Fearless Leader

John Bohn

Nickname: Bread

PhD: University of Chicago, 1995

MS: University of Chicago, 1992

BS: Plenty

Quote: "In basketball, a two-point lead is within the shot noise. "

Here John Bohn prepares for another lecture.

 

 

Graduate Students

 

Ed Meyer

Nickname: Buttercup

Specialization: Molecules; horror movies.

BS: University of Washington

With group since: 2004

Quote: "I'd rather be called a mathematician than a chemist."

Web: http://grizzly.colorado.edu/~meyere/

Here is Ed discussing spectroscopy with Ben Lev.

 

Meyer publications in the group

Candidate molecular ions for an electron electric dipole moment experiment -- Phys. Rev. A 73, 062108 (2006)

OH Hyperfine Ground State: From Precision Measurement to Molecular Qubits -- B. L. Lev, E. R. Meyer, E. R. Hudson, B. C. Sawyer, J. L. Bohn, and J. Ye, Phys. Rev. A 74, 061402(R) (2006).

Prospects for an Electron Electric Dipole Moment Search in Metastable ThO and ThF^+ -- E. R. Meyer and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 78, 010502 (2008).

Influence of a Humidor on the Aerodynamics of Baseballs -- E. R. Meyer and J. L. Bohn, American Journal of Physics 76, 1015 (2008).

EDM Searches Based on Alkali or Alkaline-Earth Bearing Molecules -- E. R. Meyer and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 80, 042508 (2009).

Berry-like Phases in Structured Atoms and Molecules -- E. R. Meyer, A. Leanhardt, E. Cornell, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A (submitted, 2009).

 

 

 

Ryan Wilson

Nickname: Wilson

Specialization: Many-body theory of ultracold dipoles.

BS: Saint Louis University

With group since: 2007

Quote: "I don't really have a nickname."

Web: http://grizzly.colorado.edu/~rmw/

Wilson publications in the Group

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).

Stability and Excitations of a Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate with a Vortex -- R. M. Wilson, S. Ronen, and J. L. Bohn, Phys. Rev. A 79, 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).

 

 

Postdoc

 

Goulven Quéméner

Nickname: Gugu

Specialization: Ultracold molecular collisions.

PhD: IPR, University of Rennes, 2006.

With group since: 2008.

Quote: "Convince me that the short-range is not important."

 

Quéméner publications in the group

Controlling the Hyperfine State of Ro-vibronic Ground State Polar Molecules -- S. Ospelkaus, K.-K Ni, G. Quéméner, B. Neyenhuis, D. Wang, M. H. G. de Miranda, J. L. Bohn, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin, Phys. Rev. Lett. (submitted, 2009).

Quantum-State-Controlled Ultracold Chemistry -- S. Ospelkaus, K.-K. Ni, D. Wang, M. H. G. de Miranda, B. Meyehuis, G. Quéméner, P. S. Julienne, J. L. Bohn, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, Science (submitted, 2009).

 

Group photo Fall 2008

Former group members

The group at work: here is a discussion of the latest results.