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Imaging of induced surface charge distribution effects in glass vapor cells used for Rydberg atom-based sensors

June 1, 2025
Author(s)
Charles Patrick, Noah Schlossberger, Daniel Hammerland, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Tate McDonald, Samuel Berweger, Rajavardhan Talashila, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Christopher Holloway
We demonstrate the imaging of localized surface electric (E) field effects on the atomic spectrum in a vapor cell used in Rydberg atom-based sensors. These surface E-fields can result from an induced electric charge distribution on the surface. Induced

Random pulse sequences for qubit noise spectroscopy

May 30, 2025
Author(s)
Kaixin Huang, Demitry Farfurnik, Alireza Seif, Mohammad Hafezi, Yi-Kai Liu
Qubit noise spectroscopy is an important tool for the experimental investigation of open quantum systems. However, conventional techniques for implementing noise spectroscopy are time-consuming, because they require multiple measurements of the noise

High-Stability Single-Ion Clock with 5.5 x 10^-19 Systematic Uncertainty

April 21, 2025
Author(s)
Mason Marshall, Daniel Rodriguez Castillo, Willa Dworschack, Alexander Aeppli, Kyungtae Kim, Dahyeon Lee, William Warfield, Nicholas Nardelli, Tara Fortier, Jun Ye, David Ray Leibrandt, David Hume
We report a single-ion optical atomic clock with fractional frequency uncertainty of 5.5 x 10^-19 and frequency stability of 3.5 x 10^-16/sqrttau/s}, based on quantum logic spectroscopy of a single 27Al+ ion. A co-trapped 25Mg+ ion provides sympathetic

Compact Blackbody Radiation Atomic Sensor: Measuring Temperature using Optically Excited Atoms in Vapor Cells

April 17, 2025
Author(s)
David La Mantia, Mingxin Lei, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Noah Schlossberger, Matthew Simons, Christopher Holloway, Julia Scherschligt, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard
We demonstrate a blackbody radiation thermometer based on optically excited rubidium atoms in a vapor cell. Operating as a calibrated contact thermometer from 308K to 343 K, we realize temperature uncertainty as low as 0.04 %, and statistical temperature

Charge-exchange processes in EBIT: implications for spectral analysis of few-electron Fe ions

April 16, 2025
Author(s)
Yang Yang, FNU Dipti, Amy Gall, Nancy Brickhouse, Hunter Staiger, Galen O'Neil, Paul Szypryt, Adam Foster, David Schultz, Aung Naing, Joseph Tan, Daniel Swetz, Michael Fogle, Randall Smith, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
Charge-exchange recombination with neutral atoms significantly influences the ionization balance in electron beam ion traps (EBIT) because its cross section is relatively large compared to cross sections of electron collision induced processes. Modeling

Revisiting collisional broadening of $^85}$Rb Rydberg levels: conclusions for vapor cell manufacture

March 13, 2025
Author(s)
Mingxin Lei, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Matthew Simons, Christopher Holloway
Electrometry based on electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) in alkali Rydberg vapor cells may suffer reduced sensitivity due to spurious line broadening effects, caused by surface charges, contaminant gases, or other manufacturing defects. In

Effect of ''glancing'' collisions in the cold atom vacuum standard

February 12, 2025
Author(s)
Stephen Eckel, Daniel Barker, James A. Fedchak, Jacek Klos, Julia Scherschligt, Eite Tiesinga
We theoretically investigate the effect of "glancing" collisions on the ultra-high-vacuum pressure readings of the cold-atom vacuum standard (CAVS), based on either ultracold $^7$Li or $^87}$Rb atoms. Here, glancing collisions are those collisions between

Cryogenic photonic resonator with 10-17/s drift

February 11, 2025
Author(s)
Wei Zhang, William Milner, Jun Ye, Scott Papp
Thermal noise is the predominant instability in the provision of ultrastable laser frequency by reference to a cavity. Reducing the thermal-noise limit of a cavity means either making it larger to spread thermal fluctuations, reducing the sensitivity of

International Comparison CCQM-P229: Pilot Study to Measure Absolute Line Intensities of Selected 12C16O Transitions

January 24, 2025
Author(s)
Joseph Hodges, Zachary Reed, Katarzyna Bielska, Manfred Birk, Ruimin Guo, Gang Li, Jeong Sik Lim, Daniel Lisak, Georg Wagner
We present primary spectroscopic measurements of line intensities in the 3-0 vibrational band of 12C16O. This international measurement campaign was organized under the auspices of the Consultative Committee for Amount of Substance (CCQM) and involved six

Primary quantum thermometry of mm-wave blackbody radiation via induced state transfer in Rydberg states of cold atoms

January 23, 2025
Author(s)
Noah Schlossberger, Andrew Rotunno, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard, Dixith Manchaiah, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Samuel Berweger, Matthew Simons, Dangka Shylla, William Watterson, Charles Patrick, Adil Meraki, Rajavardhan Talashila, Amanda Younes, David La Mantia, Christopher Holloway
Rydberg states of alkali-metal atoms are highly sensitive to electromagnetic radiation in the GHz-to-THz regime because their transitions have large electric dipole moments. Consequently, environmental blackbody radiation (BBR) can couple Rydberg states to

Lattice Light Shift Evaluations In a Dual-Ensemble Yb Optical Lattice Clock

January 22, 2025
Author(s)
Tobias Bothwell, Roger Brown, Benjamin Hunt, Jacob Siegel, Tanner Grogan, Youssef Hassan, Kyle Beloy, Andrew Ludlow, Kurt Gibble, Takumi Kobayashi, Marianna Safronova, Sergey Porsev
In state-of-the-art optical lattice clocks, beyond-electric-dipole polarizability terms lead to a break-down of magic wavelength trapping. In this Letter, we report a novel approach to evaluate lattice light shifts, specifically addressing recent

Towards Precision Spectroscopy of Antiprotonic Atoms for Probing Strong-field QED

January 15, 2025
Author(s)
Goncalo Baptista, Shikha Rathi, Michael Roosa, Quentin Senetaire, Jonas Sommerfeldt, Toshiyuki Azuma, Daniel Becker, Francois Butin, Ofir Eizenberg, Joseph Fowler, Hiroyuki Fujioka, Davide Gamba, Nabil Garroum, Mauro Guerra, Tadashi Hashimoto, Takashi Higuchi, Paul Indelicato, Jorge Machado, Kelsey Morgan, Francois Nez, Jason Nobles, Ben Ohayon, Shinji Okada, Daniel Schmidt, Daniel Swetz, Joel Ullom, Pauline Yzombard, Marco Zito, Nancy Paul
PAX (antiProtonic Atom X-ray spectroscopy) is a new experiment with the aim to test strong-field quantum electrodynamics (QED) effects by performing high-precision x-ray spectroscopy of antiprotonic atoms. By utilizing advanced microcalorimeter detection

Deployment of a Transportable Yb Optical Lattice Clock

January 14, 2025
Author(s)
Tobias Bothwell, Tanner Grogan, Marco Pomponio, Takuma Nakamura, Craig Nelson, Archita Hati, Franklyn Quinlan, Andrew Ludlow, Wesley Brand, Robert Fasano, Yun-Jhih Chen, Thomas Akin, Joseph Whalen, Richard Fox, ignacio baldoni, Benjamin Rauf, michele giunta, ronald holzwarth, Steven Peil
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