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Eric Abraham

Professor
Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics


Eric is an experimentalist working in atomic, molecular, and optical physics. His field is laser cooling and trapping, which uses lasers and magnetic fields to cool atoms to a fraction of a degree within absolute zero.

A recent project studied Feshbach Optimized photoassociation: ultracold atoms undergo resonant collision, where a photon binds them together into an excited-state molecule, allowing molecular spectroscopy inaccessible with any other method. Another project uses the ultracold atoms as a non-linear medium for a quantum optics experiment studying electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT), a common method for precision spectroscopy. The project studies the process using Laguerre-Gaussian laser beams, which have orbital angular momentum. Eric has initiated a new project which uses the ultracold atoms as a source for monochromatic ion beams for precision microscopy.