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Kevin J. Dwyer, Joshua M. Pomeroy, David S. Simons
A mass selected ion beam system is used to isotopically enrich and deposit thin films, which are measured to be 99.9961(4)% 12C. In solid state quantum information, isotopic enrichment of materials has allowed significant improvements in the coherence time
We study the effect of charge and spin noise on singlet-triplet qubits in Si quantum dots. We set up a theoretical framework aimed at enabling experiment to efficiently identify the most deleterious defects, and complement it with the knowledge of defects
We report on a proposal to change the group velocity upon colliding two atomic Bose-Einstein Condensates (BECs) in analogy to slowing of light passing through dispersive media. We make use of ultracold collisions near a magnetic Feshbach resonance, which
Marcelo Pereira, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Boris L. Glebov, Jingyun Fan, Sae Woo Nam, Alan L. Migdall
We demonstrate a symmetric, single-spatial mode, single-photon heralding efficiency of 84% for a type-II spontaneous parametric downconversion process. This achievement of high efficiency, single-spatial mode collection is key to enabling many quantum
Chunxing She, Garnett W. Bryant, Arnaud Demorti?, Elena V. Shevchenko, Matthew Pelton
It is commonly assumed that, after an electron-hole pair is created in a semiconductor by absorption of a photon, the electron and hole rapidly relax to their respective lowest-energy states before recombining with one another. In semiconductor
Marissa Giustina, Alexandra Mech, Sven Ramelow, Bernhard Wittman, Johannes Keffler, Joern Beyer, Adriana Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Rupert Ursin, Anton Zeilinger, Brice R. Calkins
The violation of a Bell inequality is an experimental observation that forces the abandonment of a local realistic viewpoint - namely, one in which physical properties are (probabilistically) defined before and independently of measurement, and in which no
Indubala I. Satija, Carlos L. Pando L., Eite Tiesinga
We study the dynamics of macroscopically-coherent matter waves of an ultra-cold atomic spin-1 or spinor condensate on a ring lattice of six sites and demonstrate a novel type of spatio-temporal internal Josephson effect. Using a discrete solitary mode of
We develop an interferometric technique for measuring quadrature operators of nonequilibrium states of ultracold atoms in optical lattices. The technique exploits the internal state structure of magnetic atoms to create two subsystems of atoms in different
Panu J. Koppinen, Michael Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman
We present electrical data of silicon single electron devices fabricated with CMOS techniques and protocols. The easily tuned devices show clean Coulomb diamonds at T = 30 mK and charge offset drift of 0.01 e over eight days. In addition, the devices
Utku Kemiktarak, Mathieu Durand, Michael Metcalfe, John R. Lawall
We design, fabricate, and study a novel platform for cavity optomechanics: a silicon nitride membrane patterned as a sub-wavelength diffraction grating. Using the grating as one mirror of a Fabry-Perot cavity, we realize an optical finesse of $F=2830\pm 60
Harald Atmanspacher, Andrei Khrennikov, Alan L. Migdall, Sergey Polyakov
A wide spectrum of topics was presented in talks at this conference: quantum foundations (especially, Heisenberg's uncertainty relation and its generalizations) and information, mathematical formalism of quantum theory, philosophy, methodology of
Stefan Kueck, Alan L. Migdall, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Jessica Cheung
This special issue accompanies the 5th international conference on single-photon technologies held at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany, in June 2011. This community has met every two years at national metrology institutes, starting
Warren E. Thompson, Catherine L. Lugez, Marilyn E. Jacox
When a Ne:H2O2 mixture is codeposited at 4.3 K with a beam of neon atoms that have been excited in a microwave discharge, three new, photosensitive absorptions appear which can be assigned to the three infrared-active fundamentals of trans-HOOH+. When the
Brett A. McGuire, Ryan A. Loomis, Cameron M. Charness, Geoffery A. Blake, Jan M. Hollis, Francis J. Lovas, Philip R. Jewell, Anthony J. Remijan
Historically, searches for new astronomical molecules resulted in the detection of favorable, high line strength transitions based on a thermal approximation to the excitation of these species in interstellar environments. Given the temperatures of hot
Craig J. Sansonetti, Gillian Nave, Joseph Reader, Florian Kerber
We report new observations of the spectrum of singly-ionized chromium (Cr II) in the region 1142 A to 3954 A. The spectra were recorded with the National Institute of Standards and Technology 10.7 m normal-incidence vacuum spectrograph and the FT700 vacuum
Ilana G. Goldberg, Fernando D. Vila, Terrence Jach
Recent studies of the crystallization of cyclotrimethylene-trinitramine (RDX) have shown that the presence of the α- and β-phases of the compound is sensitive to the substrate using drop cast crystallization methods. The specific phase has potential
We explore the anisotropic nature of Feshbach resonances in the collision between ultracold magnetic submerged-shell dysprosium atoms, which can only occur due to couplings to rotating bound states. This is in contrast to well-studied alkali-metal atom
S Sainis, J. M. Sage, D DeMille, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova
We present spectroscopic data on moderately bound levels in the Cs2 a3Sigma+ u state. The data have sufficient resolution to be sensitive to rotational and second-order spin-orbit splittings as well as hyperfine and vibrational structure. Quantum numbers
Harshita Kumari, Steven R. Kline, Cindi L. Dennis, Andrew V. Mossine, Rick L. Paul, Carol A. Deakyne, Jerry L. Atwood
Crystallization of compounds of iron with polyphenols, such as iron gall inks, has been an ongoing challenge. As with iron-gall inks, iron complexes of 1,2,3-trihydroxphenol-containing marocycles have also proved difficult to crystallize. Despite this
Simple quantum systems play important roles in the determination of fundamental constants. Very recently at NIST, bare nuclei created in an EBIT were extracted and captured in a novel compact Penning trap. This is a step towards production of one-electron
A newly constructed apparatus at the United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is designed for the isolation, manipulation, and study of highly charged ions. Highly charged ions are produced in the NIST electron-beam ion trap
D. Veza, Craig J. Sansonetti, Marc L. Salit, John C. Travis
Wave numbers and pressure-induced shifts of 19 argon emission lines were measured with high accuracy using a UV/visible Fourier transform spectrometer (FTS). The measurements were made using electrodeless lamps containing traces of 198Hg and argon at
Arvind Balijepalli, Thomas W. LeBrun, Jason J. Gorman
We demonstrate an increase in trapping lifetime for optically trapped nanoparticles by more than an order of magnitude using feedback control. This has been demonstrated through simu- lation and experimental results for 100, nm gold particles and 350 nm
Energies, lifetimes, and wave function compositions have been computed for all levels of 4p64d, 4p64f, and 4p54d2 using single- and double excitations from a multi-reference set (SD-MR) to generate expansions for the multiconfiguration Dirac-Hartree-Fock