156 citations · 420 across the 20 of their papers we have counts for
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Loss-Tolerant Quantum Position Verification for Metropolitan Area Networks
Wen Yu Kon, Niccolò Bigagli, Andrew Conrad +13
A spacetime seal, a cryptographic guarantee that a digital event has occurred at an approved location and time, can augment a digital signature with location attestation for legal,…
High-rate Scalable Entanglement Swapping Between Remote Entanglement Sources on Deployed New York City Fibers
Alexander N. Craddock, Tyler Cowan, Niccolò Bigagli +11
Entanglement swapping between photon pairs generated at physically separated nodes over telecommunication fiber infrastructure is an essential step towards the quantum internet, en…
Bichromatic Quantum Teleportation of Weak Coherent Polarization States on a Metropolitan Fiber
Zofia A. Borowska, Shane Andrewski, Giorgio De Pascalis +12
As quantum technologies mature, telecommunication operators have a clear opportunity to unlock and scale new services by providing the connectivity layer that links quantum compute…
Observation of Self-Bound Droplets of Ultracold Dipolar Molecules
Siwei Zhang, Weijun Yuan, Niccolò Bigagli +4
Ultracold gases of dipolar molecules have long been envisioned as a platform for the realization of novel quantum phases. Recent advances in collisional shielding, protecting molec…
Extreme Loss Suppression and Wide Tunability of Dipolar Interactions in an Ultracold Molecular Gas
Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, Niccolò Bigagli +5
Ultracold dipolar molecules hold great promise for the creation of novel quantum states of matter, but the realization of long-lived molecular bulk samples with strong dipole-dipol…
High-Fidelity Quantum Entanglement Distribution in Metropolitan Fiber Networks with Co-propagating Classical Traffic
Matheus Sena, Mael Flament, Shane Andrewski +13
The Quantum Internet, a network of quantum-enabled infrastructure, represents the next frontier in telecommunications, promising capabilities that cannot be attained by classical c…
Double Microwave Shielding
Tijs Karman, Niccolò Bigagli, Weijun Yuan +3
We develop double microwave shielding, which has recently enabled evaporative cooling to the first Bose-Einstein condensate of polar molecules [Bigagli et al., Nature 631, 289 (202…
Three-Body Recombination of Ultracold Microwave-Shielded Polar Molecules
Ian Stevenson, Shayamal Singh, Ahmed Elkamshishy +5
A combined experimental and theoretical study is carried out on the three-body recombination process in a gas of microwave-shielded polar molecules. For ground-state polar molecule…
Dressed-State Spectroscopy and Magic Trapping of Microwave-Shielded NaCs Molecules
Siwei Zhang, Weijun Yuan, Niccolò Bigagli +3
We report on the optical polarizability of microwave-shielded ultracold NaCs molecules in an optical dipole trap. While dressing a pair of rotational states with a microwave field,…
Observation of Bose-Einstein Condensation of Dipolar Molecules
Niccolò Bigagli, Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang +4
Ensembles of particles governed by quantum mechanical laws exhibit fascinating emergent behavior. Atomic quantum gases, liquid helium, and electrons in quantum materials all show d…
Automated Graph-Based Detection of Quantum Control Schemes: Application to Molecular Laser Cooling
Anna Dawid, Niccolò Bigagli, Daniel W. Savin +1
One of the demanding frontiers in ultracold quantum science is identifying laser cooling schemes for complex atoms and molecules out of their vast spectra of internal states. Motiv…
Laser Scheme for Doppler Cooling of the Hydroxyl Cation (OH)
Niccolò Bigagli, Daniel W. Savin, Sebastian Will
We report on a cycling scheme for Doppler cooling of trapped OH ions using transitions between the electronic ground state and the first excited triplet state .…
A planar cloverleaf antenna for the creation of circularly polarized microwave fields
Weijun Yuan, Siwei Zhang, Niccolò Bigagli +3
We report on the design and characterization of a compact microwave antenna for atomic and molecular physics experiments. The antenna is comprised of four loop antennas arranged in…
Collisionally Stable Gas of Bosonic Dipolar Ground State Molecules
Niccolò Bigagli, Claire Warner, Weijun Yuan +4
Stable ultracold ensembles of dipolar molecules hold great promise for many-body quantum physics, but high inelastic loss rates have been a long-standing challenge. Recently, it wa…
Efficient Pathway to NaCs Ground State Molecules
Claire Warner, Niccolò Bigagli, Aden Z. Lam +4
We present a study of two-photon pathways for the transfer of NaCs molecules to their rovibrational ground state. Starting from NaCs Feshbach molecules, we perform bound-bound exci…
Ultracold Gas of Dipolar NaCs Ground State Molecules
Ian Stevenson, Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli +4
We report on the creation of bosonic NaCs molecules in their absolute rovibrational ground state via stimulated Raman adiabatic passage. We create ultracold gases with up to 22,000…
A High Phase-Space Density Gas of NaCs Feshbach Molecules
Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli, Claire Warner +5
We report on the creation of ultracold gases of bosonic Feshbach molecules of NaCs. The molecules are associated from overlapping gases of Na and Cs using a Feshbach resonance at 8…
Laser Cooling Scheme for the Carbon Dimer (C)
Niccolò Bigagli, Daniel W. Savin, Sebastian Will
We report on a scheme for laser cooling of C. We have calculated the branching ratios for cycling and repumping transitions and calculated the number of photon scatterin…
Overlapping Bose-Einstein Condensates of Na and Cs
Claire Warner, Aden Z. Lam, Niccolò Bigagli +3
We report on the creation of dual-species Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs) of Na atoms and Cs atoms. We demonstrate sympathetic cooling of Cs with Na in a magnetic q…
Compact Two-Dimensional Magneto-Optical Trap for Ultracold Atom Setups
Aden Zhenhao Lam, Claire Warner, Niccolò Bigagli +4
We report on the design, implementation, and performance of a compact two-dimensional magneto-optical trap (2D MOT) for cesium. In a small-volume vacuum chamber, the setup uses ces…