[Triumf-seminars] TRIUMF Colloquium Seminar today at 14:00

Thu, 15 Sep 2005 05:00:01 -0700

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Date/Time: Thu 2005-09-15 at 14:00

Location:  Auditorium          

Speaker:   Jeffrey McGuirk (SFU)

Title:     Interactions between ultracold atoms and hot surfaces

Abstract: I will describe experiments utilizing Bose-Einstein condensates to probe the interactions between ultracold atoms and hot (i.e. room-temperature) surfaces.  The effects studied include Johnson noise, adsorbates, and the Casimir-Polder force.  I will discuss attempts to measure new thermal features of the Casimir-Polder force and lastly will describe how these measurements constrain the presence of hypothetical, exotic short-range forces.

Stimulants available 15 minutes before the talk.

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