News

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).

News type: Research Highlights

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).

News type: Research Highlights

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).

News type: Research Highlights

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).

News type: Research Highlights

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).

News type: Research Highlights

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).

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2008

Crystallization of Strongly Interacting Photons in a Nonlinear Optical Fibre

D. E. Chang, V. Gritsev, G. Morigi, V. Vuletic, M. D. Lukin, and E. Demler, Crystallization of Strongly Interacting Photons in a Nonlinear Optical Fibre, Nature Physics 4, 884-889 (2008).

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2008

Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Coupled Double-Well Superlattices

P. Barmettler, A. M. Rey, E. Demler, M. D. Lukin, I. Bloch, and V. Gritsev, Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Coupled Double-Well Superlattices, Phys. Rev. A 78, 012330 (2008).

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2008

When you can?t find a partner on a dance floor

Pairing of electrons can dramatically change the properties of materials. When electrons flow in a normal conductor, they feel friction, which causes resistance and heating. At very low temperature, however, electrons can form pairs and flow without friction, forming a superconductor. Superconductivity is very similar to superfluidity, but involves charged particles. Pairing of unequal partners, in the case above of electrons with spin up and spin down, is the essence of the transition to a superfluid state. At high temperature, the pairs break up and superfluidity is lost.

News type: Research Highlights

Tue, January 1, 2008

Time-Resolved Observation and control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices

S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Foelling, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, A. M. Rey, A. Polkovnikov, E. Demler, M. D. Lukin, and I. Bloch, Time-Resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices, Science 319, 295-299 (2008).

News type: Research Highlights