ITAMP Topical Lunch Discussion

Date: FRIDAY, April 4
Time: 12:00-1:30 pm
Pizza will be served.

Location: B-106 @ Center for Astrophysics (60 Garden Street)
Directions: after entering the lobby of the CfA, turn right to enter the hallway of the B building. In the hallway, turn right again, and B-106 is there.


Speaker:  Hossein Sadeghpour (ITAMP)

Title:  How an electron catches an ultracold atom; or an entire BEC

Abstract:

When an electron wave function becomes so extended as to overtake the mean interparticle distance, stuff happens. One of the "stuff" is spectral line shift and/or broadening. In an ultracold trap, this manifests itself in interesting, and at times unexpected phenomena, during a Rydberg excitation.