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Felix Bussieres, Christoph Clausen, Alexey Tiranov, Boris Korzh, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Alban Ferrier, Harald Hermann, Christine Silberhorn, Wolfgang Sohler, Mikael Afzelius, Nicolas Gisin
In quantum teleportation [1], the state of a single quantum system is disembodied into classical information and purely quantum correlations, to be later reconstructed onto a second system that has never directly interacted with the first one. This
Thomas J. Silva, Mathias A. Weiler, Hans T. Nembach, Justin M. Shaw
In a recent Letter, Hahn et al. reported on the detection of an ac voltage in a yttrium iron garnet (YIG)/platinum (Pt) bilayer under the condition of parametrically excited resonance. The authors observe an ac voltage at the frequency of the magnetization
Qudsia Quraishi, Scott A. Diddams, Leo W. Hollberg
Stabilized optical frequency combs (OFC) can have remarkable levels of coherence across their broad spectral bandwidth. We study the scaling of the optical noise across hundreds of nanometers of optical spectra. We measure the residual phase noise between
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Brian P. Dougherty, Howard W. Yoon
We present a measurement system for absolute differential spectral responsivity of solar cells based on high-powered LED arrays coupled to an optical light guide capable of large area illumination. Two different measurement techniques were developed and
A brief review of existing atomic spectroscopy databases is given with an emphasis on databases relevant to laser spectroscopy research. Key data elements in these databases are described. A strategy of building a specialized relational database for laser
Recently, gas-phase absorptions in the 3000 to 4300 cm-1 spectral region have been assigned to combination bands built on (v1 + v5) of ground-state cyc-O4+. Other gas-phase experiments identified an electronic transition of cyc-O4- complexed with an argon
John P. Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Florentin Reiter, Ting Rei Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Anders Sorensen, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Entangled states are a key resource in fundamental quantum physics, quantum cryptography, and quantum computation [1]. To date, controlled unitary interactions applied to a quantum system, so-called "quantum gates'', have been the most widely used method
We describe an experiment to measure the neutron lifetime using a technique with a set of systematic uncertainties largely different than those of previous measurements. In this approach, UCN are produced by inelastic scattering of cold (0.89 nm) neutrons
David R. Leibrandt, M Thorpe, Chin-Wen Chou, Tara M. Fortier, Scott A. Diddams, Till P. Rosenband
We present four frequency comparison measurements designed to investigate the performance of an optical frequency reference based on spectral hole burning in Eu$ 3+:Y 2SiO 5. The first frequency comparison, between a single unperturbed spectral hole and a
Katarzyna E. Bielska, Daniel K. Havey, Gregory E. Scace, D Lisak, Allan H. Harvey, Joseph T. Hodges
The vapor pressure of hexagonal (Ih) ice was measured over the temperature range 175 K to 253.4 K and referenced to the value at the triple point of water. This experiment combined a highly accurate humidity generation system containing an ice-coated
We report on a study of the Global Positioning System (GPS) carrier-phase (CP) time transfer boundary discontinuity by the use of precise point positioning (PPP) technique. We first demonstrate that the pseudorange measurement noise leads to the boundary
Cross-spectral analysis is a mathematical tool for extracting the power spectral density of a correlated signal from two time series in the presence of uncorrelated interfering signals. We demonstrate and explain a set of conditions where the detection of
The stabilities of some local UTC time scales have recently improved dramatically with the increasing use of cesium or rubidium fountains as nearly always present frequency references. Along with time scales using maser ensembles, there are now a number of
Room-temperature, compact Penning traps have been shown recently to be useful for capture and storage of highly-charged ions extracted from an EBIT ion source at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Highly-charged argon and neon ions
Lizbeth Laureano-Perez, Ryan P. Fitzgerald, Ronald Colle
The standardization of 237Np was investigated. The certified massic activity for 237Np was obtained by 4 liquid scintillation (LS) counting with correction for the 233Pa daughter using the CIEMAT/NIST efficiency tracing method using a 3H standard
In the last ten years extraordinary results in time and frequency metrology have been demonstrated. Frequency stabilization techniques for continuous wave lasers and femto-second optical frequency combs have enabled a rapid development of frequency
This is an invited perspective article on a paper that will appear in the same issue. The perspective describes imaging energy transfer between cold Rydberg atoms.
F K. Tchana, M. Ngom, Agnes Perrin, Jean-Marie Flaud, Walter J. Lafferty, S. A. Ndiaye, El. A. Ngum
Absolute individual line intensities of numerous transitions of the fundamental ν2 and ν10 bands of oxirane (ethylene oxide, c-C2H4O) have been measured in the 1420-1560 cm-1 region using seven high- resolution Fourier transform spectra recorded at 0.002
Walter J. Lafferty, Jean-Marie Flaud, Fridolin Kwabia, A. Perrin, M. Ngom
Seven Fourier transform spectra of the ν3 band of oxirane (ethylene oxide) have been recorded with different pressures and used to derive individual line intensities. These line intensities were satisfactorily fit leading to accurate transition moment
Paul D. Kunz, Thomas P. Heavner, Steven R. Jefferts
We demonstrate a variation of pump-probe spectroscopy that is particularly useful for laser frequency stabilization. This polarization enhanced absorption spectroscopy (POLEAS) signal provides a significant improvement in signal-to-noise ratio over
I. O. Bespamyatnov, W. L. Rowan, K. T. Liao, O. Marchuk, Yuri Ralchenko, R. S.
The beam-based plasma diagnostics on ITER require high accuracy and reliability which accordingly puts challenging requirements on the collisional-radiative (CR) models used for the description of excited states of high energy beam atoms. These states are
Michael S. Foss-Feig, Kaden R. Hazzard, John J. Bollinger, Ana Maria Rey, Charles W. Clark
Ising models, and the physical systems described by them, play a central role in generating entangled states for use in quantum metrology and quantum information. In particular, ultracold atomic gases, trapped ion systems, and Rydberg atoms realize long
We calculate electron energy loss spectra (EELS) for composite plasmonic structures based on silicene and germanene. A continued-fraction expression for the effective dielectric function is used to perform multiscale calculations of EELS for both silicene
John M. Moreland, Yoshihiro Nakashima, Jacob W. Alldredge, Gary Zabow
New instrumentation is being developed to better understand the in vivo properties of magnetic particles suspended in solution or lodged in tissue. We describe three novel methods with the necessary sensitivity to measure the microscopic magnetic