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Search for deviations from the ideal Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution for a gas at an interface
Petko Todorov, João Carlos de Aquino Carvalho, Isabelle Maurin +2
The isotropic Maxwell-Boltzmann (M-B) velocity distribution is the accepted standard for a gas at thermal equilibrium, with the Doppler width considered to deliver a very precise m…
Testing the limits of the Maxwell distribution of velocities for atoms flying nearly parallel to the walls of a thin cell
Petko Todorov, daniel Bloch
For a gas at thermal equilibrium, it is usually assumed that the velocity distribution follows an isotropic 3-dimensional Maxwell-Boltzmann (M-B) law. This assumption classically i…
Detection of slow atoms confined in a Cesium vapor cell by spatially separated pump and probe laser beams
Petko Todorov, Nikoolay Petrov, Isabelle Maurin +2
The velocity distribution of atoms in a thermal gas is usually described through a Maxwell-Boltzman distribution of energy, and assumes isotropy. As a consequence, the probability…
A 2D nanosphere array for atomic spectroscopy
Marco Romanelli, Isabelle Maurin, Petko Todorov +2
We are interested in the spectroscopic behaviour of a gas confined in a micrometric or even nanometric volume. Such a situation could be encountered by the filling-up of a porous m…
Testing the distance-dependence of the van der Waals interaction between an atom and a surface through spectroscopy in a vapor nanocell
Athanasdios Laliotis, Isabelle Maurin, Petko Todorov +8
This paper presents our current measurements in a vapor nanocell aiming at a test of the distance-dependence of the atom-surface interaction, when simple asymptotic descriptions ma…
Exploring the van der Waals Atom-Surface attraction in the nanometric range
Michèle Fichet, Gabriel Dutier, Alexander Yarovitski +8
The van der Waals atom-surface attraction, scaling as C3 z-3 for z the atom-surface distance, is expected to be valid in the distance range 1-1000 nm, covering 8-10 orders of magni…