Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Plasmas

Presentations

• Van der Waals interaction in the cold Rydberg gas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 11:00 AM – May 30, 2008, 11:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jianing Han

    • University of Virginia

  • Thomas Gallagher

    • University of Virginia

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• Transform-limited Rydberg-Rydberg Collisions in a Thermal Atomic Beam

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 11:12 AM – May 30, 2008, 11:24 AM

  Authors

  • M.R. Kutteruf

    • Department of Physics, University of Virginia

  • Robert Jones

    • Department of Physics, University of Virginia
    • University of Virginia

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• Electric field effects on cold Rydberg atom pair excitation

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 11:24 AM – May 30, 2008, 11:36 AM

  Authors

  • Arne Schwettmann

    • University of Oklahoma

  • James P. Shaffer

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Valter A. Nascimento

    • Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo

  • Lucas L. Caliri

    • Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo

  • Luis G. Marcassa

    • Universidade de S\~{a}o Paulo

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• Long-Range Wells in Rydberg-Rydberg Potential Curves

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 11:36 AM – May 30, 2008, 11:48 AM

  Authors

  • Nolan Samboy

  • Jovica Stanojevic

  • Robin C\^ot\'e

    • University of Connecticut

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• Long Range, Cold Cs Rydberg Atom-Rydberg Atom Molecules

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 11:48 AM – May 30, 2008, 12:00 PM

  Authors

  • K. Richard Overstreet

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Arne Schwettmann

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Jonathan Tallant

    • University of Oklahoma

  • James P. Shaffer

    • University of Oklahoma

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• Dipole-Dipole Interactions in a Cold Cs Rydberg Gas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 12:00 PM – May 30, 2008, 12:12 PM

  Authors

  • Jonathan Tallant

    • University of Oklahoma

  • K. Richard Overstreet

    • University of Oklahoma

  • Arne Schwettmann

    • University of Oklahoma

  • James P. Shaffer

    • University of Oklahoma

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• Rydberg Atom Population Distributions in Ultracold Plasmas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 12:12 PM – May 30, 2008, 12:24 PM

  Authors

  • Robert Fletcher

    • University of Maryland-College Park

  • Xianli Zhang

  • Steven Rolston

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• Using projection imaging to study ultracold plasmas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 12:24 PM – May 30, 2008, 12:36 PM

  Authors

  • Xianli Zhang

    • University of Maryland-College Park

  • Robert Fletcher

    • University of Maryland-College Park

  • Steven Rolston

    • JQI and Department of Physics, U. of Maryland
    • Joint Quantum Institute, Dept. Physics, University of Maryland and NIST, College Park MD 20742, USA
    • University of Maryland-College Park

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• Highly excited state Rydberg recombination and consequences for ultracold neutral plasmas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 12:36 PM – May 30, 2008, 12:48 PM

  Authors

  • Hossein Sadeghpour

    • ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Thomas Pohl

    • ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

  • Daniel Vrinceanu

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

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• Adiabatic Cooling and Electron-Ion Collisions during Self-Similar Expansion in Ultracold Neutral Plasmas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 12:48 PM – May 30, 2008, 1:00 PM

  Authors

  • Jose Castro

    • Rice University

  • Hong Gao

    • Rice University

  • Thomas Killian

    • Rice University

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• Rydberg atom interactions in high density samples

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 1:00 PM – May 30, 2008, 1:12 PM

  Authors

  • Kelly Younge

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS and Department of Physics, University of Michigan

  • Aaron Reinhard

    • University of Michigan
    • The University of Michigan

  • Thomas Pohl

    • ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • Paul Berman

    • University of Michigan

  • G. Raithel

    • University of Michigan
    • FOCUS Center and Department of Physics, University of Michigan
    • University of Michigan, FOCUS center
    • University of Michigan, Focus Center

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• Many-Body Ionization in a Frozen Rydberg Gas

  ORAL

  May 30, 2008, 1:12 PM – May 30, 2008, 1:24 PM

  Authors

  • Edward Shuman

  • Paul Tanner

  • Jianing Han

  • Tom Gallagher

    • University of Virginia

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