Award Abstract # 0756321
US-Brazil Planning Visit: Rydberg Atom Interactions in Ultracold Gases

NSF Org: OISE
Office of International Science and Engineering
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
Initial Amendment Date: April 4, 2008
Latest Amendment Date: April 4, 2008
Award Number: 0756321
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: Jessica Robin
jrobin@nsf.gov
 (703)292-8416
OISE
 Office of International Science and Engineering
O/D
 Office Of The Director
Start Date: June 1, 2008
End Date: May 31, 2011 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $19,993.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $19,993.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2008 = $19,993.00
History of Investigator:
  • James Shaffer (Principal Investigator)
    shaffer@nhn.ou.edu
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
660 PARRINGTON OVAL RM 301
NORMAN
OK  US  73019-3003
(405)325-4757
Sponsor Congressional District: 04
Primary Place of Performance: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
660 PARRINGTON OVAL RM 301
NORMAN
OK  US  73019-3003
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
04
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): EVTSTTLCEWS5
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): Catalyzing New Intl Collab
Primary Program Source: 01000809DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 0000, 5913, 5977, 9150, OTHR
Program Element Code(s): 729900
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.079

ABSTRACT

This international planning grant will support travel by PI Schaffer and two US graduate students to Brazil to work with Brazilian collaborators Professor Luis Marcassa and 5 graduate students at the University of Sao Paulo at Sao Carlos in Brazil and Professor Andre L. de Oliveira at Santa Catarina State University.

The aim of this planning grant will be to initiate collaborative research using a Rydberg atom imaging spectrometer and parallel supercomputing codes for calculating cold Rydberg atom interactions in order to investigate collision dynamics and molecule formation in cold Rydberg gases. This work will be aimed at determining their electric field dependence so that a background electric field can be used to control the properties of the cold Rydberg gas.

PUBLICATIONS PRODUCED AS A RESULT OF THIS RESEARCH

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J.S. Cabral, J.M. Kondo, L.F. Goncalves, L.G. Marcassa, D. Booth, J. Tallant and J.P. Shaffer "Manipulation of Quantum State Transfer in Cold Rydberg Atom Collisions" The New Journal of Physics , v.12 , 2010 , p.0
V.A. Nascimento, L.L. Caliri, A. Schwettmann, J.P. Shaffer and L.G. Marcassa "Electric Field Effects on Cold Rydberg Atom Pair Excitation" Physical Review Letters , v.102 , 2008

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