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Detection of l-C3H+ in Sgr B2(N) and Sgr B2(OH) and Refinement of its Spectroscopic Constants via the Publicly Available PRIMOS Survey and the Barry E. Turner Legacy Survey

September 1, 2013
Author(s)
Francis J. Lovas, Brett A. McGuire, P. B. Carroll, Ryan A. Loomis, Geoffery A. Blake, Jan M. Hollis, Phillip R. Jewell, Anthony J. Remijan
Pety et al. (2012) recently reported the detection and assignment of l-C3H+ in the Horsehead nebula. Here, we expand that analysis to include the J = 1 - 0 and J = 2 - 1 transitions of l-C3H+ observed in absorption towards Sgr B2(N) in data from the

Giant Secondary Grain Growth in Cu Films on Sapphire

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
David L. Miller, Mark W. Keller, Justin Shaw, Katherine P. Rice, Robert Keller, Kyle M. Diederichsen
Single crystal metal films on insulating substrates are attractive for microelectronics and other applications, but they are difficult to achieve on macroscopic length scales. The conventional approach to obtaining such films is epitaxial growth at high

Relaxation timescales and decay of correlations in a long-range interacting quantum simulator

August 1, 2013
Author(s)
John J. Bollinger, Mauritz van den Worm, Rytis Paskauskas, Brian C. Sawyer, Michael Kastner
When a physical system is coupled to a heat bath, one expects to observe thermalization to an equilibrium state whose temperature is determined by the bath properties. For an isolated many-body system, i.e. in the absence of a heat bath, the situation is

Cancellation of Doppler Shifts in a Cold-Atom CPT Clock

July 25, 2013
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Donley, Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, Eric M. Blanshan, John E. Kitching
A compact cold-atom clock based on coherent population trapping (CPT) is being developed. Long-term goals for the clock include achieving a fractional frequency accuracy of 1x10 -13 in a package of less than 10 cm 3 in volume. Here we present an overview

Why there is no noon-midnight red shift in the GPS

July 24, 2013
Author(s)
Neil Ashby, Marc A. Weiss
Although the effects of solar and lunar gravitational potentials on the frequencies of orbiting GPS clocks are actually negligible, a naive calculation appears to show that such effects are significant, depending on whether the SV clock is between the

Parametric seeding of a microresonator optical frequency comb

July 16, 2013
Author(s)
Scott B. Papp, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott A. Diddams
We have investigated parametric seeding of a microresonator frequency comb (microcomb) by way of a pump laser with two intensity modulation sidebands. We show that the pump-sideband spacing is precisely replicated throughout the microcomb's optical

Mode reconstruction of a light field by multi-photon statistics

July 15, 2013
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Fabrizio Piacentini, I. Ruo Berchera, Sergey V. Polyakov, Silke Peters, Stefan Kuck, Giorgio Brida, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Alan L. Migdall, Marco Genovese
Knowing the underlying number and structure of occupied modes of a light field plays a crucial role in minimizing loss and decoherence of quantum information. Typically, full characterization of the mode structure involves a series of several separate

Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schroedinger's Cat

July 12, 2013
Author(s)
David J. Wineland
This is a written version of the lecture I presented in connection with the Nobel Prize ceremonies in December 2012. The paper briefly summarizes experiments on quantum state manipulaiton and measurement in the context of trapped atomic ions. The focus of

Atomic data for beam-stimulated plasma spectroscopy in fusion plasmas

July 11, 2013
Author(s)
O. Marchuk, Yuri Ralchenko, David R. Schultz, W. Biel, T. Schlummer, TEXTOR Team
Injection of high energy atoms into a confined plasma volume is an established diagnostic technique in fusion research. This method strongly depends on the quality of atomic data for charge exchange spectroscopy (CXRS), motional Stark effect (MSE) and beam

Atomic Data for Iron-group Elements of Astrophysical Interest

July 11, 2013
Author(s)
Gillian Nave, Craig J. Sansonetti, J C. Pickering, Matthew Ruffoni, Anne P. Thorne, Florence Liggins
The joint project between NIST and Imperial College London to measure spectra of singly-ionized iron-group elements using Fourier transform and high-resolution grating spectroscopy is described.

Mechanical Control of a Microrod-Resonator Optical Frequency Comb

July 8, 2013
Author(s)
Scott B. Papp, Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott A. Diddams
Robust control and stabilization of optical frequency combs enables an extraordinary range of scientific and technological applications, including frequency metrology at extreme levels of precision, novel spectroscopy of quantum gases and of molecules from

Demonstration of a dressed-state phase gate for trapped ions

June 28, 2013
Author(s)
Ting Rei Tan, John P. Gaebler, Ryan S. Bowler, Yiheng Lin, John D. Jost, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
We demonstrate a trapped ion entangling gate scheme proposed by Bermudez et~al [Phys. Rev. A 85, 040302 (2012)]. Simultaneous excitation of a strong carrier and a single sideband transition enables deterministic creation of entangled states. The method

Comparison and Analysis of Collisional-Radiative Models at the NLTE-7 Workshop

June 25, 2013
Author(s)
Yuri Ralchenko, H.-K. Chung, S Hansen, C. Bowen, C. J. Fontes
We present the main results of the 7th Non-Local Thermodynamic Equilibrium Code Comparison Workshop held in December 2011 in Vienna, Austria. More than twenty researchers from nine countries, who actively work on development of collisional-radiative codes

Laser-Machined Ultra-High-Q Microrod Resonators for Nonlinear Optics

June 7, 2013
Author(s)
Pascal P. Del'Haye, Scott B. Papp, Scott A. Diddams
Optical whispering-gallery microresonators are useful tools in microphotonics, and non-linear optics at very low threshold powers. Here, we present details about the fabrication of ultra-high-Q whispering-gallery-mode (WGM) resonators made by CO2-laser

Lattice damage in superconducting microcalorimeter detectors

June 3, 2013
Author(s)
Robert D. Horansky, Joel N. Ullom, Michael W. Rabin
There is currently significant interest in using superconducting detectors for measurement of ion kinetic energies. Unprecedented resolution is possible with an order of magnitude improvement over semiconductors. Superconducting detectors are now able to

Analysis of shot noise in the detection of ultrashort optical pulse trains

May 31, 2013
Author(s)
Franklyn J. Quinlan, Tara M. Fortier, Haifeng (. Jiang, Scott A. Diddams
We present a frequency domain model of shot noise in the photodetection of ultrashort optical pulse trains using a time-varying analysis. Shot noise-limited photocurrent power spectral densities, signal-to-noise expressions, and shot noise spectral

Modulated photocurrent spectroscopy of CdTe/CdS solar cells-equivalent circuit analysis

May 20, 2013
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani, John F. Roller, Kounavis Panagiotis, Nikolai B. Zhitenev, David J. Gundlach
We have used the technique of photocurrent modulated spectroscopy to investigate the dynamic response of charge carrier transport in thin film CdTe/CdS solar cells as a function of light bias and temperature over a broad excitation frequency range. The
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