Species-specific optical lattices
- L. LeBlanc, J. Thywissen
- Physics
- 2 February 2007
We examine single-frequency optical schemes for species-selective trapping of ultracold alkali-metal atoms. Independently addressing the elements of a binary mixture enables the creation of an…
Synthetic Partial Waves in Ultracold Atomic Collisions
- R. Williams, L. LeBlanc, I. Spielman
- PhysicsScience
- 20 January 2012
A pair of Raman lasers are used to modify the interaction between two colliding Bose-Einstein condensates to include beyond–s-wave (d- and g-wave) contributions, expected to enable quantum simulation of exotic systems, including those predicted to support Majorana fermions.
Dynamics of a tunable superfluid junction.
- L. LeBlanc, A. B. Bardon, A. Smerzi
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 17 June 2010
The population dynamics of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a double-well potential throughout the crossover from Josephson dynamics to hydrodynamics is studied and implications for trapped matter-wave interferometers are discussed.
Coherent storage and manipulation of broadband photons via dynamically controlled Autler–Townes splitting
- E. Saglamyurek, Taras Hrushevskyi, Anindya Rastogi, K. Heshami, L. LeBlanc
- PhysicsNature Photonics
- 24 October 2017
A broadband-light storage technique using the Autler–Townes effect that overcomes both inherent and technical limitations of the established schemes for high-speed and long-lived optical quantum memories is introduced.
Discerning quantum memories based on electromagnetically-induced-transparency and Autler-Townes-splitting protocols
- Anindya Rastogi, E. Saglamyurek, Taras Hrushevskyi, Scott Hubele, L. LeBlanc
- PhysicsPhysical Review A
- 7 February 2019
Electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) and Autler-Townes splitting (ATS) are similar,but different quantum optical phenomena: EIT results from a Fano interference, whereas ATS is described by…
Peierls substitution in an engineered lattice potential.
- K. Jiménez-García, L. LeBlanc, R. Williams, M. Beeler, A. R. Perry, I. Spielman
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 31 January 2012
A one-dimensional lattice derived purely from effective Zeeman shifts resulting from a combination of Raman coupling and radio-frequency magnetic fields is described, with experimentally realizing the Peierls substitution for ultracold neutral atoms.
Direct observation of zitterbewegung in a Bose–Einstein condensate
- L. LeBlanc, M. Beeler, I. Spielman
- Physics
- 5 March 2013
Zitterbewegung, a force-free trembling motion first predicted for relativistic fermions like electrons, was an unexpected consequence of the Dirac equation's unification of quantum mechanics and…
Raman-induced interactions in a single-component Fermi gas near an s-wave Feshbach resonance.
- R. Williams, M. Beeler, L. LeBlanc, K. Jiménez-García, I. Spielman
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 26 August 2013
This work experimentally demonstrates a route to strongly interacting single-component atomic Fermi gases by combining an s-wave Feshbach resonance (giving strong interactions) and spin-orbit coupling (creating an effective p-wave channel).
Rapid sympathetic cooling to Fermi degeneracy on a chip
- S. Aubin, S. Myrskog, J. Thywissen
- Physics
- 20 December 2005
Neutral fermions present new opportunities for testing models of many-body quantum systems, realizing precision atom interferometry, producing ultra-cold molecules, and investigating fundamental…
Tunable spin-orbit coupling via strong driving in ultracold-atom systems.
- K. Jiménez-García, L. LeBlanc, I. Spielman
- PhysicsPhysical Review Letters
- 12 December 2014
A technique for controlling spin-orbit coupling in a two-component Bose-Einstein condensate using amplitude-modulated Raman coupling is experimentally demonstrated and theoretically analyzed.
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