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High-Resolution Atomic Magnetometer-Based Imaging of Integrated Circuits and Batteries
Dominic Hunter, Marcin S. Mrozowski, Stuart J. Ingleby +7
Optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs) have emerged as a powerful technique for high-resolution magnetic field imaging. However, achieving sub-millimeter spatial resolution at sub-p…
Practical primary thermometry via alkali-metal-vapour Doppler broadening
Nicola Agnew, Veronika Vohníková, Erling Riis +2
Doppler-broadening thermometry (DBT) can be used as a calibration-free primary reference suitable for practical applications, e.g. reliably measuring temperatures over long periods…
Testing strong-field QED to second-order in the highly correlated atomic system berylliumlike Pb78+ by electron-ion recombination spectroscopy
S. Schippers, C. Brandau, S. Fuchs +33
A low-energy storage ring with an ultracold electron cooler has been coupled with a heavy-ion accelerator facilitating high-resolution electron-ion collision spectroscopy of the he…
Simple tunable phase-locked lasers for quantum technologies
Nicola Agnew, David Lowit, Aidan S. Arnold
In a wide range of quantum technology applications, ranging from atomic clocks to the creation of ultracold or quantum degenerate samples for atom interferometry, optimal laser sou…
Interspecies Förster resonances of Rb-Cs Rydberg -states for enhanced multi-qubit gate fidelities
Paul M. Ireland, D. M. Walker, J. D. Pritchard
We present an analysis of interspecies interactions between Rydberg -states of rubidium and cesium. We identify the Förster resonance channels offering the strongest interspecie…
Practical Doppler broadening thermometry
Nicola Agnew, Graham Machin, Erling Riis +1
We report initial research to develop a compact and practical primary thermometer based on Doppler broadening thermometry (DBT). The DBT sensor uses an intrinsic property of therma…
Optimal binary gratings for multi-wavelength magneto-optical traps
Oliver S. Burrow, Robert J. Fasano, Wesley Brand +6
Grating magneto-optical traps are an enabling quantum technology for portable metrological devices with ultracold atoms. However, beam diffraction efficiency and angle are affected…
An additive-manufactured microwave cavity for a compact cold-atom clock
Etienne Batori, Alan Bregazzi, Ben Lewis +4
We present an additive-manufactured microwave cavity for a Ramsey-type, double resonance, compact cold-atom clock. Atoms can be laser cooled inside the cavity using a grating magne…
R-matrix electron-impact excitation data for the H- and He-like ions with Z=6-30
Junjie Mao, G. Del Zanna, Liyi Gu +2
Plasma models built on extensive atomic data are essential to interpreting the observed cosmic spectra. H-like Lyman series and He-like triplets observable in the X-ray band are po…
Cold-atom shaping with MEMS scanning mirrors
Alan Bregazzi, Paul Janin, Sean Dyer +6
We demonstrate the integration of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) scanning mirrors as active elements for the local optical pumping of ultra-cold atoms in a magneto-optical…
Invited Review: Micro-fabricated components for cold atom sensors
J. P. McGilligan, K. Gallacher, P. F. Griffin +3
Laser cooled atoms have proven transformative for precision metrology, playing a pivotal role in state-of-the-art clocks and interferometers, and having the potential to provide a…
A grating-chip atomic fountain
Ben Lewis, Rachel Elvin, Aidan S. Arnold +2
Cold atom fountain clocks provide exceptional long term stability as they increase interrogation time at the expense of a larger size. We present a compact cold atom fountain using…
Micro-machined deep silicon atomic vapor cells
S. Dyer, P. F. Griffin, A. S. Arnold +4
Using a simple and cost-effective water jet process, silicon etch depth limitations are overcome to realize a mm deep atomic vapor cell. While the minimum silicon feature size…
Rotating and spiralling spatial dissipative solitons of light and cold atoms
Giuseppe Baio, Thorsten Ackemann, Gian-Luca Oppo +2
Clouds of cold neutral atoms driven by a coherent light beam in a ring cavity exhibit self-structured states transversely with respect to the beam axis due to optomechanical forces…
A simple imaging solution for chip-scale laser cooling
A. Bregazzi, P. F. Griffin, A. S. Arnold +6
We demonstrate a simple stacked scheme that enables absorption imaging through a hole in the surface of a grating magneto-optical trap (GMOT) chip, placed immediately below a micro…
Optimal State Choice for Rydberg Atom Microwave Sensors
Aurélien Chopinaud, Jonathan D. Pritchard
Rydberg electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) enables realization of atom-based SI-traceable microwave (MW) sensing, imaging and communication devices by exploiting the st…
Stand-alone vacuum cell for compact ultracold quantum technologies
Oliver S. Burrow, Paul F. Osborn, Edward Boughton +5
Compact vacuum systems are key enabling components for cold atom technologies, facilitating extremely accurate sensing applications. There has been important progress towards a tru…
Gouy phase-matched angular and radial mode conversion in four-wave mixing
Rachel F. Offer, Andrew Daffurn, Erling Riis +3
Studying the conversion between transverse light modes via four-wave mixing in a heated rubidium vapour, we demonstrate and explain a transfer between azimuthal and radial mode num…
Helium line emissivities in the solar corona
G. Del Zanna, P. J. Storey, N. R. Badnell +1
We present new collisional-radiative models (CRMs) for helium in the quiescent solar corona, and predict the emissivities of the He and He lines to be observed by DKIST, Solar…
Laser cooling in a chip-scale platform
J. P. McGilligan, K. R. Moore, A. Dellis +7
Chip-scale atomic devices built around micro-fabricated alkali vapor cells are at the forefront of compact metrology and atomic sensors. We demonstrate a micro-fabricated vapor cel…
Optomechanical transport of cold atoms induced by structured light
Giuseppe Baio, Gordon R. M. Robb, Alison M. Yao +1
Optomechanical pattern forming instabilities in a cloud of cold atoms lead to self-organized spatial structures of light and atoms. Here, we consider the optomechanical self-struct…
Dual frequency caesium spin maser
Patrick Bevington, Rafal Gartman, Yevgeny V. Stadnik +1
Co-magnetometers have been validated as valuable components of the atomic physics toolbox in fundamental and applied physics. So far, the explorations have been focused on systems…
Generation of atomic spin orientation with a linearly polarised beam in room-temperature alkali-metal vapour
Patrick Bevington, Rafal Gartman, Witold Chalupczak
Traditionally, atomic spin orientation is achieved by the transfer of angular momentum from polarised light to an atomic system. We demonstrate the mechanism of orientation generat…
Rydberg atom quantum technologies
C. S. Adams, J. D. Pritchard, J. P. Shaffer
This topical review addresses how Rydberg atoms can serve as building blocks for emerging quantum technologies. Whereas the fabrication of large numbers of artificial quantum syste…