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This chapter discusses the statistics that are used to characterize the performance of clocks, oscillators, and the networks that are used to calibrate and synchronize and calibrate clocks and oscillators by means of data received from global navigation
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Simon K. Lieu, Ron Belyansky, Jeremy T. Young, Rex Lundgren, Victor Albert, Alexey Gorshkov
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Matthew Affolter, Kevin Gilmore, Elena Jordan, John Bollinger
Measurements of the center-of-mass motion of a trapped-ion crystal that are phase- coherent with an external force are reported. These experiments are conducted far from the trap motional frequency on a two-dimensional trapped ion crystal of approximately
Yun Jhih Chen, Azure L. Hansen, Moshe Shuker, Rodolphe Boudot, John Kitching, Elizabeth Donley
Point source atom interferometry measures a rotation vector projected onto a plane by extracting the phase gradient arising from the mapping of velocity-dependent interferometer phases onto the imaging plane. To extract the phase gradient, spatially
Athreya Shankar, Chen Tang, Matthew Affolter, Kevin Gilmore, Daniel H. Dubin, Scott E. Parker, Murray Holland, John Bollinger
Two-dimensional crystals of ions stored in Penning traps are a leading platform for quantum simulation and sensing experiments. For small amplitudes, the out-of-plane motion of such crystals, which is exploited for quantum information protocols, can be
We identify Ba$^4+}$ (Te-like) as a promising candidate for a high-accuracy optical clock. The lowest-lying electronic states are part of a $^3P_J$ fine structure manifold with anomalous energy ordering, being non-monotonic in $J$. We propose a clock based
We propose a general-purpose dual-channel field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital servo with a minimum latency around 200 ns. This servo implements a proportional, dual- integration and derivative (PIID) controller along with internal numerical
Cherno Jaye, Daniel Fischer, Jonathan Ogle, Nabajit Lahiri, Christopher Tassone, Janis Louie, Luisa Whittaker-Brooks
Two-dimensional coordination polymers (2D CPs) are of significant interest due to their intriguing structural, optical, and electrical properties which can be tuned through the selective coordination of different metals and organic linkers. Although, 2D
Guido Pagano, Aniruddha Bapat, Patrick Becker, Kate Collins, Arinjoy De, Paul Hess, Harvey Kaplan, Antonis Kyprianidis, Wen Lin Tan, Christopher Baldwin, Lucas Brady, A Deshpande, Fangli Liu, Stephen Jordan, Alexey Gorshkov, C Monroe
Rodolphe Boudot, James P. McGilligan, Kaitlin R. Moore, Vincent N. Maurice, Gabriela Martinez, Azure L. Hansen, E. de Clercq, Elizabeth Donley, John Kitching
We show that micro-machined non-evaporable getter pumps (NEGs) can extend the time over which laser cooled atoms can be produced in a magneto-optical trap (MOT), in the absence of other vacuum pumping mechanisms. In a first study, we incorporate a silicon
We explore intrinsic thermal noise in soliton microcombs, revealing thermodynamic correlations induced by nonlinearity and group-velocity dispersion. A suitable dispersion design gives rise to control over thermal-noise transduction from the environment to
We demonstrate a dual-comb spectrometer based on electro-optic modulation of a continuous-wave laser at 10 GHz. The system simultaneously offers fast acquisition speed and ultrabroad spectral coverage, spanning 120 THz across the near infrared. Our
The Dicke model famously exhibits a phase transition to a superradiant phase with a macroscopic population of photons and is realized in multiple settings in open quantum systems. In this paper, we study a variant of the Dicke model where the cavity mode