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The behavior of a single molecule driven simultaneously by a laser and by an electric radio frequency field is investigated using a non-Hermitian Hamiltonian approach. Employing the renormalization group method for differential equations we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Igor Rozhkov , E. Barkai

We investigate temperature-dependent spectral properties of a single defect in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We observe a sharp zero-phonon line (ZPL) emission accompanied by Stokes and anti-Stokes optical phonon sidebands assisted by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-05-14 Ozan Arı , Nahit Polat , Volkan Fırat , Özgür Çakır , Serkan Ates

We report a method using scanning tunnelling microscope single molecular break junction to simultaneously measure and correlate the single-molecule thermopower and electrical conductance. In contrast to previously reported approaches, it…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-09-24 Joseph M. Hamill , Christopher Weaver , Tim Albrecht

We present a single-photon-sensitive spectrometer, based on a linear array of 512 single-photon avalanche diode detectors, with 0.04 nm spectral and 40 ps temporal resolutions. We employ a fast data-driven operation that allows direct…

A 790-nm-driven high-harmonic generation source with a repetition rate of 6 kHz is combined with a toroidal-grating monochromator and a high-detection-efficiency photoelectron time-of-flight momentum microscope to enable time- and…

Thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) has emerged as a leading platform for large-scale programmable photonic circuits for quantum and classical applications. As circuits scale in complexity, low-loss routing of broadband pump and signal fields…

Ultrathin antiferromagnetic CoO(001)-(1x1) films of 2 and 4 monolayers (ML) on Ag(001) are investigated by time- and angle-resolved two-photon photoelectron (2PPE) spectroscopy. Pump-probe spectra show unoccupied states between 3.6 and…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-05-19 Mathias Augstein , Friederike Wührl , Konrad Gillmeister , Cheng-Tien Chiang , Wolf Widdra

We report on spectroscopy and time-of-flight measurements using an 18 keV fast-pulsed photoelectron source of adjustable intensity, ranging from single photoelectrons per pulse to 5 photoelectrons per microsecond at pulse repetition rates…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-06-19 K. Valerius , M. Beck , H. Arlinghaus , J. Bonn , V. M. Hannen , H. Hein , B. Ostrick , S. Streubel , Ch. Weinheimer , M. Zboril

Single photonic applications - such as quantum key distribution - rely on the transmission of single photons, and require the ultimate sensitivity that an optical detector can achieve. Single-photon detectors must convert the energy of an…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2009-11-13 C. Zinoni , B. Alloing , L. H. Li , F. Marsili , L. Lunghi , A. Gerardino , Yu. B. Vakhtomin , K. V. Smirnov , G. N. Gol'tsman , A. Fiore

Qubit coherence times are critical to the performance of any robust quantum computing platform. For quantum information processing using arrays of polar molecules, a key performance parameter is the molecular rotational coherence time. We…

Time-domain analysis of harmonic fields with sub-cycle resolution is now experimentally viable due to the emergence of sensitive, on-chip techniques for petahertz-scale optical-field sampling. We demonstrate how such a time-domain,…

Organic molecules have recently gained attention as novel sources of single photons. We present a joint experiment--theory analysis of the temperature-dependent emission spectra, zero-phonon linewidth, and second-order correlation function…

The atomic spectra and structure of the open d- and f-shell elements are extremely complex, where tens of thousands of transitions between fine structure energy levels can be observed as spectral lines across the infrared and UV per…

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We resolve the real-time electric field of a femtosecond third-order nonlinear optical signal in the molecular frame. The electric field emitted by the induced third-order polarization from impulsively pre-aligned gas-phase molecules at…

We describe a setup of time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-SARPES) employing a 10.7-eV ($\lambda$=115.6 nm) pulse laser at 1-MHz repetition rate as a probe photon source. This equipment effectively combines…

We report a large area photo-diode based homodyne detector for free-space quantum coherent communication. The detector's performance is studied in terms of detection bandwidth and electronic noise for shot-noise limited quantum signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Rupesh Kumar , Igor Konieczniak , Gerald Bonner , Tim Spiller

Single photon emitters are a key component for enabling the practical use of quantum key distribution protocols for secure communications. For long-haul optical networks it is imperative to use photons at wavelengths that are compatible…

The probing of coherent lattice vibrations in solids has been conventionally carried out using time-resolved transient spectroscopy where only the relative oscillation amplitude can be obtained. Using time-resolved X-ray techniques,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-03-25 Jicai Zhang , Ziwen Wang , Frank Lengers , Daniel Wigger , Doris E. Reiter , Tilmann Kuhn , Hans Jakob Wörner , Tran Trung Luu

The electric dipole moment of the electron (eEDM) can be measured with high precision using heavy polar molecules. In this paper, we report on a series of new techniques that have improved the statistical sensitivity of the YbF eEDM…