Ytterbium nuclear-spin qubits in an optical tweezer array

A Jenkins, JW Lis, A Senoo, WF McGrew, AM Kaufman - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We report on the realization of a fast, scalable, and high-fidelity qubit architecture, based on
Yb 171 atoms in an optical tweezer array. We demonstrate several attractive properties of …

Spontaneous creation of Kibble–Zurek solitons in a Bose–Einstein condensate

G Lamporesi, S Donadello, S Serafini, F Dalfovo… - Nature Physics, 2013 - nature.com
When a system crosses a second-order phase transition on a finite timescale, spontaneous
symmetry breaking can cause the development of domains with independent order …

Lee-Huang-Yang effects in the ultracold mixture of and with attractive interspecies interactions

Z Guo, F Jia, L Li, Y Ma, JM Hutson, X Cui… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
The beyond-mean-field Lee-Huang-Yang (LHY) correction is ubiquitous in dilute ultracold
quantum gases. However, its effects are often elusive due to the typically much larger …

Observation of solitonic vortices in Bose-Einstein condensates

S Donadello, S Serafini, M Tylutki, LP Pitaevskii… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We observe solitonic vortices in an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) after free
expansion. Clear signatures of the nature of such defects are the twisted planar density …

Observation of magnetic solitons in two-component Bose-Einstein condensates

A Farolfi, D Trypogeorgos, C Mordini, G Lamporesi… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
We experimentally investigate the dynamics of spin solitary waves (magnetic solitons) in a
harmonically trapped, binary superfluid mixture. We measure the in situ density of each …

Advances in cold atom UHV/XHV metrology

X Wu, Y Cheng, M Dong, W Sun, S Zhang, Z Ma, Y Li… - Vacuum, 2023 - Elsevier
Cold atom vacuum metrology is a technique for linking science and applications of cold
atom and vacuum sensing based on a fundamental atomic property, the collision cross …

Dynamics and interaction of vortex lines in an elongated Bose-Einstein condensate

S Serafini, M Barbiero, M Debortoli, S Donadello… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We study the real-time dynamics of vortices in a large elongated Bose-Einstein condensate
(BEC) of sodium atoms using a stroboscopic technique. Vortices are produced via the Kibble …

Nano-porous GaN cladding and scattering loss in edge emitting laser diodes

R Anderson, D Cohen, H Zhang, E Trageser… - Optics …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We report continuous wave operation of electrically injected InGaN laser diodes using nano-
porous GaN n-side cladding with 33% porosity. At 454 nm emission wavelength, the pulsed …

Design and characterization of a compact magnetic shield for ultracold atomic gas experiments

A Farolfi, D Trypogeorgos, G Colzi, E Fava… - Review of Scientific …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
We report on the design, construction, and performance of a compact magnetic shield that
facilitates a controlled, low-noise environment for experiments with ultracold atomic gases …

Sideband-enhanced cold atomic source for optical clocks

M Barbiero, MG Tarallo, D Calonico, F Levi… - Physical Review …, 2020 - APS
We demonstrate the enhancement and optimization of a cold strontium atomic beam from a
two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) transversely loaded from a collimated …