2 papers
quant-ph2026
Optical centrifuge as a probe of strong dissipative coupling between a molecular rotor and superfluid helium
Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Sören E. Mahr, Cameron E. Peters +7
A macroscopic manifestation of superfluidity is that objects moving through liquid helium experience negligible friction below the Landau critical velocity. How this frictionless m…
physics.chem-ph2025
Ultraslow optical centrifuge with arbitrarily low rotational acceleration
Kevin Wang, Ian MacPhail-Bartley, Cameron E. Peters +1
We outline the design and characterization of a laser pulse shaper, which creates an ``ultraslow optical centrifuge'' - a linearly polarized field whose polarization vector rotates…