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Nathan Pillsbury, Nathanael M. Kidwell, Benjamin Nebgen, Lyudmila V. Slipchenko, Kevin O. Douglass, John R. Cable, David F. Plusquellic
Vibrationally and rotationally resolved electronic spectra of diphenylmethane-d5 (DPM-d5) are reported in the isolated-molecule environment of a supersonic expansion. While small, the asymmetry induced by deuteration of one of the aromatic rings is
We have made new observations of the spectrum of singly-ionized chromium (Cr II) in the region 2850 Angstrom to 37900 Angstrom with the National Institute of Standards and Technology 2 m Fourier transform spectrometer. These data extend our previously
Zhexuan Gong, Michael S. Foss-Feig, Spyridon Michalakis, Alexey Gorshkov
Motivated by recent experiments with ultra-cold matter, we derive a new bound on the propagation of information in D- dimensional lattice models exhibiting 1/r^alpha interactions with alpha > D. The bound contains two terms: One accounts for the short
Phil Richerme, Zhexuan Gong, Aaron Lee, Crystal Senko, Jacob Smith, Michael S. Foss-Feig, Spyridon Michalakis, Alexey Gorshkov, Christopher Monroe
The maximum speed with which information can propagate in a quantum many-body system directly affects how quickly disparate parts of the system can become correlated and how difficult the system will be to describe numerically. For systems with only short
Joseph Reader, John D. Gillaspy, Dmitry D. Osin, Yuri Ralchenko
Extreme ultraviolet spectra of highly charged barium atoms were produced with an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) and recorded with a flat-field grazing-incidence spectrometer. The spectra were measured in the wavelength range 4 nm to 24 nm with the beam
C. J. Zhu, X Zhao, Guoxiang Huang, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Yan Ren
We show that coherent broadband surface mixing-wave (SMW) by a hyper-Raman process can be efficiently generated near a metallic surface abutting a quasi-three-level gain medium. The generation process is significantly enhanced by the amplified surface
Samuel Halverson, Suvrath Mahadevan, Lawrence W. Ramsey, Fred Hearty, John C. Wilson , Jon Holtzman, Stephen L. Redman, Gillian Nave, David Nidever, Matthew Nelson, Nick Venditti, Dmitry Bizyaev , Scott Fleming
We discuss the ongoing development of single-mode ber Fabry-Perot(FFP)Interferometers as precise astrophotonic calibration sources for high precision radial velocity (RV) spectrographs. The devices are simple, inexpensive, monolithic units that can yield a
Nicholas D. Guise, Joseph Tan, Samuel Brewer, Charlotte F. Fischer, P. Jonsson
The lifetime of the 3d 2D5/2 in the fine-structure doublet of the Kr XVIII ground configuration is measured using a compact Penning trap with 2.2 cm3 of trapping volume. Kr17+ ions produced in an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) are extracted and captured in
A Koller, M Beverland, Alexey Gorshkov, Ana Maria Rey
Ramsey spectroscopy has become a powerful technique for probing non-equilibrium dynamics of internal (pseudospin) degrees of freedom of interacting systems. In many theoretical treatments, the key to understanding the dynamics has been to assume the
A single emitter can couple with an electromagnetic mode excited in dielectric cavities or metallic particles. In a similar manner, it can couple with a phononic mode supported by a nearby infrared antenna. We consider an emitter with a sufficiently large
We study the formation and collision aided decay of an ultra-cold atomic Bose-Einstein condensate in the first excited band of a double-well 2D-optical latt ice with weak harmonic confinement in the perpendicular z direction. This lattice geometry is based
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
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
Matthew Ruffoni, J C. Pickering, C. Allende Prieto, Gillian Nave
We report experimental oscillator strengths for 28 infrared Fe I transitions, for which no previous experimental values exist. These transitions were selected to address an urgent need for oscillator strengths of lines in the H-band (between 1.4 μm and 1.7
Chin-Chun Tsai, T Bergeman, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne, D J. Heinzen
Photoassociation resonances in the 87Rb2 1g state dissociating to 52S+52P1/2 were produced by the excitation of colliding 87Rb atoms in a far-off resonance (FORT) trap. Levels down to 31 cm−1 below the dissociation limit were measured with resonance
Anton Frisk Kockum, Martin O. Sandberg, G?ran Johansson, David P. Pappas
We present measurements and modelling of the susceptibility of a 2D microstrip cavity coupled to a driven transmon qubit. We are able to fit the response of the cavity to a weak probe signal with high accuracy in the strong coupling, low detuning, i.e
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
Charlotte F. Fischer, S. Verdebout, Michel Godefroid, P. Rynkun, P. Jonsson, G. Gaigalas
No lines have been observed for transitions between the doublet and quartet levels of B i. Consequently,energy levels based on observation for the latter are obtained through extrapolation of wavelengths along the iso-electronic sequence for the 2s22p 2Po
David P. Pappas, Dustin Hite, Andrew C. Wilson, David T. Allcock, David J. Wineland, Dietrich Leibfried, Yves Colombe
Trapped ions are sensitive to electric-field noise from trap-electrode surfaces. This noise has been an obstacle to progress in trapped-ion quantum information processing (QIP) experiments for more than a decade. It causes motional heating of the ions, and
Francesco Intravaia, Stefan T. Koev, Il Woong Jung, Albert A. Talin, Paul S. Davids, Ricardo Decca, Vladimir Aksyuk, Diego A. Dalvit, Daniel Lopez
The Casimir force is a quantum-mechanical interaction arising from vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic (EM) field and is technologically significant in micro- and nanomechanical systems. Despite rapid progress in nanophotonics, the goal of
B. G. Christensen, Kevin McCusker, Joseph Altepeter, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Krister Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, P. G. Kwiat
We present a source of entangled photons that violates a Bell inequality free of the "fair-sampling" assumption, by over 50 standard deviations, and with enough "efficiency" overhead to eventually perform a fully loophole-free test of local realism. The
We study the dynamics of spin-1 atoms in a periodic optical-lattice potential and an external magnetic field in a quantum quench scenario where we start from a superfluid ground state in a shallow lattice potential and suddenly raise the lattice depth. The
Brenton J. Knuffman, Adam V. Steele, Jabez J. McClelland
We report measurements and modeling performed on an ion source based on ionization of a laser-cooled atomic beam. We show a high brightness and a low energy spread, suitable for use in next-generation, high-resolution focused ion beam (FIB) systems. Our
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