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Effective multibody interactions of harmonically confined ultracold neutral bosons

March 21, 2012
Author(s)
Philip Johnson, W F. Flynn, D Blume, X Y. Yin, Eite Tiesinga
We use renormalized perturbation theory to calculate effective two-, three-, and four-body interactions for N neutral ultracold bosons in the ground state of an isotropic harmonic trap, assuming only two-body interactions modeled with a zero-range

Penning traps with unitary architecture for storage of highly charged ions

February 15, 2012
Author(s)
Joseph N. Tan, Samuel M. Brewer, Nicholas D. Guise
Penning traps are made extremely compact by embedding rare-earth permanent magnets in the electrode structure. Axially-oriented NdFeB magnets are used to produce 0.32 T for ion trapping in unitary architectures that functionally couple the electric and

Semiclassical fifth virial coefficients for improved ab initio helium--4 standards

February 15, 2012
Author(s)
Katherine Shaul, Andrew Schultz, David A. Kofke, Michael R. Moldover
For helium-4, we present ab initio, semi-classical calculations of virial coefficients Bn for for n = 2, 3, 4, and 5 from 50 K to 1000 K. Using our values of B4 and B5 and the more accurate literature values of B2 and B3, we argue that the ab initio virial

Mechanically Compliant Grating Reflectors for Optomechanics

February 10, 2012
Author(s)
Utku Kemiktarak, Michael Metcalfe, Mathieu Durand, John R. Lawall
We demonstrate micromechanical reflectors with a reflectivity as large as 99.4% and a mechanical quality factor Q as large as 7.8 x 10^5 for optomechanical applications. The reflectors are silicon nitride membranes patterned with sub-wavelength grating

Extension and new level optimization of the Ne IV spectrum

January 13, 2012
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida, C M. Brown, Uri Feldman, Joseph Reader
Spectra of Ne emitted by a Penning discharge were recorded in the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) region between 140 Å and 359 Å on a 10.7 m grazing-incidence spectrograph with phosphor storage image plates. These spectra provided 33 newly identified lines of Ne

Conclusive quantum steering with superconducting transition-edge sensors

January 10, 2012
Author(s)
Devin H. Smith, Marcelo de Almeida, Gillett Geoff, Branciard Cyril, Allesandro Fedrizzi, Weinhold J. Till, Adriana Lita, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Wiseman H, Sae Woo Nam, Andrew G. White
Quantum steering allows two parties to verify shared entanglement even if one measurement device is untrusted. A conclusive demonstration of steering through the violation of a steering inequality is of considerable fundamental interest and opens up

Populations of excited parabolic states of hydrogen beam in fusion plasmas

January 1, 2012
Author(s)
Oleksandr Marchuk, Yuri Ralchenko
The injection of a neutral beam into the core of magnetically confined plasmas is a foundation for various plasma diagnostics, including charge-exchange recombination spectroscopy, beam-emission spectroscopy and motional Stark effect diagnostics. We review

The Infrared Spectrum of NN...CO+ Trapped in Solid Neon

December 15, 2011
Author(s)
Warren E. Thompson, Marilyn E. Jacox
Codeposition of a Ne:N2:CO = 200:1:1 mixture at 4.3 K with a beam of very pure neon atoms excited to their energy levels between 16.6 and 16.85 eV leads to stabilization in the resulting solid of sufficient NNCO+ for detection of its NN- and CO-stretching

Unification of universal and non-universal topological quantum computation

July 26, 2011
Author(s)
Haitan Xu, Jacob Taylor
Approaches for implementing primitives for quantum computation using Read-Reyazi anyons remain computational difficult to find. We demonstrate how recently discovered approaches, including composition of anyons and deconstruction of many-qubit operations

Quantum superposition of a single microwave photon in two different colour states

July 3, 2011
Author(s)
Eva A. Zakka-Bajjani, Francois E. Nguyen, Minhyea Lee, Leila R. Vale, Raymond Simmonds, Joe Aumentado
The ability to manipulate photonic states is an important tool for quantum information processing. In cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED), coupling between bosonic modes has, until now, required a qubit to mediate the interaction. As an alternative, it is

Superradiance of cold atoms coupled to a superconducting circuit

June 6, 2011
Author(s)
Daniel Braun, Jonathan Hoffman, Eite Tiesinga
We investigate superradiance of an ensemble of atoms coupled to an integrated superconducting LC-circuit. Particular attention is paid to the effect of inhomogeneous coupling constants. Combining perturbation theory in the inhomogeneity and numerical

Recent progress in spectroscopy of tungsten

May 20, 2011
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida
This contribution reviews experimental and theoretical work on spectroscopy of tungsten published since the last critical compilation of the energy levels and spectral lines of highly ionized tungsten [K09]. Since then, 15 new experimental studies were

Recent developments in the NIST Atomic Databases

May 11, 2011
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida
New versions of the NIST Atomic Spectra Database (ASD, v. 4.0) and three bibliographic databases (Atomic Energy Levels and Spectra, v. 2.0, Atomic Transition Probabilities, v. 9.0, and Atomic Line Broadening and Shapes, v. 3.0) have recently been released

Spatial separation in a thermal mixture of ultracold174Yb and 87Rb atoms

April 21, 2011
Author(s)
F. Baumer, F. Munchow, A. Gorlitz, Stephen Maxwell, Paul S. Julienne, Eite Tiesinga
We report on the observation of unusually strong interactions in a thermal mixture of ultracold atoms which cause a significant modification of the spatial distribution. A mixture of 87Rb and 174Yb with a temperature of a few μK is prepared in a hybrid

Feshbach spectroscopy and analysis of the interaction potentials of ultracold sodium

April 8, 2011
Author(s)
T. Schuster, R. Scelle, A. Trautmann, J. Appmeier, S. Knoop, Eite Tiesinga, E. Tiemann
We have studied magnetic Feshbach resonances in an ultracold sample of Na prepared in the absolute hyperfine ground. W e report on the observation of three s-, eight d-, and three g-wave Feshbach resonances, including a more precis e determination of the

Time Dependent Acceleration Measurements Through Synthetic Gauge Fields

March 3, 2011
Author(s)
Brandon Anderson, Jacob Taylor, Victor Galitski
We propose an atom interferometry scheme for measuring weak, time- dependent accelerations. Our proposal uses an ensemble of dilute bosons with two internal states that couple to a synthetic gauge field with opposite charges. The gauge field couples spin to

Thermal Correction to the Molar Polarizability of a Boltzmann Gas (Brief Report)

March 1, 2011
Author(s)
Ulrich D. Jentschura, M. Puchalski, Peter Mohr
The metrology of fundamental quantities in atomic physics has been crucial for a number of advanced determinations of fundamental constants. In addition to very accurate frequency measurements, the molar polarizability of atomic gases has recently been

The program LOPT for least-squares optimization of energy levels

February 1, 2011
Author(s)
Alexander Kramida
The article describes a program that solves the least-squares optimization problem for finding the energy levels of a quantum-mechanical system based on a set of measured energy separations or wavelengths of transitions between those energy levels, as well

Femtotesla atomic magnetometry in a microfabricated vapor cell

December 20, 2010
Author(s)
William C. Griffith, Svenja A. Knappe, John Kitching
We describe an optically pumped 87Rb magnetometer with 4.5 fT/Hz 1/2 sensitivity when operated in the spin-exchange relaxation free (SERF) regime. The magnetometer uses a microfabricated vapor cell, consisting of a cavity etched in a 1 mm thick silicon

Progress at NIST in measuring the D-lines of Li isotopes using an optical frequency comb

December 20, 2010
Author(s)
Clayton Simien, Samuel M. Brewer, Joseph N. Tan, John D. Gillaspy, Craig J. Sansonetti
Precise spectroscopic experiments with light atoms can provide information about nuclear properties that are very difficult to obtain in electron scattering experiments. For example, relative nuclear radii of low-Z isotopes can be determined accurately
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