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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

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

Optical Bistability at Low Light Level due to Collective Atomic Recoil

M. Vengalattore, M. Hafezi, M. D. Lukin, and M. G. Prentiss, Optical Bistability at Low Light Level due to Collective Atomic Recoil, Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 063901 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Pemories in Atomic Spin Lattices

L. Jiang, G. Brennan, A. Gorshkov, K. Hammerer, M. Hafezi, E. Demler, M. D. Lukin, and P. Zoller, Anyonic Interferometry and Protected Pemories in Atomic Spin Lattices, Nature Physics 4, 482-488 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Coherence of an optically illuminated single nuclear spin qubit

L. Jiang, G. Dutt, E. Togan, L. Childress, P. Cappellaro, J. M. Taylor, and M. D. Lukin, Coherence of an optically illuminated single nuclear spin qubit, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 073001 (2008).
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Tue January 1, 2008

Theoretical Program

We have extended our studies of collisional processes in gases at ultracold and cold temperatures in researches that are responsive to experiments. We have calculated the 2Sg+ and  2Su+ potential curves of the molecular ion Yb2+ and we have obtained the cross-sections for charge exchange of its several isotopes of Yb 2 + in the parent...
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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

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

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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Mon January 1, 2007

A Bright, Guided Molecular Beam With Hydrodynamic Enhancement

Molecular beams form the technological basis for a wide range of chemical and physical studies. We report here an advance in producing cold beams of atoms and molecules with high intensity. This method is general in that it uses helium, an inert gas, to cool species, even refractory and radical molecules. Cold molecular oxygen and...
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