The University of School of Annual Report 2007 Contents

1 HEAD OF SCHOOL REPORT 2 STAFF LIST 4 TEACHING REPORT 5 AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIPS 2007 6 OUTREACH REPORT 7 SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR PHYSICS 8 RESEARCH REPORT

9 & (INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY)

11 COMPLEX SYSTEMS (BIOPHYSICS, BRAIN DYNAMICS, SPACE PHYSICS)

13 CONDENSED MATTER THEORY As part of the School of Physics research, the Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) group uses a small, spherically symmetric plasma generated by 14 CUDOS electrostatic fields to obtain conditions which will lead to neutron production from nuclear fusion when the gas is deuterium (see p22). 15 HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

16 INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR SCIENCE

17 INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL PHYSICS

17 ISA – INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY ANALYSIS

18 PLASMA THEORY

20 QUANTUM INFORMATION THEORY

20 SYDNEY UNIVERSITY PHYSICS EDUCATION RESEARCH (SUPER)

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21 RESEARCH GRANTS AWARDED FOR 2008

21 RESEARCH FUNDING 22 PUBLICATIONS 22 BOOKS 22 BOOK CHAPTERS 23 JOURNAL ARTICLES © The School of Physics, The 2007. All rights reserved. 38 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Head of School's Report

ANNE GREEN PROFESSOR, PHYSICS HEAD OF SCHOOL

I FEEL PRIVILEGED TO WRITE THIS REPORT as the first female Head Kickstart to the bush to enable easier access for students from regional of the School of Physics. This is an exciting opportunity for me to led NSW. This year the program was extended to include Dubbo, as well as one of the top physics departments in Australia. My vision is to Wagga Wagga and Armidale, which were already participants. Activities encourage and support our staff and students, who are by far our are also produced for primary school students, for the Talented Student greatest assets. Perhaps the exciting development in the School Program at the University, and for the general community. of Physics in 2007 was the award of two new ARC Federation ‘Music and the Cosmos’ was a collaborative event between the Fellowships. Professor Joss Bland-Hawthorn joined us from the Anglo- School of Physics and the Sydney Conservatorium of Music held in Australian Observatory to work in astrophotonics, a new field October 2007. Maestro Imré Pallo conducted the Sydney pioneered by him that aims to apply techniques developed in Conservatorium Symphony Orchestra playing Mozart’s Symphony No to astronomical instruments. Professor was 41 – Jupiter. Three of our astronomers, Professor Tim Bedding, Dr awarded a second Federation Fellowship to undertake innovative Peter Tuthill and Professor Geraint Lewis – who between them have research in photonics. Speaking of photonics, CUDOS, the Centre of discovered a square star, worked out how to maximise your time in a Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems, an ARC-funded black hole and how to tell the age of stars by their vibrations – Centre of Excellence, of which Ben is the Director, was renewed for delighted the audience with their presentations. For many onlookers it another three years with funding ($7.5M) until 2010. The Centre for was the first time they had attended an astronomy lecture and so it Quantum Computer Technology, in which Professor David McKenzie is was pleasing to hear their enthusiastic comments post-concert. My a Program Manager, was also renewed with a grant of more than thanks also to Physics and Music student Cliff Kerr who brilliantly $10M. In addition, David was awarded an ARC Professorial Fellowship. played his original work, Quasars, Pulsars and Black Holes and to Other Fellowship winners include Dr Bruce Yabsley (ARC Australian ABC’s Robyn Williams who graciously agreed to be MC for the night. I Research Fellow) and Dr Michael Ireland (ARC Postdoctoral Research am delighted to report that ‘Music and the Cosmos’ will have a repeat Fellow). The total value for new ARC Grants in 2007 was $4.95M. performance in 2009 as part of The International Year of Astronomy. Recognition for other members of staff continued with the I am very pleased that in an environment of declining science promotion of Dr Carl Cui to Level B, Dr Stephen Bartlett to Level C, enrolments, the School’s student numbers are nonetheless holding Dr Peter Tuthill and Dr Serdar Kuyucak to Level D, while I was up. The Honours cohort for 2007 was a healthy 25, which is very promoted to Level E. It was a particularly good year for Ben Eggleton, important because many of these students continue on to who was awarded the Pawsey Medal for outstanding research in postgraduate research in the School. To improve the learning physics from the Australian Academy of Sciences, and named a “Bright experience of our Junior Physics classes, we introduced an interactive Spark” by Cosmos magazine. Professor Martijn de Sterke was computer-based system for their weekly assignments. The students appointed as the Editor in Chief of Express, one of the leading are pleased with the hints and feedback provided and the teaching optics journals. Professor Elaine Sadler was appointed to the Board of staff welcome the reduced work load; altogether a win-win situation. Astronomy Australia Ltd. As well as accolades for the staff, our One of the main challenges for a fast-growing and successful students are recognized as amongst the best in the country. Dr Alex School like Physics is to maintain high quality facilities. Some of the Argyros received the University Alumni prize for the best PhD thesis, projects completed during 2007 include the refurbishment of the third to follow his award of the Bragg Medal in 2006 for the best Physics floor of the Annexe, previously the Physics Library, into offices for the PhD thesis in the country. Complex Systems research group and the conversion of part of the Outreach to the general community remains a key priority of our basement into a new laboratory for CUDOS. The School also activities. One of the highlights of the year was hosting the 34th reorganized and refurbished the Lecture Demonstration area. Lastly, Professor Harry Messel International Science School (ISS2007) entitled but surely not least, the School has finally succeeded in constructing “ecoscience”, which was an outstanding success. The school, its own bike shed. This means that we have, in addition to the Main organized by the Science Foundation for Physics, selected 140 top Building (A28) and the Annexe (A29), new building number A30. scholars from Australia and around the world. Lecturers included Though these improvements are important, the critical infrastructure Professor Lord Robert Winston, and Dr Fred Watson from the Anglo- issue for the School is that we are desperately short of space. This is Australian Observatory, who serenaded the scholars with the “Redshift partly because our Main Building is a lovely example of heritage Blues” on his guitar during the last lecture. Her Excellency Professor architecture by Leslie Wilkinson, but it is not well-suited to the needs Marie Bashir has been the Patron and strong supporter of the ISS for of a modern world-class research and teaching Physics Department. many years, and we are delighted that she will continue in this role The Annexe is a poor quality building, well past its “use-by date”. The despite her many commitments as Governor of NSW and now Senior Management of the University have recognized our needs and Chancellor of the University of Sydney. During 2007, the Science have included a new and substantially larger building to replace the Foundation’s Executive Officer Dr Chris Stewart left the position to Annexe in the ambitious Campus 2020 Plan. Details are not yet clear, pursue other opportunities; I am very pleased to report that Adam but the preparation of a business case and the initiation of the New Selinger has been appointed to the role. Building project are among my highest priorities for 2008. We continued to run major outreach projects specifically aimed at Finally, I would like to thank the previous Head A/Prof. Brian James for NSW high school students. They include Kickstart, which invites his wise leadership and management of the School for the period 2003– students to the School where they engage in interesting experiments 2006. During this period many initiatives came to fruition, so the School from the high school syllabus. Some years ago it was decided to take is now in a very strong position to look to the future with confidence.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 1 Staff

ARC Federation Fellows Robert Wilkins, BE MEngSc PhD Shamibrata Chatterjee, BTech IIT Madras Marcela M Bilek, BSc PhD Camb MBA MSc PhD Cornell Roch Senior Lecturers Christopher Dey, PhD Joss Bland-Hawthorn, BSc AU Birm PhD Peter Barnes BSc PhD Libin Fu, BS Wuhan MS PhD Peking Sus & RGO Seyed Reza Hashemi-Nezhad, MSc PhD until August Benjamin J Eggleton, BSc PhD Birm Rodrigo Gil-Merino, BSc Laguna PhD Bryan Gaensler, BSc PhD Joseph Khachan, BSc PhD NSW Potsdam until March Peter A Robinson, BSc PhD Serdar Kuyucak, BSc METU PhD Yale Christian E Grillet, ARC PD Fellow Catherine Stampfl, BSc PhD LaTrobe David J Moss, BSc Waterloo MSc PhD Lisa Harvey-Smith from October Toronto Helen M Johnston, PhD CalifIT BSc Australian Professorial Fellows Nigel Marks, BSc PhD Jong Won Kim, BS MS Soel PhD Iver H Cairns, BSc PhD John W O'Byrne, BSc PhD Maryland Ross C McPhedran, BSc PhD Tas J Gordon Robertson, BSc Adel PhD Laszlo Kiss, DPhys PhD Attila Elaine M Sadler, BSc Qld PhD ANU Manjula D Sharma, MSc DAPh SPac Christian Karnutsch from October Sergei Vladimirov, MSc PhD Mosc Kevin E Varvell, BSc WAust DPhil Oxf Alexey Kondyurin, PhD Perm Michael S Wheatland, BSc PhD Boris T A Kuhlmey, PhD, ARC PD Fellow Australian Professorial Fellow and Susan Law, PhD University Chair Adjunct Senior Lecturer Sunnie Lim, BappSc PhD RMIT Donald B Melrose, BSc Tas DPhil Oxf Lois Holloway, BSc Woll PhD NSW Vasili Lobzin from September Peter Loxley, BSc Murd PhD UWA BSc Professor in Medical Physics Lecturers Bo L Li, MSc Nankai PhD JCUNQ Clive Baldock, BSc Sus MSc PhD Lond Stephen Bartlett, BSc Waterloo MSc Christelle Monat PhD LEOM, CNRS, PhD Toronto ARC PD Fellow Professor in Physics (Material Physics) Nicholas Ekins-Daukes, MSc StAnd MSc Richard Morrow, BSc Adel PhD Flin BA David R McKenzie, BSc PhD NSW PhD Lond until June Tara Murphy, PhD Edin BSc Zdenka Kuncic, BSc PhD ANU Stephen Ng Professor in Theoretical Physics Richard Tarrant, BA MSc PhD Martijn de Sterke, MEng Delft PhD Roch ARC Queen Elizabeth II Research Eduard N Tsoy, MSc St Petersburg PhD Fellows Tashkent Professor in Astrophysics Scott Croom, BSc PhD Durham Paul Watson, BSc MSc Waikato PhD Richard W Hunstead, BSc PhD Andrew Hopkins, BSc PhD Camb until June Kostyantyn Ostrikov, DSc Kharkov Jeanette I Weise, BSc PhD Melb Professor in Sustainability Research Alexander A Samarian, MSc Kiev PhD Yongbai Yin, MSc Nankai PhD Manfred Lenzen, PhD Dip Bonn RAS (Mosc) Peter G Tuthill, BSc Qld BSc (Hons) ANU Research Associates Associate Professor and Head of PhD Camb Hans Bruntt PhD Aarhus School Xiangyuan Carl Cui Anne Green, BSc Melb PhD ARC Postdoctoral Research Fellows Damien Carter Nelson K L Ng, PhD Katawat Chuasiripattana from June Associate Professors Peter Drysdale, BSc LLB PhD Timothy R Bedding BSc PhD Senior Research Fellows Xiangmei Duan Geraint Lewis, BSc Lond PhD Camb Qinghuan Luo, BSc NIHM MSc Daniel F Hevia Heilongjiang PhD Feng Luan from February Adjunct Professors Eric Magi, BSc ANU PhD NSW Alberto Mendez from August Russell Cannon, BSc MA PhD Camb Oliver Warschkow, BSc PhD Toronto Jeremy Mitchell from July Matthew Colless, BSc PhD Camb Joy Murray Richard N Manchester, BSc Cant PhD Denison Research Fellows Neil Nosworthy Newcastle (NSW) Cenk Kocer, BSc Monash PhD Swarma M Patra Dixon Kwok, BSc PhD Camb Mark Pelusi Adjunct Associate Professors Rebecca Powles John Drew, BSc Adel MAppSc NSWIT Postdoctoral Fellows Hongqing (Robin) Shi until September Roger Fulton, PhD UTS Turgut Bastug, MSc DSc Kassel until July Aloysius Soon Lyn Oliver, MSc Lond PhD Camb Julia J Bryant, PhD Snjezana Tomljenovic-Hanic PhD ANU RF Natalka Suchowerska, BSc Birm MSc James Canvin, MSc Manc DPhil Oxf Xingqiu Yuan until April UTS PhD until February Victor Zhou

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 2 Julius Sumner Miller Fellow Science Foundation Executive Officer Rosemary Miller, BSc Qld MEd Karl Kruszelnicki, BSc MBioMedE NSW Chris Stewart, BSc UQ DipScComm Ian Sefton, MSc MBBS ANU PhD York until August Robert Shobbrook, BSc StAnd PhD Adam Selinger BSc Grad Dip (Science William J Tango, BSc Calif PhD Colorado CUDOS Chief Operating Officer Comm) ANU from October Anthony J Turtle, BA PhD Camb Chris Walsh, PhD Juris Ulrichs, PhD Science Foundation Community CUDOS Laboratory Manager Relations Manager Honorary Associates Jeremy Bolger, BSc UWA PhD Heriot- Alison Muir Gary Arthur, BA DipEd Macq ThL ACT Watt MBiomedE NSW Joseph Zheng from October Science Foundation Education and Ara Asatryan, MSc Yerevan State Uni Administrative Officer PhD Mosc CUDOS Administrative Assistant Alex Viglienzone Andrew Bakich, MSc PhD Emily Higginson Lindsay C Botten, BSc Tas PhD Physics Workshop Technical Officers Michael Breakspear, BA BSc MBBS Teaching Laboratory Support Staff Michael Paterson Ian J Cooper, BSc MPhys DipEd NSW Nathan Apps from July Terry Pfeiffer Graham Derrick, PhD Stephen Bosi PhD until July Martijn van Eijkelenborg, MSch PhD Marek Dolleiser Molonglo Telescope Manager Leiden Amelita Napthali Duncan Campbell-Wilson, BSc ANU Pal Fekete, PhD Barry Napthali Roger Ashwell CertIV Electronic Eng N Simon Fleming, PhD Myo Win Syd TAFE Robert Fletcher, DipEd UTS BSc MSc Adrian Blake PhD Computing Staff Tim Hubbard Catherine Foley, BSc DipEd Macq PhD Sebastian Juraszek, PhD Barney Foran Anthony Monger, PhD Emeritus Professors Parameswaran Hariharan BSc MSc Guoliang George Shan Richard Edward Collins, BSc PhD NY Travancore PhD Kevala Paul Leopardi BSc MCom MSc UNSW John Davis, BSc PhD Manc Julienne I Harnett, BA Macq DipT Tas until June Harry Messel, CBE, BSc Qu PhD NUI CAE PhD Xue (Sue) Zhang from November Bernard Mills, AC BSc BE ME DScEng Stuart Jackson PhD FRS FAA David L Jauncey, PhD Technical Officers Simon Johnston, BSc Edin PhD Manc Robert Davies Honorary Professors Tim Langtry, BS PhD NSW MAppSc UTS Phil Denniss David J H Cockayne, MSc Melb DPhil Maryanne Large, BSc PhD Dub Andre Kyme, BSc(Hons) UNSW Oxf James K Lowry, BA Richmond MA MMedPhys Wollongong from July Lawrence E Cram, BSc BE PhD William & Mary PhD Cant Barbara Piestrzynska Jak Kelly, BSc PhD Reading DSc NSW Pamela McNamara, BSc Swansea Lai Chun (Cat) So Colin JR Sheppard, MA PhD Camb DSc (Wales), MSc Sheff PhD Bangor (Wales) Oxf David R Mills, BSc PhD NSW School Administration Manager Barry S Thornton, AM, MSc PhD NSW Graham Morrison, BE PhD Melb Paul Harbon, MBA DipMngmt Deakin DSc Bhaskar Mukherjee, BE Calc MSc PhD DipMath SQld BSc Greg Forbes Phd ANU Technisch Andrew R Parker, BSc JM Liv, PhD Macq Science Communicator (Physics) Honorary Reader John Piggot Phil Dooley, BSc PhD ANU Graham Derrick, BSc Qld PhD Mark Reinhard, BSc PhD Woll Lara Davis from November Christopher Rennie, BSc ANU MBioEng Honorary Associate Professors NSW Student Support Office Dale L Bailey, BAppSc NSWIT MAppSc Matthew Ryan Hyacinth Alfonso UTS PhD Surrey Michael Scholz, BSc Tuebingen MSc Verdi Arli from October Rodney C Cross, PhD DipEd PhD Hamburg Eve Teran, BSc Robert G Hewitt, PhD Geoff Smith, MSc Witw PhD NSW Brian W James, BSc PhD Michael Steel PhD Finance Ian D S Johnston, BSc Qld PhD Holger Stoeck, MS PhD Bochum Nelly Leh Hwa Liew Brian McInnes, BSc PhD Qld Jocelyn Towson, BSc UWA BA Camb David Young Lawrence S Peak, PhD MSc Lond Murray Winn, BSc PhD Birm Martijn van Eijkelenborg Personnel and Administrative Officer Honorary Senior Lecturers Mark J Wardle, MSc Auck PhD Prin Chindy Praseuthsouk, DipHRMngmt SIT Roy Allen, BSc PhD Manc Andrew Willes, BSc PhD BA on leave from October Ian M Bassett, MSc PhD Melb Kinwah Wu, BSc HK MSc PhD Louisiana G Fergus Brand, MSc Otago PhD Qui-Chu Zhang Personnel and Administrative Neil F Cramer, BSc PhD Assistants David F Crawford, BSc PhD Sang Huynh Ian S Falconer, MSc NZ PhD ANU Jean Pierre Cheaib Bruce McAdam, MSc NZ PhD Camb James B T McCaughan, MSc PhD

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 3 Teaching Report 2007

PROFESSOR RICHARD (DICK) HUNSTEAD CHAIR, ACADEMIC PROGRAMS COMMITTEE

Undergraduate student numbers in 2007 were sustained Senior Physics: After some minor adjustments to the subject overall, with a drop in the junior advanced class and a mixes in the new 6CP units for 2007, the new course significant increase in senior physics. structure has gone smoothly, with students appreciating the Numbers in each year, averaged over the two semesters and flexibility of subject choices. The pressure of increased student counting just the mainstream physics courses, were as follows: numbers in the laboratory was resolved by opening the lab on a third day. 46 students did special projects with research Junior 645 groups in the School as part of their senior assessment. Intermediate 130 Senior 87 Honours: 25 students completed honours in 2007, with four Honours 25 receiving the University medal: Tom Griffin, Ben Fulcher, Lisa Torlina and Parry Chen. The Australian Institute of Physics In addition there were 99 students doing the PHYS1500 (NSW Branch) prize and the Shiroki Prize for the best honours introductory astronomy course, and 47 doing the first year project both went to Tom Griffin, and the Henry Chamberlain computational science courses. Russell prize in astronomy was shared by Christopher Hales and Juliana Kwan. Junior physics: The coordination of junior physics in 2007 moved from two staff members to three, with the addition of an administration manager for tutor assignment, and test and exam preparation. The web-based tutorial and assignment scheme known as Mastering Physics has been well received by first year students. This scheme, developed by Pearson Education in conjunction with their Physics textbook, was introduced in 2005 and 2006 and extended to the advanced and environmental streams in 2007; it was further extended to the introductory astronomy course in 2007 with a change of textbook.

Intermediate physics: 2007 was the third year of the 6 credit point structure for Intermediate Physics, with one 6CP unit in first semester and two in second semester; take-up of the optional second semester unit has stabilised at about 65%. Student satisfaction with this new structure is very high, especially the strong links between the lecture courses and computational labs in optics and quantum physics. Mastering Physics was introduced in the main second semester stream in 2007 in place of hand-marked assignments.

Talented Student Program (TSP): The TSP is a Faculty of Science initiative aimed at introducing high-achieving students to research in their first years at University. The Physics TSP experience consisted of weekly research seminars by staff and postgraduate students on topics ranging from optical supercomputers to sustainability, gravitational lensing to MRI brain modelling, and complex plasma to . Research groups across the School offered mini projects in second semester to Junior and Intermediate students in the Talented Student Program. These projects were done in place of part of the regular experimental physics program. The response was excellent, with 35 students opting to do project work. The student talks and reports were of a uniformly high standard, and many of the TSP students continued with their research projects as summer vacation scholars. Twelve of the TSP students came on a short excursion in the September mid-semester break to observatories at Parkes, Siding Spring and Narrabri. TSP students at the Parkes radio telescope.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 4 Awards and Scholarships 2007

AWARDS TO STAFF Smith Prize in Experimental Physics The W.I.B. Smith Prize (shared) James Griffin Rachel Wang TIES: Teaching Improvement and The Malcolm Turki Memorial Xin Zhang Equipment Scheme Scholarship Dr Peter Tuthill, Dr John O'Byrne, Sky and Space Prize for Astronomy Alexander Gray Professor Elaine Sadler, Professor Timothy White Bryan Gaensler and Dr Gordon HONOURS Robertson were awarded a small grant INTERMEDIATE PHYSICS for The Remote Observing Centre Shiroki Prize for Best Honours Sydney (ROCS). School of Physics–Julius Sumner Project in Physics Pawsey Medal: awarded by the Miller Scholarship No. 2 Christine Lindstrom Elie Matar Australian Academy of Sciences for The Australian Institute for Physics Michael West excellence in physics research, won by (NSW) Branch Prize Dr Kosya Ostrikov for experimental and Science Foundation for Physics Christine Lindstrom theoretical work in plasma Scholarship No. 2 Henry Chamberlain Russell Prize in nanoscience. This is an early-career Alex Canhao Astronomy (shared) research award, for scientists under 40 Casey Handmer Madhura Killedar years of age. Joel Wallman Dean Hillan Muhlmann Award of the Astronomical Matthew Nichols Society of the Pacific: awarded by The Aaron Hayward Royal Astronomical Society (UK) for achievement in astronomical The Slade Prize for Practical Physics AWARDS TO instrumentation, jointly won by Prof (shared) POSTGRADUATE Joss Bland-Hawthorn (Sydney) as one Yasmin Clarke of an international team who worked on Christie Nelan STUDENTS the 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey. The Geoffrey Builder–AWA Prize CISRA Postgraduate Physics Prize (shared) for Best Refereed Publication (shared) AWARDS TO Helen Smith Luke Barnes UNDERGRADUATE Michael West Matthew Francis STUDENTS SENIOR PHYSICS The School of Physics Postgraduate Alumni Prize The following students were awarded Deas-Thomson Scholarship Alexander Argyros prizes or scholarships in 2007 based on Tom Griffin their academic achievements in 2006. Student Presentation Prizes at the The Walter Burfitt Scholarship No. 2 Annual Scientific Meeting of the for Physics JUNIOR PHYSICS Astronomical Society of Australia Benjamin Fulcher Richard Lane The Levey Scholarship No. 1 School of Physics–Julius Sumner Daniel Yardley for Physics Miller Scholarship No. 3 Jonathan Kummerfeld Faculty Postgraduate Research Prize Benjamin Fulcher for Outstanding Academic School of Physics-Julius Sumner Lisa Torlina Achievement Miller Scholarship No. 1 Science Foundation for Physics Andrew Phillips Cameron Cuthbert Scholarship No. 3 Anna Wang NSW Branch – Australian Institute of Parry Chen Physics Postgraduate Presentation Science Foundation for Physics Juliana Kwan Prize Scholarship No. 1 Felix Lawrence Eugene Tam Robert Dolton Christopher Hales Stuart Gilchrist Sahand Mahmoodian Faculty of Medicine Physiology Prize Jimmy Ng Jackie Huber (BSc(Hons) in physics, for The School of Physics Honours work performed entirely in the School) Colin Tuft Scholarship Christopher Leong George Brawley James Leung Stephen Dekker Matthew Palmer

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 5 Outreach Report 2007

DR PHIL DOOLEY SCIENCE COMMUNICATOR, SCHOOLOF PHYSICS

2007 followed on from the strong growth in 2006, as our Ron Thornton, Eric Mazur on teaching methods, and Anatoly existing programmes expanded and our involvement in more Shabad on ‘Russian Politics meets Quantum Field Theory’. programs grew. Many other individuals contributed one-offs, such as talks to The flagship of outreach continued to be the Kickstart amateur astronomy groups, school visits for talks or prize program, which grew again by 30 %, seeing over 3000 Year giving, and speaking at Australian Institute of Physics (AIP) 12 physics students in 278 sessions, bringing in nearly student day. $48,000 in revenue. Our newly organised approach to general questions from The jump in figures was in part due to an expanded the public swung into action, with our website directing Kickstart on the Road program, which added Dubbo to its people from all over the world to ask us questions about 2006 destinations of Armidale and Wagga Wagga to make a cosmology, solar power, magnetic fields, life, the universe and ten-day tour in the mid-year break. As well as the high school everything. workshops, the team of ten student demonstrators gave For the first time in 2007, outreach contributed to the primary schools and Associate Professor Geraint Lewis flew in research within the School, hosting a third year special project to the three locations to deliver his Quanta to the Cosmos with SUPER. The work, conducted by Christie Nelan public lecture explaining the 2006 Nobel Prize. Teacher addressed teaching of Medical Physics and led to a paper workshops completed the package, which was billed as being delivered at the annual Uniserve Conference. Also Physics for all the family and attracted significant media Kickstart was a major partner in an ASISTM grant, to develop coverage in all three locations. multimedia resources for teachers. Other programs conducted throughout the year, such as There were significant personnel changes in the outreach workshops and talks to lower high school groups and the team during the year, with Chris Stewart leaving for Gifted and Talented Programs amounted to another 60 in August, to be replaced by Adam Selinger. More significantly sessions for another 800 students. for outreach endeavours, a new position of Science As major partners in the Science in the City program (run by Communication Officer was created, which was filled by Ms the Australian Museum) we also gave workshops and talks at Lara Davis, who takes on the organisation load of Kickstart the Museum for Science in the City, and at Olympic Park and and other programs. UWS Hawkesbury for the Science in the Suburbs programs. Another institutional change was made with a restructure of In particular a new high school show was presented, aimed at the External Relations Committee, to reflect the change in role lower high school students, entitled ‘Flying Freezing Floating of the academic staff; with the growing science Physics: Why You Should Do HSC Physics’ with the goal to communications team, the academic staff are not so much redress the decline in Physics enrolments. This will be rolled required to do organisation work, but are more in an advisory out to more audiences in 2008. role. As such the committee is being restructured to include Other programs for prospective students included representatives from each research group in the school, as participation in Faculty programs (e.g. Gifted and Talented, well as undergrad and postgraduate student representation. April theme mechanics, July theme Radiation and With this new structure, it is hoped that all members of the Radioactivity) University programs such as Degree in a Day school will be aware of, and become a part of the School’s (theme Astronomy) Siemens Science Experience (theme formidable Outreach Program. Forensics) and Open Days, such as Sydney Uni Live and Info Day. We also participated in the Smith Family Experience Uni day, and Foundations course for prospective Science students. In terms of external programs, beyond Science in the City/Suburbs, we contributed to the State Government’s Science Exposed expo, and ran a Science and Engineering Challenge (provided by University of Newcastle). We also hosted a dozen or so work experience students. Progress continued, albeit slowly, towards a primary school program, based on the work of author Marti Pels. The first workshops were conducted for staff training them in Marti’s methods (developed in consultation with former head of School, Dick Collins) and in 2008 we are looking to get some of our staff into classrooms working with primary teachers and students (in addition to the MyScience program being run by the Science Foundation). On top of the prospective student programs, we conducted a number of public talks; the regular Nobel Prize lecture, this year given by Geraint Lewis, and talks by visiting staff, such as

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 6 Science Foundation for Physics

PROFESSOR ANNE GREEN DIRECTOR, SCIENCE FOUNFDATION FOR PHYSICS

In 1954 Professor Harry Messel established the Science The participation of India at the ISS for the first time was Foundation for Physics as the Nuclear Research Foundation. most welcome, with scholars selected by competition from The first of its kind not only within the University of Sydney but the Bangalore District. My thanks to Professor Ravi also within the British Commonwealth, the Foundation was Subrahmanyan, Director of the Raman Research Institute, formed as a voluntary philanthropic association of individuals who organised India's entry. There are now ten countries and public and private organisations dedicated to the pursuit taking part in this outstanding educational program. of excellence in science education and research. I am very pleased to see that our new initiatives for Although there have been minor changes, today's aims are supporting Primary science education have been implemented consistent with the overall objectives of the Foundation from through two new programs in 2007. MyScience is a joint its inception. The aims are: initiative between the Foundation, IBM, the Australian Catholic ● to promote, foster, develop and assist the teaching and University and the NSW Department of Education. We also research work of the School of Physics within the University supported workshops by Marti Pels for primary teachers. ● to co-operate with the School of Physics to promote the Marti is inspiring innovative teaching practices through her significance of science and develop an understanding of its wonderful primary science book. importance, both within Australia and internationally. For the past three years the Foundation was most fortunate to have had Dr Chris Stewart as its Executive Officer. Chris DIRECTOR'S REPORT 2007 made an outstanding contribution to the work of the My inaugural year as Director of the Science Foundation for Foundation. We wish him every success in his new position at Physics has been a busy one with the main focus of our Australia's Science Innovation in Canberra. The Foundation energies being on staging the 34th Professor Harry Messel was exceptionally pleased to appoint Adam Selinger, International Science School (ISS) in July. I am also very previously the Science Communicator in the School of appreciative that the Foundation continued to support many Biological Sciences, as the new Executive Officer. Adam has activities in the School of Physics, and events such as the excellent credentials in science communication and broad highly acclaimed Music and the Cosmos performance, held at expertise in managing events, which means the Foundation is the Conservatorium of Music in October. in very capable hands. To support the activities of the School, I am very pleased to The Foundation membership grew in 2007 with the announce that the Foundation was again able to contribute welcome addition of Mr Ian Kiernan AO and Mr Trevor Danos. $100,000 in 2007. This funding will be used to provide a Ian, as Chairman of CleanUp Australia is well acquainted with Remote Observing Room to support research, national events, fundraising and sponsorship and we hope teaching and outreach, to provide webmaster assistance and that his expertise in these areas will assist the Foundation as it to upgrade teleconference facilities, among other projects. increases its profile within the community. As an alumnus of These initiatives will be of enormous assistance in enhancing both the ISS and the University of Sydney, Trevor has a long the School's research, teaching and community outreach and generous engagement with the School and the programs. Foundation and I am delighted he is now a member. A warm The value of the Science Foundation for Physics welcome to both Ian and Trevor. Scholarships offered to our outstanding third-year students In November 2007 a Round Table Workshop was held for was also increased from $900 to $3,000, bringing them into the Foundation and the School of Physics. The goals included line with other similar School awards. a review of strategies for improving the interaction of the It was a thrill for me that the ISS2007 was a huge success. Foundation with the School and for identifying valuable Ecoscience is a subject that generated keen interest and the projects to be supported. I look forward to an exciting 2008 link to the International Polar Year was excellent. I would like and a successful implementation of these ideas. to congratulate Chris Stewart, Alex Viglienzone and Alison Muir as well as all the volunteer staff and the Young Scientist Association on a most memorable and enjoyable event of which we can all be very proud. I would also like to thank all the speakers for giving freely of their time and for delivering such stimulating and interesting lectures to our ISS Scholars. A complete report on the ISS2007 'EcoScience' is available from the Science Foundation for Physics website. As part of the ISS program, a fascinating public talk by Lord Robert Winston was held in the Great Hall, hosted by the Foundation in conjunction with the University. This well- attended event was a highlight for both the ISS scholars and University guests.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 7 Research Highlights 2007

Federation Fellows In contrast to the experimental research of Professor Bilek, The School's sixth Federation Fellow Professor Joss Bland Federation Fellow Professor Cathy Stampfl studies the Hawthorn joined us in late 2007 from the Australia Telescope properties of materials from a theoretical standpoint. Her National Facility. Professor Bland-Hawthorn's research area, Condensed Matter Theory group strives to achieve Astrophotonics links two of the existing areas of the School – fundamental understanding of the processes and reactions CUDOS and the Institute of Astronomy. CUDOS' research into occurring at the surfaces of materials, with a view to photonics is being used by the Institute of Astronomy to improving the manufacture of complex materials such as create new ways of collecting and processing the light from electronic, magnetic and optical devices, sensors, catalysts the heavens. and hard coatings. Federation Fellow Ben Eggleton, Research Director of CUDOS, received a boost when funding of the Centre was renewed for another five years after favourable reviews. Professor Eggleton continues his pursuit of the photonic chip – the next generation of high-speed communications. As well as being involved the new Astrophotonics group, Federation Fellow Bryan Gaensler from the Institute of Astronomy continued building his 'Extreme Astrophysics' group, with the aim to study the brightest, faintest, furthest, most dispersed or most magnetic phenomena in the Universe. Celestial phenomena is also on the agenda for Federation Fellow, Professor Peter Robinson, whose Complex Systems group continued theoretical studies of Plasmas, including those in the gas clouds between stars and galaxies. At the other end of the scale Professor Robinson's group also models plasmas to create , and, to complete an extraordinarily breadth of research, Professor Robinson continued his extremely successful theoretical modeling of the brain, through his collaborative Brain Dynamics Centre. The intersection of physics and biology is also the subject of research by Federation Fellow Professor Marcela Bilek, as she found biomedical applications for the thin layer technologies developed in her Applied and Plasma Labs. As well as studies of ther fundamental properties of Plasma, Professor Bilek's group is developing a range of diverse applications of Plasmas, such as materials science, ion-thrust mechanisms, and fusion energy.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2006 8 THE INSTITUTE OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI AND international media, appearing in the GALAXY EVOLUTION USA and Europe. ASTRONOMY Tom Mauch and Elaine Sadler have Geraint Lewis, with Prof. Hans carried out the largest-ever study of Kalpdor-Kleingrothaus of the Max- AWARDS AND HONOURS radio-source populations in the local Planck Institut fur Kernphysik, Laszlo Kiss and his collaborators, using universe, using a set of more than Heidelberg, hosted the 6th International Wide-Field Imager on the ANU 40 inch 7,000 radio-detected galaxies from the Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter telescope in Siding Spring, have 6dF Galaxy Survey. Their work confirms in Astroparticle and Particle Physics discovered 63 new minor planets in the that active galactic nuclei (AGN) with (Dark2007) at the School of Physics in Solar System. One of these, '171429 powerful radio emission inhabit the September. This attracted more that Hunstead', was named after Prof. R.W. brightest and most massive host sixty leading researchers from around Hunstead to honour his achievements galaxies. This study provides an the world to present their research on as a scientist and teacher. essential benchmark for studies of the this mysterious component of the PhD students Richard Lane and cosmic evolution of radio galaxies at universe. Daniel Yardley won student prizes at higher redshift. the 2007 ASA meeting. Honours Elaine Sadler, Helen Johnston, Paul A NEW MAGNETAR IN A SUPERNOVA student Chris Hales won the Hancock, Andrew Hopkins and Scott REMNANT for the best astronomy honours report Croom, together with colleagues in the Magnetars are an exotic population of within Australia. Luke Barnes, Matthew 2dF-SDSS Luminous Red Galaxy and pulsating X-ray sources, which are now Francis and Brian James received the QSO (2SLAQ) redshift survey, have thought to be highly magnetized 2007 school of physics award for the measured the radio luminosity function neutron stars ('magnetars'). However, best student paper published in a for galaxies at redshift z ~ 0.55. Their the evolution, demography, and relation major journal. results show for the first time that low- of magnetars to other types of neutron power radio galaxies (like their more star are all not yet understood. Critical HIGH REDSHIFT RADIO GALAXIES powerful counterparts) undergo insights are provided by associations High-redshift radio galaxies are among significant cosmic evolution, and were between magnetars and supernova the most massive galaxies to form in more powerful and/or more numerous remnants, which can help constrain the the early universe. As a result they play in the past. The 2SLAQ results imply origin, evolution and physical properties a crucial role in our understanding of that the energy input into the interstellar of the magnetar population. galaxy formation and evolution. PhD medium of galaxies by 'AGN heating' Using a combination of X-ray data student Jess Broderick, in collaboration must increase with redshift, which has from the Einstein, ASCA, XMM and with colleagues in Germany and the important consequences for the star- Chandra telescopes, Bryan Gaensler USA, has used radio polarisation formation history of the most massive and Harvard PhD student Yosi Gelfand measurements to investigate the galaxies. identified an association between a environments which surround these new magnetar, 1E 1547.0-5408, and a massive systems. Using high-frequency GRAVITATIONAL ASTROPHYSICS previously unidentified young radio polarisation observations from the With collaborators in France and the supernova remnant, G327.24-0.13, as Australia Telescope Compact Array, he UK, Geraint Lewis has continued to shown in Figure 2. This appears to be discovered an extreme Faraday rotation survey the Local Group of Galaxies, an important addition to the small measure of ~10,000 rad m-2 in the mapping out the halo of our nearest number of known associations distant radio galaxy PKS B0529-549, companion, the Andromeda Galaxy, to between magnetars and supernova which is located 11 billion light years an unprecedented degree. This wide- remnants. away. This is the largest rotation field survey, using the Canada-France- measure found in a radio galaxy at this Hawaii Telescope, has revealed a host Fig.2 distance and suggests that the host of previously unknown dwarf galaxies galaxy is surrounded by an extremely and the tidal debris of dismembered dense halo of approximately 100 billion systems. These studies have been solar masses of hot, magnetised, X-ray enhanced with velocity measurements, emitting gas. obtained with the 10m Keck Telescope, Fig.1 providing vital clues to the processes of galaxy formation. One of the key results was the discovery of And XII, a small dwarf galaxy which appears to be X-RAY PULSES FROM THE DOUBLE moving through the Local Group for the PULSAR first time. The double pulsar system J0737-3039 Geraint Lewis and Juliana Kwan is an extraordinary system consisting (honours student in 2007), published a of a recycled 22.7 millisecond pulsar paper on maximizing your survival time 'A' and a young 2.8 second pulsar 'B', when you are within the event horizon in orbit around each other with a period of a black hole. While you are ultimately of 2.454 hours. Not only is the system doomed to end at the central the best current test bed for General singularity, their work showed that Relativity and theories of gravity, but it judicial use of a rocket pack can buy also provides a unique laboratory for you a little more time. This result probing the relativistic winds of neutron received significant interest from the stars. In observations of the system

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 9 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory the most extensive campaign of this High Resolution Camera, we have type ever carried out. detected deeply modulated, double- peaked X-ray pulses at the period of MOLONGLO OBSERVATORY pulsar A, similar in appearance to the In 2007 two major surveys of the observed radio pulses. The pulsed Southern sky were completed; the fraction is as high as 70 percent, and Sydney University Molonglo Sky Survey the pulses have both thermal and non- and the 2nd epoch Molonglo Galactic thermal emission components. No X- Plane Survey. This the cumulation of ray pulsations were detected from over 10 years of work by a team of pulsar B, and there is no evidence for School of Physics staff and students orbital modulation in the X-ray including Anne Green, Dick Hunstead, emission, in contrast to some previous Tom Mauch (now at Oxford), Tara expectations. However, the absence of Murphy, Elaine Sadler, Gordon orbital modulation is consistent with the Robertson, Tony Turtle, Barbara electromagnetic nature of the relativistic Fig.3 Piestrzynska, Duncan Cambell-Wilson wind at the interaction shock front and Molonglo site staff. between the magnetosphere of B and Between them, these surveys cover the wind from A, and with the small the southern sky up to a declination of fraction of the energy outflow from A -30 degrees, at a frequency of 843 intercepted by the termination shock MHz. The images and catalogues (with between the two pulsars. over 200,000 sources) have now been publicly released and will be an STELLAR OSCILLATIONS important resource for the community. Tim Bedding, Laszlo Kiss, Hans Bruntt The surveys have already resulted in and Dennis Stello work on many many significant scientific results, projects involving oscillating stars. The including the study of distant radio study of stellar oscillations, known as galaxies and searches for ultra Fig.4 , allows us to probe compact HII regions and young the interiors of stars. It is a rapidly supernova remnants. growing field that covers a wide range Current work includes searching the of stars, from Sun-like stars to red Molonglo archive for transient and giants and white dwarfs. variable sources, allowing us to put One aspect of the work involved limits on what we can expect to find making clever use of photometry from with future telescopes such as the the star tracker on the NASA WIRE Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). spacecraft (whose primary mission, to observe galaxies in the infrared, failed soon after launch) to observe a number COMPLEX SYSTEMS of eclipsing and pulsating stars. Most recently, WIRE data were used to Complex Systems is one of the largest measure masses of a sample of red research groups in the School, giants by studying their oscillation accounting for nearly one-fifth of the properties. School's, research activity, publications, Oscillations in solar-like stars are best grant income, and postgraduate observed in velocity using ground- enrolments. In 2007 its main areas of Fig.5 based spectrographs, preferably from research were Brain Dynamics, Complex two or more sites to give continuous Plasmas, Plasma Nanotechnology, coverage. The IoA group led a team Space Plasma Physics, and Theoretical that used two telescopes, the Anglo- Astrophysics. In 2007 the group Australian Telescope and the ESO 3.6- published one book and over 75 m in Chile, to measure oscillations in refereed articles. It comprised one the southern star beta Hydri, a much Federation Fellow, two Australian older version of the Sun. Combining the Professorial Fellows, two QEII Fellows, oscillation results with the angular one Senior Lecturer, 9 Research diameter, as measured by SUSI, Fellows, and over 20 Postgraduate and allowed a determination of the mass of Honors students. beta Hydri with an accuracy of 2.6%, which is perhaps the most precise BRAIN DYNAMICS mass determination of a solar-type star The dynamics and information that is not in a binary system. In an processing pathways of the brain are of even bigger effort, the same team intense research interest. A key window organised observations of the more on these functions exists because the Fig.6 massive star over more than cerebral cortex exhibits waves of three weeks with eleven telescopes, in activity ('brain waves') that are detected

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 10 visual perception, starting from August, 2007, it was the second physiologically-based modeling. Also mostly downloaded articles in Top Ten we developed models of visual rivalry, Downloads of New Journal of Physics in which different stimuli are for more than half a year. presented to left and right eyes, and ● The magnetorotational instability the perception oscillates between the (MRI) is one of the most actively two. investigated phenomena of recent ● Used physical principles to constrain plasma physics and astrophysics. An the types of brain networks that can important trend is investigation of exist, consistent with brain stability. MRI in the so-called Hall regime, in ● Continued our work with Brain particular, in discussion of a possible Resource Ltd on development and role of MRI in the evolution of commercialization of brain function protostellar disks and the quiescent measures. phase of dwarf nova disks. To investigate MRI in the Hall regime, Fig.7 COMPLEX AND DUSTY PLASMAS the dispersion relation was derived When studying fundamentals of and analyzed for a rotating plasma electrically by electroencephalography, arrangements of dust particles in a with both finite electron pressure and magnetic resonance imaging, and other complex plasma, a critical instability pressure anisotropy. It was shown techniques. Our work focuses on was discovered. It was shown that a that in the presence of electron developing quantitative models of how two-particle system has a critical point pressure anisotropy, a hybrid of MRI these measures are related to the where the alignment symmetry is and anisotropic instability appears. The underlying physiology and structure of continuously broken as a system results may be useful, in particular, for the cerebral cortex and other parameter is varied. Furthermore, it studying the mechanisms of the structures. These models yield was found that clusters of dust in radio and X-ray source Sagittarius A. excellent agreement with multiple complex plasmas may naturally self- classes of experiment and enable a organize themselves into stable ● The potentially important role of dust range of new diagnostics to be interacting helical structures. in future large power wall loadings implemented. and long operation times expected During 2007, work continued in a for new devices such as ITER is now number of directions in areas ranging recognized. In this context the effect from pure theory to data analysis and of the dust poloidal distribution on experiment, in conjunction with the plasma dynamics of the plasma psychologists and medical staff in the edge was studied. The study showed Brain Dynamics Center, RPA Hospital, that in the considered range of dust and elsewhere, and with industry densities, the poloidal distribution of partners, including Brain Resource Ltd. dust affects only the toroidal velocity, Some 2007 research highlights were while the poloidal velocity and the that we radial electric field are defined by the ● Published improved methods for ion-dust friction and by the ion-dust extracting brain parameters from thermal forces. These results are also noninvasive electrical measurements, applicable to heavy impurities in with one student-derived method tokamaks. being transferred to industry. ● Used our brain model to study the ● For technological plasma spreading of seizures from an initial The self-organization is based on non- applications, two-dimensional fluid focus to engulf the whole brain. trivial physical mechanisms of plasma simulation of number densities and interactions involving over-screening of fluxes of the main building blocks plasma polarization in an open plasma and surface preparation species environment. The salient features of the involved in nanoassembly of carbon- new complex 'state of soft matter' in based nanopatterns in Ar+H2+C2H2 light of the autonomy, evolution, reactive plasmas was done. It was progenity and autopoiesis principles shown that the process parameters used to define life were examined and it and nonuniformity of surface fluxes of was concluded that complex self- each particular species may affect organized plasma structures exhibit the the targeted nanopattern quality. The ● Published the first quantitative model necessary properties to qualify them as results can be used to improve of the sleep-wake switch in the candidates for inorganic living matter predictability of plasma-aided brainstem. The results enable sleep that may exist in space provided nanofabrication processes and dynamics to be tracked and related certain conditions allow them to evolve optimize the parameters of plasma to observations. Excellent agreement naturally. This publication (New J. Phys. nanotools. Furthermore, the growth with experimental work has been 9, No. 8 (2007) 263/1-11) has attracted kinetics of carbon nanowall-like found. significant media attention (e.g. articles nanostructures in the plasma and ● Explained the patterns of 40 Hz in Science, The Times, New Scientist, neutral gas synthesis processes was 'gamma' oscillations seen during Physics World, etc.). After publication in investigated. It was found that the

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 11 local density of carbon adatoms on particle acceleration and growth of function, plasma waves, and radio the nanotube side surface, at areas waves and radio emission in the solar emissions upstream of shocks. facing the adjacent nanotubes of the corona and interplanetary medium. In fundamental plasma physics, the pattern, can be high enough to lead During the most powerful events on first large-scale simulations of to the additional wall formation and the Sun, such as solar flares and electromagnetic strong plasma thus cause the single- to multiwall coronal mass ejections (CMEs), turbulence were published, and a new structural transition, and other as yet energetic electrons produce radio method for fast numerical integration of unexplained nanoscience emissions via linear and nonlinear nonlinear wave equations was phenomena. processes in the solar corona and developed as part of this work. interplanetary medium. These events PLASMA NANOSCIENCE are the major sources of space weather THEORETICAL ASTROPHYSICS In 2007, the Plasma Nanoscience and can profoundly influence the The theoretical astrophysics activities of group continued computational, terrestrial environment. Type II and III the Complex Systems group are largely theoretical, and experimental studies of solar radio bursts were discovered focused on high-energy phenomena plasma-specific effects on the synthesis almost 60 years ago and are now associated with magnetized plasmas in and post-processing of a range of known to be associated with CME- strong gravity environments. Some of nanoscale objects of different driven shocks and beams of energetic the most powerful sources in the dimensionalities that find numerous electrons ejected from sites of solar Universe are driven by the process of uses in optoelectronic, photonic, flares. During 2007 the Space Physics accretion, whereby matter is driven nanoelectronic devices, ultra-sensitive group continued to advance the inevitably towards a strongly gravitating sensors and other applications. This quantitative understanding of type II object, such as a white dwarf, neutron research involved major collaborations and III bursts. This is particularly star, or black hole. Enormous amounts with Nanyang Technological University relevant to the STEREO spacecraft, on of energy can be released by this (Singapore), University of Michigan which two of the Group are Co- process, especially in the case of (USA), The George Washington Investigators for theory and accretion onto a black hole. University (USA), Shanghai Jiao Tong interpretation of data from its radio and In 2007, Dr Kuncic continued to University (China), and Josef Stefan plasma waves instrument, SWAVES. make progress in modeling accreting Institute (Slovenia, EU). Several In 2007 the group performed several astrophysical sources. In January, Dr important results that improve control types of numerical simulations of type Kuncic gave an invited talk at the 5th and predictability of a number of III bursts at coronal and interplanetary International Stromlo Symposium on present-day nanoscale processes have altitudes. These include simulations of Accretion and Outflow Phenomena on been obtained; these results type III bursts in realistic nonuniform magnetohydrodynamic effects in black significantly advance modern plasmas, simultaneously considering hole accretion disks. This work was nanoscience and in particular, in the microscale beam-wave and nonlinear published in 2007 as an invited review area of nanoscale assembly under wave-wave interactions, intermediate- paper. Dr Kuncic also presented 2 strongly non-equilibrium conditions, scale ambient density inhomogeneities, invited talks on space and such as on solid surfaces exposed to large-scale evolution of the beam, and astrophysical plasmas at the thermally non-equilibrium low- electromagnetic emission. The International Workshop on temperature plasmas. For example, in a simulations agree semiquantitatively Magnetospheric Physics, held at the combined experimental and theoretical with observations and also continue to Mullard Space Science Laboratory, study it was confirmed that under confirm predictions of stochastic University College London (UCL) in plasma conditions carbon nanocones growth theory (SGT), originated by us. September 2007. She has continued develop into highly uniform three- This work has significant implications her theoretical and computational work dimensional arrays from very for a variety of laboratory and space on modeling various high-energy nonuniform nickel catalyst films as phenomena with SGT behavior, and astrophysical sources: ultra-luminous shown in the figure reproduced from collaborations are under way to further X-ray sources, X-ray binaries and active Carbon 45 (2007) 2022-2030. In 2007, confirm it in laboratory and other galaxies. This work involves ongoing the Plasma Nanoscience Team settings. collaborations with UCL, Oxford published 1 book, 28 papers (4 in A major focus of a Linkage-Project University and ANU. A highlight of this Applied Physics Letters) in high-rank grant, with IPS Radio and Space work is the modeling of X-ray refereed intternational journals, and Services as the industry partner, is the polarization signatures of high-energy presented more than 45 conference prediction of space weather associated sources. X-ray polarimetry is a novel papers (5 plenary and keynote lectures with type II and III bursts, CMEs, and measurement technique anticipated in and other 8 invited talks are among solar active regions, and resulting the next generation of X-ray satellite them). automated event identification software instruments. The work of Dr Kuncic is now being implemented at IPS. and her PhD student Aimee McNamara SPACE PLASMA PHYSICS The acceleration and heating of represents the only theoretical The Space Plasma Physics group electrons at shock waves and in predictions to date of X-ray polarization studies the physics of plasmas and magnetic reconnection regions are levels in high-energy astrophysical their applications to solar system fundamental problems with multiple sources. phenomena and objects. As such, its applications in space and astrophysical interests range from Earth's tropopause plasmas. Ongoing simulations are (the top of the cloud layer) to the Sun demonstrating the importance of time to the local interstellar medium. Its nonstationarity, ripples, and other primary focus is the plasma physics of effects for the electron distribution

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 12 CONDENSED MATTER THEORY

Our research involves ab initio studies of the properties of materials and their surfaces for systems of high relevance to technological applications, as well as of fundamental interest; for example, 1. Copper-, gold-, silver- and ceria- based catalysts for energy production, manufacturing, and emission control 2. Nitride-based semiconductor materials for spintronic and optoelectronic devices 3. Superhard nitride-based coatings for mechanical cutting tools 4. Below are some summaries of work over the last year:

FIRST-PRINCIPLES INVESTIGATION OF AG-CU ALLOY SURFACES IN AN Fig. 1. Surface phase diagram for 0/Cu/Ag(111) as a function of the Cu surface content and the Oxygen chemical OXIDIZING ENVIRONMENT µ potential o The efficiency of numerous hetero- geneous catalysts depend directly on surface, rather than in the bulk or on reactions that occur at precious metal SHAPE AND SURFACE STRUCTURE the surface. The presence of oxygen, surfaces. The key to future advances in OF GOLD NANOPARTICLES UNDER on the other hand, has the effect to this area is to understand surface OXIDIZING CONDITIONS induce copper to segregate to the processes at the atomic level. One way Given the extreme inertness of the low surface due to the stronger O-Cu bond to reach this understanding is through index surfaces of gold, gold relative to the O-Ag one. We have first-principles simulations often in nanoparticles exhibit a remarkable and investigated structures involving synergy with experiment. 'unexpected' activity for several chemisorbed oxygen on the alloy There has been intense interest in important heterogeneous catalytic surface, as well as oxide-like structures alloy or "multi-component" catalysts in reactions, e.g. low temperature CO on the surface. Through the the light of experimental reports of oxidation. Although several theories construction of the oxygen chemical superior catalytic behaviour of such have been proposed to explain the potential dependent convex hull, we systems. For example, for ethylene activity, the underlying atomic have been able to identify, as a function epoxidation, the selective oxidation of mechanisms responsible remain of the surface copper content, the ethylene to ethylene oxide over the unclear and unconfirmed. To gain combinations of structures that are silver catalyst is one of the most deeper insight into this question, for most stable at that particular important industrial catalytic processes, oxidizing reactions in particular, we temperature and pressure. In the region since the product of this reaction has a performed first-principles calculations of interest, our results suggest that, wide range of applications, from for adsorption of oxygen at the depending on the copper surface automotive antifreeze to the production Au(100), Au(110), and Au(111) surfaces content, clean Ag(111) and thin copper [2] of plastics. Improving the selectivity . For oxygen adsorption on Au(100), oxide-like structures ('p4-Cu3O', 'p2' toward ethylene oxide rather than total the most stable structure is predicted and 'CuO(1L)', can coexist. This model oxidation to carbon dioxide is therefore to be a low coverage (~0.1 monolayer for the surface of the Ag-Cu catalyst of tremendous importance. Recently (ML)) on the added-row reconstructed differs substantially from the structures increased selectivity by alloying silver surface, while for adsorption on used in earlier theoretical works to with small concentrations of Cu has Au(110), the most stable configuration investigate the effect of copper been reported. of those considered is a (2(1) missing- impurities in silver on the mechanism of By means of first-principles density row structure with 1 ML coverage of ethylene epoxidation. Our results functional theory calculations, we have oxygen. On the (111) surface we suggest that to understand the full studied the surface structure of such identified the relative stability of a catalytic cycle of ethylene oxidation one [2] alloys under varying oxygen pressure surface-oxidelike structure . From the should consider oxygen species such and temperature conditions and have Gibbs surface free energy, and the as those in the proposed structures, determined the surface phase-diagram Wulff construction, we obtain the rather than just oxygen chemisorbed predicted gold nanoparticle [1] (see Fig. 1). To do this we have on the clean alloy surface as have been considered the alloy surface to be in morphology in an oxidizing environment assumed in previous studies. This will thermodynamic equilibrium with an (see Fig. 2). At low oxygen chemical be the study of future studies. The atmosphere of pure oxygen. potential, clean Au(111) facets theoretical methodology developed the We find that in the absence of dominate. For higher values, e.g., from present work will be useful for oxygen, copper impurities in silver -0.4 to -0.18 eV, the O-Au surface characterizing other alloy catalysts prefer to stay directly below the silver structures form on all the low-index under realistic conditions. facets, with the (111) orientation

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 13 of Bath in the , funded by a University of Sydney postdoctoral Fellowship. In May I was advised that my application for a further five year term as Federation Fellow had been accepted, and I am looking forward to the prospect, as Research Director, of leading the CUDOS research program through to 2010 and beyond. The support from the ARC and the School to the Centre and our researchers is fitting acknowledgement of outstanding research performance, in which our central focus has been to develop capabilities in nonlinear Fig. 2 Surface free energies for O at Au(100), Au(110), and Au(111) for the lowest energy structures as a function of photonics and microphotonics leading µ the O chemical potential, o towards the demonstration of all optical processing in a 'photonic chip' with a dominating. At atmosphere pressure, aspects of our operations – top quality range of integrated signal processing this corresponds to a temperature people from students through to senior functions including switching and signal range of 200-420 K. For values of the staff, strong and productive regeneration. The Centre now has six oxygen chemical potential in the range collaboration across all nodes, a 'Flagship' projects, each focusing on a from -0.26 to -0.18 eV, there is a compelling focus and an astonishingly particular capability that is crucial to a switch-over in that the (110) facets productive research output. photonic chip. Three of these – all- become dominant. For a pressure of 1 We are extremely grateful to the optical switching, slow light and atm, this corresponds to a temperature School for its continued support, and nonlinear optical signal processing – range of ~200-300 K. Our results even more so this year with the are managed by researchers from the therefore suggest, assuming that O2 School's decision to reclaim around School. can dissociatively adsorb or atomic 100 m2 of space in the basement Our approach to management of oxygen can be supplied e.g. from a (previously used for storage) and each Flagship project is to empower catalyst support material, that surface- convert it into high quality laboratories our younger researchers with the oxide like structures, may be present at a cost of around $250,000. Part of responsibility of managing the process under low temperature oxidation this new space will be used by our new of achieving the year-to-year goals of reaction conditions and could possibly faculty appointment, Dr Boris Kuhlmey. the project – including project planning, play a role as a catalyst over gold CUDOS researchers in the School cross node liaison and reporting – while nanoparticles. continue to perform extremely well in leaving the senior Chief Investigators [2]. H. Q. Shi and C. Stampfl, Phys. securing competitive grants. Dr with the task of leading the long-term, Rev. B 77, 094127 (2008); ibid 76, Christian Grillet and Dr Christelle Monat strategic aspects of the science. At 075327 (2007). took up Australian Postdoctoral Sydney Dr Grillet manages All-Optical Fellowships this year, joining Professor Switching, Dr Monat manages Slow Ross McPhedran (Australian Light and Dr Mark Pelusi manages the CUDOS Professorial Fellowship) and Dr Nonlinear Optical Signal Processing Kuhlmey (Australian Postdoctoral Flagship project. CUDOS, the ARC Centre of Excellence Fellowship). Dr Feng Luan has joined This approach to focusing on high for Ultrahigh bandwidth Devices for the CUDOS group from the University profile opportunities with both a Optical Systems, is headquartered in the School of Physics. With around forty researchers and students we are about 50% of the Centre's overall effort and a major contributor to the School's research and teaching activities. 2007 was a watershed year for CUDOS, with the ARC considering our application to extend our operation by three years to 2010. We received the good news in March that our application for renewed funding had been successful, with a level of support that was almost unchanged from that which we have enjoyed for the last four years. A quick reading of the ARC's report on their website shows that CUDOS has fared extremely well in comparison to its peers. This is a fitting outcome for a Centre strong in all

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 14 targeted year-by-year and long term HIGH ENERGY AND charmed rather than bottom quark). By approach is reaping scientific studying the decay times of neutral D dividends. A major result in our slow mesons produced in Belle, the light project, in which graduate student collaboration was able to provide the Joe Mok succeeded in slowing pulsed HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS first evidence for mixing amongst D light down in a fibre Bragg grating by The High Energy Physics group is mesons, something which has been the temporal equivalent of more than 2 involved in two large international sought after for 30 years. pulse widths, was published in Nature experiments, Belle at KEK in Tsukuba, A second result from Belle which Photonics this year and will be the Japan and ATLAS at CERN near attracted a lot of attention involved the subject of an invited talk at next year's Geneva, Switzerland. The Belle discovery of a new exotic particle Optical Fibre Communications (OFC) experiment has been running since amongst the decay products of B Conference in the USA. These results 1999 and has produced a wealth of mesons, which has been dubbed the also received significant press in the physics results based on a huge Z(4430)+. A number of new particles media, including articles in Cosmos amount of collected data. ATLAS on which at first sight resemble mesons Magazine and domestic newspapers. the other hand is due to start operating containing charmed-anticharmed The optical switching team has made in the second half of 2008, producing quarks have been discovered by the B- some truly innovative progress, with truly unprecedented amounts of factories Belle and BaBar, but what theoretical calculations by Dr Snjezana experimental data. distinguishes the Z(4430) is the fact Tomljenovic-Hanic demonstrating new Belle utilises the KEKB accelerator that it is a charged particle and that it ways of producing very high quality which is the most luminous colliding does not fit into the usual framework of factor (Q) cavities in photonic crystals, beam accelerator ever built. The mesons containing a bound quark- so the energy density inside the cavity experiment studies the physics of B antiquark pair. Evidence for the new is hundreds of thousands of times mesons (mesons containing a bottom particle can be seen in the figure below. higher than outside. Dr Grillet and quark). Over 650 million B-anti-B One possibility is that it could be a graduate students Cameron Smith and meson pairs have been collected to the multiquark state, containing a charmed Michael Lee have also developed end of 2007. These have been mostly and anticharmed quark together with innovative approaches to coupling light used for the study of CP symmetry an additional quark and different into these cavities, enabling intensity- violation. However two results from antiquark, for example charmed up dependent thresholds for optical Belle which stood out in 2007 were of nonlinearity (and ultimately switching) to a different nature. be exceeded at only most input Firstly, the transformation of particles powers. into their antiparticles, a phenomenon Mark Pelusi has succeeded in referred to as mixing, has been developing an operational 160 Gb/s observed in several systems of neutral optical testbed (the only one in the mesons: neutral kaons, Bd and Bs southern hemisphere) and using this to mesons. The only other system where evaluate the high speed performance of this phenomenon is possible, but had the all-optical signal processors under not yet been observed, is the neutral D development in CUDOS. Mark, with meson system (D mesons contain a students Michael Lamont and Vahid Ta'eed, has been able to demonstrate Sydney University graduate student Jason Lee on-site at CERN, in front of ATLAS. time division demultiplexing in the optical domain of a 10 Gb/s signal from a 160Gb/s pulse trains using CUDOS all-optical signal processing technology. With CUDOS in its fifth year, we are beginning to see some interest from industry in our research. We are in the second year of an industry Linkage project with Optium Australia, funded by the ARC, to investigate new applications for an innovative technology for next generation, reconfigurable optical networks. We have recruited a young Belgian scientist, Dr Michael Roelens, for this task and he has achieved some excellent results that were presented as a prestigious post-deadline paper at the OFC Conference and an invited paper at the CLEO-Europe meeting in Munich.

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2006 15 anticharmed antidown. Sydney Ph.D INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR plasmas, the latter being potentially a student Sam McOnie has continued his major issue for ITER. work into the Y(4260), another new SCIENCE ● Thorium Fuel Cycle: Fissile radioactive particle observed at the B factory material can be derived from Thorium. experiments which may turn out to be The Institute of Nuclear Science was Together with industry partners a hybrid state of quark antiquark gluon. founded at the end of 2007 with the (including possible ARC Linkage The ATLAS experiment at CERN aim of acting as a focus for high-quality funding), researchers in the School represents the energy rather than nuclear science research in the are investigating the potential of intensity frontier of particle physics. It is University. Building on the signing of Thorium as an alternative to Uranium. the Memorandum of Understanding scheduled to start studying proton - ● Education: Although global warming proton collisions (at an energy between the University of Sydney and is an enormous driver for change, approaching an order of magnitude ANSTO and administratively hosted in public confidence in nuclear science higher than has previously been the School of Physics, the Institute of has yet to be addressed. A key achieved) in 2008. Most of the Nuclear Science brings together mission of the Institute of Nuclear experiment is now in place deep research and teaching expertise from Science (INS) is to improve public beneath the countryside near Geneva. across the University, and capitalises perception of nuclear science by ATLAS will search for many new on Australia's renewed status as a providing expert opinion to schools, phenomena once it is running. These leader in nuclear science by virtue of media and the general public on include Higgs bosons, supersymmetric the OPAL research nuclear reactor. nuclear issues. particles, evidence for new dimensions, The Institute of Nuclear Science Approval was given by the University and mini-black holes. Postdoctoral activities aim to cover a broad in 2007 for the introduction of the researcher Aldo Saavedra, along with spectrum. Master of Applied Nuclear Science ● students Jason Lee and Anthony Materials Synthesis & Characterisation: degree (MApplNucSci) and Graduate Waugh, have been busy adding to our The School of Physics has a major Diploma of Applied Nuclear Science preparatory work on how best to program in experimental materials (GradDipApplNucSci) in the Institute of trigger on and detect Higgs Bosons science for which neutron scattering Nuclear Science, School of Physics. decaying to tau leptons, electron is extremely valuable for character- The first enrollment of students was reconstruction, and fast simulation isation of atomic structure and expected to be in Semester 1, 2008. techniques for ATLAS calorimetry. magnetic properties. This methodology is common throughout chemistry and APPLIED NUCLEAR SCIENCE biological disciplines, and is an INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL At the boundary of High Energy and example of applied nuclear research Nuclear Physics, accelerator in which neutrons are used to study PHYSICS technology has applications beyond non-radioactive materials. ● 2007 was the fourth year that the fundamental science. Reza Hashemi- Nuclear Materials Simulation: The postgraduate coursework Masters of Nezhad and his students Jacob Borger School of Physics has recently Medical Physics (MMedPhys) degree and Lindsey Bignell conduct research generated significant impact in the and Graduate Diploma in Medical into Accelerator Driven Systems (ADS). field of computer simulation of nuclear Physics had operated in association These sub-critical nuclear reactors materials in radioactive environments, with the Institute of Medical Physics driven by accelerators hold the promise such as found in reactors or in waste within the School of Physics. From an not only of a safer and less expensive immobilisation. Plans are to expand enrolment of 6 postgraduate way of generating power than this into a fully-fledged program, coursework students in 2004 the total conventional reactors, but also as a collaborating with major international number of enrolled MMedPhys means of transmuting long-lived institutions and experimental groups students had grown to over 20 in radioactive waste into shorter-lived or at ANSTO. ● 2007. The number of postgraduate even stable isotopes which can be Nuclear Medicine: Applications of students undertaking either MSc or more easily dealt with. nuclear science in medicine are PhD research degrees continued to This research is carried on the basis increasingly common and affordable, increase with the majority of projects of the 'Energy plus Transmutation with new treatment and imaging being undertaken in collaboration with (EpT)' international collaboration. The techniques under constant local hospitals and other external EpT experimental setup is composed development. Nuclear medicine institutions. of a lead target surrounded with 206.4 research in the School of Physics, in 2007 saw 2 part-time medical kg of natural uranium blanket. The conjunction with the Faculties of physics PhD students graduate. Li Mo target of the EpT is irradiated with Health Science and Medicine include who is employed as a senior scientist protons and deuteron ions of energy in radiation detector research and the at ANSTO wrote her thesis on the the range of 0.5 – 4 GeV using the development of new imaging standardization of pure beta and beta- Nuclotron accelerator of the Joint techniques. ● gamma emitting radionuclides in Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR), Fusion: As the alternative to fission for various physical forms. Brendan Hill Dubna, Russia. In these studies the producing nuclear power, fusion is who is employed as the Chief Medical neutronics of the ADS and returning to the public eye with the $6 Physicist at Canberra Hospital wrote transmutation of the nuclear waste billion ITER project in France. his thesis on investigations into gel isotopes such as 238Pu, 239Pu, Continuing a long tradition, The dosimetry formulations and evaluation 237Np, 241Am and 129I is investigated School of Physics continues to techniques in radiation therapy and experimentally and by Monte Carlo addresses fusion physics via inertial diagnostic X-ray computed tomography. methods. confinement schemes and dusty

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 16 Competitive research grants in 2007 Territories. It combines a range of data ● provide quantitative analysis for included income from $750K from the on industrial interdependence, trade assessing the impacts of international Cancer Council NSW and the and performance with environmental trade on global problems such as Australian Research Council for indicators such as energy use, - biodiversity loss projects on in-vivo verification of greenhouse gas emissions, water use, ❚ land degradation radiotherapy dose delivery in cancer land disturbance, and emissions of ❚ water scarcity and motion compensation in Positron SO2, NOx, and organic compounds. ❚ child labour Emission Tomography imaging. In order to create this integrated ❚ poverty A number of research projects accounting framework, Prof. Manfred ❚ health issues continued to be undertaken by Lenzen has developed an innovative ❚ climate change academic staff, postgraduate and mathematical and computational undergraduate students through approach to balancing and reconciling a ISA – 2007 Outreach ongoing collaborations with local large amount of disparate and conflicting In 2007, Dr Joy Murray who manages hospitals and other external institutions. data into one homogeneous database. Education & Training for ISA had ● Motion correction for radiation The breakthrough in his method lies in delivered four Triple Bottom Line (TBL) oncology and medical imaging the size and detail of the accounting workshops. (Institute of Medical Physics, School systems. The integrated Australian These workshops cover: what's of Physics; Royal North Shore, Royal national account for example includes 'carbon neutral' and how do we know Prince Alfred and Liverpool Hospitals; more than 10 million data points. what's to be neutralized; what's a School of Medical Radiation Science; Carrying out the compilation and carbon/ecological footprint and how Brain and Mind Research Institute) reconciliation of the accounts was does it fit into the TBL; and sharing ● Radiation dosimetry for radiation achieved on a supercomputer hosted by responsibility along the supply chain. oncology and medical imaging the Australian Partnership for Advanced Participants also work on their own (Institute of Medical Physics, School Computation in Canberra. Prof. Manfred TBL case study using the ISA and of Physics; Royal North Shore, Lenzen's approach is now also being Dipolar Pty Ltd developed BL_ software Westmead and Canberra Hospitals; used to balance economic as well as (www.bottomline3.com). This exercise ANSTO) resource, environmental, and social data helps participants with data collection, ● Radiation biology of intensity for time series and trend analysis, for data input, BL_ software functionality, modulated radiation therapies example by the British Department of output analysis and reporting the (Institute of Medical Physics, School Environment (Defra) and the British Office output accurately. of Physics; Bill Walsh Cancer of National Statistics (ONS). Raising the awareness of loop-holes Laboratories; Royal North Shore The accounting framework comes and inaccuracy in sustainability Hospital) equipped with cutting-edge tools for reporting and responsibility is one of ● Functional and molecular imaging sustainability analysis and planning. In the key objectives of the ISA team. Dr (Institute of Medical Physics, School particular, Prof. Manfred Lenzen Joy Murray was invited by Theodosia of Physics; Royal North Shore, Brain developed Structural Path Analysis Ferguson from Sustainable Ventures and Mind Research Institute) (SPA) which allows the unravelling of (US) to present at Syracuse University, ● Development of radionuclide myriad complex supply-chain New York. Approximately 50 people standards (Institute of Medical interaction throughout the economy, attended Dr Murray's presentation on Physics, School of Physics; ANSTO) that link consumption decisions to Triple Bottom Line accounting, carbon ● Neutron flux characterisation of OPAL ecological and resource hot spots that neutrality and consumer vs. producer nuclear reactor (School of Physics; were previously hidden from managers' shared responsibility. ANSTO) analytical reach. ISA – 2007 Completed Consultancy ISA – The Birth Projects CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED Prof. Manfred Lenzen with Dr. Chris Dr Chris Dey manages Consultancy Dey, in 2006, as the result of this Services. In 2007 the ISA team SUSTAINABILITY framework, formed the Centre for completed approximately ten ANALYSIS (ISA) Integrated Sustainability Analysis (ISA) consultancy projects. These projects within the School of Physics, which for used the ISA framework in various tools ISA – The Conception the first time offered a designated and reports for the Federal, State and Professor Manfred Lenzen has created a platform for interdisciplinary Local Governments, NGOs, Industries unique environmental accounting and environmental research at the University and SMEs. analysis framework for Australia. Its of Sydney. The highlights from the 2007 uniqueness stems from the integration of completed consultancy projects are: previously disparate environmental, ISA – Vision ● The Consumption Atlas, an interactive financial and technological information The ISA vision is to: online tool developed in collaboration into a single analysis tool, thus allowing ● inform international standards on with the Australian Conservation the translation of human activity into its sustainability measurement and Foundation (ACF) http://www.acfonline. corresponding impacts on the reporting for organisations org.au/consumptionatlas environment. ● be used by national governments for ● The ACF Eco-calculator, part of the This framework describes the policy development ACF's GreenHome program is another Australian industry technology in great ● be used by the United Nations for interactive online tool that uses the detail, distinguishing 350 industry global sustainability policy accounting framework http://www.acfo sectors, and all eight States and development nline.org.au/custom_greenhome/calcul

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 17 ator.asp?section_id=86 implantable prosthetics, protein assays and other team members for this work. ● The Sustainable island businesses: a for diagnosing disease and biosensors New materials created or modified by case study of Norfolk Island report for detecting biotoxins. The technology plasmas have formed a central part of demonstrates that vision and creativity laid the foundations for a successful our research program. In-situ can work wonders in achieving 'more ARC Linkage Project application with ellipsometric monitoring has allowed us with less'. Both business case studies industry partners Cochlear and Spine to visualise the early growth modes of demonstrate exceptional sustainability Cell. thin films, including the transition performance in terms of material flow, A new direction in this work is the (known as percolation) from an "island" and greenhouse gas emissions. plasma deposition of these surfaces, film to a fully dense layer. Furthermore, the whole-of-island allowing them to be created on any Understanding this transition has analysis demonstrates that – from a underlying material. Dr Yongbai Yin has been crucial for the fabrication of sustainability point of view – increasing joined the team to plasma processes multilayered thin films. In recent work tourist yield rather than tourist numbers suitable to implement this method. appearing in Physical Review Letters is a preferred strategy for coping with Professor Wolfhard Moeller, the Director we have shown how to create highly price hikes and limited resource base. of the Institute of Ion Beam Physics oriented, highly conductive carbon For the full report, please see: and Materials Research, Dresden, layers that maybe useful as vertical http://www.isa.org.usyd.edu.au/publica Germany successfully obtained a interconnects in the next generation of tions/NorfolkTBL.pdf University Visitors Fellowship to work microelectronic devices. Our study of with Dr Yin and Professors Bilek and the microstructure of multilayered films ISA – 2007 Completed Research McKenzie to develop methods of using revealed the formation of oriented Prof. Manfred Lenzen manages Data energetic ions to create interfaces graphite at interfaces with transition Modelling and Computation. Prof. robust enough for use in the blood metals such titanium. For his work with Lenzen also leads research projects on stream and other sensitive regions in- us on this project, Dr. Gintautas behalf of the ISA team. In 2007 the vivo. Related experiments, in which Abrasonis, has been awarded a ISA team submitted 16 journal article proteins were exposed to pulsed prestigious DEST Endeavour Fellowship papers and four book chapters, and microwaves by PhD student Doaa from November 2008. This project will written seven reports. George, confirm that pulsed be our first to take advantage of microwaves are more effective in powerful new microstructural analysis unfolding proteins than heating to the methods recently made available at the APPLIED AND PLASMA same temperature. Congratulations to Australian Synchrotron. Doaa for successfully completing her A new ARC project on MAX phase GROUP PhD and having two manuscripts on alloys – novel nanolaminate materials the work accepted for publication this with great potential for high The applied and plasma research year. temperature structural applications group is one of the largest and most Our work in medical applications of such as super efficient engines – has diverse in the School of Physics. Our physics has led to a new fibre optic begun. This work is a collaboration with mission is to apply the principles of dosimeter that is more accurate than Linkoping University in Sweden and the physics to solve problems of relevance existing dosimeters and is small Technical University of Aachen in to society. Current research activities enough to be inserted into the body for Germany. PhD students, Mathew span the fields of preparation of novel monitoring cancer treatments. This Guenette, Mark Tucker and Myles materials and devices, modification of dosimeter is being commercialised by Cover together with visitors, Drs surfaces and interfaces using plasma Radiant LX, a company formed by our Johanna Rosen and Per Persson, from processes, understanding the behaviour collaborators the Bandwidth Foundry, Linkoping, have produced some of soft matter, renewable energy and CMS Alphatech and the Sydney stunning preliminary results. The first energy efficient technologies. We Cancer Centre. A recent development ever MAX phase single crystal was employ a combination of theoretical is the demonstration of a dosimeter for grown in the School of Physics using and experimental methods and work external beam radiotherapy. Previously cathodic arc deposition. Dr Martina together with commercial partners in fibre optic dosimeters could not be Lattemann of Technical University, many of our projects. used for this application because of Darmstadt, Germany, has commenced Our research program in the physics interference from Cerenkov light her Linkage International Fellowship to of biomolecules has grown rapidly and generated in the fibre. We have join our team studying high power produced exciting new results this year. eliminated this light by using a hollow impulse magnetron sputtering (HIPIMS), New members who joined the team this core light guide. We have studied the a new sputtering technique with year include Research Fellow, Dr Daniel effects of radiation on human cancer promise as a controlled source of ions Bax from the University of Manchester, cell lines and have identified three types for film formation. UK and NSF funded visitor, Christopher of effects arising from spatial Our work on Transparent Conducting MacDonald, from University of modulation of radiation dose. It has Oxides in collaboration with the California, San Diego in the USA. We been found that cells receiving radiation Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory in have developed and patented two can influence the outcome of Berlekley, California and RMIT plasma methods to prepare surfaces neighbouring cells and can either University in continues. We capable of covalently binding proteins increase or decrease the survival of the welcome our newest team member, Dr whilst retaining their bioactivity even neighbouring cells when these receive Barabara Abendroth, a Humbold Fellow after multiple washing steps. The a radiation dose. The Roberts Prize from the Forschungszentrum Dresden- modified surfaces are directly relevant to was awarded to Elizabeth Claridge, Rossendorf, Germany. Barbara is biomedical applications including Natalka Suchowerska, David McKenzie developing in-situ ellipsometry methods

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2006 18 for the non-destructive ultra fast is a small probability of fusion extensive invited review on this subject characterization of transparent reactions occurring. Measurements of in Reviews of Modern Physics. conducting oxides during synthesis. We spectral line emission from charge also welcome Dr Xiangmei Duan who exchange neutrals in a hydrogen THE QIT GROUP IS GROWING joined the team to provide theoretical discharge have shown that the ions The QIT group has grown considerably insights into the doping of TCO are created in the centre of the device in 2007. Four students completed their materials. Her predictions have already and diverge outwards, leading to the Honours project under the supervision led to a number of new research conclusion that there is no ion of Dr Stephen Bartlett this year, directions being suggested and offered confinement. This discovery will now researching a range of topics from as future post-graduate projects. enable the IEC group to design a quantum computation in spin lattices, Advanced atomistic modelling based device that has a chance of working quantum reference frames in cold atomic on a quantum mechanical description according to the theoretical systems, and new interpretations of of interactions helps us interpret the assumptions about IEC. based on results of our experimental materials restrictions of knowledge. In addition, programs. As a member of the Centre Dr Stein Olav Skrøvseth from the NTU of Excellence for Quantum Computer QUANTUM INFORMATION in has joined the group as a Technology we have developed models visiting scholar for 12 months, to of the processes to fabricate a solid THEORY research quantum information theory in state "qubit', the fundamental many-body physics. The Quantum Information Theory (QIT) computational unit. New understanding group, formed in 2005, investigates has been gained of the movement of PRACQSYS 2007 how information can be stored, phosphorous atoms over a silicon The QIT group hosted the premier transmitted, and processed in quantum surface, and good agreement obtained international conference in quantum systems. Highly interdisciplinary, this with experimental observation using control – Principles and Applications of research investigates optical, atomic, scanning tunneling microscopy. Dr Control in Quantum Systems and condensed-matter systems as well Damien Carter and Jenny Bell have (PRACQSYS) – at the Darlington Centre as the foundations and mathematical joined the team to refine our methods in July. The 31 invited speakers came structure of quantum theory. Some of studying the motion of dopant atoms to Sydney from top institutions all over highlights of 2007 include: in silicon. We are now focusing on the world – Caltech, Harvard, Oxford, "delta doping", the formation of very and Tokyo to name a few – to present ULTRA-HIGH PRECISION thin dopant layers in silicon useful for the latest and greatest in this exciting MEASUREMENT USING PHOTONS electrodes for interrogating the new field. In collaboration with researchers at quantum state of a q-bit. Griffith and Macquarie universities, we Our vacuum glazing technology, PIAF – AN INTERNATIONAL have proposed and experimentally licensed to Japanese glazing company, COLLABORATION IN QUANTUM demonstrated the very first scheme to Nippon Sheet Glass (NSG), has seen FOUNDATIONS measure an optical phase shift at the global market growth this year as A bold new initiative in the field of fundamental precision allowed by building codes become more focussed Quantum Foundations has quantum mechanics – the so-called on energy efficient materials. Our on- commenced. The Perimeter Institute – Heisenberg limit. Achieving this limit going collaborative research program Australia Foundations (PIAF) has been a key goal of quantum with NSG has led to new ARC Linkage collaboration, between the premier metrology for over a decade; whereas Project Funding. This project will focus international research institute in the strange quantum phenomenon of on developing high strength versions of quantum foundations (PI) and three entanglement was thought necessary to the glazing product expected to open Australian universities including the do so, we have shown unambiguously up a global market. We welcome Dr University of Sydney, aims to promote that it is not. Our results were Cenk Kocer, who joined the team from quantum foundations as a subject to published in Nature. Japan this year to provide expertise in be studied and researched in fracture mechanisms in glass academia. As part of this initiative, two REFERENCE FRAMES IN QUANTUM structures. new postdoctoral fellows will be joining INFORMATION The Inertial Electrostatic Confinement USyd, shared between the School of Reference frames can serve as a novel (IEC) group uses a small, spherically Physics and the Department of type of resource for processing symmetric plasma generated by Philosophy. quantum information, and our group electrostatic fields to obtain conditions has made a number of surprising which will lead to neutron production discoveries in the characterization of from nuclear fusion when the gas is quantum reference frames. This year, SYDNEY UNIVERSITY deuterium. Despite considerable work we've focussed on how quantum around the world on these small fusion PHYSICS EDUCATION reference frames degrade with devices over several decades there RESEARCH (SUPER) repeated use: a key problem for has been no improvement in the fusion performing quantum computation with rates. Dr. Joe Khachan and his group, In 2007, the SUPER group was ultra-accurate quantum gates. have produced controversial results successful in obtaining funding from the Together with colleagues Dr Terry which cast doubt on the generally held Carrick Institute for Learning and Rudolph (Imperial College London, UK) view that these devices work by Teaching in Higher Education to and Dr Robert Spekkens (University of causing ions to converge spherically to develop the project 'Forging New Cambridge, UK), we have published an a central point of collision, where there Directions in Physics Education in

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 19 Australian Universities' that will be been devolved to other research source of energy for solar flares. He is co-directed by Dr Manjula Sharma from groups, particularly the Complex involved in a major international the School of Physics and Associate Systems group and CUDOS. Also new collaboration in which different Professor Les Kirkup from the appointments have led to additional numerical methods are being University of Technology Sydney (UTS). research groups with a strong developed, tested and refined, for 'Graduates in the Workforce' is a theoretical or computation component. calculating the coronal magnetic field working party being lead by Dr John These include Condensed Matter from boundary values provides by O'Byrne. The working party will be Theory, Quantum Information Theory, observational data on the magnetic generating graduate profiles that will the Institute of Medical Physics, and field near the visible surface of the Sun, assist in highlighting, for academics cosmology in the Institute of now complemented by space-based and students alike, career opportunities Astronomy. Theoretical research in measurements by the Japanese for physics graduates. Two workshops these groups is reviewed elsewhere in Hinode satellite. The resulting models were run in 2007. The first, on good this report. Progress in three specific of the coronal magnetic field should practices, was held at the School on areas of theoretical physics in 2007 are allow insight into the vexed questions the 26 September attracting 36 reviewed here. of how and when flares occur. delegates from 17 institutions. The second was run in conjunction with the QUANTUM PLASMADYNAMICS PULSAR MAGNETOSPHERES Deans of Sciences and a team of At the end of 2007, Professor Don Pulsars, which are very powerful radio chemists and was held on 29 Melrose completed a five-year emitters, are rapidly rotating neutron November at UTS. The workshop Australian Professorial Fellowship in stars with superstrong magnetic fields. focusing specifically on undergraduate which the major project involved The rapid rotation of the magnetic field laboratories involved 19 different synthesizing two different fields of sets up an extremely large electric field, universities and generated significant theoretical physics. The two fields are and it is widely accepted that the radio interest. The participants were Deans of the kinetic theory of plasmas, which is emission results from electrons and Science or their representatives, a classical theory used to describe positrons created by the electric field. academics and undergraduate collective effects in ionized media, and However, the details of the electro- students. Two experiments from Junior quantum electrodynamics (QED), which dynamics of pulsar magnetospheres, Physics, advocated by Ian Cooper and is the relativistic quantum theory for the as the field is called, remain Dr Richard Tarrant were in the suite interaction of electrons and photons in inadequately understood. Professor utilised on the day. vacuo. The synthesized theory, called Don Melrose, Dr Qinghuan Luo and Christine Lindstrom continued into quantum plasmadynamics, is being collaborators argued that existing PhD studies with the SUPER group. written up as a two-volume book. The models for the electrodynamics of She implemented Link Maps and Map first volume has been published (by pulsar magnetospheres, in which the Meetings on a large scale in Junior Springer): details can be found by structures are stationary in a frame Physics. typing "quantum plasmadynamics" into rotating with the star, are highly Derek Muller is continuing his Google. It is planned to complete the unstable to temporal perturbations. research as well as working second volume by the end of 2008. They have developed an analytic model enthusiastically on the Australian Don and Mike Wheatland now have an for the resulting large-amplidude School Innovation in Science ARC Discovery grant to investigate oscillations of the electric field to Technology and Mathematics (ASISTM) further aspects of quantum plasmas. complement an earlier numerical funded project titled 'Developing model. The analytic model opens up multimedia tools for senior high school MODELLING SOLAR MAGNETIC new possibilities for the interpretation of physics'. A range of videos has been FIELDS the rich variety of poorly understood trial led and evaluated. The title Dr Mike Wheatland has developed phenomena in these enigmatic radio 'Australian Multimedia for Physics details numerical models for magnetic sources. These possibilities are now Students' or AMPS, has been coined fields in the solar corona, which are the being explored systematically. for the project. Apisit Tongchai, who is working on mechanical waves, joined us from Thailand in midyear and will be staying with the SUPER group for the next twelve months. He is the third visiting student from Mahidol University, strengthening the physics education partnership between the two universities.

THEORETICAL PHYSICS

Before 2000, theoretical physics in the School was concentrated in a single department, and since then much of the research in theoretical physics has

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2006 20 RESEARCH FUNDING Approved Fracture-Resistant Highly $ 370,000—Prof MS Bessell, Prof MA Insulating Vacuum Glazing Dopita, Prof M Colless, Prof RW The School continued to build on Hunstead, A/Prof MC Ashley, A/Prof research successes in recent years, $210,000—Dr MJ Withford, Prof JA MJ Drinkwater being awarded 13 new ARC grants Piper, Dr A Fuerbach, Dr G Marshall, Construction of the blue-arm of the beginning in 2007, totaling $5.7M over A/Prof JM Dawes, Prof BJ Eggleton, ANU 2.3m telescope Wide-Field 5 years. There were a further 8 grants Prof CM de Sterke, Dr SD Jackson, Dr Spectrograph awarded in collaboration with other DG Lancaster institutions totaling $6.0M over 5 years. Direct write - microphotonics $340,000—Prof KC Freeman, Dr QA These grants were awarded through fabrication facility Parker, Dr GF Lewis, Dr TR Bedding, Discovery Projects, (including 2 QEII Dr J Bland-Hawthorn, Prof BK Gibson Fellowships), LIEF and Linkage grant $5,000—Dr K Ostrikov, Prof S Xu Galactic Archaeology: A Radial Velocity schemes. Details are listed below, Deterministic plasma-aided Experiment to Unveil the History of the together with 2007 new grant funding nanoassembly: from elementary Milky Way (total $1.9M), with School of Physics processes to industry-grade nano- and staff highlighted. biomaterials $ 100,000—A/Prof MG Burton, Prof JW Storey, Dr MR Cunningham, A/Prof $250,000—Prof MM Bilek, Dr RN $280,000—Prof CJ Kepert, Prof Dr T AJ Green, Dr PJ Barnes, A/Prof MJ Tarrant, Dr VJ Keast, Prof JM Maschmeyer, Dr BJ Kennedy, Dr CD Wardle, Prof Y Fukui; Prof Dr J Stutzki Schneider Ling, Dr SA Schmid, Prof Y Mai, Dr NJ A ground station for the NANTEN2 New nanolaminate ternary and Ekins-Daukes, Dr R Robinson, Dr JA sub-millimetre wave telescope quaternary alloy phases by thin film Stride synthesis Physical Property Measurement Cancer Council NSW System for Materials Characterisation $139,500—Peter Greer, Martin Ebert, $77,030—Dr C Grillet Prof Clive Baldock, James Denham Highly nonlinear alloptical switches University of Sydney as In-vivo verification of radiotherapy dose using chalcogenide photonic crystal collaborating institution: delivery with a flat-panel imager

$100,000—Prof DB Melrose, Dr JR ARC grants Macquart, Dr S Johnston $450,000—Taylor, Barberio, Sevior, Physics of extreme brightness Tovey, Dr K Varvell, A/Prof L Peak temperatures in radioastronomical Frontier Experiments in High Energy sources Physics

$77,030— Dr C Monat $270,000—Taylor, Barberio, Sevior, Slow light in nonlinear photonic Tovey, Dr K Varvell, A/Prof L Peak, crystals: less haste, more speed Rosenfeld Support for the Australian Experimenta $94,000—Dr K Ostrikov High Energy Physics Program Plasma nanotools: bridging plasma physics and surface science $223,000—Dr QA Parker, Prof KC Freeman, Dr GF Lewis, Prof M $159,893—Dr AA Samarian Steinmetz, Dust Physics: a Challenge in Prof BK Gibson, Dr J Bland-Hawthorn International Thermonuclear A new field plate for the 6DF multi- Experimental Reactor object spectroscopy system on the Anglo-Australian Observatory's $130,000—Prof CM Stampfl, Dr O Schmidt telescope Warschkow, Dr B Delley, Prof CG Van de Walle $445,000—Dr CI Pakes, Prof DN First Principles Catalyst Design Jamieson, Prof S Prawer, Prof CM Towards an Environmentally Clean and Stampfl, Dr AP Stampfl, Dr J Bartlett, Energy Efficient Future Dr PJ Evans Infrastructure for Surface and Molecular $65,773—Dr D Stello level Electronic and Spintronic Materials Habitable planets and stellar Measurement oscillations with the NASA Kepler mission $636,000—Prof JD Riley, Prof RC Leckey, A/Prof PJ Pigram, Dr N Janke- $117,446—Dr PG Tuthill Gilman, A/Prof BF Usher, Prof CM DRAGONFLY: A revolutionary Stampfl, Prof JF Williams, A/Prof RL instrument for astronomical imaging Stamps, Dr AE Smith, Prof J O'Connor, A/Prof PC Dastoor $325,000—Prof MM Bilek, Prof DR Surface and Magnetic structure of McKenzie, Prof Y Mai crystalline materials

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 21 PUBLICATIONS Acosta-Pulido, J, Kun, M, Abraham, P, Evidence of a mobility edge for photons Kospal, A, Csizmadia, S, Kiss, L L, in two dimensions., 75(1), 015601-1- BOOK Moor, A, Szabados, L, Benko, J, et, a 015601-4 Ostrikov, K, Xu, S 2007, Plasma-Aided 2007, The Astronomical Journal, The Nanofabrication: From Plasma Sources 2004-2006 outburst and environment Asatryan, A, Botten, L, Nicorovici, N, to Nanoassembly, Weinheim, Germany of V1647 ORI, 133(5), 2020-2036 McPhedran, R C, de Sterke, C M 2007, Physica B - Condensed Matter, BOOK CHAPTERS Aihara, H, Arakawa, T, Asano, Y, Aso, Tailoring the enhanced frequency shift Beck, R, Gaensler, B M, Feretti, L T, Bakich, A M, Barbero, M, Browder, in two-dimensional photonic clusters, 2007, Exploring the Cosmic Frontier: T, Chang, M, Chao, Y, Chen, K, Peak, 394(2), 213-216 Astrophysical Instruments for the 21st L S, Varvell, K E, et al, ' 2007, Nuclear Century, SKA and the Magnetic Instruments & Methods in Physics Austin, D R, Hole, M J, Robinson, P A, Universe, Springer-Verlag Berlin Research. Section A. Accelerators, Cairns, I H, Dallaqua, R 2007, Physical Heidelberg, Berlin Heidelberg, 103-108 Spectrometers, Detectors, and Review Letters, Laboratory evidence for Associated Equipment, Status and stochastic plasma-wave growth, Bilek, M, Powles, R C, McKenzie, D R upgrade plans of the Belle silicon vertex 99(205004), 1-4 2007, Biomaterials and Surface detector, 582(3), 709-713 Modification, Treatment of polymeric Babic, A, Miller, L, Jarvis, M, Turner, T, biomaterials by ion implantation, Alinejad, H, Robinson, P A, Cairns, I H, Alexander, D, Croom, S M 2007, Research Signpost, India, 205-248 Skjaeraasen, O, Sobhanian, S 2007, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Low Physics of Plasmas, Structure of accretion rates at the AGN cosmic Britton, S C, New, P B, Roberts, A L, Langmuir and electromagnetic downsizing epoch, 474(3), 755-762 Sharma, M D 2007, Transforming a collapsing wave packets in two- university: the scholarship of teaching dimensional strong plasma turbulence, Bartlett, S D, Rudolph, T, Sanders, B, and learning in practice, Investigating 14(7), 072304-1-10 Turner, P 2007, Journal of Modern students' ability to transfer Optics, Degradation of a quantum mathematics, University of Sydney Alleyne, C, Kirk, A, McPhedran, R C, directional reference frame as a random Press, Australia, 127-140 Nicorovici, N, Maystre, D 2007, Optics walk, 54(13-15), 2211-2221 Express, Enhanced SPR sensitivity Dey, C J, Berger, C, Foran, B, Foran, using periodic metallic structures, Bartlett, S D, Rudolph, T, Spekkens, R M, Joske, R, Lenzen, M, Wood, R J 15(13), 8163-8169 2007, Reviews of Modern Physics, 2007, Water Wind Art and Debate – Reference frames, superselection rules, How environmental concerns impact Amikov, Y A, Ostrikov, K 2007, Physica and quantum information, 79(2), 555- on disciplinary research, Household Scripta: an international journal for 609 environmental pressure from experimental and theoretical physics, consumption: an Australian Interaction of transverse Bastug, T, Kuyucak, S 2007, Chemical environmental atlas, Sydney University electromagnetic waves with Physics Letters, Application of Press, Sydney, 1, 280-314 counterpropagating surface waves at a Jarzynski's equality in simple versus plasma-dielectric interface, 76(5), 461- complex systems., 436(4-6), 383-387 Sefton, I M, Sharma, M D 2007, 465 Transforming a university: the Bastug, T, Kuyucak, S 2007, Journal of scholarship of teaching and learning in Amikov, Y A, Ostrikov, K, Azarenkov, N Chemical Physics, Free energy practice, Assessment of understanding 2007, Physics of Plasmas, Two-surface simulations of single and double ion physics: a case study, University of wave decay: controlling power transfer occupancy in gramicidin A., 126(10), Sydney Press, Australia, 81-92 in plasma-surface interactions, 14(8), 105103-1-12 082106-1-6 JOURNAL ARTICLES Bedding, T R, Kjeldsen,, H, Arentoft, T, Abe, K, Adachi,, I, Aihara, H, Arinstein, Anders, A, Pasaja, N, Lim, S, Petersen, Bouchy,, F, Brandbyge, J, Brewer, B J, K, Asano,, Y, Aulchenko, V, Aushev, T, T C, Keast, V 2007, Surface & Butler, R, Christensen-Dalsgaard, J, Aziz, T, Bakich, A M, Balagura, V, Cole, Coatings Technology, Plasma biasing Dall, T, Frandsen, S, Karoff, C, Kiss, L S B, Peak, L S, Varvell, K E, et al, ' to control the growth conditions of L, Monteiro, M, Pijpers, F, Teixeira, T, 2007, Physical Review Letters, diamond-like carbon, 201(8), 4628- Tinney, C, Baldry, I, Carrier, F, O'Toole, Observation of a charmoniumlike state 4632 S 2007, Astrophysical Journal, Solar- produced in association with a J/psi in like oscillations in the G2 subgiant beta e(+)e(-) annihilation at root sigma Asatryan, A, Botten, L, Byrne, M, hydri from dual site observations, approximate to 10.6 GeV, 98, 082001- Freilikher, V, Gredeskul, S, Shadrivov, I, 663(2), 1315-1324 1-6 McPhedran, R C, Kivshar, Y 2007, Physical Review Letters, Suppression Belashova, E, Belashov, A, Vladimirov, Abendroth, B, Jäger, H, Moller, W, of Anderson localization in disordered S 2007, Journal of Geophysical Bilek, M 2007, Applied Physics Letters, metamaterials, 99(19), 193902-1-4 Research, Structure and evolution of Binary-collision modeling of ion- internal gravity waves and travelling induced stress relaxation in cubic BN Asatryan, A, Botten, L, Byrne, M, ionspheric disturbances in regions with and amorphous C thin films, 90, McPhedran, R C, de Sterke, C M sharp gradients of the ionspheric 181910-1-3 2007, Physical review E Statistical, parameters, 112, A07302-1-9 nonlinear, and soft matter physics,

SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 22 Bennett, D, Miljak, D, Khachan, J 2007, Superposition Method, 3(3), 320-324 of the delta Scuti star epsilon Cephei., Minerals Engineering, Quantitative 461(2), 619-630 measurement of copper mineralogy Branczyk, A, Mendonca, P, Gilchrist, A, using magnetic resonance, 20(15), Doherty, A, Bartlett, S D 2007, Physical Bucher, D, Guidoni, L, Rothlisberger, U 1344-1350 Review A- Atomic, Molecular and 2007, Biophysical Journal, The Optical Physics, Quantum control of a Protonation State of the Glu-71/Asp-80 Blackhall, L, Khachan, J 2007, Journal single qubit, 75, 012329-1-012329-11 Residues in the KcsA Potassium of Physics D-Applied Physics, A simple Channel: A First-Principles QM/MM electric thruster based on ion charge Brand, G F 2007, Journal of Lightwave Molecular Dynamics Study, 93(7), exchange, 40(8), 2491-2494 Technology, Lightwave propagation in 2315-2324 rectangular subwavelength holes, 25(6), Bland-Hawthorn, J, Sutherland, R, 1576-1579 Cairns, I H, Konkolewicz, D, Robinson, Agertz, O, Moore, B 2007, P A 2007, Physics of Plasmas, Field Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Brewer, B J, Bedding, T R, Kjeldsen,, statistics and correlation functions for source of ionization along the H, Stello, D 2007, Astrophysical stochastically growing waves, 14(4), Magellanic Stream, 670(2007 Journal, Bayesian inference from 042105-20 December 1), L109-L112 observations of solar-like oscillations., 654(1), 551-557 Campbell, S, Botten, L, de Sterke, C Blundell, K, Kuncic, Z 2007, M, McPhedran, R C 2007, Waves in Astrophysical Journal, On the origin of Broderick, J W, Bryant, J J, Hunstead, Random and Complex Media (Print radio core emission in radio-quiet R W, Sadler, E M, Murphy, T 2007, Edition), Fresnel formulation for multi- quasars, 668, L103-L106 Monthly Notices of the Royal element lamellar diffraction gratings in Astronomical Society, A new search for conical mountings, 17(4), 455-475 Bolger, J A, Littler, I C, Eggleton, B J distant radio galaxies in the Southern 2007, Optics Communications, hemisphere - I. 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 23 Chan, K, Ho, J, Li, K, Lau, B, Tse, A, Sumisawa, K, Tajima, O, Ushiroda, Y, Collister, A, Lahav, O, Blake, C, Fong, W, Bilek, M, McKenzie, D R, Bakich, A M, Cole, S B, Stoeck, H, Cannon, R, Croom, S M, Drinkwater, Chu, P, Yu, K 2007, Surface & Coatings Varvell, K E, Yabsley, B D, et al, ' 2007, M, Edge, A, Eisenstein, D, Loveday, J, Technology, Investigation of Physical Review Letters, Observation of Nichol, R, Pimbblet, K, De Propris, R, cytocompatibility of surface-treated time-dependent CP violation in ... 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 24 for general behavior in dilute magnetic Photonic Crystals, 15(17), 10984- Bedney, I, Bitenc, U, Bizjak, I, Shapkin, III-nitride semiconductors, 101(10), 10990 M, Shibuya, S, Singh, J, Somov, A, 103917 - 1-1- 6 Soni, N, Stanic, S, Staric, M, Deacon, R M, Chapman, J, Green, A J, Sumisawa, K, Sumiyoshi, T, Blyth, S, Cui, X C, Medvedeva, J, Delley, B, Sevenster, M 2007, Astrophysical Suzuki, , Takasaki, F, Tamai, K, Tanaka,

Freeman, A, Stampfl, C 2007, Physical Journal, H2O maser observations of M, Taylor, G, Teramoto, Y, Tian, X, Review B- Condensed matter and candidate post-AGB stars and Tikhomirov, K, Uehara, S, Ueno, K, materials physics, Spatial distribution discovery of three high-velocity water Bondar,, A, Unno, Y, Uno, S, Ushiroda, and magnetism in poly-Cr-doped GaN sources., 658(2), 1096-1113 Y, Usov, Y, Varner, G, Villa, S, from first principles, 75(15), 155205- Vinokurova, A, Wang, C, Watanabe, Y, ºß1-13 Denysenko, I, Ostrikov, K 2007, Wicht, J, Bracko, M, Yabsley, B D, Applied Physics Letters, Ion-assisted Yamaguchi, A, Yamashita, Y, Yamauchi, Dall, T, Foellmi, C, Pritchard, J, Lo precursor dissociation and surface M, Zhilich, V, Zhulanov, V, Zupanc, A, Curto, G, Prieto, C, Bruntt, H, Amado, diffusion: enabling rapid, low- Browder, T, Chang, M, Chang, P, Chao, P, Arentoft, T, Baes, M, Depagne, E, temperature growth of carbon Y, Chen, A, Chen, K, Chen, W, Cheon, Fernandez, M 2007, Astronomy and nanofibers., 90(25), 251501 - 1 - 3 B, Chistov, R, Choi, Y, Dalseno, J, Astrophysics, VSOP: the Danilov, M, Dash, M, Dragic,, J, one-shot project I. 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H, McOnie, S T, Mitaroff, W, Publications (Print Edition), The Domachuk, P, Omenetto, F, Eggleton, Miyabayashi, K, Miyata, H, Miyazaki, Y, Emergent Flux and Effective B J, Cronin-Grolomb, M 2007, Journal Moloney, G, Nakano, E, Nakao, M, Temperature of Delta Canis Majoris, 24, of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Natkaneic, Z, Nishida, S, Ogawa, S, 151-158 Optofluidic sensing and actuation with Ohshima, T, Okuno, S, Olsen, S, Onuki, optical tweezers, 9(8), s129-s133 Y, Ozaki, H, Pakhlov, P, Pakhlova, G, Davis, J, Ireland, M, Chow, J, Jacob, A, Pestotnik, R, Piilonen, L, Sakai, Y, Lucas, R E, North, J R, O'Byrne, J W, Dossou, K, Botten, L, Wilcox, S J, Satoyama, N, Schietinger, T, Schneider, Owens, S M, Robertson, J G, Seneta, McPhedran, R C, de Sterke, C M, O, Schumann, J, Schwartz, A, Seidl, R, E, Tango, W J, Tuthill, P G 2007, Nicorovici, N, Asatryan, A 2007, Senyo, K, Sevior, M 2007, Physical Astronomical Society of Australia. 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 25 Bedny, I, McOnie, S T, Peak, L S, Lewis, G F 2007, Astronomical Society Gan, B K, Nosworthy, N J, McKenzie, Stoeck, H, Yabsley, B D, et al, ' 2007, of Australia. Publications (Print Edition), D R, dos Remedios, C G, Bilek, M Physics Letters B, Study of tau(-) -> K Expanding Space: the root of all evil?, 2007, Journal of Biomedical Materials s pi(-) au (tau) decay at Belle, 654(3-4), 24(2), 95-102 Research. 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 26 2007, Progress in Electromagnetics with underlying lead shielding, 34(7), Ishino, H, Abe, K, Abe, K, Adachi,, I, Research Symposium, 2D Nonlinear 3045-3053 Aihara, H, Anipko, D, Arinstein, K, Photonic Crystals Nanocavities in Aushev, T, Bakich, A M, Barberio, E, Chalcogenide for All-optical Processing, Hill, R F, Mo, Z, Haque, M, Baldock, C Cole, S B, McOnie, S T, Peak, L S, 3(3), 308-310 2007, Medical Physics, Evaluation of Stoeck, H, Varvell, K E, Yabsley, B D, et Radiation Dosimeters for Kilovoltage X- al, ' 2007, Physical Review Letters, Ha, P T, McKenzie, D R, Bilek, M, Ray Beam Dosimetry, 34(6), 2336-2337 Observation of direct CP violation in B- Kwok, S C H, Chu, P, Tay, B 2007, 0 ->pi(+)pi(-) decays and model- Surface & Coatings Technology, Ho, J P Y, Nosworthy, N J, Bilek, M, independent constraints on the quark- Raman spectroscopy study of DLC Gan, B K, McKenzie, D R, Chu, P, mixing angle phi(2), 98, 211801-1-6 films prepared by RF plasma and Remedios, M 2007, Plasma Processes filtered cathodic arc., 201(15), 6734- and Polymers, Plasma-treated Iyer, R, Aitchison, S, Wan, J, Dignam, 6736 polyethylene surfaces for improved M, de Sterke, C M 2007, Optics binding of active protein., 4(5), 583-590 Express, Exact dynamic localization in Hales, C A, Lewis, G F 2007, curved AlGaAs optical waveguide Astronomical Society of Australia. 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 27 Astrophysical Journal, Lost and found: photometry., 375(4), 1338-1348 quark mixing matrix angle phi(2), 98, a new position and infrared counterpart 221602-1-6 for the x-ray binary scutum X-11, Kiss, L L, Sznekely, P, Bedding, T R, 661(1), 437-446 Bakos, G, Lewis, G F 2007, Kutteh, R A, Vandenberg, J, Kuyucak, Astrophysical Journal, A wide-field S 2007, Journal of Physical Chemistry Karoff, C, Bruntt, H, Kjeldsen,, H, kinematic survey for tidal tails around B: Condensed Matter, Materials, Bedding, T R, Buzasi, D 2007, five globular clusters, 659(2), L129- Surfaces, Interfaces & Biophysical, Communications in Asteroseismology, L132 Molecular dynamics and continuum Detection of p-mode oscillations in beta electrostatics studies of inactivation in Hydri from photometric observations Klumov, B, Vladimirov, S, Morfill, G the HERG potassium channel., 111(5), with WIRE, 150, 147-148 2007, Journal of Experimental and 1090-1098 Theoretical Physics, On the Role of Kemp, A H, Felmingham, K L, Das, P, Dust in the Cometary Plasma, 85(10), Kuyucak, S 2007, Drugs of the Future, Hughes, G, Peduto, A J, Bryant, R A, 584-588 Modelling drug and toxin binding to ion Williams, L M 2007, Psychiatry channels, 32(Supplementary 1), 33-34 Research-Neuroimaging, Influence of Kourakis, I, Verheest, F, Cramer, N F Comorbid Depression on Fear in 2007, Physics of Plasmas, Nonlinear Kuyucak, S 2007, IDRUGS, New Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: An fMRI perpendicular propagation of ordinary therapeutic agents and drug Study, 155(3), 265-269 mode electromagnetic wave packets in development strategies, 10(9), 618-620 pair plasmas and electron-positron-ion Khachan, J, Samarian, A A 2007, plasmas., 14(2), 022306-1-022306-10 Kuzmin, A, Abe, K, Adachi,, I, Aihara, Physics Letters A, Dust diagnostics on H, Anipko, D, Aushev, T, Arinstein, K, an inertial electrostatic confinement Kozikowski, A, Chellappan, S, Aulchenko, V, Bakich, A M, Bahinipati, discharge., 363(4), 297-301 Henderson, DJ, Fulton, R R, S, McOnie, S T, Peak, L S, Stoeck, H, Giboureau, N, Xiao, Y, Wei, Z, Varvell, K E, Yabsley, B D, et al, ' 2007, Kim, E H, Cairns, I H, Robinson, P A Guilloteau, D, Emond, P, Dolle, F, Kellar, Physical Review D- Particles, Fields, 2007, Physical Review Letters, K, Kassiou, M 2007, ChemMedChem, Gravitation and Cosmology, Study of Extraordinary-mode radiation produced Acetylenic pyridines for use in PET (B)bar(0)-> D(0) pi(+)pi(-) decays, 76(1), by linear-mode conversion of Langmuir imaging of nicotinic receptors, 2(0), 54-57 012006-1-11 waves, 99, 015003-1-4 Krasnoselskikh, V, Lobzin, V, Kwok, S C H, Wan, G, Ho, J P Y, Chu, P, Kim, J, Eberl, S, Feng, D D 2007, Musatenko, K, Soucek, J, Pickett, J, Bilek, M, McKenzie, D R 2007, Surface & Computing in Science & Engineering, Cairns, I H 2007, Journal of Coatings Technology, Characteristics of Visualizing dual-modality rendered Geophysical Research, Beam-plasma phosphorus-doped diamond-like carbon volumes using a dual-lookup table interaction in randomly inhomogeneous films synthesized by plasma immersion transfer function, 9(1), 20-25 plasmas and statistical properties of ion implantation and deposition (PIII and small-amplitude Langmuir waves in the D), 201(15), 6643-6646 Kim, J, Hu, Y, Chan, C, Eberl, S, Cai, solar wind and electron foreshock, W, Feng, D D, Fulham, M 2007, The 112(A10109), 1-12 Kwok, S C H, Zhang, W, Wan, G, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Maximum McKenzie, D R, Bilek, M, Chu, P 2007, intensity projection (MIP) visualization Kuhlmey, B T, McPhedran, R C 2007, Diamond and Related Materials, and navigation of fused PET/CT with Physica B - 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SCHOOL OF PHYSICS ANNUAL REPORT 2007 28 Kyriakou, E, McKenzie, D R, formation of concentric fullerene-like carbon nanocones, 91(11), 113115-1- Suchowerska, N, Fulton, R R 2007, structures within foam-like carbon: 113115-3 Physica B - Condensed Matter, Experiment and molecular dynamics Breathing as a low frequency wave simulation, 75(23), 233408-1-233408-4 Levchenko, I, Ostrikov, K, Rider, AE, propagation in nonlinear elastic Tam, E, Vladimirov, S, Xu, S 2007, permeable medium, 394(2), 311-314 Law, S H, Suchowerska, N O, Physics of Plasmas, Growth kinetics of McKenzie, D R, Fleming, S C, Lin, T carbon nanowall-like structures in low- Lambert, J, Nakano, T, Law, S H, Elsey, 2007, Optics Letters, Transmission of temperature plasmas, 14(6), 063502 - J, McKenzie, D R, Suchowerska, N O Cerenkov radiation in optical fibers, 1-063502 - 8 2007, Medical Physics, In vivo 32(10), 1205-1207 dosimeters for HDR brachytherapy: A Levchenko, I, Rider, AE, Ostrikov, K comparison of a diamond detector, Lee, K, Kim, B, Yeom, D I 2007, Optics 2007, Applied Physics Letters, Control MOSFET, TLD, and scintillation Express, Narrowband, polarization of core-shell structure and elemental detector, 34(5), 1759-1765 insensitive all-fiber acousto-optic composition of binary quantum dots, tunable bandpass filter, 15(6), 2987- 90(19), 193110-1-193110-3 Lamont, M, de Sterke, C M, Eggleton, 2992 B J 2007, Optics Express, Dispersion Lewis, G F, Francis, M, Barnes, L A, engineering of highly nonlinear As2S3 Lee, M, Grillet, C E, Smith, C L, Moss, James, J B 2007, Monthly Notices of waveguides for parametric gain and D J, Eggleton, B J, Freeman, D, Luther- the Royal Astronomical Society, wavelength conversion, 15(15), 9458- Davies, B, Madden, S, Rode, A, Ruan, Coordinate confusion in conformal 9463 Y, Lee, Y 2007, Optics Express, cosmology, 381(1), L50-L54 Photosensitive post tuning of Lamont, M, Taeed, V G, Roelens, M A, chalcogenide photonic crystal Lewis, G F, Ibata, R, Chapman, S, Moss, D, Eggleton, B J, Choi, D, waveguides, 15(3), 1277-1285 McConnachie, A, Irwin, M, Tolstoy, E, Madden, S, Luther-Davies, B 2007, Tanvir, N 2007, Monthly Notices of the Electronics Letters, Error-free Lee, Y, Yamaquchi, M, Ekins-Daukes, N Royal Astronomical Society, Inside the wavelength conversion via cross phase J, Khan, A, Takamoto, T, Imaizumi, M, whale: the structure and dynamics of modulation in 5 cm of As2S3 Ohshima, T, Itoh, H 2007, Japanese the isolated Cetus dwarf spheroidal., chalcogenide glass rib waveguide, Journal of Applied Physics, Radiation 375(4), 1364-1370 43(17), 945-947 resistance of wide band gap n+/p AlInGaP solar cell for high-efficient Lewis, G F, Kwan, J 2007, Lanier, C, van de Walle, A, Erdman, N, multijunction space solar cells, 46(26), Astronomical Society of Australia. 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