| At the Atomic Physics Laser Laboratory at
the College of William and Mary, we use lasers to study the
interactions between atoms and light under exotic conditions.
Most of our experiments excite atoms into Rydberg states - a
condition where the atom has grown hundreds of times larger
than normal. These giant atoms are perfect laboratories for
studying the intricate detail of the interactions among electrons
in a multi-electron atom or the phenomenology of how atoms explode
when they are exposed to super-intense light.
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