Determining the Momentum Width of a Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensate by One-Dimensional-Optical-Lattice Pulse Sequences

A Liang, S Zhou, Y Xie, M Huang, X Xu, S Fang… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
We experimentally verified our prior theoretical work [J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 39, 3012 (2022)] by
employing matter-wave interference to measure the ultranarrow momentum width of an …

Particle-photon radiative interactions and thermalization

C Pezzotti, M Giona - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We analyze the statistical properties of radiative transitions for a molecular system
possessing discrete, equally spaced, energy levels, interacting with thermal radiation at …

Imaging moving atoms by holographically reconstructing the dragged slow light

Y Wang, J Zhao, X Huang, L Qiu, L Ji, Y Ma, Y He… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
The propagation of light in moving media is dragged by atomic motion. The light-drag effect
can be dramatically enhanced by reducing the group velocity with electromagnetically …

Characterizing ultra-narrow momentum of atoms by standing-wave light-pulse sequences

S Zhou, C Chen, B Xu, A Liang, Y Wang, B Wang - JOSA B, 2022 - opg.optica.org
We propose a method to characterize the ultra-narrow momentum distribution of atomic
gases by employing a standing-wave light-pulse sequences beam splitter. The mechanism …

Optical simulation of an ultra-sensitive thermometer based on atom interferometry

B Xu, S Zhou, C Zhou - Optics & Laser Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
In this letter, we apply an optical setup to simulate the coherent evolution of an atomic
wavepacket under the action of a standing-wave optical pulse sequence. Predicted …

[HTML][HTML] Another normality is possible. Distributive transformations and emergent Gaussianity

M Giona, C Pezzotti, G Procopio - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2024 - Elsevier
A distributional route to Gaussianity, associated with the concept of Conservative Mixing
Transformations (CMT) in ensembles of random vector-valued variables, is proposed. This …

Long-time correlations in nonequilibrium dispersion forces

D Reiche - 2021 - edoc.hu-berlin.de
We explore the dynamics of open quantum systems in both equilibrium and nonequilibrium
situations. Our focus lies on the quantum-optical dispersion interaction between a …

Aberrations of atomic diffraction. From ultracold atoms to hot ions

A Neumann - 2021 - inis.iaea.org
Atomic diffraction is the central concept of matter-wave interferometers, which provide the
opportunity of high-precision rotation and acceleration sensing. Ultracold atoms are the …

Calibrating the momentum width of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate by one-dimensional optical lattice pulse sequences

A Liang, S Zhou, Y Xie, M Huang, S Fang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We experimentally measured the ultra-narrow momentum width of an optical trapped Bose-
Einstein condensate (BEC) in situ based on matter-wave interference, which validates our …

Optimal control of cold atoms for ultra-precise quantum sensors

JC Saywell - 2020 - eprints.soton.ac.uk
Atom interferometric sensors can enable extremely precise measurements of inertial motion
and external fields by manipulating and interfering atomic states using pulses of laser light …