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Half Cycle Pulses

Population Redistribution of Rydberg Atoms

Ultrafast Magnetization Dynamics

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Andrew Speck

Pankaj Mandal

Rowland Institute

Andrew J. Speck

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Ultracold Rydberg Atoms and Terahertz Spectroscopy Group
Rowland Institute at Harvard
Harvard University
100 Edwin H. Land Blvd.
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617-497-4749
Fax: 617-497-4627
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Education

  • 2005 Ph.D. Physics - Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

  • 2000 B.A. Physics and Mathematics - Williams College, Williamstown, Massachussetts

Positions, Fellowships, Honors

  • Junior Fellow at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2005-present

  • Graduate Student at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 2003-2004

  • Graduate Student at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachussetts, 2000-2005
    • Maurice and Gertrude Goldhaber Prize, 2004
    • Research Assistantship, Gabrielse Lab, 2001-2005

  • Undergraduate at Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1996-2000
    • Teaching Assistantship, 1997-2000
    • Thesis Research, Majumder Lab, 1999-2000

Publications

  • G. Gabrielse, P. Larochelle, D. Le Sage, B. Levitt, W. S. Kolthammer, R. McConnell, P. Richerme, J. Wrubel, A. Speck, M. C. George, D. Grzonka,W. Oelert, T. Sefzick, Z. Zhang, A. Carew, D. Comeau, E. A. Hessels, C. H. Storry,M. Weel, and J. Walz “Antihydrogen Production within a Penning-Ioffe Trap”, Physical Review Letters, 100, 113001 (2008).

  • B. Levitt, G. Gabrielse, P. Larochelle, D. Le Sage, W.S. Kolthammer, R. McConnell, J. Wrubel, A. Speck, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, T. Sefzick, Z. Zhang, D. Comeau, M.C. George, E.A. Hessels, C.H. Storry, M. Weel, J. Walz “Single-component plasma of photoelectrons”, Physics Letters B, 65625-29,(2007).

  • G. Gabrielse, P. Larochelle, D. Le Sage, B. Levitt, W.S. Kolthammer, I. Kuljanishvili, R. McConnell, J. Wrubel, F.M. Esser, H. Glueckler, D. Grzonka, G. Hansen, S. Martin, W. Oelert, J. Schillings, M. Schmitt, T. Sefzick, H. Soltner, Z. Zhang, D. Comeau, M.C. George, E.A. Hessels, C.H. Storry, M. Weel, A. Speck, F. Nillius, J. Walz and T.W. Haensch, “Antiproton Confinement in a Penning-Ioffe Trap for Antihydrogen”, Physical Review Letters, 98, 113002 (2007).

  • A. Speck, G. Gabrielse, P. Larochelle, D. Le Sage, B. Levitt, W.S. Kolthammer, R. McConnell, J. Wrubel, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, T. Sefzick, Z. Zhang, D. Comeau, M.C. George, E.A. Hessels, C.H. Storry, M. Weel, and J. Walz, “Density and Geometry of Single Component Plasmas ”, Physics Letters B, 650, 119-123 (2007).

  • C.H. Storry, A. Speck, D. Le Sage, N. Guise, G. Gabrielse, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Scheppers, T. Sefzick, J. Walz, H. Pittner, M. Herrmann, T.W. Haensch, D. Comeau, E. A. Hessels, “ First Laser-Controlled Antihdyrogen Production”, Physical Review Letters, 93, 263401 (2004).

  • A. Speck, C.H. Storry, E.A. Hessels, G. Gabrielse, “ Laser-controlled production of Rydberg positronium via charge exchange collisions”, Physics Letters B, 597, 257 (2004).

  • G. Gabrielse, A. Speck and C.H. Storry, D. Le Sage, N. Guise, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, H. Pittner, J. Walz, T.W. Haensch, D. Comeau, E.A. Hessels, “First Measurement of the Velocity of Slow Antihydrogen Atoms”, Physical Review Letters, 93, 073401 (2004).

  • P. Oxley, N.S. Bowden, R. Parrott, A. Speck, C.H. Storry, J.N. Tan, M. Wessels, G. Gabrielse, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, J. Walz, H. Pittner, T.W. Hnsch, E.A. Hessels, “ Aperture method to determine the density and geometry of antiparticle plasmas”, Physics Letters B, 595, 60 (2004).

  • J. N. Tan, N. S. Bowden, G. Gabrielse, P. Oxley, A. Speck, C. H. Storry, M. Wessels, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers et al., “Observations of cold antihydrogen”, Nuclear Instruments And Methods B, 214, 22 (2004).

  • G. Gabrielse, N.S. Bowden, P. Oxley, A. Speck, C.H. Storry, J.N. Tan, M. Wessels, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, J.Walz, H. Pittner, T.W. Haensch, E.A. Hessels, “ Driven Production of Cold Antihydrogen and the First Measured Distribution of Antihydrogen States”, Physical Review Letters, 89, 233401 (2002).

  • G. Gabrielse, N.S. Bowden, P. Oxley, A. Speck, C.H. Storry, J.N. Tan, M. Wessels, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, J. Walz, H. Pittner, T.W. Haensch, E.A. Hessels, “ Background-Free Observation of Cold Antihydrogen and a Field-Ionization Analysis of Its States”, Physical Review Letters, 89, 213401 (2002).

  • G. Gabrielse, N.S. Bowden, P. Oxley, A. Speck, C.H. Storry, J.N. Tan, M. Wessels, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Schepers, T. Sefzick, J.Walz, H. Pittner, T.W. Haensch, E.A. Hessels, “Stacking of Cold Antiprotons”, Physics Letters B, 548, 140 (2002).

  • G. Gabrielse, J.N. Tan, N.S. Bowden, P. Oxley, C.H. Storry, M. Wessels, A. Speck, J. Estrada, P. Yesley, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Scheppers, T. Sefzick, and J.Walz, “Cold Antihydrogen and CPT”, Proceedings of the Second Meeting on CPT and Lorentz Symmetry, edited by V. Alan Kostelecky, World Scientific, Singapore, 2002, pp. 225-234.

  • G. Gabrielse, J.N. Tan, N.S. Bowden, P. Oxley, C.H. Storry, M. Wessels, A. Speck, J. Estrada, P. Yesley, T. Squires, D. Grzonka, W. Oelert, G. Scheppers, T. Sefzick, and J. Walz, “Cold Antimatter Plasmas, and Aspirations for Cold Antihydrogen”, Non-Neutral Plasma Physics IV, (AIP Conference Proceedings, volume 606), edited by F. Anderegg, L. Schweikhard, C.F. Driscoll, American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, pp. 51-62 (2002).

  • S. C. Doret, P. D. Friedberg, A. J. Speck, D. S. Richardson, and P. K. Majumder, “Measurement of the Stark shift within the 6P1/2-7S1/2 378-nm transition in atomic thallium”, Physical Review A, 66, 052504 (2002).

Presentations

  • Manipulating Atoms and other Physical Systems with Half-Cycle Pulses, Williams College Physics Colloquia, Williamstown, Massachusetts (2008)

  • State-Independent Control of Rydberg Atoms with Half-Cycle Pulses, Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics, Tilton, New Hampshire (2009).

  • De-Exciting Rydberg Atoms Using Half-Cycle THz Pulse Trains, 33rd International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves, Pasadena, California (2008).

  • Progress Towards Efficient Broadband De-Excitation of Rydberg atoms with Half-Cycle Pulses, 21st International Conference on Atomic Physics, Storrs, Connecticut (2008).

  • Progress Towards Efficient Broadband De-Excitation of Rydberg atoms with Half-Cycle Pulses,38th Annual Meeting of the Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Calgary, Alberta (2007).