Conveners
(F1-6) Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics - DAMOPC / Physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique - DPAMPC
- Stéphane Bancelin (INRS)
Dr
A. D. May
(University of Toronto)
20/06/2014, 08:45
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
As in Can. J. Phys. vol. 91, 879-895 (2013), the impact theory of spectral line shapes is summarized and a problem identified if one wishes to compare theory with experimental results. The theory predicts only spectral profiles, i.e. the width and shift of lines cannot be calculated directly. The problem is, there are no known analytical solutions to the theory. While the way out of this...
Dr
Li-Hong Xu
(University of New Brunswick)
20/06/2014, 09:15
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
High-resolution Fourier transform far-infrared spectra of the CD3OH isotopologue of methanol, a well-known interstellar molecule, have been recorded at the Far-Infrared beamline of the Canadian Light Source synchrotron in Saskatoon, supplementing earlier Bomem FTIR spectra from the National Research Council in Ottawa at lower frequency. The primary motivation was to extend our mapping of high...
Jaan Lepson
(University of California, Berkeley)
20/06/2014, 09:30
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
We studied High Energy Grating Spectrometer (HETGS) observations of Capella and Low Energy Grating Spectrometer (LETGS) observations of Procyon observed by the *Chandra X-ray Observatory* in order to identify L-shell transitions of M-shell ions of iron, many of which also play an important role in the absorption features associated with spectra from active galactic nuclei. We previously...
Dr
Peter Beiersdorfer
(LLNL)
20/06/2014, 09:45
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
We have been developing spectroscopic approaches to use the strength of dielectronic recombination (DR) satellite lines in the L-shell spectra of iron to infer the electron temperature of stellar coronae. In this approach, the strength of DR satellite lines relative to the associated parent line p, $I_{DR}/I_p$, is used to determine the temperature. The advantage of this method is that it...
Dr
Eduardo Martin-Martinez
(Institute for Quantum Computing and Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
20/06/2014, 10:00
Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, Canada / Division de la physique atomique, moléculaire et photonique, Canada (DAMOPC-DPAMPC)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
We discuss how it is possible to build low-maintenance, sustainable entanglement sources taking advantage of the build-up of relativistic effects even in non-relativistic settings in a reliable and experimentally low-demanding way. We will discuss that in certain generic circumstances the state of light of an optical cavity traversed by beams of atoms is naturally driven towards a non-thermal...