Resume of Eite Tiesinga
General Information
Name : Dr. Eite Tiesinga
Address : Joint Quantum Institute
Atomic Physics Division
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8423
email : ****.********@****.***
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Education
September 1984 - December 1988
Undergraduate student at the University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
January 1989 - January 1993
PhD Graduate student at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Nether-
lands.
Professional Experience
May 1994 - April 1997
Guest researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics
Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
June 1997 - February 2000
Research associate at the University of Maryland, Department of Chemistry and Biochem-
istry College Park, Maryland
February 2000 - July 2001
Contractual Researcher at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic
Physics Division, Gaithersburg, Maryland.
July 2001 - present
Physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Atomic Physics Division,
Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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September 2006 - present
Adjunct Associate Professor at the Joint Quantum Institute, Department of Physics, Uni-
versity of Maryland, College Park, Maryland.
List of publications
1. E. Tiesinga, H.T.C. Stoof, and B.J. Verhaar, Re ection of hydrogen atoms from the
surface of super uid helium, Physical Review B 41, 8886 (1990).
2. E.Tiesinga, H.T.C. Stoof, B.J. Verhaar and S.B. Crampton, Spin-exchange frequency
shift of the cryogenic deuterium maser, Physica D 165&166, 19 (1990).
3. E. Tiesinga, S.J.M. Kuppens, B.J. Verhaar, and H.T.C. Stoof, Collisions between cold
ground-state Na atoms, Physical Review A 43, 5188 (1991).
4. E. Tiesinga, B.J. Verhaar, H.T.C. Stoof and D. van Bragt, Spin-exchange frequency
shift in a cesium fountain, Physical Review A 45, 2671 (1992).
5. E. Tiesinga, A.J. Moerdijk, B.J. Verhaar, and H.T.C. Stoof, Conditions for Bose-
Einstein condensation in magnetically trapped cesium, Physical Review A 46, R1167
(1992).
6. E. Tiesinga, B.J. Verhaar and H.T.C. Stoof, Threshold and resonance phenomena in
ultracold ground-state collisions, Physical Review A 47, 4114 (1993).
7. E. Tiesinga, S.B. Crampton, B.J. Verhaar, and H.T.C. Stoof, Collisional frequency
shifts and line broadening in the cryogenic deuterium maser, Physical Review A 47,
4342 (1993).
8. H.M.J.M. Boesten, B.J. Verhaar, and E. Tiesinga, Quantum suppression of collisional
loss rates in optical traps, Physical Review A 48, 1428 (1993).
9. E. Tiesinga, Comment on: Elastic scattering of hydrogen atoms at low temperatures,
Physical Review A 48, 4801 (1993).
10. E. Tiesinga, A.J. Moerdijk, B.J. Verhaar, and H.T.C.Stoof, BEC in ultra-cold cesium:
Collisional constraints, Bose-Einstein Condensation, edited by A. Gri n, D.W. Snoke,
and S. Stringari (Cambridge University Press 1995) p. 465.
11. C.J. Williams, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Hyper ne structure of the Na2 0 long-
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range molecular state, Physical Review A 53, R1939 (1996).
12. K.M. Jones, P.S. Julienne, P.D. Lett, W.D. Phillips, E. Tiesinga, and C.J. Williams,
Measurement of the atomic Na(3P) lifetime and of retardation in the interaction be-
tween two atoms bound in a molecule, Europhysics Letters 35, 85 (1996).
13. E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, P.S. Julienne, K.M. Jones, P.D. Lett, and W.D. Phillips,
A spectroscopic determination of scattering lengths for sodium atom collisions, Journal
of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, 101, 505 (1996).
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14. P.S. Julienne, F.H. Mies, E. Tiesinga and C.J. Williams, Collisional Stability of double
Bose condensates, Physical Review Letters 78, 1880 (1997).
15. X. Wang, H. Wang, P.L. Gould, W.C. Stwalley, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Ob-
servation of the Pure Long-Range 1u state of an alkali-metal dimer by photoassociative
spectroscopy, Physical Review A, 57, 4600 (1998).
16. E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, and P.S. Julienne, Photoassociative spectroscopy of highly
excited vibrational levels of alkali dimers: Green function approach for eigenvalue
solvers, Physical Review A, 57, 4257 (1998).
17. P.S. Julienne, K.M. Jones, P.D. Lett, W.D. Phillips, E. Tiesinga, U. Volz, and C.J.
Williams, Atomic collisions in Ultra-cold atomic gases, Photonic, electronic and atomic
collisions, edited by F. Aumayr and H. Winter (World Scienti c, Singapore, 1998).
18. P.J. Leo, E. Tiesinga, P.S. Julienne, D.K. Walter, S. Kadlecek, T.G. Walker, Elastic
and Inelastic Collisions of Cold Spin-Polarized 133 Cs Atoms, Physical Review Letters
81, 1389 (1998).
19. K.-A. Suominen, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Nonadiabatic dynamics in evaporative
cooling of trapped atoms by a radio frequency eld, Physical Review A 38, 3983 (1998).
20. G.H. Rawitscher, B.D. Esry, E.Tiesinga, J.P. Burke, I. Koltracht, Comparison of nu-
merical methods for the calculation of cold atom collisions, Journal of Chemical Physics,
111, 10418 (1999).
21. C.J. Williams, E. Tiesinga, P.S. Julienne, H. Wang, W.C. Stwalley, and P.L. Gould,
Determination of the scattering lengths of 39 K from 1u photoassociation lineshapes,
Physical Review A 60, 4427 (1999).
22. K.M. Jones, P.D. Lett, E. Tiesinga. and P.S. Julienne, Fitting line shapes in photoas-
sociation spectroscopy of ultracold atoms: A useful approximation, Physical Review A
61, 012501 (2000).
23. F.H. Mies, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Manipulation of Feshbach Resonances in
Ultracold Atomic Collisions using Time-dependent Magnetic Fields, Physical Review
A 61, 022721 (2000).
24. S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and I. Tupitsyn, Nonrelativistic ab-initio calculation of
the interaction potentials between metastable Ne atoms, Physical Review A 61, 042712
(2000).
25. S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and I. Tupitsyn, Relativistic Valence bond theory and its
application to metastable Xe2, in New Trends in Quantum Systems in Chemistry and
Physics, edited by J. Maruani, C. Minot, R. McWeeny, Y.G. meyers, and S. Wilson
(Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2001), Vol 1, p. 219.
26. E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, F.H. Mies, and P.S. Julienne, Interacting atoms under
strong quantum con nement, Physical Review A 61 063416 (2000).
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27. S.D. Gensemer, P.L. Gould, P.J. Leo, E. Tiesinga, and C.J. Williams, Ultracold 87 Rb
Ground-State Hyper ne-Changing Collisions in the Presence and Absence of Laser
Light, Physical Review A, 62, 030702 (2000).
28. H. Wang, A. N. Nikolov, J. R. Ensher, P.L. Gould, E. E. Eyler, and W. C. Stwalley,
J.P. Burke Jr., J. L. Bohn, Chris. H. Greene, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams and P.
S. Julienne, Ground State Scattering Length of 39 K Determined by Double-Resonance
Photoassociative Spectroscopy, Physical Review A, 62, 052704 (2000).
29. S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Relativistic ab-initio treatment of the
second-order spin-orbit splitting of the a3 + potential of rubidium and cesium dimers,
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Physical Review A 63, 012517 (2000).
30. C. Samuelis, E. Tiesinga, T. Laue, M. Elbs, H. Kn ckel, and E. Tiemann, Cold atomic
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collisions studied by molecular spectroscopy, Physical Review A, 63, 012710 (2000).
31. E. Charron, E. Tiesinga, F. Mies, and C. Williams, Quantum gates using motional
states in an optical lattice, Quantum communication, Computing, and Measurement
3, Editors P. Tombesi and O. Hirota (Kluwer Academic, Plenum Publishers, 2001).
32. T. Laue, E. Tiesinga, C. Samuelis, H. Kn ckel, E. Tiemann, Magnetic eld imaging
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of weakly bound levels of the ground state Na2 dimer, Physical Review A, 65, 023412
(2002).
33. E. Charron, E. Tiesinga, F. Mies, and C. Williams, Optimizing a phase gate using
quantum interference, Physical Review Letters 88, 077901 (2002).
34. K. Burnett, P.S. Julienne, P.D. Lett, E. Tiesinga, and C.J. Williams, Quantum en-
counters of the ultra cold kind, Nature 416, 21 (2002).
35. C. Mc Kenzie, J. Hecker Denschlag, H. H ner, A. Browaeys, Luis E.E. de Araujo, F.K.
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Fatemi, K.M. Jones, J.E. Simsarian, D. Cho, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, P.S. Julienne, K.
Helmerson, P.D. Lett, S.L. Rolston, and W.D. Phillips, Photoassociation of sodium in
a Bose-Einstein condensate, Physical Review Letters 88, 120403 (2002).
36. E. Tiesinga, S. Kotochigova, and P.S. Julienne, Scattering length of the ground state
Mg+Mg collision., Physical Review A, 65, 042722 (2002).
37. E. L. Bolda, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, E ective-scattering-length model of ul-
tracold atomic collisions and Feshbach resonances in tight harmonic traps. Physical
Review A 66, 013403 (2002).
38. T. Bergeman, P. S. Julienne, C. J. Williams, E. Tiesinga, M. Riad Manaa, H. Wang,
P. L. Gould, and W. C. Stwalley, Predissociations in the K2 0+ and 1g States, Journal
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of Chemical Physics 117, 7491 (2002).
39. F.K. Fatemi, K.M. Jones, P.D. Lett, and E.Tiesinga, Ultracold ground state molecule
production in sodium, Physical Review A 66, 053401 (2002).
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40. K.M. O Hara, S.L. Hemmer, S.R. Granade, M.E. Gehm, J.E. Thomas, V.Venturi, E.
Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, Measurement of the Zero Crossing in a Feshbach Resonance
of Fermionic 6 Li., Physical Review A 66, 041401 (2002).
41. A. Simoni, P. S. Julienne, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams, Intensity e ects in ultracold
photoassociation line shapes, Physical Review A 66, 63406 (2002).
42. A. Derevianko, S. G. Porsev, S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne Ultracold
Collision Properties of Metastable Alkaline-Earth Atoms, Physical Review Letters 90,
063002 (2003).
43. L. E. E. de Araujo, J. D. Weinstein, S. D. Gensemer, F. K. Fatemi, K.M. Jones, P.
D. Lett, and E. Tiesinga, Two-color photoassociation spectroscopy of the lowest triplet
potential of Na2, Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 2062 (2003).
44. E. L. Bolda, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Pseudopotential model of ultracold atomic
collisions in quasi-one- and two-dimensional traps Physical Review A 68, 032702
(2003).
45. S. Kotochigova, P. S. Julienne, and E. Tiesinga, Ab initio calculation of the KRb diple
moments, Physical Review A 68, 022501 (2003).
46. V. Venturi, P.J. Leo, E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, and I.B. Whittingham, Purely-long
range bound states of He(2s 3 S)+He(2p 3 P), Physical Review A 68, 022706 (2003).
47. G. Pupillo, E. Tiesinga, and C.J. Williams, E ects of Inhomogeneity on the spectrum
of the Mott-Insulator state, Physical Review A 68, 063604 (2003).
48. W. F. Mitchell and E. Tiesinga, Adaptive Grid Re nement For a Model of Two Con-
ned and Interacting Atoms, Applied Numerical Mathematics, 52, 235 (2005).
49. J. Ramirez-Serrane, W. DeGra enreid, J. Weiner, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne,
Beam-loss spectroscopy of cold collisions in a bright sodium beam, Physical Review
A 69, 042708 (2004).
50. K. G ral, T. K hler, S.A. Gardiner, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Adiabatic associ-
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ation of ultracold molecules via magnetic eld tunable interactions, Journal of Physics
B 37, 3457 (2004).
51. P.S. Julienne, E. Tiesinga, and T. K hler, Making cold molecules by time-dependent
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feshbach resonances, Journal of Modern Optics 51, 1787-1806 (2004).
52. C. Chin, V. Vuleti, A. J. Kerman, S. Chu, E. Tiesinga, P. J. Leo, and C. J. Williams,
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Precision Feshbach spectroscopy of ultracold Cs2, Physical Review A 70, 032701 (2004).
53. E.L. Bolda, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Ultracold dimer association induced by a
far-o resonance optical lattice, Physical Review A 71, 033404 (2005).
54. S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and P.S. Julienne, Photoassociative formation of ultracold
polar KRb molecules, The European Physical Journal D 31, 189 (2004).
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55. P.S. Julienne, E.Tiesinga, and T. K hler, Making cold molecules by time-dependent
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Feshbach resonances, Journal of Modern Optics 51, 1787 (2004).
56. M. Mudrich, S. Kraft, J. Lange, A. Mosk, M. Weidem ller, and E. Tiesinga, Hyper ne-
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changing collisions in an optically trapped gas of ultracold cesium and lithium, Physical
Review A 70, 062712 (2004).
57. R. Ciurylo, E. Tiesinga, S. Kotochigova, and P. S. Julienne, Photoassociation spec-
troscopy of cold alkaline earth atoms near the intercombination line, Physical Review
A 70, 062710 (2004).
58. C.H. Schunck, M.W. Zwierlein, C.A. Stan, S.M.F. Raupach, W. Ketterle, A. Simoni,
E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, and P.S. Julienne Feshbach Resonances in Fermionic 6 Li,
Physical Review A 71, 045601 (2005).
59. T. K hler, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Spontaneous dissociation of long-range
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Feshbach molecules, Physical Review Letters, 94, 020402 (2005).
60. M. Bartenstein, A. Altmeyer, S. Reidl, R. Geursen, S. Jochim, C. Chin, J. Hecker
Denschlag, R. Grimm, A. Simoni, E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, and P.S. Julienne, Pre-
cise determination of 6 Li cold collision parameters by radio-frequency spectroscopy on
weakly bound molecules, Physical Review Letters 94, 103201 (2005).
61. R. Ciurylo, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Optical tuning of the scattering length of
cold alkaline earth atoms, Physical Review A 71, 030701 (2005).
62. J. Werner, A. Griesmaier, S. Hensler J. Stuhler, T. Pfau, A. Simoni, and E. Tiesinga,
Observation of Feshbach resonances in an ultracold gas of 52 Cr, Physical Review Letters
94, 183201 (2005).
63. E. Tiesinga, K. M. Jones, P. D. Lett, U. Volz, C. J. Williams, and P. S. Julienne,
Measurement and modeling of hyper ne- and rotation-induced state mixing in large
weakly-bound sodium dimers, Physical Review A 71, 052703 (2005).
64. B. Gao, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, and P. S. Julienne, Multichannel quantum-defect
theory for slow atomic collisions, Physical Review A, 72, 042719 (2005).
65. S. Shresta, E. Tiesinga, and C. J. Williams, Scattering length determination from
trapped pairs of atoms, Physical Review A 72, 022701 (2005).
66. S. Kotochigova and E. Tiesinga, Ab Initio Relativistic Calculation of the RbCs Molecule,
Journal of Chemical Physics 123, 174304 (2005).
67. K. Xu, Y. Liu, J.R. Abo-Shaeer, T. Mukaiyama, J.K. Chin, D.E. Miller, W. Ketterle,
K. M. Jones, and E. Tiesinga, Sodium Bose-Einstein Condensates in an Optical Lattice,
Physical Review A 72, 043604 (2005).
68. K. M. Jones, E. Tiesinga, P. D. Lett, and P. S. Julienne, Ultracold Photoassociation
Spectroscopy: Long-range molecules and atomic scattering, Review of Modern Physics
78, 483-535 (2006).
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69. S. Kotochigova and E. Tiesinga, Controlling Polar Molecules in Optical Lattices., Phys-
ical Review A 73, 041405 (2006).
70. R. Ciurylo, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Stationary phase approximation for the
strength of optical Feshbach resonances, Physical Review A 74, 022710 (2006).
71. P. Naidon, E. Tiesinga, W. F. Mitchell, and P. S. Julienne E ective-range description of
a Bose gas under strong one- or two-dimensional con nement, New Journal of Physics
9, 19 (2007).
72. E. Tiesinga, M. Anderlini, and E. Arimondo, Determination of the scattering length of
the a3 + potential of 87 RbCs, Physical Review A 71, 022707 (2007).
73. E. Gomez, A.T. Black, L.D. Turner, E. Tiesinga, and P.D. Lett, Light forces in ultracold
photoassociation, Physical Review A 75, 013420 (2007).
74. K. Szymaniec, W. Chalupczak, E. Tiesinga, C.J. Williams, S. Weyers, and R. Wynands
Cancellation of the collisional frequency shift in caesium fountain clocks, Physical Re-
view Letters 98, 153002 (2007).
75. D. DeMille, S. Sainis, J. Sage, T. Bergeman, S. Kotochigova, and E. Tiesinga, Enhanced
sensitivity to variation of me /mp in molecular spectra. Physical Review Letters 100,
043202 (2008).
76. E. Wille, F.M. Spiegelhalder, G. Kerner, D. Naik, A. Trenkwalder, G. Hendl, F.
Schreck, R. Grimm, T.G. Tiecke, J.T.M. Walraven, S.J.J.M.F. Kokkelmans, E. Tiesinga,
P.S. Julienne, Exploring an ultracold Fermi-Fermi mixture: Interspecies Feshbach res-
onances and scattering properties of 6 Li and 40 K, Physical Review Letters 100, 053201
(2008).
77. P. Naidon, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Two-body transients in coupled atomic-
molecular BECs, Physical Review Letters 100, 093001 (2008).
78. F.W Strauch, M. Edwards, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, C. W. Clark, Tunneling phase
gate for neutral atoms in a double-well lattice, Physical Review A, 77, 050304 (2008).
79. K. Mitra, F.W. Strauch, C.J. Lobb, J.R. Anderson, F.C. Wellstood, and E. Tiesinga,
Quantum behavior of the dc SQUID phase qubit, Physical Review B 77, 214512 (2008).
80. S. K. Dutta, F. W. Strauch, R. M. Lewis, K. Mitra, H. Paik, T. A. Palomaki, E.
Tiesinga, J. R. Anderson, A. J. Dragt, C. J. Lobb, and F. C. Wellstood, Multi-level
e ects in the Rabi oscillations of a Josephson phase qubit, Physical Review B 78,
104510 (2008)
81. J. M. Hutson, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Avoided crossings between bound states
of ultracold Cesium dimers, Physical Review A, 78, 052703 (2008).
82. Y. Liu, S. Jung, S. Maxwell, L. D. Turner, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett, Quantum Phase
Transitions and Continuous Observation of Spinor Dynamics in an Antiferromagnetic
Condensate, Physical Review Letters, 102, 125301 (2009).
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83. S. Kotochigova, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Multi-channel modelling of the for-
mation of vibrationally cold polar KRb molecules, New Journal of Physics 11, 055043
(2009).
84. T. M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga, and P. S. Julienne, Prediction of Feshbach resonances from
three input parameters, Physical Review A 79, 040701 (2009).
85. M. Iskin and E. Tiesinga, Rotation induced super uid-normal phase separation in
trapped Fermi gases, Physical Review A 79, 053621 (2009).
86. Y. Liu, E. Gomez, S. Maxwell, L. D. Turner, E. Tiesinga, and P. D. Lett, Number
Fluctuations and Energy Dissipation in Sodium Spinor Condensates, Physical Review
Letters 102, 225301 (2009).
87. A. Hu, L. Mathey, I. Danshita, E. Tiesinga, C. J. Williams, and C. W. Clark, Coun-
ter ow and paired super uidity in one-dimensional Bose mixtures in optical lattices,
Physical Review A 80, 023619 (2009).
88. P. R. Johnson, E. Tiesinga, J. V. Porto, and C. J. Williams, E ective three-body in-
teractions and decoherence of coherent atom states in optical lattices, New Journal of
Physics 11, 093022 (2009).
89. L. Mathey, E. Tiesinga, P. S. Julienne, and C. W. Clark, Collisional cooling of ultra-cold
atom ensembles using Feshbach resonances, Physical Review A 80, 030702 (2009).
90. A. M. Kaufman, R. P. Anderson, T. M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga, P.S. Julienne, and D.S.
Hall, Radiofrequency Dressing of Multiple Feshbach Resonances, Physical Review A
80, 050701(R) (2009).
91. T.A. Palomaki, S.K. Dutta, R. M. Lewis, A.J. Przybysz, Hanhee Paik, B.K. Cooper,
H. Kwon, J.R. Anderson, C.J. Lobb, F.C. Wellstood, and E. Tiesinga, Multi-level
Spectroscopy of Two-Level systems coupled to a dc SQUID Phase qubit, Physical Review
B 81, 144503 (2010).
92. C. Chen, R. Grimm, P. S. Julienne, and E. Tiesinga, Feshbach resonances in ultracold
gases, Review of Modern Physics 82, 1225 (2010).
93. T. M. Hanna, E. Tiesinga and P. S. Julienne, Creation and manipulation of Feshbach
resonances with radio-frequency radiation, New Journal of Physics, 12, 083031 (2010).
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