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Journals

Are Electron Tweezers Possible?

Author(s)
Vladimir P. Oleshko, James M. Howe
Positively answering the question above, we demonstrate in this work single electron beam trapping and steering of 20-100 nm solid Al nanoparticles generated

State Discriminiation Signal Nulling Receivers

Author(s)
Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Jingyun Fan, Gerald Baumgartner, Sergey V. Polyakov, Julius Goldhar, Jonathan Kosloski, Alan L. Migdall
Optimized state-discrimination receiver strategies for nonorthogonal states can improve the capacity of the communication channels operating with error rates

p-Wave Cold Collisions in an Optical Lattice Clock

Author(s)
Nathan D. Lemke, Andrew D. Ludlow, J. von Stecher, Jeffrey A. Sherman, A.M. Rey, Christopher W. Oates
State-of-the-art optical clocks with neutral atoms employ an optical lattice to tightly confine the atoms, enabling high-resolution spectroscopy and the

Absence of Long-Range Ordering in the Pyrochlore Compound Er2Sn2O7

Author(s)
P. M. Sarte, H. J. Silverstein, B. T. K. Van Wyk, Jason S. Gardner, Yiming Qiu, H. D. Zhou, C. R. Wiebe
The low temperature behavior of powder Er 2Sn 2O 7 samples has been studied by magnetic susceptibility, heat capacity, and neutron scattering experiments. We

Control of magnetic fluctuations by spin current

Author(s)
Vladislav E. Demidov, Sergei Urazhdin, Eric Edwards, Mark D. Stiles, Robert McMichael, Sergej O. Demokritov
We utilize micro-focus Brillouin light scattering spectroscopy to study the interaction of spin current generated by the spin Hall effect with magnetic

Reflectivity Study of Microwave Blackbody Targets

Author(s)
Dazhen Gu, Derek A. Houtz, James P. Randa, Dave K. Walker
We report on the characterization of blackbody target reflections as part of the recent progress on the development of brightness temperature standards for

An Interlaboratory Stopwatch Comparison in the SIM Region

Author(s)
Michael A. Lombardi, Raul Solis, Harold Sanchez, J. Mauricio Lopez-Romero, Francisco Jimenez, Henry Postigo, Daniel Perez, Walter Adad, Victor Masi, Ahmed Ibrahim, Bill Hoger, Ricardo de Carvalho, Jose L. Kronenberg, Gustavo C. Orozco, Theodore Reddock, Leonardo Trigo
Stopwatches and timers are used for an almost unlimited number of applications and are among the most common devices calibrated by metrology laboratories. In

Atomic Sensors - A Review

Author(s)
John E. Kitching, Svenja A. Knappe, Elizabeth A. Donley
We discuss the basic physics and instrumentation issues related to high performance physical and inertial sensors based on atomic spectroscopy.

Why Alite Stops Hydrating Below 80% Relative Humidity

Author(s)
Robert J. Flatt, George W. Scherer, Jeffrey W. Bullard
Cement hydration continues to have an intriguing character, surrounded as it is by a number of intensively debated questions. Among the unresolved issues is the

Synthetic spike-in standards for RNA-seq experiments

Author(s)
Marc L. Salit, Lichun Jiang, Felix Schlesinger, Brian Oliver, Carrie Davis, Yu Zhang, Renhua Li, Thomas R. Gingeras
High-throughput sequencing of cDNA (RNA-seq) is a widely deployed transcriptome profiling and annotation technique, but questions about the performance of

Terahertz metrology and instrumentation

Author(s)
Erich N. Grossman, Zoya Popovic
This paper gives an overview of measurement techniques used in the THz region of the electromagnetic spectrum, from about 100 GHz to several THz. Currently
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