Zachary Smith is a Doctoral Candidate studying ultracold rubidium gases in disordered optical lattices.
(Expected) PhD in Physics, 2018
University of Maryland
MSc in Physics, 2014
University of Maryland
BSc in Physics, 2009
Calvin College
JQI/University of Maryland
Calvin College
Studies of quantum systems using ultracold rubidium in disordered optical potentials
A timing and computer control system implemented in LabView.
A circuit designed for bipolar current driving of magnetic field generating coils
Circuit and programs for taking environmental readings in the lab and logging them to a server.
A circuit board to drive hard drive based optical shutters.
A C/C++ program to generate the waveform files used by our AWGs to generate our arbitrary disordered optical lattices
A DokuWiki plugin to pull GitHub Issues into a box for display on the wiki. Used internally for documentation purposes.
Using classical and semi-classical simulations to study NSDI
Studies of photoassociation of long-range krypton molecules