Fearless Leader

John Bohn

Nickname: Bread

PhD: University of Chicago, 1995

MS: University of Chicago, 1992

BS: Plenty

Quote: "Which ones are the atoms, again?"

Here John Bohn prepares for another lecture.

 

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!"

 

 

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 (submitted).

 

 

Ryan Wilson

Nickname: Wilson

Specialization: Many-body theory of cold atoms.

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)..

 

Postdoc

 

Shai Ronen

Specialization: Many-body theory of polar particles.

PhD: Tel Aviv University, 2005.

With group since: 2005.

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

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 (submitted, 2008).

 

Group photo Fall 2006

Former group members

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