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Thu January 1, 2009

A quantum gas microscope for detecting single atoms in a Hubbard-regime optical lattice

For the first time it was possible to observe single atoms in an optical lattice, where particles can tunnel from site to site.  An optical lattice is a crystals made of light that can be used to trap atoms at very low temperatures, creating a test bed for fundamental properties of crystalline materials. This research is part of a program on studying novel quantum matter using ultracold quantum gases. The work is led by Markus Greiner, Assistant Professor of Physics, principal investigator at Harvard and member at the NSF funded Harvard-MIT “Center for Ultracold Atoms”.

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Thu January 1, 2009

Demonstration of resolved sideband cavity cooling of a single ion

This is joint work with Vladan Vuletic.
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Thu January 1, 2009

Intense Atomic and Molecular Beams via Neon Buffer gas Cooling

D. Patterson, J. Rasmussen and J.M. Doyle, New Journal of Physics submitted (2009)
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Tue January 1, 2008

Magnetic Sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond

J. R. Maze, P. L. Stanwix, J. S. Hodges, S. Hong, J. M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Jiang, G. Dutt, E. Togan, A. S. Zibrov, A. Yacoby, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin, Magnetic Sensing with an individual electronic spin in diamond, Nature 455, 644-647 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Microfabricated Ion Trap Systems for Quantum Simulations

We have developed and tested a generation of ion traps, for the purpose of quantum information science and quantum simulations. These traps are based on semiconductor lithography, fabricated at MIT, and operated at liquid helium temperature. The traps enable systematic study of the behavior of the quantum state of trapped ions, near the surface of...
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Tue January 1, 2008

Magnetic trapping of silver and copper, and anomalous spin relaxation in the Ag-He system

M. T. Hummon, W. Campbell, H. Lu, Y. Wang, and J. M. Doyle, Magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen and cotrapping of NH, Phys. Rev. Lett. 78, 050702 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Spin Squeezing on an Atomic Clock Transition

Atomic clocks, the most accurate instruments ever developed, can now operate at the Standard Quantum Limit; their uncertainty dominated by the uncorrelated projection of individual atoms into eigenstates.  Using entanglement, quantum mechanics allows one to correlate the atoms so as to redistribute or squeeze such quantum noise, reducing the uncertainty in a variable of interest.
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Tue January 1, 2008

Precision Measurement of Long Radiative Lifetimes Using Trapped Molecules

Time-Domain Measurement of Spontaneous Vibrational Decay of Magnetically Trapped NH, W.C. Campbell, G.C. Groenenboom, H. Lu, E. Tsikata, J.M. Doyle. Phys Rev Lett 100, 083003 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Collisions of Ultracold Shaped Atoms in an Optical Trap

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Tue January 1, 2008

Quantum Spin Dynamics of Mode-Squeezed Luttinger Liquids in Two-Component Atomic Gases

A. Widera, S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Foelling, F. Gerbier, M. D. Lukin, E. Demler, I. Bloch, and V. Gritsev, Quantum Spin Dynamics of Mode-Squeezed Luttinger Liquids in Two-Component Atomic Gases, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 140401 (2008).
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