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We identify a potential means to extract the 229g-Th -> 229m-Th nuclear excitation energy from precision microwave spectroscopy of the 5F 5/2,7/2 hyperfine
Stephen P. Eckel, Jeffrey Lee, Fred Jendrzejewski, Noel Murray, Charles W. Clark, Christopher J. Lobb, William D. Phillips, Edwards Mark, Gretchen K. Campbell
Atomtronics is an emerging interdisciplinary field that seeks new functionality by creating devices and circuits where ultra-cold atoms play a role analogous to
Daniel P. Phelan, Christopher Stock, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Songxue Chi, Juscelino Leao, Xifa Long, Yujuan Xie, Alexei A. Bokov, Zuo-Guang Ye, Panchapakesan Ganesh, Peter M. Gehring
Pb(Zr 1¿xTi x)O 3 (PZT) and Pb[(Mg 1/3Nb 2/3) 1¿xTi x]O 3 (PMN-xPT) are complex lead-oxide perovskites that display exceptional piezoelectric properties for
Scott A. Diddams, Dong Yoon Oh, David Sell, Hansuek Lee, Ki Youl Yang, Kerry J. Vahala
Supercontinuum generation is demonstrated in an on-chip silica spiral waveguide by launching 180-fs pulses from an optical parametric oscillator at the center
Ed Morse, Yue Peng, Vijay Srinivasan, Craig M. Shakarji
The recent release of ISO has provided designers with a richer set of specification tools for the size of part features, so that various functional requirements
Uwe Arp, Robert Vest, Jeanne Houston, Thomas B. Lucatorto
The National Institute of Standards and Technology operates two Spectral Comparator Facilities, which are used to provide detector calibrations from the
The absorption coefficient and mass specific absorption cross section were determined for nigrosin-laden quartz, Teflon, and polycarbonate filters in inert
Luis Miaja Avila, Varun B. Verma, James J. Coleman, Richard P. Mirin, Kevin L. Silverman
We measure the ultrafast optical response of lithographically defined quantum dot amplifiers at 40 K. Recovery of the gain mostly occurs in less than 1
Khan W. Mahmud, Lei Jiang, Eite Tiesinga, Philip Johnson
We study the dynamics of interacting superfluid bosons in a one dimensional vertical optical lattice after a sudden increase of the lattice potential depth. We
Jiansong Gao, Michael R. Vissers, Martin O. Sandberg, Dale Li, Hsiao-Mei Cho, Clint Bockstiegel, Ben Mazin, Henry G. Leduc, Saptarshi Chaudhuri, David P. Pappas, K D. Irwin
We have experimentally explored and carefully characterized the important properties of TiN, including the resistivity, nonlinear kinetic inductance, the
Jacob M. Taylor, Silvan Schmid, Tolga Bagci, Emil Zeuthen, Patrick Herring, Maja Cassidy, C. M. Marcus, Bartolo Amato, Anja Boisen, Yong C. Shin, Jing Kong, Anders Sorensen, Koji Usami, E.S. Polzik
Due to their exceptional mechanical and optical properties, dielectric silicon nitride (SiN) mi- cromembranes have become the centerpiece of many optomechanical
Compressed-liquid densities of three alternative turbine fuels have been measured. The measurements were made from 270 K to 470 K, and 0.5 MPa to 50 MPa. The
Straightforward methods for adapting the familiar χ 2 statistic to histograms of discrete events and other Poisson distributed data generally yield biased
Steven R. Jefferts, Thomas P. Heavner, Thomas E. Parker, Jon H. Shirley, Elizabeth A. Donley, Neil Ashby
We report a high-accuracy direct measurement of the blackbody radiation shift (BBR) of 133Cs ground state hyperfine transition. This frequency shift is one of
Thomas J. Bruno, Tara Lovestead, Jessica Nichols, Megan E. Harries
In this paper we present results of the application of PLOT-cryoadsorption (PLOT-cryo) to the analysis of ignitable liquids in fire debris. We tested ignitable
Stephen L. Redman, Gillian Nave, Craig J. Sansonetti
We have made precise new observations of the spectrum emitted by a thorium-argon hollow cathode lamp in the region 350 nm to 1175 nm using a high-resolution
George C. Rhoderick, David L. Duewer, Eric Apel, Annarita Baldan, Bradley Hall, Alice Harling, Detlev Helmig, Gwi S. Heo, Jacques Hueber, Mi E. Kim, Yong D. Kim, Benjamin Miller, Stephen Montzka, Daniel Reimer
Studies of climate change increasingly recognize the diverse influences of hydrocarbons in the atmosphere, including roles in particulates and ozone formation
Dave Binkley, P. Douglas Godfrin, Norman J. Wagner, Aaron P. R. Eberle, Paul Butler, Lionel Porcar
A new small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) sample environment optimized for studying the microstructure of complex fluids under simple shear flow is presented
Soong Ju Oh, Nathaniel E. Berry, Hi-Hyuk Choi, E. A. Gaulding, Hangfei Lin, Taejong Paik, Benjamin T. Diroll, Shinichiro Muramoto, Murray B. Christopher, Cherie R. Kagan
We report a facile, solution based, post synthetic colloidal atomic layer deposition (PS-cALD) process to engineer the surface stoichiometry and therefore
Laura C. Sinclair, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, William C. Swann, Esther Baumann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
The time of flight for a laser beam through the atmosphere will fluctuate as the path-averaged index of refraction varies with atmospheric turbulence, air
Petroleum is a complex fluid whose sulfur content varies considerably depending on its place of origin. Sour crude petroleum, which contains more than 0.5 %
Winnie K. Wong-Ng, Guangyao Liu, Yonggao Y. Yan, James A. Kaduk
The structure and X-ray patterns of two series of barium lanthanide cobaltites, namely, Ba4Sr2R2Co4O15 (R=La, Nd, Sm, Eu, Gd, Dy), and Ba5SrR2Co4O15 (R= La, Nd
Kathryn Aileen Ross, Yiming Qiu, John R. Copley, H. A. Dabkowska, B. D. Gaulin
The recent determination of a robust spin Hamiltonian for the anti-ferromagnetic XY pyrochlore Er 2Ti 2O 7 reveals a most convincing case of the ¿order by
Martin J. Stevens, Scott C. Glancy, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
We measure second- and third-order temporal coherences, g (2)(τ) and g (3)(τ1, τ2), of an optically excited single-photon source: an InGaAs quantum dot in a
Stephen E. Stein, David M. Bunk, Xia Wang, Matthew Chambers, Lorenzo J. Vega-Montoto, David L. Tabb
Shotgun proteomics experiments integrate a complex sequence of processes, any of which can introduce variability. Quality metrics computed from LC-MS/MS data
This paper presents a computational assessment of the performance of steel gravity framing systems with single-plate shear connections and composite floor slabs
Varun B. Verma, Robert D. Horansky, Francesco Marsili, Jeffrey Stern, Matthew Shaw, Adriana E. Lita, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate a scalable readout scheme for an infrared single-photon pulse-position camera consisting of WSi superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors
Thomas J. Silva, Justin M. Shaw, Hans T. Nembach, Mike Mallary, Kumar Srinivasan, Gerado Bertero, Dan Wolf, Christian Kaiser, Michael Chaplin, Mahendra Pakala, Leng Qunwen, Yiming Wang, Carl Elliot, Lui Francis
A specific design for Microwave Assisted Magnetic Recording (MAMR) at about 3Tb/in 2 (0.47 Tb/cm 2 or 4.7 Pb/m 2) is discussed in detail to highlight the
The strength of cryptographic keys is an active challenge in academic research and industrial practice. In this paper we discuss the entropy as fundamentally
Risk management is a common phrase when managing information, from the CISO to the programmer. We acknowledge that risk management is the identification