Paul Eastham

Naughton Assistant Professor and SFI Starting Investigator at Trinity College Dublin,
in theoretical condensed matter physics and photonics.
Email:
Office: Lloyd building room 2.34
Tel: +353-1-896-8456
Photonics group; School of Physics; Trinity staff page

Research Interests

I create theories, in the form of mathematical models, of the behaviour of photons and electrons in semiconductor nanostructures and related systems. Such theories help synthesize and understand experimental results, predict new effects, and guide the development of future devices. Research topics include

Semiconductor microcavities, Bose-Einstein condensation of polaritons and excitons, unconventional lasing;
Quantum Hall bilayers;
Optical manipulation of many-particle states in semiconductor nanostructures;
Dynamics of complex and glassy systems.

For more information see my

Publications and preprints
PhD thesis, "Bose condensation in a model microcavity"

Teaching

Nanophotonics I: Quantum Theory of Microcavities (graduates, PY5017)

Course notes

Electron and Photon Physics: Quantum Theory of Light (Senior sophister, PY4T02 part 1)

Junior Freshman Tutorials

Junior Freshman Foundation Physics Labs (PY1F01)

PhD Opportunities

At present I have no funded places, but I'm always happy to hear from people who might want to work with me using their own funding. There are generally scholarships through Irish Research Council (deadline 12th March 2013), and internally. Some possible PhD topics are in the area of correlated electrons.

Last modified: Mon Feb 25 11:10:00 2013