Ananth Chikkatur Curriculum Vitae Department of Physics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, and MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Room 26-253 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617) 253-4178 Tel-Lab (617) 864-4641 Tel-Home (617) 253-4876 Fax Email: ananth@mit.edu Current position (since 7/97) Graduate Student Research Assistant, Prof. Wolfgang Ketterle group. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 02139 Research interests My main research interests are in atomic physics, particularly in the area of laser cooling and trapping of neutral atoms and Bose-Einstein condensation. I have studied the static and dynamical properties of Bose condensates, especially its superfluid aspects. Recently, I led a team of graduate students and post-docs to build a next generation sodium Bose condensate apparatus, which will be the workhorse of our future BEC work. The new apparatus produces large condensates, which are then transported via optical tweezers to an auxiliary chamber, where most of the experiments are done. Currently, we are studying atomic waveguides using Bose condensates. We hope to produce bigger atom lasers, study condensate-surface interactions, and perform better atom interferometry with our new apparatus. Biographical Information: Date of Birth: August 10, 1975 Place of Birth: Bangalore, India Citizenship: USA Education: BS, Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, 1997 Candidate for Ph.D. in Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Expected graduation in Summer 2002. Employment: 7/97 to present: Research assistant, Wolfgang Ketterle group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA. 6/96 to 5/97: Research assistant, Nicholas Bigelow group, Department of Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester NY. 9/95 to 12/96: Research assistant, Arie Bodek group, Department of Physics, University of Rochester, Rochester NY. 5/95 to 8/95: Summer student, E815 (NuTeV), a fixed target experiment, Fermilab, Batavia IL. 10/93 to 12/94: Lab assistant, Materials group at Laboratory of Laser Energetics, Rochester NY. Teaching Experience: 1/97 to 5/97 and 1/96 to 5/96: Teaching assistant, Prepared and conducted recitation sections for Elements of Quantum Physics, freshman undergraduate level, Department of Physics, University of Rochester. 9/95 to 12/95: Course grader for Boundary Value Problems, junior undergraduate level, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Rochester. 9/94 to 5/95: Teaching assistant, Prepared and conducted recitation sections for Analysis and Differential Equations, sophomore level undergraduate, Department of Mathematics, University of Rochester. Honors and Awards: 1. National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1997-2000) 2. Deutsch Award for Excellence in Experimental Physics (1999) 3. National Science Scholarship (1993-1997) 4. Xerox Scholarship (1993-1997) 5. Flagg Award for Outstanding scholarship in Physics (1997) 6. Stoddard Prize for Best Senior thesis in Physics (1997) 7. Fulbright Prize for excellence in Advanced Laboratory in Physics (1996) 8. Honors Prize for excellence in Sophomore Physics (1994) 9. Member of (Physics Honor Society, 1996) 10. Member of 1996) Professional Affiliations: American Physical Society (APS) Optical Society of America (OSA) Miscellaneous: Volunteer for Asha for Education-Boston chapter, an action group for basic education in India. Publication List Papers (in refereed journals): 1. T.L. Gustavson, A.P. Chikkatur, A.E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, S. Gupta, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Transport of Bose-Einstein Condensation using Optical Tweezers. Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 020401 (2002). 2. A. Görlitz, J.M. Vogels, A.E. Leanhardt, C. Raman, T.L. Gustavson, J.R. Abo-Shaeer, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Gupta, S. Inouye, T.P. Rosenband, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Realization of Bose-Einstein condensates in lower dimensions. Phys. Rev. Lett., 87 130402 (2001). 3. S. Inouye, S. Gupta, T. Rosenband, A.P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, T.L. Gustavson, A.E. Leanhardt, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Observation of vortex phase singularities in Bose-Einstein condensates. Phys. Rev. Lett., 87 080402 (2001). 4. A. Görlitz, A.P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle: Enhancement and suppression of spontaneous emission and light scattering by quantum degeneracy. Phys. Rev. A 36, 041601(R) (2001). 5. R. Onofrio, C. Raman, J. M. Vogels, J. Abo-Shaeer, A. P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle: Observation of Superfluid Flow in a Bose-Einstein Condensed Gas.. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2228 (2000). 6. A.P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, S. Inouye, S. Gupta, and W. Ketterle: Suppression and enhancement of impurity scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 483 (2000). 7. S. Inouye, T. Pfau, S. Gupta, A. P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Observation of phase-coherent amplification of atomic matter waves. Nature 402, 641-644 (1999). 8. J. Stenger, S. Inouye, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, A.P. Chikkatur, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Bragg spectroscopy and superradiant Rayleigh scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Appl. Phys. B 69, 347-352 (1999). 9. D.M. Stamper-Kurn, A.P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, S. Inouye, S. Gupta, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Excitation of phonons in a Bose-Einstein condensate by light scattering. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 2876-2879 (1999). 10. S. Inouye, A.P. Chikkatur, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, J. Stenger, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Superradiant Rayleigh scattering from a Bose-Einstein condensate. Science 285, 571-574 (1999). 11. D.M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle: Quantum tunneling across spin domains in a Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 661-665 (1999). 12. J. Stenger, S. Inouye, A.P. Chikkatur, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Bragg spectroscopy of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4569–4573 (1999). 13. H.-J. Miesner, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, J. Stenger, S. Inouye, A.P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle: Observation of metastable states in spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 2228-2231 (1999). 14. J. Stenger, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, M.R. Andrews, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, H.-J. Miesner, and W. Ketterle: Optically confined Bose-Einstein condensates. Proceedings of the Symposium on “Quantum Fluids and Solids” (QFS 98), Amherst, Massachusetts, June 9-14, 1998. J. Low Temp. Phys. 113, 167-188 (1998). 15. J. Stenger, S. Inouye, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A.P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle: Spin domains in ground state spinor Bose-Einstein condensates. Nature 396, 345-348 (1998). 16. D.M. Stamper-Kurn, H.-J. Miesner, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle: Reversible formation of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2194-2197 (1998). 17. D.M. Stamper-Kurn, M.R. Andrews, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, H.-J. Miesner, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle: Optical confinement of a Bose-Einstein condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 2027-2030 (1998). 18. A.P. Chikkatur, et. al. (NuTeV/CCFR collaboration): Tests of a calorimetric technique for measuring the energy of cosmic ray muons in the TeV energy range. Z. Phys. C. 74, 279-289 (1997). Articles in Proceedings: 19. W. Ketterle, A.P. Chikkatur, and C. Raman: Collective enhancement and suppression in Bose-Einstein condensates. in: Atomic Physics 17, edited by E. Arimondo, P. DeNatale, and M. Inguscio (American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York, 2001), pp. 337-355; e-print cond-mat/0010375 20. D.M. Stamper-Kurn, A.P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, S. Gupta, S. Inouye, J. Stenger, D.E. Pritchard, and W. Ketterle: Probing Bose-Einstein condensates with optical Bragg scattering in: Recent Progress in Many-Body Theories, R.F. Bishop, K.A. Gernoth, N.R. Walet, and Y. Xian eds. (World Scientific, 2000); Int. J. Mod. Phys. B 15, 1621-1640 (2001). Invited presentations: 21. The Bose-Einstein Condensate: A Superfluid gas of coherent atoms: Invited talks at: a) Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (December 12, 2001). b) Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore, India (December 24, 2001). c) Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, Mumbai, India (January 4, 2002). d) Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India (January 7, 2002). 22. Impurity Collisions and Superfluidity: Invited talk, The Third Workshop on Laser Cooling, Shonan Village Center, Japan, January 2001. 23. Spinor Bose-Einstein condensates: Ground states, metastability, and quantum tunneling, Invited talk, RTC and ITAMP Workshop on Multi-Component and Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates of Trapped Dilute Vapors, Rochester, 1/6-8/2000, Book of Abstracts, p. 9. Selected contributions to conferences with published abstracts: 24. Experiments with Transported Bose-Einstein Condensates, A. P. Chikkatur, T. L. Gustavson, A. Görlitz, S. Gupta, A. E. Leanhardt, S. Inouye, T. P. Rosenband, D. E. Pritchard and W. Ketterle, Euresco Conference on the Physics of Atomic Gases at Low Temperatures, San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, September 15-20, 2001, Book of Abstracts. 25. Transported Bose-Einstein Condensates, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Gupta, S. Inouye, A.E. Leanhardt, A. Görlitz, T.L. Gustavson, T.L. Rosenband, D.E. Pritchard and W. Ketterle, 15th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, Snowbird, Utah, June 10-15, 2001 (ICOLS 01), Book of Abstracts, page P1-2. 26. 1 and 2 dimensional Bose-Einstein Condensates, J. Vogels, A. Görlitz, C. Raman, T. Gustavson, M. Drndic, A. Leanhardt, J. Abo-Shaeer, R. Loew, and W. Ketterle, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 46, 48 (2001). 27. Impurity scattering in a Bose-Einstein Condensate A. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, S. Inouye, S. Gupta, D. Pritchard and W. Ketterle, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 45, 48 (2000). 28. Suppression and enhancement of impurity scattering in a Bose-Einstein condensate, A.P. Chikkatur, A. Görlitz, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, S. Inouye, S. Gupta, and W. Ketterle, Technical Digest of Quantum Electronics and Laser Science conference (QELS 2000), post deadline paper QPD 2-1/3. 29. Putting a spin on BEC: Ground states, metastability and tunneling, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, J. Stenger, H.-J. Miesner, S. Inouye, A.P. Chikkatur, and W. Ketterle, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 44, 1007 (1999). 30. Studies of optically confined Bose-Einstein condensates, D.M. Stamper-Kurn, M.R. Andrews, A.P. Chikkatur, S. Inouye, H.-J. Miesner, J. Stenger, and W. Ketterle, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc. 43, 1251 (1998). 31. Development of a new technique for measuring the energies of Cosmic Ray Muons in the TeV energy range, Ananth P. Chikkatur, Bulletin of the American Physical Society, Indianapolis IN, May 1996.