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Experiments with highly-ionized atoms in unitary Penning traps

August 14, 2015
Author(s)
Shannon Hoogerheide, Aung Naing, Joan M. Dreiling, Samuel Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph Tan
Highly-ionized atoms with special properties have been proposed for interesting applications, including potential candidates for a new generation of optical atomic-clocks at the 1 part in 1019 level of precision, quantum-information processing, and tests

Dew-point Measurements For Water In Compressed Carbon Dioxide

August 6, 2015
Author(s)
Christopher W. Meyer, Allan H. Harvey
When transporting CO2 for sequestration, it is important to know the water dew point in order to avoid condensation that can lead to corrosion. We have constructed a flow apparatus to measure the water content at saturation in a compressed gas. A saturator

Formation of Strain Induced Quantum Dots in Gated Semiconductor Nanostructures

August 5, 2015
Author(s)
Ted C. Thorbeck, Neil M. Zimmerman
Elastic strain changes the energies of the conduction and valence bands in a semiconductor, which will affect transport through a semiconductor nanostructure. We show that the typical strains in a semiconductor nanostructure arising from metal gates or

Quantum-correlated photon pairs generated in commercial 45 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor microelectronics

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Cale M. Gentry, Jeff Shainline, Mark W. Wade, Martin Stevens, Shellee D. Dyer, Xiaoge Zeng, Fabio Pavanello, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Milos A. Popovic
Correlated photon pairs are a fundamental component of quantum photonic systems. While pair sources have previously been integrated on silicon chips in custom facilities, these often take advantage of only a small fraction of microelectronics fabrication

Optimization of collisional Feshbach cooling of an ultracold non degenerate gas

April 20, 2015
Author(s)
Marlon Nuske, L. Mathey, Eite Tiesinga
We optimize a collision-induced cooling process for ultracold atoms in the nondegenerate regime. It makes use of a Feshbach resonance, instead of rf radiation in evaporative cooling, to selectively expel hot atoms from a trap. Using functional minimization

Fractional Quantum Hall States of Rydberg Polaritons

March 31, 2015
Author(s)
Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Norman Y. Yao, Mohammad Hafezi, Thomas Pohl, Ofer Firstenberg, Alexey Gorshkov
We propose a scheme for realizing fractional quantum Hall states of light. In our scheme, photons of two polarizations are coupled to Rydberg atoms via auxiliary classical control fields to form two flavors of Rydberg polaritons, effective spin up and spin

Multiply-ionized Atoms Isolated at low energy in a Unitary Penning Trap

January 9, 2015
Author(s)
Joseph Tan, Shannon Hoogerheide, Samuel Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise
Ions extracted from the EBIT at NIST are slowed and captured in a Penning trap that is made very compact ( 150 cm3) by a unitary architecture. Measurements after 1 ms of ion storage indicate that the captured ions are distributed with 5(1) eV of energy

Quantum Nonlinear Optics Near Optomechanical Instabilities

January 9, 2015
Author(s)
Xunnong Xu, Michael Gullans, Jacob Taylor
Optomechanical systems provide a unique platform for observing quantum behavior of macro- scopic objects. However, efforts towards realizing nonlinear behavior at the single photon level have been inhibited by the small size of the radiation pressure

Line shapes, positions and intensities of water transitions near 1.28 microns

November 7, 2014
Author(s)
Vincent T. Sironneau, Joseph T. Hodges
We present measurements of approximately 70 isolated, self-broadened, water vapor lines which are assigned to the (1,0,1)(0,0,0), (0,0,2)(0,0,0), (1,2,0)(0,0,0), and (2,0,0)(0,0,0) vibrational bands and which occur in the transparency window region

Spin-orbit-coupled topological Fulde-Ferrell states of fermions in a harmonic trap

November 7, 2014
Author(s)
Lei Jiang, Eite Tiesinga, Xie-Ji Liu, Hui Hu, Han Pu
Motivated by recent experimental breakthroughs in generating spin-orbit coupling in ultracold Fermi gases using Raman laser beams, we present a systematic study of spin-orbit-coupled Fermi gases confined in a quasi-one-dimensional trap in the presence of

Scattering resonances and bound states for strongly interacting Rydberg polaritons

November 3, 2014
Author(s)
Przemek Bienias, Soonwon Choi, Ofer Firstenberg, Mohammad F. Maghrebi, Mikhail Lukin, Alexey Gorshkov, Hans Peter Buchler
We provide a rigorous framework describing a low-density gas of slow-light polaritons propagating in one dimension under the conditions of electromagnetically induced transparency and interacting via strong Rydberg-Rydberg interactions. Specifically, we

Which resonances in small metallic nanoparticles are plasmonic?

November 3, 2014
Author(s)
Emily Townsend, Garnett W. Bryant
We use time-dependent density functional theory to examine the character of various resonances corresponding to peaks in the optical response of small metallic nanoparticles. Each resonance has both "sloshing" and "inversion" character. The sloshing mode

Extended and Revised Analysis of Singly Ionized Tin: Sn II

October 28, 2014
Author(s)
K. Haris, Alexander Kramida, A. Tauheed
The electronic structure of singly ionized tin (Sn II) is partly a one-electron and partly a three-electron system with ground configuration 5s25p. The excited configurations are of the type 5s2nℓ in the one-electron part, and 5s5p2, 5p3 and 5s5pnℓ (nℓ =

Kitaev chains with long-range interactions

October 9, 2014
Author(s)
Davide Vodola, Luca Lepori, Elisa Ercolessi, Alexey Gorshkov, Guido Pupillo
We propose and analyze a generalization of the Kitaev chain for fermions with long-range p-wave pairing, which decays with distance as a power-law with exponent $\alpha$. Using the integrability of the model, we demonstrate the existence of two types of

Optimizing Passive Quantum Clocks

October 8, 2014
Author(s)
Michael J. Mullan, Emanuel Knill
We describe protocols for passive atomic clocks based onquantum interrogation of the atoms. Unlike previous techniques, our protocols are adaptive and take advantage of prior information about the clock's state. To reduce deviations from an ideal clock

Collapse and revivals for systems of short-range phase coherence

October 7, 2014
Author(s)
Khan W. Mahmud, Lei Jiang, Philip R. Johnson, Eite Tiesinga
We predict the existence of novel collapse and revival oscillations that are a distinctive signature of the short-range off-diagonal coherence associated with particle-hole pairs in Mott insulator states. Starting with an atomic Mott state in a one

Interferometric Measurement of the Current-Phase Relationship of a Superfluid Weak Link

September 22, 2014
Author(s)
Stephen Eckel, Fred Jendrzejewski, Avinash Kumar, Christopher J. Lobb, Gretchen K. Campbell
Weak connections between superconductors or superfluids differ from classical links due to quantum coherence, which allows flow without resistance. Transport properties through such weak links can be described with a single function, the current-phase

Dynamic, Ultra-Slow Optical-Matter Wave Analog of an Event Horizon

August 28, 2014
Author(s)
C. J. Zhu, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Mo-Lin Ge
We investigate theoretically the effects of a dynamically increasing medium index on optical- wave propagation in a rubidium condensate. A long pulsed pump laser coupling a D2 line transition produces a rapidly growing internally generated field. This
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