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most citedObservation of the Decrease of Larmor Tunneling Times with Lower Incident Energy

31 citations · 89 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

quant-ph2026

Strategic Plan for Neutral Atom Quantum Computation

Adrian J. Menssen, Tout Wang, Michael Gullans +53

We present a strategic plan for neutral atom quantum computation, bringing together hardware development and theory advancements to achieve the goal of practical quantum advantage.…

quant-ph2026

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Individual Atomic Control and Cooling

Matthew L. Peters, Guoqing Wang, David C. Spierings +5

Real-time feedback control of quantum systems is often limited by partial observations, nonlinear dynamics and measurement noise, which make accurate model-based controllers diffic…

quant-ph2025★ 2 cited

Mode multiplexing for scalable cavity-enhanced operations in neutral-atom arrays

Ziv Aqua, Matthew L. Peters, David C. Spierings +4

Neutral atom arrays provide a versatile platform for quantum information processing. However, in large-scale arrays, efficient photon collection remains a bottleneck for key tasks…

physics.atom-ph2025

Loading and Imaging Atom Arrays via Electromagnetically Induced Transparency

Emily H. Qiu, Tamara Šumarac, Peiran Niu +9

Arrays of neutral atoms present a promising system for quantum computing, quantum sensors, and other applications, several of which would profit from the ability to load, cool, and…

quant-ph2025

Programmable few-atom Bragg scattering and ground-state cooling in a cavity

Guoqing Wang, David C. Spierings, Matthew L. Peters +3

By integrating tweezer arrays with a high-cooperativity ring cavity with chiral atom-cavity coupling, we demonstrate highly directional Bragg scattering from a programmable number…

quant-ph2025

Improved delta-kick cooling with multiple nonideal kicks

Harshil Neeraj, David C. Spierings, Joseph McGowan +2

Delta-kick cooling is a technique employed to achieve low kinetic temperatures by decreasing momentum width at the cost of increased position width. In an ideal implementation, thi…

quant-ph2024★ 4 cited

Cavity-enabled real-time observation of individual atomic collisions

Matthew L. Peters, Guoqing Wang, David C. Spierings +4

Using the strong dispersive coupling to a high-cooperativity cavity, we demonstrate fast and non-destructive number-resolved detection of atoms in optical tweezers. We observe indi…

cond-mat.quant-gas2023★ 3 cited

Spin Rotations in a Bose-Einstein Condensate Driven by Counterflow and Spin-independent Interactions

David C. Spierings, Joseph H. Thywissen, Aephraim M. Steinberg

We observe spin rotations caused by atomic collisions in a non-equilibrium Bose-condensed gas of Rb. Reflection from a pseudomagnetic barrier creates counterflow in which fo…

quant-ph2022★ 2 cited

Preferred Interaction Ranges in Neutral-Atom Arrays in the Presence of Noise

David C. Spierings, Edwin Tham, Aharon Brodutch +1

Successful execution of a quantum information processing (QIP) task on a quantum processing device depends on the availability of high-quality entangling gates. Two important goals…

quant-ph2022★ 7 cited

Efficient Adiabatic Rapid Passage in the Presence of Noise

Kehui Li, David C. Spierings, Aephraim M. Steinberg

Adiabatic Rapid Passage (ARP) is a powerful technique for efficient transfer of population between quantum states. In the lab, the efficiency of ARP is often limited by noise on ei…

quant-ph2021★ 18 cited

Exact Delta Kick Cooling, Time-Optimal Control of Scale-Invariant Dynamics, and Shortcuts to Adiabaticity Assisted by Kicks

Léonce Dupays, David C. Spierings, Aephraim M. Steinberg +1

Delta kick cooling (DKC) is used to compress the momentum distribution of ultracold quantum matter. It combines expansion dynamics with the use of kick pulses, designed via classic…

quant-ph2021★ 31 cited

Observation of the Decrease of Larmor Tunneling Times with Lower Incident Energy

David C. Spierings, Aephraim M. Steinberg

How much time does a tunneling particle spend in a barrier? A Larmor clock, one proposal to answer this question, measures the interaction between the particle and the barrier regi…

physics.atom-ph2019★ 3 cited

Measuring the time a tunnelling atom spends in the barrier

Ramón Ramos, David Spierings, Isabelle Racicot +1

Tunnelling is one of the most paradigmatic and evocative phenomena of quantum physics, underlying processes such as photosynthesis and nuclear fusion, as well as devices ranging fr…

quant-ph2018★ 6 cited

Interpreting weak value amplification with a toy realist model

Josiah Sinclair, David Spierings, Aharon Brodutch +1

Constructing an ontology for quantum theory is challenging, in part due to unavoidable measurement back-action. The Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman weak measurement formalism provides a me…

physics.atom-ph2018★ 13 cited

Atom-optics knife-edge: Measuring narrow momentum distributions

Ramón Ramos, David Spierings, Shreyas Potnis +1

By employing the equivalent of a knife-edge measurement for matter-waves, we are able to characterize ultra-low momentum widths. We measure a momentum width corresponding to an eff…