Former Graduate Students

Chris Ticknor

Nickname: Spiderman

Member of group: 2001-2005

Current whereabouts: Swineburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia

Quote: "Must... keep... typing... "

Ticknor publications with the group

Resonant Control of Elastic Collisions in an Optically Trapped Fermi Gas of Atoms -- T. Loftus, C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 173201 (2002).

Tuning p-wave Interactions in an Ultracold 40K Gas -- C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 053201 (2003).

Creation of Ultracold Molecules from a Fermi Gas of Atoms -- C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin, Nature 424, 47 (2003).

Multiplet Structure of Feshbach Resonances in Non-zero Partial Waves -- C. Ticknor, C. A. Regal, D. S. Jin, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 69, 042712 (2004).

Observation of Heteronuclear Feshbach Resonances in a Bose-Fermi Mixture -- S. Inouye, J. Goldwin, M. L. Olsen, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 183201 (2004).

Detection of Spatial Correlations in an Ultracold Gas of Fermions -- M. Greiner, C. A. Regal, C. Ticknor, J. L. Bohn, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett 92, 150405 (2004).

Influence of Magnetic Fields on Cold Collisions of Polar Molecules -- C. Ticknor and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 71, 022709 (2005).

Long-Range Scattering Resonances in Strong-Field-Seeking States of Polar Molecules -- C. Ticknor and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 72, 032717 (2005).

Electric Field Spectroscopy of Ultracold Polar Molecular Dimers -- J. L. Bohn and C. Ticknor, in Proceedings of the XVII International Conference on Laser Physics, edited by E. A. Hinds, A. Ferguson, and E. Riis, p. 207 (2005).

Production of Cold Formaldehyde Molecules for Study and Control of Chemical Reaction Dynamics with Hydroxyl Radicals -- E. R. Hudson, C. Ticknor, B. C. Sawyer, C. A. Taatjes, H. J. Lewdandowski, John L. Bohn, and J. Ye, Phys. Rev. A 73, 063404 (2006).

Quasi-Universal Dipolar Scattering in Cold and Ultracold Gases -- J. L. Bohn, M. Cavagnero, and C. Ticknor, New J. Phys. 11, 055039 (2009).

 

Daniele Bortolotti

Nickname: Dany

With Group: 2001-2007

Specialization: Many-body theory of cold atoms.

Current whereabouts: Out in the real (money-making) world.

Quote: "I wish everything was a polynomial."

Bortolotti publications with the group

Field-Linked States of Ultracold Polar Molecules -- A. V. Avdeenkov, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 69, 012710 (2004).

Wave Mechanics of a Two-wire Atomic Beamsplitter -- D. C. E. Bortolotti and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 69, 033607 (2004).

Bose-Fermi Mixtures Near an Interspecies Feshbach Resonance: Testing a Nonequilibrium Approach -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, A. V. Avdeenkov, C. Ticknor, and J. L. Bohn, J. Phys. B. 39, 189 (2006).

Stability of Fermionic Feshbach Molecules in a Bose-Fermi Mixture -- A. V. Avdeenkov, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 012709 (2006).

Bogoliubov modes of a dipolar condensate in a cylindrical trap -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 013623 (2006).

Scattering Length Instability in Dipolar Bose Gases -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, and D. Blume, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160402 (2006).

Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates with Dipole-Dependent Scattering Length -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, D. Blume, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 033611 (2006).

Radial and Angular Rotons in Trapped Dipolar Gases -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 030406 (2007).

Generalized Mean-Field Approach to a Resonant Bose-Fermi Mixture -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 063612 (2008).

 

Former Postdocs

Aleksandr Avdeenkov

Nickname: Sasha

Member of group: 1999-2004; also visited in 2006

Current whereabouts: National Institute of Theoretical Physics, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Quote: "It's the usual. "

Avdeenkov publications with the group

Ultracold Collisions of Oxygen Molecules -- A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 64, 052703 (2001).

Collisional Dynamics of Ultracold OH Molecules in an Electrostatic Field -- A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 66, 052718 (2002).

Rotational Feshbach Resonances in Ultracold Molecular Collisions -- J. L. Bohn, A. V. Avdeenkonv, and M. P. Deskevich, Phys. Rev. Lett 89, 203202 (2002).

Linking Ultracold Polar Mollcules -- A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 043006 (2003).

Field-Linked States of Ultracold Polar Molecules -- A. V. Avdeenkov, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 69, 012710 (2004).

Ultracold Collisions of Fermionic OD Radicals -- A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 71, 022706 (2005).

Pair Wave Functions in Atomic Fermi Condensates -- A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 71, 023609 (2005).

Suppression of Inelastic Collisions of Polar 1 S State Molecules in an Electrostatic Field -- A. V. Avdeenkov, M. Kajita, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 73, 022707 (2006).

Bose-Fermi Mixtures Near an Interspecies Feshbach Resonance: Testing a Nonequilibrium Approach -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, A. V. Avdeenkov, C. Ticknor, and J. L. Bohn, J. Phys. B. 39, 189 (2006).

Stability of Fermionic Feshbach Molecules in a Bose-Fermi Mixture -- A. V. Avdeenkov, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 012709 (2006).

Generalized Mean-Field Approach to a Resonant Bose-Fermi Mixture -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, A. V. Avdeenkov and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 063612 (2008).

 

Alessandro Volpi

Nickname: Alessandro Volpi

Member of group: 2001-2002

Current whereabouts: unknown

Volpi publications with the group

Magnetic Field Effects in Ultracold Molecular Collisions -- A. Volpi and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 65, 052712 (2002).

Molecular Vibration in Ultracold Collision Theory -- A. Volpi and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 65, 064702 (2002).

Fine-structure Effects in Vibrational Relaxation at Ultralow Temperatures -- A. Volpi and J. L. Bohn, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 866 (2003).

 

Manuel Lara

Nickname: Don Quixote

With Group: 2005-2007

Specialization: Cold molecule collisions.

Current whereabouts: Institut de Physique de Rennes, France

Quote: "¡ Madre del amor hermoso ! I haven't thought of that."

Here Ed and Manolo share ideas about molecules.

Lara publications with the group

Ultracold Rb-OH Collisions and Prospects for Sympathetic Cooling -- M. Lara, J. L. Bohn, D. Potter, P. Soldan, and J. Hutson, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 183201 (2006).

Cold Collisions of OH and Rb: The Free Collision -- M. Lara, J. L. Bohn, D. E. Potter, P. Soldan, and J. M. Hutson, Phys. Rev. A 75, 012704 (2007).

Magneto-Electrostatic Trapping of Ground State OH Molecules -- B. C. Sawyer, B. L. Lev, E. R. Hudson, B. K. Stuhl, M. Lara, J. L. Bohn, and J. Ye, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 253002 (2007).

The Impossible Thought (The Theorists' Anthem), 2007.

Loss of Molecules in Magneto-Electrostatic Traps Due to Non-adiabatic Transitions -- M. Lara, B. L. Lev, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 033433 (2008).

 

Shai Ronen

Specialization: Many-body theory of polar particles.

PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2005.

With group: 2005-2009.

Quote: "It's vague in a confusing way."

Current whereabouts: Institut fur Theoretische Physik, Universitet Innsbruck

Ronen publications in the group

Bogoliubov modes of a dipolar condensate in a cylindrical trap -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 013623 (2006).

Scattering Length Instability in Dipolar Bose Gases -- D. C. E. Bortolotti, S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, and D. Blume, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 160402 (2006).

Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates with Dipole-Dependent Scattering Length -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, D. Blume, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 74, 033611 (2006).

Radial and Angular Rotons in Trapped Dipolar Gases -- S. Ronen, D. C. E. Bortolotti, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 030406 (2007).

Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates at Finite Temperature -- S. Ronen and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 76 043607 (2007).

Manifestations of the Roton Mode in Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates, R. M. Wilson, S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, and H. Pu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 245302 (2008).

Dynamical Pattern Formation During Growth of a Dual-Species Bose-Einstein Condensate -- S. Ronen, J. L. Bohn, L. E. Halmo, and M. Edwards, Phys. Rev. A 78, 053613 (2008).

Stability and Excitations of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate with a Vortex -- R. M. Wilson, S. Ronen, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 013621 (2008).

How does a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate Collapse? -- J. L. Bohn, R. M. Wilson, ans S. Ronen, Laser Physics 19, 547 (2009).

Angular Collapse of Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates -- R. M. Wilson, S. Ronen, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 80, 023614 (2009).

Zero Sound in Dipolar Fermi Gases -- S. Ronen and J. L. Bohn, New. J. Phys. (submitted, 2009).

Other Ronen publications at JILA

Bragg Spectroscopy of a Strongly Interacting 85Rb Bose-Einstein Condensate -- S. B. Papp, J. M. Pino, R. J. Wyld, S. Ronen, C. E. Wieman, D. S. Jin, and E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 135301 (2008).

The Dispersion Relation of a Bose Gas in the Intermediate- and High- Momentum Regimes -- S. Ronen, J. Phys. B 42, 055301 (2009).

 

Former Undergraduate

David Meyer

Nickname: Camera Monkey

Specialization: Moist baseball physics

With group: Summer of 2008, on loan from University of Washington

Quote: "I could've been building a Cosmic Ray Telescope this summer - but no-o-o-o!"