Cold physics and chemistry: Collisions, ionization and reactions inside helium nanodroplets close to zero K

A Mauracher, O Echt, AM Ellis, S Yang, DK Bohme… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
This review provides a comprehensive overview of the applications of helium nanodroplets
in the study of ensembles of atoms and molecules, ie clusters and complexes. These …

Cold and trapped metastable noble gases

W Vassen, C Cohen-Tannoudji, M Leduc, D Boiron… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
Experimental work on cold, trapped metastable noble gases is reviewed. The aspects which
distinguish work with these atoms from the large body of work on cold, trapped atoms in …

Spectrally resolved helium absorption from the extended atmosphere of a warm Neptune-mass exoplanet

R Allart, V Bourrier, C Lovis, D Ehrenreich, JJ Spake… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Stellar heating causes atmospheres of close-in exoplanets to expand and escape. These
extended atmospheres are difficult to observe because their main spectral signature …

[HTML][HTML] Wheeler's delayed-choice gedanken experiment with a single atom

AG Manning, RI Khakimov, RG Dall, AG Truscott - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
The wave–particle dual nature of light and matter and the fact that the choice of
measurement determines which one of these two seemingly incompatible behaviours we …

[HTML][HTML] Investigation of reactive species using various gas plasmas

T Takamatsu, K Uehara, Y Sasaki, H Miyahara… - Rsc Advances, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this study, atmospheric nonequilibrium plasmas were generated with six gas species
using a multi-gas plasma jet. Singlet oxygen, OH radicals, H radicals, and NO radicals, in …

Direct measurement of long-range third-order coherence in Bose-Einstein condensates

SS Hodgman, RG Dall, AG Manning, KGH Baldwin… - Science, 2011 - science.org
A major advance in understanding the behavior of light was to describe the coherence of a
light source by using correlation functions that define the spatio-temporal relationship …

Lifetime of the Level in for Spontaneous Emission of Electric Octupole Radiation

R Lange, AA Peshkov, N Huntemann, C Tamm… - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We report a measurement of the radiative lifetime of the F 7/2 2 level of Yb+ 171 that is
coupled to the S 1/2 2 ground state via an electric octupole transition. The radiative lifetime …

Storing keV Negative Ions for an Hour: The Lifetime of the Metastable level in

E Bäckström, D Hanstorp, OM Hole, M Kaminska… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We use a novel electrostatic ion storage ring to measure the radiative lifetime of the upper
level in the 3 p 5 P 2 1/2 o→ 3 p 5 P 2 3/2 o spontaneous radiative decay in S-32 to be …

Precision spectroscopy of helium in a magic wavelength optical dipole trap

RJ Rengelink, Y Van Der Werf, R Notermans… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Improvements in both theory and frequency metrology of few-electron systems such as
hydrogen and helium have enabled increasingly sensitive tests of quantum …

Precision measurement for metastable helium atoms of the 413 nm tune-out wavelength at which the atomic polarizability vanishes

BM Henson, RI Khakimov, RG Dall, KGH Baldwin… - Physical Review Letters, 2015 - APS
We present the first measurement for helium atoms of the tune-out wavelength at which the
atomic polarizability vanishes. We utilize a novel, highly sensitive technique for precisely …