Search Results - "Hinds, E. A"
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Experiment to Detect Dark Energy Forces Using Atom Interferometry
Published in Physical review letters (09-08-2019)“…The accelerated expansion of the universe motivates a wide class of scalar field theories that modify general relativity (GR) on large scales. Such theories…”
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Magnetic Trapping and Coherent Control of Laser-Cooled Molecules
Published in Physical review letters (20-04-2018)“…We demonstrate coherent microwave control of the rotational, hyperfine, and Zeeman states of ultracold CaF molecules, and the magnetic trapping of these…”
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Laser Cooled YbF Molecules for Measuring the Electron's Electric Dipole Moment
Published in Physical review letters (23-03-2018)“…We demonstrate one-dimensional sub-Doppler laser cooling of a beam of YbF molecules to 100 μK. This is a key step towards a measurement of the electron's…”
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Improved measurement of the shape of the electron
Published in Nature (London) (26-05-2011)“…How round is the electron? The electron is spherical — well, nearly. The standard model of particle physics predicts a slightly aspheric electron, with a…”
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Deep Laser Cooling and Efficient Magnetic Compression of Molecules
Published in Physical review letters (19-07-2019)“…We introduce a scheme for deep laser cooling of molecules based on robust dark states at zero velocity. By simulating this scheme, we show it to be a widely…”
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An intense, cold, velocity-controlled molecular beam by frequency-chirped laser slowing
Published in New journal of physics (17-02-2017)“…Using frequency-chirped radiation pressure slowing, we precisely control the velocity of a pulsed CaF molecular beam down to a few m s-1, compressing its…”
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Characteristics of a magneto-optical trap of molecules
Published in New journal of physics (23-11-2017)“…We present the properties of a magneto-optical trap (MOT) of CaF molecules. We study the process of loading the MOT from a decelerated buffer-gas-cooled beam,…”
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Design for a fountain of YbF molecules to measure the electron's electric dipole moment
Published in New journal of physics (22-05-2013)“…We propose an experiment to measure the electric dipole moment (EDM) of the electron using ultracold YbF molecules. The molecules are produced as a thermal…”
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Measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment using YbF molecules: methods and data analysis
Published in New journal of physics (31-10-2012)“…We recently reported a new measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment using YbF molecules (Hudson et al 2011 Nature 473 493). Here, we give a more…”
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New techniques for a measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment
Published in New journal of physics (01-05-2020)“…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…”
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Coherent characterisation of a single molecule in a photonic black box
Published in Nature communications (29-01-2021)“…Extinction spectroscopy is a powerful tool for demonstrating the coupling of a single quantum emitter to a photonic structure. However, it can be challenging…”
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A buffer gas beam source for short, intense and slow molecular pulses
Published in Journal of modern optics (30-03-2018)“…Experiments with cold molecules usually begin with a molecular source. We describe the construction and characteristics of a cryogenic buffer gas source of CaF…”
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Observing coherence effects in an overdamped quantum system
Published in Nature communications (21-12-2016)“…It is usually considered that the spectrum of an optical cavity coupled to an atomic medium does not exhibit a normal-mode splitting unless the system…”
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Measurement of the electron electric dipole moment using YbF molecules
Published in Physical review letters (08-07-2002)“…The most sensitive measurements of the electron electric dipole moment d(e) have previously been made using heavy atoms. Heavy polar molecules offer a greater…”
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An array of integrated atom-photon junctions
Published in Nature photonics (01-01-2011)“…Photonic chips that integrate optical elements on a single device can process vast amounts of information rapidly. A new branch of this technology involves…”
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Spin coupling between cold atoms and the thermal fluctuations of a metal surface
Published in Physical review letters (22-08-2003)“…We describe an experiment in which Bose-Einstein condensates and cold atom clouds are held by a microscopic magnetic trap near a room-temperature metal wire…”
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Atom detection and photon production in a scalable, open, optical microcavity
Published in Physical review letters (10-08-2007)“…A microfabricated Fabry-Perot optical resonator has been used for atom detection and photon production with less than 1 atom on average in the cavity mode. Our…”
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Slowing heavy, ground-state molecules using an alternating gradient decelerator
Published in Physical review letters (30-04-2004)“…We have decelerated a supersonic beam of 174YbF molecules using a switched sequence of electrostatic field gradients. These molecules are 7 times heavier than…”
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Enhanced oscillation lifetime of a Bose-Einstein condensate in the 3D/1D crossover
Published in New journal of physics (24-09-2015)“…We have measured the damped motion of a trapped Bose-Einstein condensate, oscillating with respect to a thermal cloud. The cigar-shaped trapping potential…”
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Minimally destructive detection of magnetically trapped atoms using frequency-synthesized light
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