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Originally Posted by camacazio
Not personally, but I'm pretty familar with his work, and I've worked with people who have worked with him.
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One of my college friends had him for a thesis advisor. Small world.
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I trap single ions, our "temperature" is excitations of vibrational quanta in the trap.
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I used to investigate vibrational quanta in ultracold
molecules and molecular clusters in the gas phase, back when supersonic jets were all in vogue. Atomic spectroscopy was a tool for calibration for us, nothing more. Now the pendulum seems to be swinging back.
I had a look at the website - there's some neat stuff going on at NIST.