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Search Publications by: William D. Phillips (Fed)

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Optical Manipulation of Atoms at the Nanoscale

August 11, 2003
Author(s)
William D. Phillips
These notes are to provide an outline of a lecture presented at the Enrico Fermi Summer School at Nanoscale Science, held in Varenna in July 2000. They are not intended as a complete account of that lecture, but as an indication of the topics covered and a

Quantum Information With Neutral Atoms as Qubits

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
James V. Porto, S L. Rolston, B L. Tolra, Carl J. Williams, William D. Phillips
Neutral atoms trapped in periodic optical potentials (optical lattices) offer a possible route toward quantum computation. The atoms can be kept well isolated from the environment, yet can be easily manipulated with the tools of atomic physics. This paper

Quantum Information With Neutral Atoms as Quibits

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
James V. Porto, S L. Rolston, B L. Tolra, Carl J. Williams, William D. Phillips
One of the essential features of a quantum computer is a quantum register of well-characterized qubits. Neural atoms in optical lattices are a natural candidate for such a register. We have demonstrated a pattern loading technique that can be used to load

Patterned Loading of a Bose-Einstein Condensate Into an Optical Lattice

May 1, 2003
Author(s)
S P. Peil, James V. Porto, B L. Tolra, J Obrecht, B E. King, M Subbotin, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We have developed a technique to control the placement of atoms in an optical lattice by using a superlattice comprising two separately manipulated, periodic optical potentials with commensurate periods. We demonstrate selective loading of Bose-condensed

A Bose-Einstein Condensate in an Optical Lattice

July 1, 2002
Author(s)
J Denschlag, J E. Simsarian, H Heffner, C R. McKenzie, A Browaeys, D Cho, Kristian Helmerson, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We have performed a number of experiments with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a one dimensional optical lattice. Making use of the small momentum spread of a BEC and standard atom optics techniques a high level of coherent control over an artifical

Nonlinear and Quantum Atom Optics

March 1, 2002
Author(s)
S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
Coherent matter waves in the form of Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) have led to the development of non-linear and quantum atom optics, the deBroglie-wave analogs to non-linear and quantum optics with light. Four-wave mixing of matter waves and

Photoassociation of Sodium in a Bose-Einstein Condensate

March 1, 2002
Author(s)
C R. McKenzie, J Denschlag, H Heffner, A Browaeys, L E. de Araujo, F K. Fatemi, Kevin Jones, J E. Simsarian, D Cho, A Simoni, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne, Kristian Helmerson, Paul D. Lett, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We report on the formation of ultra-cold Na2 molecules using single-photon photoassociation of a Bose-Einstein condensate. The photoassociation rate, linewidth and light shift of the J = 1, v = 135 vibrational level of the A^1)Sigma^+_u molecular bound

Atom Optics

January 1, 2002
Author(s)
M Prentiss, William D. Phillips, Editors

Photoassociation of sodium in a BEC

January 1, 2002
Author(s)
C R. McKenzie, J H. Denschlag, H Haffner, A Browaeys, L E. de Araujo, F K. Fatemi, Kevin Jones, J E. Simsarian, D Cho, Andrea Simoni, Eite Tiesinga, Paul S. Julienne, Kristian Helmerson, Paul D. Lett, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips

Dynamical Tunnelling of Ultracold Atoms

July 1, 2001
Author(s)
W K. Hensinger, H Heffner, A Browaeys, N R. Heckenberg, Kristian Helmerson, C R. McKenzie, G J. Milburn, William D. Phillips, S L. Rolston, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, B Upcroft
Nowhere does the divergence of the quantum and classical descriptions of particle motion become more apparent than in quantum tunneling between two regions of classically stable motion. An archetype of such nonclassical motion, studied since the earlies

A U.S. Laser-Cooled Atomic-Clock System for Space

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
Donald Sullivan, Thomas P. Heavner, Leo W. Hollberg, D Meekhof, Thomas E. Parker, William D. Phillips, S L. Rolston, Hugh Robinson, Jon H. Shirley, F L. Walls, Neil Ashby, W Kepstein, L Maleki, D Seidel, R Q. Thompson, S Wu, L Young, R Vessot, E Mattison, A Demarchi

Dynamical Tunneling of Ultracold Atoms

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
W K. Hensinger, H Haeffner, A Browaeys, N R. Heckenberg, Kristian Helmerson, C R. McKenzie, William D. Phillips, S L. Rolston, H Rubinsztein-Dunlop, B Upcroft

The Atom Laser

January 1, 2001
Author(s)
Edward W. Hagley, Lu Deng, William D. Phillips, K Burnett, Charles W. Clark

Imaging the Phase of an Evolving Bose-Einstein Condensate Wave Function

September 1, 2000
Author(s)
J E. Simsarian, J Denschlag, M Edwards, Charles W. Clark, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Kristian Helmerson, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We demonstrate a spatially resolved autocorrelation measurement with a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and measure the evolution of the spatial profile of its quantum mechanical phase. After releasing the BEC from the magnetic trap, the phase develops a

Coherence Properties of an Atom Laser

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
M Trippenbach, Y B. Band, M Edwards, M R. Doery, Paul S. Julienne, Edward W. Hagley, Lu Deng, M M. Kozuma, Kristian Helmerson, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
We study the coherence properties of an atom laser, which operates by extracting atoms from a gaseous Bose-Einstein condensate via a two-photon Raman process, by analyzing a recent experiment [(Hagley et al., submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett. (1999)]. We

Generating Solitons by Phase Engineering of a Bose-Einstein Condensate

January 1, 2000
Author(s)
J Denschlag, J E. Simsarian, D L. Feder, Charles W. Clark, L A. Collins, J Cubizolles, Lu Deng, Edward W. Hagley, Kristian Helmerson, W P. Reinhardt, S L. Rolston, B I. Schneider, William D. Phillips
We demonstrate quantum phase engineering using two novel techniques that allow us to write and read the spatial phase of a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC). We design and produce a quantum state by optically imprinting phasepatterns onto a condensate of