Effect of glancing collisions in the cold-atom vacuum standard

SP Eckel, DS Barker, JA Fedchak, J Scherschligt… - Physical Review A, 2025 - APS
We theoretically investigate the effect of “glancing” collisions on the ultra-high-vacuum
pressure readings of the cold-atom vacuum standard (CAVS), based on either ultracold Li 7 …

Boundaries of universality of thermal collisions for atom-atom scattering

X Guo, KW Madison, JL Booth, RV Krems - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Thermal rate coefficients for some atomic collisions have been observed to be remarkably
independent of the details of interatomic interactions at short range. This makes these rate …

Revising the universality hypothesis for room-temperature collisions

JL Booth, KW Madison - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
Atoms constitute promising quantum sensors for a variety of scenarios including vacuum
metrology. Key to this application is knowledge of the collision rate coefficient of the sensor …

Cross-calibration of quantum atomic sensors for pressure metrology

E Frieling, RA Stewart, JL Booth, KW Madison - AVS Quantum Science, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Quantum atomic sensors have shown great promise for vacuum metrology. Specifically, the
density of gas particles in vacuum can be determined by measuring the collision rate …

Explorations of universality in ultra-cold and room-temperature collisions

EB Frieling - 2024 - open.library.ubc.ca
This thesis describes experiments with magnetically and optically trapped ultra-cold gases
of ⁶Li and ⁸⁵⁺ ⁸⁷Rb. We describe three distinct areas of investigation, with a common …