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Simple experimental methods for trapped-ion quantum processors
Published 1998“…The second technique is laser cooling to the vibrational ground state, without the need for a trap operating in the Lamb-Dicke limit. …”
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Detection of atomic entanglement and electromagnetically induced transparency in velocity-selective coherent population trapping
Published 2005“…We investigate theoretically the optical properties of an atomic gas that has been cooled by the laser cooling method of velocity-selective coherent population trapping. …”
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Optomechanical Control of Atoms and Molecules
Published 2010“…A central tenet of optomechanics is the laser cooling of a moving mirror, typically an end mirror of a Fabry-Perot resonator, to a point near its quantum-mechanical ground state of vibration. …”
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Isotope-selective photoionization for calcium ion trapping
Published 2004“…The results show that loading and laser cooling of all the natural occuring isotopes can be achieved without the enriched sources, except in the case of rare species of calcium.…”
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Laser system for an atomic gravimeter.
Published 2013“…We first discuss the mathamatics behind the Two Level Atom and give theoretical understanding behind the concept of laser cooling. The theoretical aspects of the Doppler Free Saturation Absorption Spectroscopy were then discussed. …”
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Dark-state cooling of atoms by superfluid immersion.
Published 2006“…The protocol is inspired by ideas from dark-state laser cooling but replaces electronic states with motional levels and spontaneous emission of photons by emission of phonons into a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which the lattice is immersed. …”
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Quantum jump calculations of velocity-selective coherent population trapping in one and two dimensions
Published 1995“…Velocity-selective coherent population trapping is a technique for laser-cooling atoms to below the recoil limit where the momenta of the atoms and photons in the light field are equal. …”
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Single-atom trapping and transport in DMD-controlled optical tweezers
Published 2018“…We show the trapping of static arrays of up to 20 atoms, as well as transport of individually selected atoms over a distance of 25 µm with laser cooling and 4 µm without. We discuss the limitations of the technique and the scope for technical improvements.…”
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Towards quantum control over macroscopic distances : compact loading of rubidium atoms for a 2-dimensional magneto optical trap
Published 2019“…The physical properties of Rb-85 and information on laser cooling and magneto optical trapping are also covered. …”
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Zeeman slowing of a group-III atom
Published 2022-03-01“…Despite the fact that our atom of choice (namely indium) does not have a ground state cycling transition suitable for laser cooling, slowing is achieved by driving the transition |5P_{3/2},F=6〉→|5D_{5/2},F=7〉, where the lower-energy state is metastable. …”
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Single-atom trapping and transport in DMD-controlled optical tweezers
Published 2018-01-01“…We show the trapping of static arrays of up to 20 atoms, as well as transport of individually selected atoms over a distance of 25 μ m with laser cooling and 4 μ m without. We discuss the limitations of the technique and the scope for technical improvements.…”
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Ultracold collisions of polyatomic molecules: CaOH
Published 2019-01-01“…The computed rate constants suggest that evaporative cooling can be quite efficient for these species, provided they start at temperatures achievable by laser cooling. The rate constants are shown to become more favorable for evaporative cooling as the electric field increases. …”
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Observation of the p-wave shape resonance in atom-molecule collisions
Published 2022-10-01“…This measurement was enabled by the reduction of the lowest collision energy achieved without laser cooling, using the phase-space correlation in cold molecular beams. …”
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Dark-state cooling of atoms by superfluid immersion
Published 2006“…The protocol is inspired by ideas from dark-state laser cooling but replaces electronic states with motional levels and spontaneous emission of photons by emission of phonons into a Bose-Einstein condensate, in which the lattice is immersed. …”
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Axiomatics of the Observer Manifold and Relativity
Published 2023-02-01“…This appears to be relevant in any situation where gravitational fields in remote locations have to be measured on Earth, such as the detection of gravitational waves, or when high accelerations are involved, such as in electron radiation or laser cooling.…”
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Resonance Raman optical cycling for high-fidelity fluorescence detection of molecules
Published 2021-12-01“…This general technique represents a powerful tool for high-fidelity fluorescence detection of molecules and is particularly well suited to molecular laser cooling and trapping experiments.…”
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Non-equilibrium quantum heat machines
Published 2015-01-01“…Such situations are important, for example in solar cells, chemical machines in biology, various realizations of laser cooling or nanoscopic machines driven by laser radiation. …”
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Eliminating light shifts for single atom trapping
Published 2017-01-01“…The light shifts of atomic levels from the trapping potential in these systems can result in detrimental effects such as fluctuating dipole force heating, inhomogeneous detunings, and inhibition of laser cooling, which limits the atomic species that can be manipulated. …”
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Quantum transport of energy in controlled synthetic quantum magnets
Published 2016-01-01“…We introduce a theoretical scheme that exploits laser cooling and phonon-mediated spin–spin interactions in crystals of trapped atomic ions to explore the transport of energy through a quantum magnet. …”
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AlF–AlF Reaction Dynamics between 200 K and 1000 K: Reaction Mechanisms and Intermediate Complex Characterization
Published 2023-12-01“…Additionally, AlF presents diagonal Franck-Condon factors and can be created very efficiently in the lab, which makes it a prototypical molecular for laser cooling. However, very little is known about the reaction dynamics of AlF. …”
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