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Recommended electron-impact excitation and ionization cross sections for Be II

January 9, 2024
Author(s)
DIPTI DIPTI, Christian Hill, Dmitry Fursa, Haadi Umer, Igor Bray, Yuri Ralchenko
An overview of the current status of electron-impact excitation and ionization cross sections for Be II is given and the recommended data sets for use in plasma modeling are presented. Accurate cross sections between the lowest 14 atomic terms of 1s2nl (n

Extending Explainable Boosting Machines to Scientific Image Data

November 30, 2023
Author(s)
Daniel Schug, Sai Yerramreddy, Rich Caruana, Craig Greenberg, Justyna Zwolak
As the deployment of computer vision technology becomes increasingly common in science, the need for explanations of the system and its output has become a focus of great concern. Driven by the pressing need for interpretable models in science, we propose

Optimal binary gratings for multi-wavelength magneto-optical traps

November 20, 2023
Author(s)
Oliver Burrow, Robert Fasano, Michael Wright, Wesley Brand, Wenbo Li, Andrew Ludlow, Erling Riis, Paul Griffin, Aidan Arnold
Grating magneto-optical traps are an enabling quantum technology for portable metrological devices with ultracold atoms. However, beam diffraction efficiency and angle are affected by wavelength, creating a single-optic design challenge for laser cooling

Direct-Laser-Written Polymer Nanowire Waveguides for Broadband Single Photon Collection from Epitaxial Quantum Dots into a Gaussian-like Mode

November 16, 2023
Author(s)
Edgar Perez, Cori Haws, Marcelo Davanco, Jindong Song, Luca Sapienza, Kartik Srinivasan
Single epitaxial quantum dots (QDs) are a leading technology for quantum light generation, particularly when they are embedded in photonic geometries that enhance their emission into a targeted and confined mode. However, coupling this mode into a

Closed-loop quantum interferometry for phase-resolved Rydberg-atom field sensing

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Samuel Berweger, Alexandra Artusio-Glimpse, Andrew Rotunno, Nikunjkumar Prajapati, Joseph Christesen, Kaitlin Moore, Matthew Simons, Christopher Holloway
Although Rydberg atom-based electric field sensing provides key advantages over traditional antenna-based detection, it remains limited by the need for a local oscillator (LO) for low-field and phase resolved detection. In this work, we demonstrate the

Grating magneto-optical traps with complicated level structures

October 25, 2023
Author(s)
Daniel Barker, Peter Elgee, Ananya Sitaram, Eric Norrgard, Nikolai Klimov, Gretchen K. Campbell, Stephen Eckel
We study the forces and optical pumping within grating magneto-optical traps (MOTs) operating on transitions with non-trivial level structure. In contrast to the standard six-beam MOT configuration, rate equation modelling predicts that the asymmetric

Observation of anisotropic superfluid density in an artificial crystal

October 18, 2023
Author(s)
Ian Spielman, Mingshu Zhao, Junhent Tao
We experimentally and theoretically investigate the anisotropic speed of sound of an atomic superfluid (SF) Bose-Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice. Because the speed of sound derives from the superfluid density, implying that this density is

Next-Generation Chip-Scale Atomic Clocks

October 16, 2023
Author(s)
John Kitching, Matthew Hummon, William McGehee, Ying-Ju Wang, Susan Schima
We describe work toward the development of next-generation chip-scale atomic clocks, which combine small size, low power consumption and manufacturability with high frequency stability. The use of optical transitions in microfabricated vapor cells improves

Ab initio Calculation of Fluid Properties for Precision Metrology

September 12, 2023
Author(s)
Giovanni Garberoglio, Christof Gaiser, Roberto Maria Gavioso, Allan H. Harvey, Robert Hellmann, Bogumil Jeziorski, Karsten Meier, Michael R. Moldover, Laurent Pitre, Krzysztof Szalewicz, Robin Underwood
Recent advances regarding the interplay between ab initio calculations and metrology are reviewed, with particular emphasis on gas-based techniques used for temperature and pressure measurements. Since roughly 2010, several thermophysical quantities – in

Radiative Decay Rate and Branching Fractions of MgF

September 8, 2023
Author(s)
Eric Norrgard, Catherine Cooksey, Stephen Eckel, Nickolas Pilgram, Kayla Rodriguez, Howard W. Yoon, Yuly Andrea Chamorro Mena, Lukas Pasteka, Anastasia Borschevsky
Here we report measured and calculated values of radiative decay rates and vibrational branching fractions for the A$^2\Pi$ state of MgF. The decay rate measurements use time-correlated single photon counting with roughly 1\,\% total uncertainty. Branching

Simulations of a frequency-chirped magneto-optical trap of MgF

September 8, 2023
Author(s)
Kayla Rodriguez, Nickolas Pilgram, Daniel Barker, Stephen Eckel, Eric Norrgard
We simulate the capture process of MgF molecules into a frequency-chirped molecular MOT. Our calculations show that by chirping the frequency, the MOT capture velocity is increased by about of factor of 4 to 80m/s, allowing for direct loading from a two

Investigating electromagnetically induced transparency spectral lineshape distortion due to non-uniform fields in Rydberg-atom electrometry

August 25, 2023
Author(s)
Drew Rotunno, Samuel Berweger, Nik Prajapati, Aly Artusio-Glimpse, MATTHEW SIMONS, chris holloway, Amy Robinson
We investigate the effects of spatially non-uniform radio-frequency electric (E) field amplitudes on the spectral line shapes of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) signals in Rydberg atomic systems used in electrometry (i.e., the metrology of E