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UCL team develops laser accelerator for neutral particles
Precise control of the motion of atoms and molecules is extremely
difficult, yet important for a large spectrum of scientific and industrial
processes. Applications range from surface growth and deposition, to elucidating
the details of chemical reactions through controlled collisions.
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Published: May 23, 2012 4:18:44 PM
In Memoriam: Dr Godfrey 'George' Heyland
George Heyland, who died on 6 February 2012 aged 89, was one of the longest serving members of the Physics and Astronomy Department at UCL. More...
Published: Mar 1, 2012 3:27:02 PM
The Quantum Workshop
Dr James Millen (AMOPP) has been awarded £9400 by the Beacon Innovation Seed fund to
deliver 'The Quantum Workshop'.
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Published: Nov 17, 2011 12:24:33 PM
Carey Foster Prize for Tahir Shaaran
11 October 2011
Tahir Shaaran has just been awarded the CAREY FOSTER PRIZE for Outstanding Postgraduate Research Physics AMOPP. Tahir's PhD work, on theoretical strong-field and attosecond physics, was developed from 2007 to the end of
2010, under the supervision of Dr Carla Faria. Tahir studied different scattering mechanisms in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization (NSDI) of atoms and diatomic molecules. Such studies were performed using mainly analytic methods.
His thesis, entitled " A rigorous treatment of excitation and quantum interference in laser-induced nonsequential double ionization in atoms and molecules" led to four high-quality publications, and constitutes the most comprehensive analytic studies worldwide of excitation and electron-electron correlation in NSDI. Tahir and Carla provide a unique interpretation of this phenomenon, which is increasinlgy gaining recognition from the international strong-field and attosecond community. Their predictions have been recently identified in experiments at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Munich (Matthias Kling, private communication, July 2011), which consttuted a milestone in the understanding of such processes.
For more details on this and related work see:
http://www.homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucapcfi/
