Michael Cavagnero

Theoretical AMO Physics
Office: CP-387a Phone: (859) 257-6733
Office as Department Chair: CP 177 Phone: (859) 257-6722
e-mail: mike@pa.uky.edu

Research Interests

I study energy transfer processes mediated by weakly-bound states of matter, ranging from Rydberg states of atoms or molecules to weakly-bound states of diatomic molecules involved in ultracold collisions. These studies require new approaches to the quantum theory of long-range interactions, and careful analysis of particle correlations in many-body systems.

Education

B.S., Physics, University of Connecticut (1981)

M.A., Physics, University of Chicago (1984)

Ph.D., Theoretical Atomic Physics, University of Chicago (1987)

Graduate Students

Catherine Newell

Research Associates

Amarjeet Bhullar

Selected Recent Publications

H. R. Sadeghpour, J. L. Bohn, M. J. Cavagnero, B. D. Esry, I. I. Fabrikant, J. H. Macek and A. R. P. Rau, "Collisions near threshold in atomic and molecular physics", J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 33, R93-R140 (2000).

A. B. Alekseyev, H. P. Liebermann, R. J. Buenker, N. Balakrishnan, H. R. Sadeghpour, S. T. Cornett and M. J. Cavagnero, "Spin-orbit effects in photodissociation of sodium iodide", Journal of Chemical Physics 113,, 1514 (2000).

N. Balakrishnan, B. Esry, H. Sadeghpour, S. Cornett and M. Cavagnero, "Quantum Wave-Packet Dynamics of the Photodissociation of LIF", Phys. Rev. A 60, 1407 (1999).

S. T. Cornett, H. R. Sadeghpour and M. J. Cavagnero, "Interferometric Lineshape Modulation in Alkali-Halide Photoabsorption", Phys. Rev. Lett 82, 2488 (1999).

J. H. Macek and M. J. Cavagnero, "Demkov-Osherov Model Reformulated in Terms of Conventional Scattering Theory", Phys. Rev. A 58, 348 (1998).

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Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of Kentucky