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Versatile laser-free trapped-ion entangling gates

March 28, 2019
Author(s)
R. T. Sutherland, Raghavendra Srinivas, Shaun C. Burd, Dietrich Leibfried, Andrew C. Wilson, David J. Wineland, David T. Allcock, Daniel Slichter, S. B. Libby
We present a general theory for laser-free entangling gates with trapped-ion hyperfine qubits, using either static or oscillating magnetic-field gradients combined with a pair of uniform microwave fields symmetrically detuned about the qubit frequency. By

Lithium-loaded Liquid Scintillator Production for the PROSPECT experiment

March 26, 2019
Author(s)
Hans Pieter Mumm, Denis E. Bergeron, Mark Tyra, Svetlana Nour, Jerome LaRosa
This work reports the production and characterization of lithium-loaded liquid scintillators (LiLS) for the Precision Reactor Oscillation and Spectrum Experiment (PROSPECT). Fifty-nine 90 L batches of LiLS (6Li mass fraction 0.082%0.001%) were produced

A TES X-ray Spectrometer for NSENSE

March 25, 2019
Author(s)
Christine G. Pappas, Malcolm S. Durkin, Joseph W. Fowler, Kelsey M. Morgan, Joel N. Ullom, William B. Doriese, Gene C. Hilton, Galen C. O'Neil, Daniel R. Schmidt, Paul Szypryt, Daniel S. Swetz
The Non-destructive Statistical Estimation of Nanoscale Structures and Electronics NSENSE instrument for IARPAs Rapid Analysis of Various Emerging Nanoelectronics RAVEN program is a tabletop X-ray tomography prototype designed for three-dimensional imaging

Topological Bands for Ultracold Atoms

March 25, 2019
Author(s)
Ian B. Spielman, Nigel Cooper, Jean Dalibard
There have been significant recent advances in realizing bandstructures with geometrical and topological features in experiments on cold atomic gases. We provide an overview of these developments, beginning with a summary of the key concepts of geometry

Ramsey Spectroscopy with Displaced Frequency Jumps

March 19, 2019
Author(s)
Moshe Shuker, Juniper Wren Y. Pollock, Rodolphe Boudot, V. I. Yudin, A. V. Taichenachev, John E. Kitching, Elizabeth A. Donley
Sophisticated Ramsey-based interrogation protocols using composite laser pulse sequences have been recently proposed to provide in next-generation high-precision atomic clocks a near perfect elimination of frequency shifts induced during the atom-probing

ELECTRON ENERGY-LOSS SPECTROSCOPY AND IMAGING

March 12, 2019
Author(s)
Vladimir P. Oleshko
This article describes electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS), energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy (EFTEM) and electron spectroscopic diffraction (ESD) in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) or in a scanning transmission electron

Broadband Lamb shift in an engineered quantum system

March 11, 2019
Author(s)
Matti Silveri, S Masuda, Vasilii Sevriuk, K-Y Tan, Mate Jenei, Eric Hyyppa, Fabian Hassler, Matti Partanen, Jan Goetz, Russell Lake, Leif Gronberg, Mikko Mottonen
The shift of the energy levels of a quantum system owing to broadband electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations-the Lamb shift-has been central for the development of quantum electrodynamics and for the understanding of atomic spectra. Identifying the origin of

Metrological and legal traceability of time signals

March 1, 2019
Author(s)
Michael Lombardi, Demetrios Matsakis, Judah Levine
Metrological traceability requires an unbroken chain of calibrations that relate to a reference, with each calibration having a documented measurement uncertainty. In the field of time and frequency metrology, the desired reference is usually Coordinated

Switchable detector array scheme to reduce the effect of single-photon detector's deadtime in a multi-bit/photon quantum link

February 25, 2019
Author(s)
Cong Liu, YONGXIONG Ren, Jiapeng Zhao, MOHAMMAD MIRHOSSEINI, SEYED RAFSANJANI, GUODONG XIE, Kai Pang, Zhe Zhao, Long Li, Joshua Bienfang, Alan L. Migdall, Todd Brun, Moshe Tur, Robert Boyd, Alan Wilner
We explore the use of a switchable single-photon detector (SPD) array to reduce the effect of individual SPDs' deadtime for a multi-bit/photon quantum link such as M-orbital-angular-momentum (OAM)-encoded one. Our method uses 􀡺 SPDs with a controllable 􀡹 ×

EBIT Observation of Low Charge State Ar Dielectronic Recombination Features Near the Unknown Faint X-Ray Feature Found in the Stacked Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters

February 20, 2019
Author(s)
A. Gall, A. Foster, R. Silwal, Joan M. Dreiling, A. Borovik, E. Kilgore, M. Ajello, John Gillaspy, Yuri Ralchenko, Endre Takacs
Motivated by possible atomic origins of the unidentified emission line detected at 3.55 keV - 3.57 keV in a stacked spectrum of galaxy clusters (Bulbul et al. 2014), an electron beam ion trap (EBIT) was used to investigate resonant dielectronic

Modeling near ground-state cooling of two-dimensional ion crystals in a Penning trap using electromagnetically induced transparency

February 7, 2019
Author(s)
Athreya Shankar, Elena Jordan, Kevin Gilmore, Arghavan Safavi-Naini, John J. Bollinger, Murray Holland
Penning traps, with their ability to control planar crystals of tens to hundreds of ions, are versatile quantum simulators. Thermal occupations of the motional drumhead modes, transverse to the plane of the ion crystal, degrade the quality of quantum

Near ground-state cooling of two-dimensional trapped-ion crystals with more than 100 ions

February 7, 2019
Author(s)
Judith Elena Jordan, Kevin A. Gilmore, Athreya Shankar, Arghavan Safari-Naini, Justin G. Bohnet, Murray Holland, John J. Bollinger
We study, both experimentally and theoretically, electromagnetically induced transparency cooling of the axial drumhead modes of 2-dimensional arrays with up to N 190 Be+ ions stored in a Penning trap. Substantial sub-Doppler cooling is observed for all N

Calculation of the impulse response and phase noise of a high-current photodetector using the drift-diffusion equations

February 4, 2019
Author(s)
Franklyn Quinlan, Seyed Ehsan Jamali Mahabadi, Shaokang Wang, Thomas F. Carruthers, Curtis R. Menyuk, Meredith N. Hutchinson, Jason D. McKinney, Keith J. Williams
We describe a procedure to calculate the impulse response and phase noise of high-current photodetectors using the drift-diffusion equations while avoiding computationally expensive Monte Carlo simulations. We apply this procedure to a modified uni

Field-Polarization Sensitivity in rf Atomic Magnetometers

February 4, 2019
Author(s)
Vladislav P. Gerginov
We demonstrate the sensitivity of an optically-pumped atomic RF magnetometer to the polarization state of the detected RF magnetic field, and measure 33 dB difference in amplitude sensitivity for opposite circular field polarizations. This sensitivity

First observation with global network of optical atomic clocks aimed for a dark matter detection

January 30, 2019
Author(s)
P. Wcislo, P. Ablewski, Kyle Beloy, S. Bilicki, M. Bober, Roger Brown, Robert J. Fasano, R. Ciurylo, H. Hachisu, T. Ido, J. Lodewyck, Andrew Ludlow, Will McGrew, P. Morzynski, Daniele Nicolodi, Marco Schioppo, M. Sekido, R. Le Targat, P. Wolf, Xiaogang Zhang, B. Zjawin, M. Zawada
We report on the first earth-scale quantum sensor network based on optical atomic clocks aimed at dark matter (DM) detection. Exploiting differences in the susceptibilities to the fine- structure constant of essential parts of an optical atomic clock, i.e

Rethinking Timekeeping for Modern IT Solutions

January 28, 2019
Author(s)
Son VoBa, Charles L. Ulland, Michael Lombardi, Arno Lentfer
Advances in processor performance and virtualization technologies, together with complexities of operating systems (OS) and software defined networking, have outpaced legacy network-based solutions for keeping system clocks accurate across geographic

The quantum Zeno paradox, 42 years on

January 25, 2019
Author(s)
Wayne M. Itano
The term 'quantum Zeno paradox' or 'quantum Zeno effect' refers to the slowing down of the evolution of a quantum system as it is observed more and more frequently. In 1977, Misra and Sudarshan gave a theoretical demonstration of its existence. There has

Trapped Ion Quantum Information Processing with Squeezed Phonons

January 24, 2019
Author(s)
Wenchao Ge, Brian Sawyer, Joseph W. Britton, Kurt Jacobs, John Bollinger, Michael Foss-Feig
Trapped ions offer a pristine platform for quantum computation and simulation, but improving their coherence remains a crucial challenge. Here, we propose and analyze a new strategy to enhance the coherent interactions in trapped-ion systems via parametric
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