US-Brazil Planning Visit: Rydberg Atom Interactions in Ultracold Gases

这项国际规划资助将支持PI Schaffer和两名美国研究生前往巴西，与巴西合作者Luis Marcassa教授、巴西圣卡洛斯圣保罗大学的5名研究生和圣卡塔琳娜州立大学的Andre L. de Oliveira教授一起工作。这项计划拨款的目的是启动合作研究，使用里德伯原子成像光谱仪和并行超级计算代码来计算冷里德伯原子相互作用，以研究冷里德伯气体中的碰撞动力学和分子形成。这项工作将旨在确定它们对电场的依赖关系，以便可以使用背景电场来控制冷里德伯气体的性质。

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.