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We study the discrimination of weak coherent states of light with significant overlaps by nondestructive measurements on the light states through measuring atomic states that are entangled to the coherent states via dipole coupling. In this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-20 Rui Han , János A. Bergou , Gerd Leuchs

Theoretical predictions were made for the steady-state gain of an orthogonally polarized probe field in a degenerate two-level alkali atom system driven by a linearly polarized continuous-wave pump field in [Opt. Mem. Neural Networks 32…

We investigate the normal mode spectrum of a trapped ion chain at the symmetry-breaking linear to zigzag transition and at finite temperatures. For this purpose we modulate the amplitude of the Doppler cooling laser in order to excite and…

Quantum metrology promises precision beyond classical limits but environmental noise, unless properly controlled, reduces the quantum advantage to at most a constant improvement. A key challenge is therefore to design quantum control…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-16 Wojciech Gorecki , Christiane P. Koch

We demonstrate discrimination of ground-state hyperfine manifolds of a cesium atom in an optical tweezer using a simple probe beam with 99.91(2)% detection fidelity and 0.9(2)% detection-driven loss of bright state atoms. Our detection…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Matthew N. H. Chow , Bethany J. Little , Yuan-Yu Jau

We demonstrate a Doppler cooling and detection scheme for ions with low-lying D levels which almost entirely suppresses scattered laser light background, while retaining a high fluorescence signal and efficient cooling. We cool a single ion…

We report a precise measurement of hyperfine constants in the $\rm{D_1} $ line ($ \rm {5\,P_{1/2}} $ state) of the two stable isotopes of Rb. The motivation for the work is to try and resolve discrepant values that exists in the literature.…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2017-06-16 Durgesh Datar , Nikhil Kotibhaskar , Sharath Ananthamurthy , Vasant Natarajan

The measurement of Cesium (Cs) 7D5/2 excited state's hyperfine splitting intervals and hyperfine-interaction constants has been experimentally investigated based on ladder-type (852 nm + 698 nm) three-level Cs system (6S1/2 - 6P3/2 - 7D5/2)…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2020-09-14 Zerong Wang , Xiaokai Hou , Jiandong Bai , Junmin Wang

The unusually large hyperfine structure splittings in the 23P state of the 3He isotope is measured using electro-optic techniques with high precision laser spectroscopy. Originally designed to probe the fine structure of the 4He atom, this…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-03-14 Marc Smiciklas

In this work, we implement a new method for imaging ultracold atoms with subwavelength resolution capabilities and determine its regime of validity. It uses the laser driven interaction between excited states to engineer hyperfine ground…

Rydberg atoms, with their giant electric dipole moments and tunable energy-level transitions, offer exceptional potential for microwave (MW) electric field sensing, combining high sensitivity and broad frequency coverage. However,…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-07-14 Yuhan Yan , Bowen Yang , Xuejie Li , Haojie Zhao , Binghong Yu , Jianliao Deng , L. Q. Chen , Huadong Cheng

We report our detailed analysis of a table-top system for the measurement of the weak-force-induced electric dipole moment of a ground state hyperfine transition carried out in an atomic beam geometry. We describe an experimental…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2016-03-09 J. Choi , D. S. Elliott

We consider the fundamental problem of high temperature phase transitions in the system of high density two-level atoms off-resonantly interacting with a pump field in the presence of optical collisions (OCs) and placed in the cavity. OCs…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Yu. Chestnov , A. P. Alodjants , S. M. Arakelian

A velocity-selective spectroscopy technique for studying the spectra from hot Rydberg gases is presented. This method provides high-resolution measurement of the spectrum interval. Based on this method, the velocity-selective hyperfine…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-22 Jun He , Dongliang Pei , Jieying Wang , Junmin Wang

High-precision time-interval measurement is a fundamental technique in many advanced applications, including time and distance metrology, particle physics, and ultra-precision machining. However, many of these applications are confined by…

We have demonstrated a detection scheme for atom laser beams that allows for a continuous measurement of the atom density and readout of the data in real-time. The atoms in the atom laser beam are transferred locally from the lower to the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-07 Michael Köhl , Theodor W. Hänsch , Tilman Esslinger

Advanced techniques for manipulation of internal states, standard in atomic physics, are demonstrated for a charged molecular species for the first time. We address individual hyperfine states of ro-vibrational levels of a diatomic ion by…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2015-05-08 U. Bressel , A. Borodin , J. Shen , M. Hansen , I. Ernsting , S. Schiller

We demonstrate a new technique for measuring the absolute frequencies of atomic transitions. The technique uses a ring-cavity resonator whose length is calibrated using a reference laser locked to the D_2 line in {87}Rb. The frequency of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ayan Banerjee , Dipankar Das , Vasant Natarajan

Two-photon processes that involve different sub-levels of the ground state of an atom, are highly sensitive to depopulation and decoherence within the ground state. For example, the spectral width of electromagnetically induced transparency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-12-12 M. Shuker , O. Firstenberg , Y. Sagi , A. Ben-kish , N. Davidson , A. Ron

We have measured the frequency splitting between the $(2S, F=1/2)$ and $(2S, F=3/2)$ hyperfine sublevels in atomic deuterium by an optical differential method based on two-photon Doppler-free spectroscopy on a cold atomic beam. The result…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Kolachevsky , P. Fendel , S. G. Karshenboim , T. W. Hänsch