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Administration and Teaching database design, development and maintenance (mysql and php scripting).

• Atom-light interactions within thermal atomic vapours
• Physics of ultra cold atoms and molecules
• Quantum nonlinear dynamics
• Atomic and Molecular Collisions
• Interstellar Physics

Journal Article

• Potvliege, R., & Wrathmall, S. (2025). CoOMBE: A suite of open-source programs for the integration of the optical Bloch equations and Maxwell-Bloch equations. Computer Physics Communications, 306, Article 109374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpc.2024.109374
• Briscoe, J. D., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2024). Indirect measurement of atomic magneto-optical rotation via Hilbert transform. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 57(17), 175401. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e24
• Briscoe, J. D., Logue, F. D., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2023). Voigt transmission windows in optically thick atomic vapours: a method to create single-peaked line centre filters. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 56(10), Article 105403. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/acc49c
• Brown, D., & Wrathmall, S. (2023). Geographical modelling of language decline. Royal Society Open Science, 10(5), https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.221045
• Logue, F. D., Briscoe, J. D., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2022). Better magneto-optical filters with cascaded vapor cells. Optics Letters, 47(12), 2975-2978. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.459291
• Pizzey, D., Briscoe, J. D., Logue, F. D., Ponciano-Ojeda, F. S., Wrathmall, S. A., & Hughes, I. G. (2022). Laser spectroscopy of hot atomic vapours: from ’scope to theoretical fit. New Journal of Physics, 24, https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ac9cfe
• Erdélyi, R., Korsós, M. B., Huang, X., Yang, Y., Pizzey, D., Wrathmall, S. A., Hughes, I. G., Dyer, M. J., Dhillon, V. S., Belucz, B., Brajša, R., Chatterjee, P., Cheng, X., Deng, Y., Domínguez, S. V., Joya, R., Gömöry, P., Gyenge, N. G., Hanslmeier, A., Kucera, A., …Zuccarello, F. (2022). The Solar Activity Monitor Network – SAMNet. Journal of Space Weather and Space Climate, 12, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2021025
• Ogden, T. P., Whittaker, K., Keaveney, J., Wrathmall, S., Adams, C., & Potvliege, R. (2019). Quasisimultons in Thermal Atomic Vapors. Physical Review Letters, 123(24), Article 243604. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.123.243604
• Keaveney, J., Wrathmall, S. A., Adams, C. S., & Hughes, I. G. (2018). Optimized ultra-narrow atomic bandpass filters via magneto-optic rotation in an unconstrained geometry. Optics Letters, 43(17), 4272-4275. https://doi.org/10.1364/ol.43.004272
• Billam, T., Wrathmall, S., & Gardiner, S. (2012). Variational determination of approximate bright matter-wave soliton solutions in anisotropic traps. Physical Review A, 85(1), Article 013627. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.85.013627
• Haxton, D. J., Wrathmall, S. A., Lewandowski, H., & Greene, C. H. (2009). Theoretical study of the quenching of NH(Δ1)molecules via collisions with Rb atoms. Physical Review A, 80(2), https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.80.022708
• Wrathmall, S., Gusdorf, A., & Flower, D. (2007). The excitation of molecular hydrogen by atomic hydrogen in astrophysical media. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 382(1), 133-138. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2007.12420.x
• Wrathmall, S., & Flower, D. (2007). The rovibrational excitation of H2induced by H. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 40(16), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/40/16/003
• Wrathmall, S., & Flower, D. (2006). A quantum-mechanical study of rotational transitions in H2 induced by H. Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, 39(11), https://doi.org/10.1088/0953-4075/39/11/l04