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Daniel Kennedy, Scott J. Seltzer, Ricardo Jimenez Martinez, Hattie L. Ring, Nicolas S. Malecek, Svenja A. Knappe, Elizabeth Donley, John Kitching, Vikram S. Bajaj, Alexander Pines
Low thermal-equilibrium nuclear spin polarizations and the need for sophisticated instrumentation render conventional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and imaging incompatible with small-scale microfluidic devices. Recently a microfabricated device
Ian B. Spielman, Lauren M. Aycock, Dina Genkina, Hsin I Lu, Hilary Hurst, Victor Galitski
Solitons, spatially-localized, propagating excitations resulting from an interplay be- tween nonlinearity and dispersion, are ubiquitous in physical systems from water channels1 and oceans2 to optical fibers3 and Bose- Einstein condensates (BECs)4. For the
A fast superposition T-matrix solution is formulated for electromagnetic scattering by a collection of arbitrary-shaped inhomogeneous particles. The T-matrices for individual constituents are computed by expanding the Green's dyadic in the spherical vector
R. Piron, F. Gilleron, Y Aglitskiy, H.-K. Chung, C. J. Fontes, S. B. Hansen, O. Marchuk, H. Scott, E. Stambulchik, Yuri Ralchenko
We review the 9th NLTE code comparison workshop, which was held in the Jussieu campus, Paris, from November 30th to December 4th, 2015. This time, the workshop was mainly focused on a systematic investigation of iron NLTE steady-state kinetics and
Fan Zhang, Andrew J. Allen, Lyle E. Levine, De-Hao Tsai, Jan Ilavsky
We present an experimental study of the structural and dynamical properties of bimodal, micrometer-sized colloidal dispersions (size ratio ≈ 2) in an aqueous solution of low-molecular weight polymer (polyethylene glycol 2000) using synchrotron ultra-small
Recently, there has been great interest in 'ultrastable' glasses formed via vapor deposition, both because of emerging applications of these materials (e.g., active layers in light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics) and, theoretically, as materials for
Shlomi S. Kotler, Raymond Simmonds, Dietrich Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Trapped charged particles have been at the forefront of quantum information processing (QIP) for a few decades now, with deterministic two-qubit logic gates reaching record fidelities of 99.9% and single-qubit operations of much higher fidelity. In a
Z.L. Zhao, K. Wang, S. Li, R. Si, C.Y. Chen, J. Yan, Yuri Ralchenko
Extensive self-consistent multi-configuration Dirac-Hartree-Fock (MCDHF) calculations are performed for the 3s^2 3p^6 3d^k(k = 1−9) ground configurations of highly charged ions (Z = 72−83). Complete and consistent data sets of level energies,wavelengths
Gregory W. Hoth, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley, Bruno M. Pelle
Light pulse atom interferometry can be used to realize high-performance sensors of accelerations and rotations. In order to broaden the range of applications of these sensors, it is desirable to reduce their size and complexity. Point source interferometry
Correlation and relativistic effects are both needed for accurate atomic structure calculations of energy levels and their atomic properties. For transition probabilities between low-lying levels of a spectrum, accurate wave functions for the outer region
The collective behavior of a self-interacting Bose-condensed gas of two-level atoms makes it esentially immune to dephasing from inhomogenous fields. We review some of the relevant experiments.
It becomes clear that there are many interlinking considerations involved in the design of-laser stabilization systems, and it is difficult to present a full description in an article such as this. Still it is hoped that the reader will see some avenues to
The field of optics is summarized to assist in the solution of practical optics problems by working scientists. Over seventy formulas are presented dealing with reflection and refraction, absorption, lenses, mirrors, diffraction, interference, and spectra
In order for extreme ultraviolet (EUV) plasma sources to become the next generation lithographic source, significant obstacles still need to be overcome. Improvements in conversion efficiency (CE), plasma stability, and component lifetimes are required
In Low-Tech Blues [June], you note that we are surrounded by clocks, but lament the lack of systems to set them automatically. Our job is to help fix that. Your readers can use our time servers (www. Bldrdoc.gov/timefreq/service/its.htm) to automatically
The study of collisions of neutral atoms and molecules at ultralow collision energies is made possible by advances in techniques for cooling and trapping such species. Excellent reviews of laser cooling of atoms are given in the Nobel Lectures of Chu 2
The spectrum of rhenium was observed in the (500 to 2100) A wavelength region. A 6.65 m normal incidence VUV spectrograph has been used to record the spectrum. The (5d3 + 5d26s) - 5d26p transition array of four times ionized rhenium, Re V, has been
For about 35 years since its creation, the suite of atomic structure codes created by R. D. Cowan remains the working horse of atomic spectroscopists and is cited in more than 4000 publications. This note concerns one aspect of those codes: calculation of
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST services.
Jack F. Douglas, Esmael Haddadian1, Karl Freed, Hao Zhang
Karplus and coworkers have argued that proteins in their biologically active native state should exhibit a dynamics similar to surface-melted inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) because both types of NPs have a relatively dense, ordered, and immobile core
Jwo-Sy Chen, Samuel M. Brewer, David B. Hume, Chin-Wen Chou, David J. Wineland, David R. Leibrandt
We report Raman sideband cooling of 25Mg+ to sympathetically cool the secular modes of motion in a 25Mg+-27Al+ two-ion pair to near the three-dimensional (3D) ground state. The evolution of the Fock state distributions during the cooling process is studied
Eric L. Shirley, Jannick Weisshaupt, Michael Woerner, Marc J. Vrakking, Thomas Elsaesser, Andreas Borgschulte
X-ray absorption in solids promotes an electron from an atomic core level to the conduction band states, and near-edge spectra structure gives insight into local atomic geometry and chemical bonding effects. Based on a novel implementation of femtosecond x