Thomas C. Killian, Ph.D.

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1993-2000 Physics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, United States 
 2001- Physics and Astronomy Rice University, Houston, TX 
Area:
Atomic Physics
Website:
http://ultracold.rice.edu/index.shtml
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85260
Thomas C. Killian received a BA in Physics in 1991 from Harvard University, and then attended Cambridge University on a Marshall Scholarship. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he completed his PhD in atomic physics in 1999 under the guidance of Profs. Daniel Kleppner and Thomas Greytak. As a Postdoctoral Scholar at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, he initiated experiments on ultracold neutral plasmas, which are orders of magnitude colder than any neutral plasma ever produced before. In 2001, Dr. Killian joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University, where he continues experiments on ultracold atoms and plasmas. His recent work also includes developing techniques to manipulate and probe biological structures with electromagnetic fields. He is a co-founder of Nano3D Biosciences, which is commercializing a technology for growing three-dimensional tissue for basic research, toxicology, and drug discovery. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of a David and Lucille Packard Foundation Science and Engineering Fellowship, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award.
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Parents

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Thomas J. Greytak grad student 1999 MIT (Physics Tree)
 (1S-2S spectroscopy of trapped hydrogen : the cold collision frequency shift and studies of BEC)
Daniel Kleppner grad student 1993-1999 MIT (Physics Tree)

Children

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Priya Gupta grad student 2007 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Sampad Laha grad student 2007 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Sarah B. Nagel grad student 2008 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Clayton E. Simien grad student 2008 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Yenny N. Martinez de Escolar grad student 2010 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Pascal G. Mickelson grad student 2010 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Jose A. Castro Nieto grad student 2011 Rice University (Physics Tree)
Daniel J. Stark grad student 2011 Rice University (Physics Tree)
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Sous J, Sadeghpour HR, Killian TC, et al. (2020) Rydberg impurity in a Fermi gas: Quantum statistics and rotational blockade Arxiv: Quantum Gases. 2: 23021
Whalen J, Kanungo S, Lu Y, et al. (2020) Heteronuclear Rydberg molecules Physical Review A. 101
Gorman GM, Langin TK, Warrens MK, et al. (2020) Combined molecular dynamics and quantum trajectories simulation of laser-driven, collisional systems Physical Review A. 101: 12710
Langin TK, Gorman GM, Killian TC. (2019) Laser cooling of ions in a neutral plasma. Science (New York, N.Y.). 363: 61-64
Kon WY, Aman JA, Hill JC, et al. (2019) High-intensity two-frequency photoassociation spectroscopy of a weakly bound molecular state: Theory and experiment Physical Review A. 100
Whalen JD, Ding R, Kanungo SK, et al. (2019) Formation of ultralong-range fermionic Rydberg molecules in 87Sr: role of quantum statistics Molecular Physics. 117: 3088-3095
Bergeson SD, Baalrud SD, Ellison CL, et al. (2019) Exploring the crossover between high-energy-density plasma and ultracold neutral plasma physics Physics of Plasmas. 26: 100501
Camargo F, Schmidt R, Whalen JD, et al. (2018) Creation of Rydberg Polarons in a Bose Gas. Physical Review Letters. 120: 083401
Aman JA, Hill JC, Ding R, et al. (2018) Photoassociative spectroscopy of a halo molecule in Sr86 Physical Review A. 98
Schmidt R, Whalen JD, Ding R, et al. (2018) Theory of excitation of Rydberg polarons in an atomic quantum gas Physical Review A. 97
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