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Jay Vaishnav

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Education
Employment
Honors and Awards
Current Research Interests
Recent Publications
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Education:

2006 Ph.D., Harvard University
Thesis: "Topics in Low Energy Quantum Scattering Theory,"
supervised by Professor Eric J. Heller.
2002 A.M., physics, Harvard University
2000 B.S., University of Maryland, magna cum laude and with Honors.


Employment:

2006-present Postdoctoral Research Associate, Electron and Optical Physics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)


Honors and Awards:

2006 National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship, NIST
2000 National Defense Science and Engineering (NDSEG) Graduate Fellowship
1996 Banneker-Key Scholarship, University of Maryland


Current Research Interests:

  Dynamics of ultracold atoms
Scattering theory and few-body quantum systems
Effective non-Abelian gauge potentials for cold atoms
Transport studies of graphene

Recent Publications:

"Spin Field Effect Transistors with Ultracold Atoms"
J. Y. Vaishnav, Julius Ruseckas, Charles W. Clark, and Gediminas Juzeliunas,
Physical Review Letters, 101, 265302 (2008)


"Observing Zitterbewegung in Ultracold Atoms."
J. Y. Vaishnav and Charles W. Clark.
Physical Review Letters, 100, 153002 (2008).


"Physics of a Two Dimensional Electron Gas with Cold Atoms in Non-Abelian Gauge Fields,"
I. I. Satija, D. C. Dakin, J. Y. Vaishnav, and Charles W. Clark,
Physical Review A, 77, 043410 (2008).


Electron and Optical Physics Division

Online: July 2007