User:Tcarroll

About

Office: Pfahler 101E

Email: tcarroll AT ursinus DOT edu

Phone: 3121

I've been interested in science for as long as I can remember. Physics became my passion in high school and I carried that through to a Physics major at the University of Richmond. I earned my Phd at Bryn Mawr College under Prof. Michael Noel with a dissertation titled Controllable Rydberg Atom Interactions in a Magneto-Optical Trap.

Schedule

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09:00 AM	Physics 122		Physics 122		Physics 122	09:00 AM
09:30 AM	Physics 122		Physics 122		Physics 122	09:30 AM
10:00 AM		Physics 207		Physics 207		10:00 AM
10:30 AM		Physics 207		Physics 207	Physics 492	10:30 AM
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01:00 PM				Physics 492		01:00 PM
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02:30 PM	Physics 408W		Physics 408W	Physics 492		02:30 PM
03:00 PM	Physics 408W		Physics 408W	Physics 492		03:00 PM
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		office hours	appointment	Meeting
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Research

My research focus is on the experimental and computational studies of strongly interacting quantum mechanical systems -- specifically, ultra-cold Rydberg atom interactions. I collaborate with the cold atoms group at Bryn Mawr College, with whom I share a collaborative NSF grant. We tend to do experimental work at Bryn Mawr and computational work here at Ursinus, where we have a 48-core beowulf supercomputer cluster and we are about to build a new 148-core machine.

Here are some recent publications with Ursinus student co-authors:

• E. Altiere, D. P. Fahey, M. W. Noel, R. J. Smith, and T. J. Carroll, Dipole-dipole interaction between rubidium Rydberg atoms, Phys. Rev. A 84, 053431 (2011).

• T. J. Carroll, C. Daniel, L. Hoover, T. Sidie, M.W. Noel, Simulations of the dipole-dipole interaction between two spatially separated groups of Rydberg atoms, Phys. Rev. A 80, 052712 (2009).

For more details, visit my research page here.

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