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Comb-calibrated laser ranging for three-dimensional surface profiling with micrometer-level precision at a distance

October 6, 2014
Author(s)
Esther Baumann, Fabrizio R. Giorgetta, Jean-Daniel Deschenes, William C. Swann, Ian R. Coddington, Nathan R. Newbury
Non-contact surface mapping at a distance is interesting in diverse applications including industrial metrology, manufacturing, forensics, and artifact documentation and preservation. Frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) laser detection and ranging

Photon-number uncertainty in a superconducting transition-edge sensor beyond resolved-photon-number determination

September 10, 2014
Author(s)
Zachary H. Levine, Boris L. Glebov, Alan L. Migdall, Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam
As part of an effort to extend fundamental single-photon measurements into the macroscopic regime, we explore how best to assign photon-number uncertainties to output waveforms of a superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) and how those assignments

Electronic Structure and Band Alignment at Epitaxial Co3O4/SrTiO3 Heterojunction

July 21, 2014
Author(s)
Liang Qiao, Wei Li, Haiyan xiao, Harry M. Meyer, Xuelei Liang, Nhan Van Nguyen, Michael D. Biegalski
The electronic properties of solid-solid interfaces play critical roles in a variety of technological applications. Recent advance of film epitaxy and characterization techniques have demonstrated a wealthy of exotic phenomena at interfaces of oxide

Nanomaterials-Enabled Photonic and Chemiresistive Sensing of Chemicals and Biochemicals

May 12, 2014
Author(s)
Charles J. Choi, Kurt D. Benkstein, Phillip H. Rogers, Christopher B. Montgomery, Stephen Semancik
Contact events occurring between target species and surface sites on sensing materials initiate front-end interactions and subsequent transduction processes that can yield viable signals for target detection. By offering high surface-to-volume ratios, and

Measurement of Nanomaterials in Foods: Integrative Consideration of Challenges and Future Prospects

April 30, 2014
Author(s)
Christopher W. Szakal, Steve Roberts, Paul Westerhoff, Andrew Bartholomaeus, Neil Buck, Ian Illuminato, Richard Canady, Michael Rogers
Risks and benefits of nanomaterials related to food receive conflicting attention in news media, research, and across expert stakeholder groups internationally. Current nanomaterial analysis is complicated by broad definitions that include traditional food

Direct generation of three-photon polarization entanglement

April 28, 2014
Author(s)
Deny Hamel, Krister Shalm, Hannes Hubel, Aaron J. Miller, Francesco F. Marsili, Varun Verma, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Kevin Resch, Thomas Jennewein
Non-classical states of light are of fundamental importance for emerging quantum technologies. All optics experiments producing multi-qubit entangled states have until now relied on outcome post-selection, a procedure where only the measurement results

Dissipative production of a maximally entangled steady state of two quantum bits

December 19, 2013
Author(s)
John P. Gaebler, Yiheng Lin, Florentin Reiter, Ting Rei Tan, Ryan S. Bowler, Anders Sorensen, Dietrich G. Leibfried, David J. Wineland
Entangled states are a key resource in fundamental quantum physics, quantum cryptography, and quantum computation [1]. To date, controlled unitary interactions applied to a quantum system, so-called "quantum gates'', have been the most widely used method

Soil-Structure Interaction for Building Structures

September 13, 2012
Author(s)
Jonathan Stewart, C.B. Crouse, Tara C. Hutchinson, Bret Lizundia, Farzad Naeim, Farhang Ostadan
The purpose of this project was to develop consensus guidance for implementing soil-structure interaction in response history analyses, and to identify areas of further research that were needed. The starting point for this work was decades of available

Quantum state preparation and control of single molecular ions

February 14, 2012
Author(s)
Dietrich G. Leibfried
Preparing molecules at rest and in a highly pure electronic, rotational and vibrational quantum state is a long standing dream in chemistry and physics, so far only achieved for a select set of molecules in experimental setups dedicated to that species

Asymptotically Optimal Confidences for Rejecting Local Realism

December 22, 2011
Author(s)
Yanbao Zhang, Scott Glancy, Emanuel Knill
Reliable experimental demonstrations of violations of local realism are highly desirable for fundamental tests of Quantum Mechanics. Such violations can be quantified in terms of a confidence for rejecting local realism. We propose a method for computing

Review of Current Progress in Nanometrology with Helium Ions

September 19, 2011
Author(s)
Michael T. Postek, Andras Vladar, Bin Ming, Charles Archie
Scanning electron microscopy has been employed as an imaging and measurement tool for more than 50 years and it continues as a primary tool in many research and manufacturing facilities across the world. A new challenger to this work is the helium ion

p-Wave Cold Collisions in an Optical Lattice Clock

September 2, 2011
Author(s)
Nathan D. Lemke, Andrew D. Ludlow, J. von Stecher, Jeffrey A. Sherman, A.M. Rey, Christopher W. Oates
State-of-the-art optical clocks with neutral atoms employ an optical lattice to tightly confine the atoms, enabling high-resolution spectroscopy and the potential for high-accuracy timekeeping. Interrogating many atoms simultaneously facilitates high

Revealing the Interphase in Polymer Nanocomposites

March 16, 2011
Author(s)
Mauro Zammarano, Paul H. Maupin, Li Piin Sung, Jeffrey W. Gilman, Douglas M. Fox
Morphological characterization of polymer nanocomposites is a fundamental challenge that is complicated by multiple length scales. Here, we report a technique for high-throughput monitoring of interphase and dispersion in polymer nanocomposites based on

The Thermodynamic Properties of Propane: From p-r-T to the Equation of State

September 14, 2010
Author(s)
Mark O. McLinden, Eric W. Lemmon
The p-ρ-T behavior of high-purity (99.999%) propane was measured from 265 K to 500 K with pressures to 36 Mpa using a two-sinker densimeter. The measurements extend from low-density vapor to compressed liquid states, and the near-critical region was
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