Nirav Mehta

mehtanir@grinnell.edu

Campus Phone:

641-269-9803

Unit (Dept., Office, Center, etc.):

Physics

Position:

Assistant Professor of Physics

On-Campus Address:

Science 1131

Education / Degrees:

Postdoc at JILA/University of Colorado 2005-2008

Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004

B.S., University of Texas at Austin

Publications:

Title	URL	Synopsis
General Theory of N-Body Recombination		N. P. Mehta, Seth T. Rittenhouse, J. P. D'Incao, J. von Stecher and Chris H. Greene, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103 153201, (2009).
Dimer-dimer collisions at finite energy in two-component Fermi gases		J. P. D'Incao, Seth T. Rittenhouse, N. P. Mehta and Chris H. Greene, Phys. Rev. A 79, 030501(R), (2009).
Efimov states embedded in the three-body continuum		N.P. Mehta, Seth T. Rittenhouse, J. P. D'Incao and Chris H. Greene, Phys. Rev. A 78 020701(R), (2008).
Three-body recombination in one dimension		N. P. Mehta, B. D. Esry, and Chris H. Greene, Phys. Rev. A 72 022711 (2007)
Three-body problem in one dimension with short-range interactions: zero-range potentials		N. P. Mehta, J. R. Shepard, Phys. Rev. A 72 032728 (2005).
Low energy operators in effective theories		C. Felline, N. P. Mehta, J. Piekerawicz, J. R. Shepard, Phys. Rev. C 68 034003 (2003).

Courses Taught:

Phy-132-02: General Physics II (Fall 2009)

Phy-335-01: Electromagnetic Theory (Fall 2009)

Phy-131-01: General Physics I (Spring 2010)

Phy-314-01: Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics (Spring 2010)

Primary Academic Interest:

Few-body physics; Ultracold gases; Cold atomic systems in lower dimensions; Efimov physics

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