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  Grinnell College
Nirav Mehta, Ph.D.
Nirav Mehta
Assistant Professor of Physics

Science 1131
Offc. 641.269.9803
mehtanir@grinnell.edu

Courses for 2008-2009
  • PHY-132: General Physics II w/Lab (Fall)
  • PHY-335: Electromagnetic Theory (Fall)
  • PHY-132: General Physics II w/Lab (Spring)
  • PHY-314: Thermodynamics & Statistical Physics (Spring)
Research Interests
  • Few-body physics
  • Ultracold gases
  • Cold atomic systems in lower dimensions.
  • Efimov physics
Selected Publications
  • 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).
Education
  • Postdoc at JILA/University of Colorado 2005-2008
  • Ph.D., University of Colorado at Boulder, 2004
  • B.S. University of Texas at Austin
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