Willie C. Ong, Entered 2007/08  

Willie C. Ong

Email Address: wco3@phy.duke.edu

Specialties:
Atomic, molecular, and optical physics

Education:
PhD, Duke, 2015
BS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006

Research Description: Fermi condensation in reduced dimensions, particularly the quantum phases of spin-imbalanced quasi-2D Fermi gases, their thermodynamics, phase transitions, and associated phenomenologies.

Areas of Interest:
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Laser Cooling and Trapping
Quantum Fluids
Interacting Fermi Systems

Recent Publications

  1. W. Ong, C.-Y. Cheng, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas, Spin-Imbalanced Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gases, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 114 no. 110403 (2015) [PhysRevLett.114.110403] .
  2. Y. Zhang, W. Ong, I. Arakelyan, and J. E. Thomas, Polaron-to-Polaron Transitions in the Radio-Frequency Spectrum of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional Fermi Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 108 no. 235302 (2012) [PhysRevLett.108.235302] .