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We present measurements of Stark interference in the 6$^1S_0$ $\rightarrow$ 6$^3P_1$ transition in $^{199}$Hg, a process whereby a static electric field $E$ mixes magnetic dipole and electric quadrupole couplings into an electric dipole…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 T. H. Loftus , M. D. Swallows , W. C. Griffith , M. V. Romalis , B. R. Heckel , E. N. Fortson

We propose a method to perform precision measurements of the interaction parameters in systems of N ultra-cold spin 1/2 atoms. The spectroscopy is realized by first creating a coherent spin superposition of the two relevant internal states…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 A. M. Rey , L. Jiang , M. D. Lukin

We describe a spin interferometer using ultracold YbF molecules and develop the complete set of techniques needed to measure the electron's electric dipole moment, $d_e$, with this apparatus. The molecules are cooled in an optical molasses…

A Mach-Zender interferometer with a gaussian number-difference squeezed input state can exhibit sub-shot-noise phase resolution over a large phase-interval. We obtain the optimal level of squeezing for a given phase-interval…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Y. P. Huang , M. G. Moore

We study the periodic potential of one-dimensional optical lattice originated from scalar shift and vector shift by manipulating the lattice polarizations. The ac Stark shift of optical lattice is measured by Kapitza-Dirac scattering of…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-12-15 Kai Wen , Zengming Meng , Liangwei Wang , Liangchao Chen , Lianghui Huang , Pengjun Wang , Jing Zhang

We study a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) in a double-well potential subject to an unsharp continuous measurement of the atom number in one of the two wells. We investigate the back action of the measurement on the quantum dynamics and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-25 Moritz Hiller , Magnus Rehn , Francesco Petruccione , Andreas Buchleitner , Thomas Konrad

We propose a scheme to reconstruct the state of a two-mode Bose-Einstein condensate, with a given total number of atoms, using an atom interferometer that requires beam splitter, phase shift and non-ideal atom counting operations. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 Eric L. Bolda , Sze M. Tan , Dan F. Walls

We propose to use the antisqueezing-enhanced non-Gaussian Schr\"odinger cat quantum states of the probing light for the task of detection of a given phase shift in optical interferometers. We show that the antisqueezing allows to increase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 V. L. Gorshenin , K. D. Dyadkin , S. D. Chikalkin

Nonlinear interferometers that replace beamsplitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing interest in recent years, but practical quantum sensors based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-01 R. C. Pooser , N. Savino , E. Batson , J. L. Beckey , J. Garcia , B. J. Lawrie

The spin excitations from the nonmagnetic charge-ordered insulating state of $\alpha$-(BEDT-TTF)$_2$I$_3$ at ambient pressure have been investigated by probing the static and low-frequency dynamic spin susceptibilities via site-selective…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-09-08 Kyohei Ishikawa , Michihiro Hirata , Dong Liu , Kazuya Miyagawa , Masafumi Tamura , Kazushi Kanoda

We have measured the Stark shift of the $A^2\Pi_{1/2} - X^2\Sigma^+$ transition in YbF. We use a molecular beam triple resonance method, with two laser transitions acting as pump and probe, assisted by an rf transition that tags a single…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. C. Condylis , J. J. Hudson , M. R. Tarbutt , B. E. Sauer , E. A. Hinds

We study the chirality of ground-state alkali atoms in E and B fields, dressed with a circularly-polarized laser beam close-detuned from an E-field-assisted forbidden transition, such as 7S-8S in Fr. We predict a parity violating energy…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Marie-Anne Bouchiat

We discuss the properties of two Bose-Einstein condensates in different spin states, represented quantum mechanically by a double Fock state. Individual measurements of the spins of the particles are performed in transverse directions…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-18 Franck Laloë , William J. Mullin

The comagnetometer has been one of the most sensitive devices with which to test new physics related to spin-dependent interactions, but the comagnetometers based on overlapping ensembles of multiple spin species usually suffer from…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-11-09 Zhiguo Wang , Xiang Peng , Rui Zhang , Hui Luo , Jiajia Li , Zhiqiang Xiong , Shanshan Wang , Hong Guo

Trapped ions naturally host multiple motional modes alongside long-lived spin qubits, providing a scalable multimode bosonic register. Efficiently characterizing such bosonic registers requires the ability to access many motional modes with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-09 Wonhyeong Choi , Jiyong Kang , Kyunghye Kim , Jaehun You , Kyungmin Lee , Taehyun Kim

We realize a double-path multimode matter wave interferometer with spinor Bose-Einstein condensate and observe clear spatial interference fringes as well as a periodic change of the visibility in the time domain, which we refer to as the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-02-06 Pengju Tang , Xiangyu Dong , Wenjun Zhang , Yunhong Li , Xuzong Chen , Xiaoji Zhou

Atoms are not two-level systems, and their rich internal structure often leads to complex phenomena in the presence of light. Here, we analyze off-resonant light scattering including the full hyperfine and magnetic structure. We find a set…

Nonlinear magnetic interactions provide access to complex quantum spin dynamics and thus enable the study of intriguing physical phenomena. However, these interactions are often dominated by the linear Zeeman effect, which can complicate…

Interferometers measure a wide variety of dynamic processes by converting a phase change into an intensity change. Nonlinear interferometers, making use of nonlinear media in lieu of beamsplitters, promise substantial improvement in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-16 Joseph M. Lukens , Nicholas A. Peters , Raphael C. Pooser

We study the feasibility of sub-shot-noise interferometry with imperfect detectors, starting from twin-Fock states and two mode squeezed vacuum states. We derive analytical expressions for the corresponding phase uncertainty. We find that…