U.S. flag

An official website of the United States government

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

Physics

Search Publications

Search Title, Abstract, Conference, Citation, Keyword or Author
  • Published Date
Displaying 176 - 200 of 4525

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

ASTRA: a Transition-Density-Matrix Approach to Molecular Ionization

November 3, 2023
Author(s)
Luca Argenti, Juan Martin Randazzo, carlos maranthe, Jeppe Olsen, Siddhartha Chattopadhyay, Barry I. Schneider
We describe ASTRA (AttoSecond TRAnsitions), a new close-coupling approach to molecular ionization that uses many-body transition density matrices between ionic states with arbitrary spin and symmetry, in combination with hybrid integrals between Gaussian

Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detector Arrays for the Near- to Mid-Infrared

October 31, 2023
Author(s)
Benedikt Hampel, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Varun Verma
Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors (SNSPDs) are excellent devices for the analysis of faint light from the ultraviolet to the mid-infrared. Recent developments push their broad wavelength bandwidth further into the mid-infrared towards 20 μm

A superconducting nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels

October 25, 2023
Author(s)
Bakhrom Oripov, Dana Rampini, Jason Allmaras, Matt Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Boris Korzh, Adam McCaughan
For the past 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of applications. These detectors operate at very low temperatures and generate a minimum of excess

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

Activation loop plasticity and active site coupling in the MAP kinase, ERK2

October 6, 2023
Author(s)
Laurel Pegram, Demian Riccardi, NATALIE AHN
Previous studies of the protein kinase, ERK2, using NMR and hydrogen-exchange measurements have shown changes in dynamics accompanying its activation by phosphorylation. However, knowledge about the conformational motions involved is incomplete. Here, we

Harmonic dependence of thermal magnetic particle imaging

September 22, 2023
Author(s)
Thinh Bui, Mark-Alexander Henn, Weston L. Tew, Megan Catterton, Solomon I. Woods
Advances in instrumentation and tracer materials are still required to enable sensitive and accurate 3D temperature monitoring by magnetic particle imaging. We have developed a magnetic particle imaging instrument to observe temperature variations using

High accuracy, high dynamic range optomechanical accelerometry enabled by dual comb spectroscopy

September 20, 2023
Author(s)
David Long, Jasper Stroud, Benjamin Reschovsky, Yiliang Bao, Feng Zhou, Thomas W. LeBrun, David Plusquellic, Jason Gorman, Sean Bresler
Cavity optomechanical sensors offer exceptional sensitivity but interrogating the cavity motion with high accuracy and dynamic range has proven to be challenging. Here we employ a dual optical frequency comb spectrometer to readout a cavity optomechanical