Atom technology at Nair

Chandra Nair Overview

In my early research career I considered random versions of combinatorial optimization problems; my doctoral thesis [17] resolved a long-standing conjecture about the assignment problem and my post-doctoral work resolved another conjecture about the number partitioning problem [6,7]. Upon joining as a faculty member in the Information Engineering department of The Chinese University of Hong Kon...

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Carriers of bovine anaplasmosis in Northern Kerala, South India were detected using conventional microscopical and molecular techniques. PCR-RFLP and nested PCR techniques were used for detection of Anaplasma marginale and Anaplasma bovis respectively and the PCR products were confirmed by sequencing. Out of 150 samples tested, 25 were detected positive for A. marginale and five for A. bovis ba...

The Atom at Work

Effective potentials for atom–atom interactions at low temperatures

We discuss the concept and design of effective atom–atom potentials that accurately describe any physical processes involving only states around the threshold. The existence of such potentials gives hope to a quantitative, and systematic, understanding of quantum few-atom and quantum many-atom systems at relatively low temperatures. The concept of the model potential has played an important rol...

Atom-atom interactions at and between metal surfaces at nonzero temperature

We have investigated the temperature-dependent Casimir-Polder interaction between two oscillators in the proximity of metal surfaces. The interaction near a single metal surface has much in common with the interaction in free space. However, at any finite temperature the long-range asymptote is equal to the hightemperature asymptote. This asymptote, which originates not from the n50 term in the...