Marianna Safronova
Associate Professor
Office:
214 Sharp Lab
Phone:
(302) 831-8767
Email:
msafrono@physics.udel.edu
Website:
Personal Website 
Research Projects
- Modeling of trapped atoms for quantum information and atomic clocks
- Parity violation of atoms
- Development of new relativistic high-precision methodologies for atomic calculations
- Calculation of atomic properties: lifetimes, polarizabilities, isotope shifts
Notable Publications
- D. Jiang, B. Arora, and M. S. Safronova, "Electric quadrupole moments of metastable states of Ca+ , Sr+ , and Ba+," Phys. Rev. A 78, 022514 (2008).
- E. Gomez, S. Aubin, L. A. Orozco, G. D. Sprouse, E. Iskrenova-Tchoukova, and M. S. Safronova, "Nuclear magnetic moment of 210Fr: A combined theoretical and experimental approach," Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 172502 (2008).
- B. Arora, M. S. Safronova, and C. W. Clark, "Blackbody radiation shift in a 43Ca+ ion optical frequency standard," Phys. Rev. A 76, 064501 (2007).
- M. S. Safronova and W. R. Johnson, "All-order methods for relativistic atomic structure calculations," review article in Advances in Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics series, volume 55, 191 (2007).
- B. Arora, M. S. Safronova, and C. W. Clark, "Magic wavelengths for the ns-np transitions in alkali-metal atoms," Phys. Rev. A 76, 052509 (2007).
- M. S. Safronova, C. J. Williams, and C. W. Clark, "Optimizing the fast Rydberg quantum gate," Phys. Rev. A 67, 040303 (2003).
- M. S. Safronova, W. R. Johnson, and A. Derevianko, "Relativistic many-body calculations of energy levels, hyperfine constants, electric-dipole matrix elements, and static polarizabilities for alkali-metal atoms," Phys. Rev. A 60, 4476 (1999).