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Alejandra Collopy (Fed)

Physicist

Alejandra is a postdoc working on the magtrap experiment. She did her Ph.D. in Jun Ye's group at JILA implementing a magneto-optical trap of neutral diatomic molecules. She has also worked on the room temperature molecular spectroscopy experiment in the Ion Storage group as an NRC postdoc.

Awards

Publications

Experimental speedup of quantum dynamics through squeezing

Author(s)
Shaun Burd, Hannah Knaack, Raghavendra Srinivas, Christian Arenz, Alejandra Collopy, Laurent Stephenson, Andrew C. Wilson, David Wineland, Dietrich Leibfried, John J. Bollinger, David Allcock, Daniel Slichter
We show experimentally that a broad class of interactions involving quantum harmonic oscillators can be made stronger (amplified) using a unitary squeezing

Frequency-comb spectroscopy on pure quantum states of a single molecular ion

Author(s)
Chin-wen Chou, Alejandra L. Collopy, Christoph Kurz, Yiheng Lin, Michael E. Harding, Philipp N. Plessow, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David R. Leibrandt
Spectroscopy is a powerful tool for studying molecular properties and is commonly performed on large thermal ensembles of molecules that are perturbed by
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Created October 8, 2019, Updated May 9, 2023