Theoretical AMO Physics

Research Interests

I study energy transfer processes mediated by weakly-bound states of matter, ranging from Rydberg states of atoms or molecules to weakly-bound states of diatomic molecules involved in ultracold collisions. These studies require new approaches to the quantum theory of long-range interactions, and careful analysis of particle correlations in many-body systems.

Education

• B.S., Physics, University of Connecticut (1981)
• M.A., Physics, University of Chicago (1984)
• Ph.D., Theoretical Atomic Physics, University of Chicago (1987)

Graduate Students

• Catherine Newell

Research Associates

• Amarjeet Bhullar

• H. R. Sadeghpour, J. L. Bohn, M. J. Cavagnero, B. D. Esry, I. I. Fabrikant, J. H. Macek and A. R. P. Rau, "Collisions near threshold in atomic and molecular physics", J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 33, R93-R140 (2000).
• A. B. Alekseyev, H. P. Liebermann, R. J. Buenker, N. Balakrishnan, H. R. Sadeghpour, S. T. Cornett and M. J. Cavagnero, "Spin-orbit effects in photodissociation of sodium iodide", Journal of Chemical Physics 113,, 1514 (2000).
• N. Balakrishnan, B. Esry, H. Sadeghpour, S. Cornett and M. Cavagnero, "Quantum Wave-Packet Dynamics of the Photodissociation of LIF", Phys. Rev. A 60, 1407 (1999).
• S. T. Cornett, H. R. Sadeghpour and M. J. Cavagnero, "Interferometric Lineshape Modulation in Alkali-Halide Photoabsorption", Phys. Rev. Lett 82, 2488 (1999).
• J. H. Macek and M. J. Cavagnero, "Demkov-Osherov Model Reformulated in Terms of Conventional Scattering Theory", Phys. Rev. A 58, 348 (1998).