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Semiclassical catastrophes in the dynamics of a quantum rotor (molecule) driven by a strong time-varying field are considered. We show that for strong enough fields, a sharp peak in the rotor angular distribution can be achieved via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Sh. Averbukh , R. Arvieu , M. Leibscher

Coherent manipulation of quantum bits (qubits) on time scales much shorter than the coherence time is a key prerequisite for quantum information processing. Electron spins in quantum dots (QDs) are particularly attractive for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-10-03 A. Greilich , Sophia E. Economou , S. Spatzek , D. R. Yakovlev , D. Reuter , A. D. Wieck , T. L. Reinecke , M. Bayer

We propose an approach for studying quantum information and performing high resolution spectroscopy of rotational states of trapped molecular ions using an on-chip superconducting microwave resonator. Molecular ions have several advantages…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-05-24 D. I. Schuster , Lev S. Bishop , I. L. Chuang , D. DeMille , R. J. Schoelkopf

Rotations of microscale rigid bodies exhibit pronounced quantum phenomena that do not exist for their center-of-mass motion. By levitating nanoparticles in ultra-high vacuum, researchers are developing a promising platform for observing and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-02 Benjamin A. Stickler , Klaus Hornberger , M. S. Kim

The accurate radio frequency (RF) ranging and localizing of objects has benefited the researches including autonomous driving, the Internet of Things, and manufacturing. Quantum receivers have been proposed to detect the radio signal with…

Generation and detection of structured light have recently been the subject of intense study, aiming to realize high-capacity optical storage and continuous-variable quantum technologies. Here, we present a scheme to extract the orbital…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Seyedeh Hamideh Kazemi , Mohammad Mahmoudi

A rotor system, having the symmetry afforded by the two-parameter quantum algebra Uqp(u(2)), is investigated in this communication. This system is useful in rotational spectroscopy of molecules and nuclei. In particular, it is shown to lead…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2007-05-23 R. Barbier , M. Kibler

We demonstrate the coherent transfer of the orbital angular momentum of a photon to an atom in quantized units of hbar, using a 2-photon stimulated Raman process with Laguerre-Gaussian beams to generate an atomic vortex state in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. F. Andersen , C. Ryu , Pierre Clade , V. Natarajan , A. Vaziri , K. Helmerson , W. D. Phillips

We present a theory describing interaction of structured light, such as light carrying orbital angular momentum, with molecules. The light-matter interaction Hamiltonian we derive is expressed through couplings between spherical gradients…

The identification of orbital angular momentum (OAM) as a fundamental property of a beam of light nearly twenty-five years ago has led to an extensive body of research around this topic. The possibility that single photons can carry OAM has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-10 Mario Krenn , Mehul Malik , Manuel Erhard , Anton Zeilinger

We consider ultracold atoms trapped in a toroidal trap with an azimuthal lattice for utility as a macroscopic simulator of quantum optics phenomena. We examine the dynamics induced by the adiabatic introduction of the lattice that serves to…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-02-03 Caelan Brooks , Allison Brattley , Kunal K. Das

We propose and computationally study a method for simultaneously orienting the angular momentum of asymmetric top molecules along: 1) a laboratory-fixed direction; 2) the molecular intermediate moment of inertia axis; 3) the laser field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-21 Emil J. Zak

Conventional information processors freely convert information between different physical carriers to process, store, or transmit information. It seems plausible that quantum information will also be held by different physical carriers in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-21 Yiheng Lin , David R. Leibrandt , Dietrich Leibfried , Chin-wen Chou

We investigate experimentally the effect of quantum resonance in the rotational excitation of the simplest quantum rotor - a diatomic molecule. By using the techniques of high-resolution femtosecond pulse shaping and rotational…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 S. Zhdanovich , C. Bloomquist , J. Floß , I. Sh. Averbukh , J. W. Hepburn , V. Milner

The quantum kicked rotor (QKR) map is embedded into a continuous unitary transformation generated by a time-independent quasi-Hamiltonian. In some vicinity of a quantum resonance of order $q$, we relate the problem to the {\it regular}…

chao-dyn · Physics 2013-01-16 V. V. Sokolov , O. V. Zhirov , D. Alonso , G. Casati

We show theoretically that it is possible to trap and cool the rotational motion of a macroscopic mirror made of a perfectly reflecting spiral phase element using orbital angular momentum transfer from a Laguerre-Gaussian optical field.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Bhattacharya , P. Meystre

Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) beam has orbital angular momentum (OAM). A particle trapped in an LG beam will rotate about the beam axis, due to the transfer of OAM. The rotation of the particle is usually in the same direction as that of the beam…

Optics · Physics 2020-04-15 Yang Li , Lei-Ming Zhou , Nan Zhao

The optically levitated particles have been driven to rotate at an ultra-high speed of GHz, and the gyroscopic application of these levitated particles to measure angular motion have long been explored. However, this gyroscope has not been…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-19 Kai Zeng , Xiangming Xu , Yulie Wu , Xuezhong Wu , Dingbang Xiao

We present a quantum optics-based detection method for determining the position and current of an electron beam. As electrons pass through a dilute vapor of rubidium atoms, their magnetic field perturb the atomic spin's quantum state and…

The manipulation and metrology of light beams are pivotal for optical science and applications. In particular, achieving ultra-high precision in the measurement of light beam rotations has been a long-standing challenge. Instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Binke Xia , Jingzheng Huang , Hongjing Li , Zhongyuan Luo , Guihua Zeng