Steven Knoop

Post Doc

Now at Kirchhoff-Institut für Physik, Heidelberg

Short CV

04/2006 - 02/2009	Post-Doc in the group of Prof. Rudi Grimm, University of Innsbruck, Austria working in the LevT experiment (Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship, 10/2006-10/2008)
12/2001 - 03/2006	Ph.D. in Atomic Physics KVI, Atomic Physics, Groningen, The Netherlands Thesis title: Electron Dynamics in Ion-Atom Interactions Advisors: Prof. Ronnie Hoekstra and Prof. Reinhard Morgenstern
09/1997 - 11/2001	M. Sc. Physics, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands Diploma thesis in the Atomic Physics Group at the KVI Thesis title: Recoil Ion Momentum Spectroscopy on He²⁺+Na collisions Awarded with the "Kamerlingh Onnes prize"
1991 – 1997	High School, S. G. Werenfridus, Hoorn, The Netherlands
27/02/1979	Born in Leeuwarden, The Netherlands

Publications Innsbruck

Evidence for universal four-body states tied to an Efimov trimer

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, M. Berninger, W. Harm, J. P. D'Incao, H.-C. Nägerl, R. Grimm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 140401 (2009)

Observation of an Efimov-like trimer resonance in ultracold atom-dimer scattering

S. Knoop, F. Ferlaino, M. Mark, M. Berninger, H. Schöbel, H.-C. Nägerl, R. Grimm
Nature Physics 5, 227 (2009)

Ultracold Feshbach Molecules

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, R. Grimm
Chapter of the book: Cold Molecules: Theory, Experiment, Applications
edt. by R. V. Krems, B. Friedrich, and W. C. Stwalley (publication expected in June 2009)
arXiv:0809.3920

Collisions between Tunable Halo Dimers: Exploring an Elementary Four-Body Process with Identical Bosons

F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, M. Mark, M. Berninger, H. Schöbel, H.-C. Nägerl, R. Grimm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 023201 (2008)

Metastable Feshbach Molecules in High Rotational States

S. Knoop, M. Mark, F. Ferlaino, J.G. Danzl, T. Kraemer, H.-C. Nägerl, R. Grimm
Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 083002 (2008)

Spectroscopy of ultracold, trapped cesium Feshbach molecules

M. Mark, F. Ferlaino, S. Knoop, J.G. Danzl, T. Kraemer, C. Chin, H.-C. Nägerl, R. Grimm
Phys. Rev. A 76, 042514 (2007)

Ultracold Molecules

lecture given during the summerschool Introductory Course on Ultracold Quantum Gases, Innsbruck, 10 - 12 July 2008
download pdf (2 MB)

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