy A, Torralbo-Campo, Lara & Weatherill, Kevin J (2023). A practical guide to terahertz imaging using thermal atomic vapour. New Journal of Physics 25: 035002.
• Downes, Lucy A., Whiting, Daniel J., Adams, C. Stuart & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2022). Rapid readout of terahertz orbital angular momentum beams using atom-based imaging. Optics Letters 47(22): 6001-6004.
• Chen, Shuying, Reed, Dominic J., MacKellar, Andrew R., Downes, Lucy A., Almuhawish, Nourah F. A., Jamieson, Matthew J., Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2022). Terahertz electrometry via infrared spectroscopy of atomic vapor. Optica 9(5): 485-491.
• Almuhawish, Nourah F. Chen, Shuying, Downes, Lucy A., Jamieson, Matthew J., MacKellar, Andrew R. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2021). Polarization spectroscopy of an excited state transition in Rubidium. OSA Continuum 4(10): 2598-2605.
• Spong, Nicholas L. R. Jiao, Yuechun Hughes, Oliver D. W., Weatherill, Kevin J. Lesanovsky, Igor & Adams, Charles S. (2021). Collectively encoded Rydberg qubit. Physical Review Letters 127(6): 063604.
• Jiao, Yuechun, Spong, Nicholas L. R., Hughes, Oliver D. W., So, Chloe, Ilieva, Teodora, Weatherill, Kevin J. & Adams, Charles S. (2020). Single-photon stored-light Ramsey interferometry using Rydberg polaritons. Optics Letters 45(20): 5888-5891.
• Downes, Lucy A., MacKellar, Andrew R., Whiting, Daniel J., Bourgenot, Cyril, Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2020). Full-Field Terahertz Imaging at Kilohertz Frame Rates Using Atomic Vapor. Physical Review X 10(1): 011027.
• Wade, Christopher G., Levi, Emanuele, Marcuzzi, Matteo, Kondo, Jorge M. Lesanovsky, Igor, Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2018). A terahertz-driven non-equilibrium phase transition in a room temperature atomic vapour. Nature Communications 9: 3567.
• Šibalić, Nikola, Pritchard, Jonathan D., Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2017). ARC: An open-source library for calculating properties of alkali Rydberg atoms. Computer Physics Communications 220: 319-331.
• Hanley, Ryan K., Bounds, Alistair D., Huillery, Paul, Keegan, Niamh C., Faoro, Riccardo, Bridge, Elizabeth M., Weatherill, Kevin J. & Jones, Matthew P. A. (2017). Probing interactions of thermal Sr Rydberg atoms using simultaneous optical and ion detection. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 50(11): 115002.
• Wade, C.G., Šibalić, N., De Melo, N.R., Kondo, J.M., Adams, C.S. & Weatherill, K.J. (2017). Real-Time Near-Field Terahertz Imaging with Atomic Optical Fluorescence. Nature Photonics 11(1): 40-43.
• Šibalić, N., Kondo, J.M., Adams, C.S. & Weatherill, K.J. (2016). Dressed-state electromagnetically induced transparency for light storage in uniform-phase spin waves. Physical Review A 94(3): 033840.
• Šibalić, N Wade, CG, Adams, CS Weatherill, KJ & Pohl T (2016). Driven-dissipative many-body systems with mixed power-law interactions: Bistabilities and temperature-driven nonequilibrium phase transitions. Physical Review A 94(1): 011401.
• de Melo, Natalia R., Wade, Christopher G., Šibalić, Nikola, Kondo, Jorge M., Adams, Charles S. & Weatherill, Kevin J. (2016). Intrinsic Optical Bistability in a Strongly-Driven Rydberg Ensemble. Physical Review A 93(6): 063863.
• Kondo, J.M., Šibalić, N., Guttridge, A., Wade, C.G., De Melo, N.R., Adams, C.S. & Weatherill, K.J. (2015). Observation of interference effects via four-photon excitation of highly excited Rydberg states in thermal cesium vapor. Optics Letters 40(23): 5570-5573.
• Wade, C.G., Sibalic, N., Keaveney, J., Adams, C.S. & Weatherill, K.J. (2014). Probing an Excited-State Atomic Transition Using Hyperfine Quantum Beat Spectroscopy. Physical Review A 90: 033424.
• Maxwell, D., Szwer, D. J., Paredes-Barato, D., Busche, H., Pritchard, J. D., Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K. J., Jones, M. P. A. & Adams, C. S. (2013). Storage and Control of Optical Photons Using Rydberg Polaritons. Physical Review Letters 110(10): 103001.
• Ates, C., Lesanovsky, I., Adams, C. S. & Weatherill, K. J. (2013). Fast and quasideterministic single ion source from a dipole-blockaded atomic ensemble. Physical review letters 110(21): 213003.
• Urvoy, A., Carr, C., Ritter, R., Adams, C.S., Weatherill, K. J. & Löw, R. (2013). Optical coherences and wavelength mismatch in ladder systems. Journal of Physics B Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 46(24): 245001.
• Carr, C., Ritter, R., Wade, C., Adams, C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2013). Nonequilibrium phase transition in a dilute Rydberg Ensemble. Physical Review Letters 111(11): 113901.
• Carr, C Tanasittikosol, M Sargsyan, A, Sarkisyan, D, Adams, CS & Weatherill, KJ (2012). Three-photon electromagnetically induced transparency using Rydberg states. Optics Letters 37(18): 3858-3860.
• Tanasittikosol, M., Carr C. Adams C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2012). Subnatural linewidths in two-photon excited-state spectroscopy. Physical Review A 85(3): 033830.
• West, AD, Weatherill, KJ, Hayward, TJ, Fry, PW, Schrefl, T, Gibbs, MRJ Adams, CS, Allwood, DA & Hughes, IG (2012). Realization of the Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms with a Reconfigurable Nanomagnetic System of Domain Walls. Nano Letters 12(8): 4065–4069.
• West, A.D. Hayward, T.J. Weatherill, K.J. Schrefl, T. Allwood, D.A. & Hughes, I.G. (2012). A simple model for calculating magnetic nanowire domain wall fringing fields. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics 45(9): 095002.
• West, A. D., Wade, C. G., Weatherill, K. J. & Hughes, I. G. (2012). Piezoelectrically actuated time-averaged atomic microtraps. Applied Physics Letters 101(2): 023115.
• Carr, C, Adams, C. S. & Weatherill K. J. (2012). Polarization spectroscopy of an excited state transition. Optics Letters 37(1): 118-120.
• Hayward, T. J. West, A. D., Weatherill, K. J., Schrefl, T., Hughes, I. G. & Allwood, D. A. (2011). Nanomagnetic engineering of the properties of domain wall atom traps. Journal of Applied Physics 110(12): 123918.
• M Tanasittikosol, JD Pritchard, D Maxwell, A Gauguet, KJ Weatherill, RM Potvliege & CS Adams (2011). Microwave dressing of Rydberg dark states. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44(18): 184020.
• Pritchard, J.D. Gauguet, A. Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2011). Optical non-linearity in a dynamical Rydberg gas. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44(18): 184019.
• Sevincli, S., Ates, C., Pohl, T., Schempp, H., Hofmann, C.S., Guenter, G., Amthor, T., Weidemueller, M., Pritchard, J.D., Maxwell, D., Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K.J., Jones, M.P.A. & Adams, C.S. (2011). Quantum interference in interacting three-level Rydberg gases: coherent population trapping and electromagnetically induced transparency. J. Phys B. 44: 184018.
• T. J. Hayward, A. D. West, K. J. Weatherill, P. J. Curran, P. W. Fry, P. M. Fundi, M. R. J. Gibbs, T. Schrefl, C. S. Adams, I. G. Hughes, S. J. Bending & D. A. Allwood (2010). Design and characterization of a field-switchable nanomagnetic atom mirror. Journal of Applied Physics 108(4): 043906.
• Pritchard, J.D., Maxwell, D., Gauguet, A., Weatherill, K.J., Jones, M.P.A. & Adams, C.S. (2010). Cooperative Atom-Light Interaction in a Blockaded Rydberg Ensemble. Physical Review Letters 105(19): 193603.
• Abel, R. P., Mohapatra, A. K., Bason, M. G., Pritchard, J. D., Weatherill, K. J., Raitzsch, U. & Adams, C. S. (2009). Laser frequency stabilization to excited state transitions using electromagnetically induced transparency in a cascade system. Applied Physics Letters 94(7): 071107.
• Weatherill, K., Pritchard, J. D., Griffin, P. F., Dammalapati, U., Adams, C. S. & Riis, E. (2009). A versatile and reliably re-usable ultra-high vacuum viewport. Review of Scientific Instruments 80(2): 026105.
• Bason, M G, Mohapatra, A K, Weatherill, K J & Adams, C S (2009). Narrow absorptive resonances in a four-level atomic system. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 42(7): 075503.
• Weatherill, KJ, Pritchard, JD, Abel, RP, Bason, MG, Mohapatra, AK & Adams, CS (2008). Electromagnetically induced transparency of an interacting cold Rydberg ensemble. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 41(20): 201002.
• Bason, M.G., Mohapatra, A.K., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S (2008). Electro-optic control of atom-light interactions using Rydberg dark-state polaritons. Physical Review A 77(3): 032305.
• Mohapatra, A.K., Bason, M.G., Butscher, B., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2008). A giant electro-optic effect using polarizable dark states. Nature Physics 4(11): 890-894.
• Griffin, P. F., Weatherill, K. J., MacLeod, S. G., Potvliege, R. M. & Adams, C. S. (2006). Spatially selective loading of an optical lattice by light-shift engineering using an auxiliary laser field. New Journal of Physics 8(11): 10.
• Griffin, P.F., Weatherill, K.J. & Adams, C.S. (2005). Fast switching of alkali atom dispensers using laser induced heating. Review of Scientific Instruments 76(9): 093102.

Newspaper/Magazine Article

• Weatherill, KJ & Vredenbregt, EDJ (2012). The Next Coolest Thing. Physics World (August ): 28-33.
• Weatherill, K.J., Pritchard, J.D., Abel, R.P., Bason, M.G., Mohapatra, A.K. & Adams, C.S. (2008). Electromagnetically induced transparency of a cold Rydberg ensemble. EuroPhysics News 39(6): 17.