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DANIEL KLEPPNER, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics; Director, MIT–Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms


Email: kleppner@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-6811

Address: Room 26-237

Related Links:

MIT Ultracold Hydrogen Group

MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms

Daniel Kleppner

Research Interests

Atomic, Molecular and Optical:

  • Experimental Atomic Physics
  • Laser Spectroscopy
  • High Precision Measurements

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Biographical Sketch

Professor Kleppner is the Director of the National Science Foundation-funded MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms, an Associate Director of the MIT Research Laboratory of Electronics, and a principal investigator in the Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics group.

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Selected Publications

Thomas J. Greytak and Daniel Kleppner, "Bose-Einstein Condensation," McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2001, pg. 64-67.

T. J. Greytak, D. Kleppner, D. G. Fried, T. C. Killian, L. Willmann, D. Landhuis, and S. C. Moss, "Bose-Einstein Condensation in Atomic Hydrogen," (2000).

D. Kleppner, "The Yin and Yang of Hydrogen".

D. G. Fried, T. C. Killian, L. Willmann, D. Landhuis, S. C. Moss, D. Kleppner, and T. J. Greytak, "Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atomic Hydrogen," PRL, 81, 3811, (1998).

T. C. Killian, D. G. Fried, L. Willmann, D. Landhuis, S. C. Moss, T. J. Greytak, and D. Kleppner, "Cold Collision Frequency Shift of the 1S-2S Transition in Hydrogen," PRL, 81, 3807, (1998).

C. L. Cesar, D. G. Fried, T. C. Killian, A. D. Polcyn, J. C. Sandberg, I. A. Yu, T. J. Greytak, and D. Kleppner, "Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen," PRL, 77, 255, (1996).

T. C. Killian, D. G. Fried, C. L. Cesar, A. D. Polycn, T. J. Greytak, D. Kleppner, "Doppler-Free Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen," Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Atomic Physics, (1996).

M. J. Yoo and T. J. Greytak, "Thermal Conductivity and Accommodation Coefficient of Spin-Polarized Atomic Hydrogen Gas," Phys. Rev. B52, 7215 (1995).

T. J. Greytak, "Prospects for Bose-Einstein Condensation in Magnetically Trapped Atomic Hydrogen" in Bose-Einstein Condensation, ed. by A. Griffin, D. W. Snoke, and S. Stringari, Cambridge University Press, NY, (1995).

C. L. Cesar, D. G. Fried, T. C. Killian, A. D. Polcyn, J. C. Sandberg, J. M. Doyle, I. A. Yu, T. J. Greytak, and D. Kleppner, "Two-Photon Spectroscopy of Trapped Atomic Hydrogen," Proceedings of the Symposium on Frequency Standards and Metrology, Woods Hole, MA (1995).

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