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Michael Vissers, Jiansong Gao, David S. Wisbey, David P. Pappas, C. C. Tsuei, A. D. Corcoles, Matthias Steffen
Thin films of TiN were sputter-deposited onto Si and sapphire wafers with and without SiN buffer layers. The films were fabricated into RF coplanar waveguide resonators, and internal quality factor measurements were taken at millikelvin temperatures in
Hermann Uys, Michael J. Biercuk, Aaron Vandevender, Christian Ospelkaus, Dominic Meiser, R. Ozeri, John Bollinger
We present theoretical and experimental studies of the decoherence of hyperfine ground-state superpositions due to elastic Rayleigh scattering of off-resonant light. We demonstrate that under appropriate conditions, elastic Rayleigh scattering can be the
Vadim V. Ilyushin, Emily A. Cloessner, Yung-Ching Chou, Laura B. Picraux, Jon T. Hougen, Richard Lavrich
We present here the first experimental and theoretical study of the microwave spectrum of 5-methyltropolone, which can be visualized as a 7-membered aromatic carbon ring with a five-membered hydrogen-bonded cyclic structure at the top and a methyl group at
E. Delabie, M. Brix, R. J. Jasper, C. Giroud, O. Marchuk, M. G. O'Mullane, Yuri Ralchenko, E Surrey, M. G. von Hellermann, K. Zastrow, JET-EFDA Contributors
Several collisional-radiative (CR) models \citeanderson,hutchinson,marchuk:htpd} have been developed to calculate the attenuation and the population of excited states of hydrogen or deuterium beams injected into tokamak plasmas. The datasets generated by
A new analysis of the laboratory spectrum of Fe II is described. The aim is to produce a comprehensive list of Fe II lines, based on high-resolution grating and Fourier transform spectra, covering wavelengths from 900 ̊A to 5.5 μm. Particular attention has
We present recent work at NIST to develop and maintain databases for spectra, transition probabilities, and energy levels of atoms that are astrophysically important. We also describe our programs to critically compile these data as well as the recently
New observations of the spectrum of Pt/Cr-Ne hollow cathode lamps have been made to provide accurate wavelengths for more than 5000 chromium lines for wavelength calibration of the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. New infrared spectra of chromium
Wolfgang L. Wiese, Jeffrey R. Fuhr, John M. Bridges
Accurate determinations of atomic oscillator strengths have been a problem for a long time, and discrepancies between various numerical results have been substantial. But in recent years considerable progress has been made, especially for weak lines
Spectral data for neutral sodium were recently compiled by Sansonetti (2008 J. Phys. Chem. Ref. Data 37 1659). In that compilation, some of the energy levels of the 2p53snl configurations were quoted from the studies of the absorption spectrum in the
Michael J. Biercuk, Joseph W. Britton, Hermann Uys, Aaron Vandevender, John Bollinger
Recent experimental advances have shown that it is possible to detect forces arising from electric fields at a level of aN/ √Hz (atto = 10 -18 through coupling of micro or nanofabricated mechanical resonators to a variety of physical systems including
E. A. Laird, Jacob Taylor, David P. DiVincenzo, C. M. Marcus, M. P. Hanson, A. C. Gossard
Initialization, manipulation and measurement of a three-spin qubit are demonstrated using a few- electron triple quantum dot, where all operations can be driven by tuning the exchange interaction. Multiplexed reflectometry, applied to two nearby charge
Michael Metcalfe, Stephen M. Carr, Andreas Muller, Glenn S. Solomon, John R. Lawall
The dynamic response of InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dots (QDs) to strain is studied by periodically modulating the QDs with a surface acoustic wave (SAW) and measuring the QD fluorescence with both photoluminescence and resonant spectroscopy. When the
Andreas Muller, Edward B. Flagg, John R. Lawall, Glenn S. Solomon
Ultralow loss concave micromirrors with radii of curvature below 60 um were fabricated by laser ablation and reflective coatings. A 10 um long microcavity with a mode volume of 40 um^3 was set up with two such mirrors and the cavity linewidth measured both
Francois-Xavier R. Esnault, Elizabeth Donley, John Kitching
We describe in this paper the main features of a cold atom CPT based frequency standard. We explain our particular CPT configuration and our experimental setup. as well as present simulations of the expected performance (stability and major systematics)
For more than 50 years, Charlotte Moore's Atomic Energy Levels compilation and its subsequent revisions have been the standard source of reference data for the spectra of hydrogen and its isotopes. In these compilations, theoretical data based on quantum
Karen M. Siegrist, David F. Plusquellic, Michael E. Thomas
Weak multiphonon bands dominate absorption at the lower absorption band edge which lies in the THz and submillimeter spectral regions for radome materials of interest. The strongly temperature dependent behavior of these bands extends into the microwave
Chin P. Cheng, R Grimm, Paul S. Julienne, Eite Tiesinga
Feshbach resonances are the essential tool to control the interaction between atoms in ultracold quantum gases. They have found manifold experimental applications, opening up the way to important breakthroughs. This Review gives a broad coverage of the
T. A. Palomaki, S. K. Dutta, R M. Lewis, A J. Przybysz, B. K. Cooper, H. Kwon, J. R. Anderson, C. J. Lobb, F. C. Wellstood, Eite Tiesinga
We report spectroscopic measurements of discrete two-level systems (TLSs) coupled to a dc SQUID phase qubit with a 16 μm2 area Al/AlOx/Al junction. Applying microwaves in the 10 GHz to 11 GHz range, we found eight avoided level crossings with splitting
D. G. Smillie, J C. Pickering, Gillian Nave, P. L. Smith
The spectrum of Co III has been recorded in the region 1562 Å to 2564 Å 64000 cm-1 to 39 000 cm-1 by Fourier transform (FT) spectroscopy, and in the region 1317 Å to 2500 Å (164 000 cm-1 to 40 000 cm-1) using a 10.7 m grating spectrograph with phosphor
The nature of the theory of circular Rydberg states of hydrogenlike ions allows highly-accurate predictions to be made for energy levels. In particular, uncertainties arising from the problematic nuclear size correction which beset low angular-momentum
Li-Hong Xu, Jon T. Hougen, Jonathan M. Fisher, Ronald M. Lees
The aim of the present paper is to investigate the use of quantum chemistry calculations to obtain the torsional dependence of various structural and vibrational-force-field-related quantities that could help in estimating the vibration-torsion-rotation
S Sholom, Marc F. Desrosiers, V Chumak, N. Luckyannov, S.L. Simon, A Bouville
Quality control dosimetry is important to the routine operation of a radiation processing facility. For many applications this dosimetry must be traceable to a national primary standard. After irradiation at an industrial facility, NIST-supplied transfer
A single, closed three-state -system in room-temperature rubidium is investigated experimentally using a copropagating beam parallel-polarization configuration under weakly driven electromagnetically induced transparency EITcondition. Compare with the
Andreas Muller, Wei Fang, John R. Lawall, Glenn S. Solomon
An entangled photon pair is a purely nonclassical, inseparable state of two light quanta. Because of its atom-like properties, a semiconductor quantum dot is an ideal source of this light. However, entanglement in these 'artificial atoms' is generally