News: Research Highlights

Thu January 1, 2009

Universal resource state for One-Way Quantum Computations

A fascinating model for quantum computing, other than the traditional quantum circuit model, is the “one-way” model that is based on simply doing single qubit measurements to a fixed, initial entangled quantum state of many qubits.  By feeding back measurement results to control the axis of subsequent measurements, any quantum circuit can be simulated and...
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Thu January 1, 2009

Mechanism of Collisional Spin Relaxation in 3S Molecules

Wesley Campbell, Timur Rscherbul, Hsin-I Lu, Edem Tsikata, Roman Krems, John Doyle, Physical Review Letters 102 013003 (2009)
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Tue January 1, 2008

Determination of the equation of state of a polarized Fermi gas at unitarity

Y. Shin, Determination of the equation of state of a polarized Fermi gas at unitarity, Phys. Rev. A 77, 041603 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Co-trapping of Cold NH Molecules with N Atoms

A frontier in physics with cold polar molecules is the study of paths toward collisional cooling. Here we co-trap an very low polarizability atom along with a very “atom-like” polar molecule. Earlier work with He colliding with NH found that the inelastic processes were highly suppressed due to the small of the NH ground state...
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Tue January 1, 2008

Formation of Deeply Bound Molecules via chainwise adiabatic passage

E. Kuznetsova, P. Pellegrini, R. Côté, M. D. Lukin, and S. Yelin, Formation of Deeply Bound Molecules via chainwise adiabatic passage, Phys. Rev. A 78, 021402 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Realization of a strongly interacting Bose-Fermi mixture from a two-component Fermi gas

Fermions are the fundamental building blocks of matter, whereas bosons emerge as composite particles. The simplest physical system to study the emergence of bosonic behavior is a two-component fermion mixture, where the composite boson is a dimer of the two different fermions.
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Tue January 1, 2008

High-Sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution

J. M. Taylor, P. Cappellaro, L. Childress, L. Jiang, D. Budker, P. R. Hmmer, A. Yacoby, R. L. Walsworth, and M. D. Lukin, High-sensitivity diamond magnetometer with nanoscale resolution, Nature Physics 4, 810-816 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Magnetic trapping of atomic nitrogen and cotrapping of NH

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

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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