{"id":3009,"date":"2008-10-04T10:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/04\/the-metastable-xenon-project\/"},"modified":"2008-10-04T10:09:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-04T10:09:00","slug":"the-metastable-xenon-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/04\/the-metastable-xenon-project\/","title":{"rendered":"The Metastable Xenon Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several weeks, I&#8217;ve written up <a href=\"http:\/\/researchblogging.org\">ResearchBlogging<\/a> posts on each of the papers I helped write in graduate school. Each paper write-up was accompanied by a &#8220;Making of&#8221; article, giving a bit more detail about how the experiments came to be, what my role in them was, and whatever funny anecdotes I can think of about the experiment.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t been following the series, or would just like a convenient index of the posts, here&#8217;s the complete set:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/peerreviewed_egoboo_the_metast.php\">Introduction<\/a> and explanation of metastable xenon.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment 1: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/optical_control_of_ultracold_c.php\">Optical Control of Ultracold Collisions<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/the_making_of_optical_control.php\">making thereof<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment 2: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/suppression_and_enhancement_of.php\">Suppression and Enhancement of Collisions in Optical Lattices<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/scooped_or_the_making_of_suppr.php\">making thereof<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment 3: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/timeresolved_studies_of_ultrac.php\">Time-Resolved Studies of Ultracold Ionizing Collisions<\/a> and the making thereof: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/a_oneafternoon_experiment_the.php\">part 1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/08\/best_referee_report_ever_the_m.php\">part 2<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment 4: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/spin_polarization_and_quantum.php\">Spin polarization and quantum statistical effects in ultracold ionizing collisions<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/09\/quantum_mechanics_is_magic_the.php\">making thereof<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Experiment 5: <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/creation_of_an_ultracold_neutr.php\">Creation of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/the_making_of_creation_of_an_u.php\">making thereof<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if you&#8217;ve ever wanted to know why they gave me a Ph.D. in the first place, there&#8217;s your answer, in great detail.<\/p>\n<p>I may or may not continue this with an explanation of the work I did as a post-doc, on Bose-Einstein Condensates in optical lattices. That work is a good deal more technical, though, so it&#8217;ll take some doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the past several weeks, I&#8217;ve written up ResearchBlogging posts on each of the papers I helped write in graduate school. Each paper write-up was accompanied by a &#8220;Making of&#8221; article, giving a bit more detail about how the experiments came to be, what my role in them was, and whatever funny anecdotes I can&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2008\/10\/04\/the-metastable-xenon-project\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Metastable Xenon Project<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,19,25,77,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia","category-experiment","category-lab_stories","category-mxp","category-physics","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}