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2017 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 7th March | Matthew Jonson | A versatile SLM-enabled atomtronic device for quantum simulation in 2D arXiv:1702.01860 (2017) | |
| 14th March | Matthew Brown | High-Fidelity Preparation, Gates, Memory, and Readout of a Trapped-Ion Quantum Bit Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 220501 (2014) | |
| 21th March | Carolyn O’Dwyer | Laser remote magnetometry using mesospheric sodium Phys. Rev. App. arXiv:1610.05385 (2017) (2014) | |
| 28th March | Manuel Andia | Fano Interference in the Optical Absorption of an Individual Gold-Silver Nanodimer Nano Lett. 2016, 16, 6311−6316 (2016) | |
| 3rd April | Oliver Burrow | Atom interferometry tests of local Lorentz invariance in gravity and electrodynamics Phys. Rev. D 80 016002 (2009) | |
| 11th April | Stuart Ingleby | In-vivo biomagnetic characterisation of the American cockroach arXiv:1702.00538 (2017) | |
| 02nd May | Craig Colquhounn | Thermometry of a deeply degenerate Fermi gas with a Bose-Einstein condensate arXiv:1702.02772 (2017) | |
| 09th May | James Halket | Sisyphus laser cooling of a polyatomic molecule Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173201 (2017) | |
| 16th May | Rachel Elvin | Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source Nature 217, 709 – 713 (24 February 1968) | |
| 26th May | Bruno Peaudecerf | Local optical control of the resonant dipole-dipole interaction between Rydberg atoms Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 053202 (2017) | |
| 2nd June | Craig Picken | High-fidelity readout of trapped-ion qubits arXiv:0802.1684v2 2008 | |
| 6th June | Andrés Ulibarrena Díaz | Experimental realization of Shor’s quantum factoring algorithm using qubit recycling Nature Photonics 6, 773–776 (2012) | |
| 13th June | Rémy Legaie | Symmetry-protected collisions between strongly interacting photons Nature 542, 206–209 (09 February 2017) | |
| 20th June | Elmar Haller | Bright Bose-Einstein Gap Solitons of Atoms with Repulsive Interaction 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.230401 | |
| 13th July | Johnathon Conway | Observation of Optomechanical Strain in a Cold Atomic Cloud arXiv:1706.04851v2 | |
| 28th July | Yogeshwar Kale | Magnetically Induced Optical Transparency on a Forbidden Transition in Strontium for Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 263601 | |
| 8th August | Victoria Henderson | Negative-Mass Hydrodynamics in a Spin-Orbit-Coupled BEC Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 155301 | |
| 15th August | Matthew Johnson | A visual understanding of optical rotation using corn syrup Eur. J. Phys. 38 045302 | |
| 25th August | Matthew Brown | Bistability in atomic-scale antiferromagnets 10.1126/science.1214131 | |
| 31st August | Carolyn O’Dwyer | A magnetic source imaging camera Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 023505 (2016) | |
| 5th September | Manuel Andia | Competition between Spin Echo and Spin Self-Rephasing in a Trapped Atom Interferometer Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 163003 | |
| 12th September | Stuart Ingleby | Sub-pm/√Hz non-reciprocal noise in the LISA backlink fiber arXiv:1709.02385 | |
| 26th September | Oliver Burrow | A Low-power Reversible Alkali Atom Source Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 244101 (2017) | |
| 3rd October | Craig Colquhoun | Optical diametric drive acceleration through action-reaction symmetry breaking Nature Physics 9, 780–784 (2013) | |
| 10th October | Bruno Peaudecerf | Direct tunneling delay time measurement in an optical lattice Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 010401 | |
| 17th October | Rachel Elvin | Observation of a Rapidly Pulsating Radio Source Nature 217, 709-713 (24 February 1968) | |
| 24th October | Remy Legaie | Probing many-body dynamics on a 51-atom quantum simulator arXiv:1707.04344v1 | |
| 31st October | Craig Picken | Atomic Fock State Preparation Using Rydberg Blockade Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 043602 | |
| 7th November | Andrés Ulibarrena | Ultracold Atoms in a Tunable Optical Kagome Lattice Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 045305 | |
| 14th November | James Halket | Discovery of a big void in Khufu’s Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons Nature volume 552, pages 386–390 | |
| 21st November | Andrea Di Carli | Interaction-Free Measurement Phys. Rev. Lett. 74, 4763 | |
| 28st November | Rachel Offer | Observation of Genuine Three-Photon Interference PhysRevLett.118.153602 | |
| 5th December | Victoria Henderson | On the Relative Motion of the Earth and of the Luminiferous Ether Michelson and Morley |
Autumn/ Winter 2016 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 13th September | Stuart Ingleby | Dead-zone-free atomic magnetometry with simultaneous excitation of orientation and alignment Resonances Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 193601 (2010) | |
| 20th September | Billy Robertson | Dual-axis high-data-rate atom interferometer via cold ensemble exchange Phys. Rev. App. 2, 054012 (2014) | |
| 27th September | Ivor Kresic | A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon Nature 484, 78-81 (2012) | |
| 4th October | Andrew MacKellar | The size of the proton Nature 466, 213-216 (2010) | |
| 18th October | Oliver Burrow | Atom Interferometry in a Warm Vapor arXiv:1610.02451 (2016) | |
| 25th October | James McGilligan | New Limit on Lorentz- and CPT-Violating Neutron Spin Interactions PhysRevLett 105 151604 (2010) | |
| 8th November | Craig Colquhoun | Nanophotonic Optical Isolator Controlled by the Internal State of Cold Atoms Phys. Rev. X 5, 041036 (2015) | |
| 15th November | Rémy Legaie | Rydberg-blockade effects in Autler-Townes spectra of ultracold strontium PhysRevA 93 022709 (2016) | |
| 22nd November | Rachel Elvin | Ramsey Spectroscopy of High-Contrast CPT Resonances with Push-Pull Optical Pumping in Cs Vapor OPTICS EXPRESS Vol. 21, Issue 10, pp. 12451-12459 (2013) | |
| 6th December | Craig Picken | Direct measurement of the van der Waals interaction between two Rydberg atoms arXiv:1302.4262v2 (2013) | |
| 13th December | Adres Ulibarrena | A quantum Newton’s cradle Nature 440, 900-903 (2006) | |
| 10th January | James Halket | Enhanced Atom Interferometer Readout through the Application of Phase Shear PhysRevLett 111 103002 (2013) | |
| 17th January | Andrea DiCarli | Origin of quantum mechanical complementarity probed by a which way experiment in a atom interferometer Nature 395, 33-37 (1998) | |
| 24th January | Rachel Offer | A laser for complex spatial modes Nature Photonics 10, 286-288 (2016) | |
| 31st January | Victoria Henderson | Preparation of Ultracold Atom Clouds at the Shot Noise Level PhysRevLett 117 073604 (2016) | |
| 7th February | Jonathan Pritchard | Observation of the 1S-2S transition in trapped anti hydrogen Nature 501, 506-510 (2017) | |
| 14th February | Johnathan Conway | Ramsey interference with single photons PhysRevLett 117 223601 (2016) | |
| 21st February | Yogeshwar Kale | Improvement of an Atomic Clock using Squeezed Vacuum PhysRevLett 117 143004 (2016) | |
| 28th February | Andrea DiCarli | Cooling Bose-Einstein Condensate Below 500 Picokelvin Science 301 Issue 5639(2003) |
Spring/ Summer 2016 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 26th January | Rachel Elvin | Loading of a fountain clock with an enhanced Low-Velosity Intense Source of atoms arXiv:1601.04852v1 (2016) | |
| 2nd February | Oliver Burrow | Antimatter interferometry for gravity measurements arXiv:1308.1079v4 (2013) | |
| 9th February | Victoria Henderson | Metrology with atom interferometry: inertial sensors from laboratory to field applications arXiv:1601.06032v1 (2016) | |
| 16th February | Calum MacRae | Optical magnetic detection of single-neuron action potentials using quantum defects in diamond arXiv:1602.01056 (2016) | |
| 23rd February | Andrew MacKellar | Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 061102 (2016) | |
| 1st March | Craig Picken | Measurement of the angular dependence of the dipole-dipole interaction between two individual Rydberg atoms at a Förster resonance arXiv:1504.00301 (2015) (Phys. Rev. A 92, 020701(R) (2015)) | |
| 11th March | Bruno Peaudecerf | Confined quantum Zeno dynamics of a watched atomic arrow Nature Physics 10, 715-719 (2014) | |
| 15th March | Jonathan Pritchard | Collective atomic scattering and motional effects in a dense coherent medium arXiv:1601.05322 (2016) and Subradiance in a large cloud of cold atoms Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 083601 (2016) | |
| 22nd March | Ivor Kresic | Superradiance for atoms trapped along a photonic crystal waveguide Phys. Rev. Lett 115, 063601 (2015) | |
| 5th April | Johnathan Conway | Nondemolition measurement of the vacuum state or its complement Phys. Rev. Lett 110, 210504 (2013) | |
| 12th April | Rémy Legaie | Coherent excitation transfer in a spin chain of three Rydberg atoms Phys. Rev. Lett 114, 113002 (2015) | |
| 19th April | Craig Colquhoun | Coherent transport of neutral atoms in spin-dependent optical lattice potentials Phys. Rev. Lett 91, 010407 (2003) | |
| 26th April | Yueyang Zhai | Coherent Stern–Gerlach momentum splitting on an atom chip Nature Comm. 4, 2424 (2013) | |
| 10th May | Andrea DiCarli | Measuring entanglement entropy in a quantum many-body system Nature 528, 77-83 (2015) | |
| 24th May | Manuel Andia | Multipartite model of evaporative cooling in optical dipole traps Phys. Rev. A 91, 023432 (2015) | |
| 31st May | Yogeshwar Kale | Precision test of the ac Stark shift in a rubidium atomic vapor Phys. Rev. A 93, 023433 (2016) | |
| 7th June | Stuart Ingleby | Multichannel optical atomic magnetometer operating in unshielded environment Appl. Phys. B 122, 103 (2016) | |
| 21st June | Paul Griffin | Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains Science 177, 4044, p166-168 (1972) and Around-the-World Atomic Clocks: Predicted Relativistic Time Gains Science 177, 4044, p168-170 (1972) | |
| 13th July | James Halket | A Kapitza–Dirac–Talbot–Lau interferometer for highly polarizable molecules Nature Physics 3, 711-715 (2007) | |
| 19th July | Adam Selyem | Excitation of an atomic transition with a vortex laser beam arXiv:1511.07206 (2015) |
Autumn/Winter 2015 Timetable
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 1st September | Stuart Ingleby | How do you know if you ran through a wall? arXiv:1205.6260v2 (2012) | |
| 8th September | Calum MacRae | Electron spin manipulation and readout through an optical fiber. Scientific Reports 4, 5362 (2014) | |
| 17th September | Dylan Cotta | Accelerating evaporative cooling of atoms into Bose-Einstein condensation in optical traps. Phys. Rev. A 78, 011304(R) (2008) | |
| 22nd September | Paul Griffin | Thermometry and cooling of a Bose gas to 0.02 times the condensation temperature. Nature Physics 11, 720–723 (2015) | |
| 6th October | James Hudson | Control of magnetic Feshbach resonance with laser light. Nature Physics 5, 339 – 342 (2009) | |
| 13th October | Andrew MacKellar | Reversible Formation of a Bose-Einstein Condensate. Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 2194 (1998) | |
| 20th October | Ivor Kresic | Experimental observation of a generalized Gibbs ensemble. Science 348, 6231 (2015) | |
| 27th October | Victoria Henderson | Hysteresis in a quantized superfluid ‘atomtronic’ circuit. Nature 506, 200–203 (2014) | |
| 3rd November | Billy Robertson | Quantum Hilbert Hotel. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 160505 (2015) With media coverage in Physics and Gizmodo |
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| 10th November | Bruno Peaudecerf | Diffraction-Unlimited Position Measurement of Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Lattice. Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 095301 (2015) | |
| 17th November | Sapam Ranjita Chanu | Observation of the nonlinear phase shift due to single post-selected photons. Nature Physics 11, 905-909 (2015) | |
| 24th November | Yueyang Zhai | Critical behavior of a trapped interacting Bose gas. Science 315, 5818 (2007) | |
| 1st December | Jonathan Pritchard | Observation of cavity Rydberg polaritons arXiv:1511.01872v3 (2015) | |
| 8th December | James McGilligan | High contrast Ramsey fringes with coherent-population-trapping pulses in a double lambda atomic system Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 193002 (2005) | |
| 15th December | Elmar Haller | Formation and dynamics of anti-ferromagnetic correlations in tunable optical lattices arXiv:1509.00854v1 (2015) | |
| 12th January | Rachel Offer | Dichroic atomic vapor laser lock with multi-gigahertz stabilization range arXiv:1512.08919 (2015) | |
| 19th January | Thomas Clark | Atomic polarization visualized Am. J. Phys. 69, 450 (2001) AtomicDensityMatrix Package for Mathematica |
Spring 2015 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in the photonics group common room at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail James Hudson.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 27th January | Ivor Kresic | Probing Atom-Surface Interactions by Diffraction of Bose-Einstein Condensates. PRX 4, 011029 (2014) | |
| 3rd February | Paul Griffin | Collisions of matter-wave solitons. Nature Physics 10, 918 (2014) | |
| 17th February | James Hudson | Spatially structured photons that travel in free space slower than the speed of light. Science 347, 6224 (2015) | |
| 24th February | Rachel Offer | Spatially dependent electromagnetically induced transparency. Arxiv:1412.1275 (2014) | |
| 10th March | Dylan Cotta | PRL 113, 233004 (2014) | |
| 17th March | Bruno Peaudecerf | A Quantum Gas Microscope for Fermionic Atoms. Arxiv:1503.02648 (2015) Single-atom imaging of fermions in a quantum-gas microscope. Arxiv:1503.02005 (2015) |
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| 24th March | Victoria Henderson | Cavity cooling of a microlever. Nature 432, 1002 (2004) | |
| 14th April | Andrew Kelly | Fast algorithms for generating binary holograms. Arxiv:1409.1841 (2014) | |
| 21st April | Andrew MacKellar | Measurement of the Gravity-Field Curvature by Atom Interferometry. PRL 114, 013001 (2015) | |
| 28th April | Yeuyang Zhai | Making optical atomic clocks more stable with 10 ^(−16)-level laser stabilization. Nature Photonics 5, 158 (2011) | |
Summer/Autumn 2014 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in the photonics group common room at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail James Hudson.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 5th August | Paul Griffin | Nanometre-scale thermometry in a living cell Nature Letters 500, 54 (2013) |
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| 26th August | James Hudson | Single-Photon Transistor Using a Förster Resonance PRL 113, 053602 (2014) |
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| 2nd September | James McGilligan | From Few to Many: Observing the Formation of a Fermi Sea One Atom at a Time Science 25, 342 (2013) |
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| 9th September | Dylan Cotta | Observation of suppression of light scattering induced by dipole-dipole interactions in a cold atomic ensemble 1402.4167 (2014) |
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| 16th September | Bruno Peaudecerf | Quantum imaging with undetected photons Nature 512, 409 (2014) |
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| 23rd September | Ivor Kresic | Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity Nature 468, 545 (2010) Observation of Grand-Canonical Number Statistics in a Photon Bose-Einstein Condensate PRL 112, 030401 (2014) |
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| 30th September | Billy Robertson | Direct Measurement of the van der Waals Interaction between Two Rydberg Atoms PRL 110, 263201 (2013) |
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| 7th October | Chris Carson | Matter wave lensing to picokelvin temperatures arXiv 1407.6995 (2014) |
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| 14th October | Andrew Kelly | Coherent Optical Spectroscopy of a Strongly Driven Quantum Dot Science 317, 5840 (2007) |
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| 21st October | Andrew MacKellar | Multiaxis Inertial Sensing with Long-Time Point Source Atom Interferometry PRL 111, 083001 (2013) |
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| 28th October | Yeuyang Zhai | Spin–orbit-coupled Bose–Einstein condensates Nature 471, 83 (2011) |
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| 4th November | Elmar Haller | A Thermoelectric Heat Engine with Ultracold Atoms Science 342, 6159 (2013) |
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| 18th November | Pedro Gomes | Optically Measuring Force near the Standard Quantum Limit arXiv 1312.4896 (2013) |
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| 28th November | Thomas Clark | A quantum memory for orbital angular momentum photonic qubits Nature Photonics 8, 234 (2014) |
Spring 2014 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in the photonics group common room at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail James Hudson.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 21January | James McGilligan | An Optical Lattice Clock Nature 435, 321 (2005) |
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| 28 January | Billy Robertson | Optical frequency metrology Nature 416, 233(2002) |
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| 4 February | Andrew Kelly | Bragg Diffraction from Crystallized Ion Plasmas Science 279, 5351 (1998) |
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| 11 February | Andrew MacKellar | Optical Clocks and Relativity Science 329, 5999 (2010) |
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| 18 February | Jakob Hinney | Fibre Optical Switch Controlled by Single Atom PRL 111, 193601 (2013) |
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| 25 February | James Hudson | Laser Damage Helps the Eavesdropper in Quantum Cryptography PRL 112, 070503 (2014) |
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| 4 March | Yueyang Zhai | Reversible loss of superfluidity of a Bose–Einstein condensate in a 1D optical lattice NJP 11, 013013 (2009) |
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| 11 March | Elmar Haller | High-brightness atom source for atomic fountains Phys. Rev. A 63, 051401(R) (2001) |
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| 18 March | Pedro Gomes | Optical Mirror from Laser-Trapped Mesoscopic Particles Phys. Rev. L 112, 023902 (2014) |
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| 25 March | Thomas Clark | A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon Nature 484, 78 (2012) |
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| 1 April | Paul Griffin | Observing the Average Trajectories of Single Photons in a Two-Slit Interferometer Science 332, 6034 (2011) |
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| 8 April | James McGilligan | An array of integrated atom-photon junctions Nature Photonics 5, 35 (2011) |
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| 15 April | Jakob Hinney | Fermionic Atoms in a Three Dimensional Optical Lattice: Observing Fermi Surfaces, Dynamics, and Interactions PRL 94, 080403 (2005) |
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| 22 April | Chris Carson | Observation of Phase Fluctuations in Elongated Bose-Einstein Condensates PRL 87, 160406 (2001) |
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| 29 April | Jesus Jimenez-Garcia | Azimuthons: Spatially Modulated Vortex Solitons PRL 95, 203904 (2005) |
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| 6 May | Dylan Cotta | Nondestructive imaging of an ultracold lattice gas arXiv 1404.5583 (2014) |
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| 13th May | Ivor Kresic | Observation of a Cooperative Radiation Force in the Presence of Disorder PRL 104, 183602 (2010) |
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| 20th May | Billy Robertson | Acoustic Tractor Beam PRL 112, 174302 (2014) |
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| 3rd June | Bruno Peaudecerf | Optical diametric drive acceleration through action–reaction symmetry breaking Nature Physics9, 780 (2013) |
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| 10th June | Andrew Kelly | Nanophotonic quantum phase switch with a single atom Nature 508, 241 (2014) |
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| 17th June | Andrew MacKellar | Asking Photons Where They Have Been PRL 111, 240402 (2013) |
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| 24th June | Jakob Hinney | Atom-Light Interactions in Photonic Crystals arXiv:1312.3446 |
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| 8th July | Yueyang Zhai | A clock directly linking time to a particle’s mass Science 330, 6119 (2013) |
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| 15th July | Elmar Haller | Time-resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices Science 319, 295 (2008) |
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| 22nd July | Pedro Gomes | Creation of an Ultracold Neutral Plasma PRL 83, 4776 (1999) |
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| 29th July | Thomas Clark | Experimental Realization of an Optical One-Way Barrier for Neutral Atoms PRL 100, 240407 (2008) Experimental demonstration of information-to-energy conversion and validation of the generalized Jarzynski equality Nature physics 6, 988 (2010) |
Summer / Autumn 2013 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in the photonics group common room at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail James Hudson.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 6 August | James Hudson | From Few to Many: Observing the Formation of a Fermi Sea One Atom at a Time arxiv:1307.3443 |
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| 13 August | Billy Robertson | Bose-Einstein Condensation of Atoms in a Uniform Potential PRL 110, 200406 (2013) |
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| 20 August | Neal Radwell | Reversible optical memory for twisted photons Opt. Lett. 38, 712 (2013) |
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| 27 August | Graham Bruce | Slow Thermalization between a Lattice and Free Bose Gas PRL 111, 063002 (2013) |
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| 17 September | Savino Piccolomo | Microfabricated atomic clocks and magnetometers J. Opt. A: Pure Appl. Opt. 8, S318 (2006) |
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| 24 September | Andrew Kelly | Subwavelength Localization of Atomic Excitation Using Electromagnetically Induced Transparency PRX 3, 031014 (2013) |
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| 1 October | Elmar Haller | Heavy Solitons in a Fermionic Superfluid Nature 499, 426 (2013) |
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| 15 October | Pedro Gomes | Attractive photons in a quantum nonlinear medium Nature (2013): doi:10.1038/nature12512 |
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| 22 October | Thomas Clark | Single-photon-level quantum image memory based on cold atomic ensembles Nature Communications 4, 2527 (2013) |
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| 5 November | Chris Carson | Integrated Mach–Zehnder interferometer for Bose–Einstein condensates Nature Communications 4, 2077 (2013) |
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| 19 November | Paul Griffin | Simple Pendulum Determination of the Gravitational Constant Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 110801 (2010) |
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| 26 November | Jakob Hinney | A Mott insulator of fermionic atoms in an optical lattice Nature 455, 204 (2008) |
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| 10 December | Jesus Jimenez-Garcia | Efficient method for controlling the spatial coherence of a laser Optics Letters 38, 3858 (2013) |
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| 13 December | Dylan Cotta | Realizing the Harper Hamiltonian with Laser-Assisted Tunneling in Optical Lattices Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 185302 (2013) |
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| New Year | Ivor Kresic | ||
| New Year | James McGilligan |
Spring 2013 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in the photonics group common room at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail Graham Bruce.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 17 January | Andrew Kelly | Fermionization of Two Distinguishable Fermions PRL 108, 075303 (2012) |
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| 22 January | Billy Robertson | Observation of Free-Space Single-Atom Matter Wave Interference PRL 109, 230401 (2012) |
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| 29 January | James Hudson | Quantum magnetism of ultracold fermions in an optical lattice arXiv:1212.2634 |
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| 5 February | Jon Pritchard | Controlled formation and reflection of a bright solitary matter-wave arXiv:1301.5759 |
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| 12 February | Jakob Hinney | Laser cooling to quantum degeneracy arXiv:1301.4776 |
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| 19 February | Graham Bruce | Intrinsic Photoconductivity of Ultracold Fermions in Optical Lattices PRL 110, 085302 (2013) |
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| 26 February | Chris Carson | Interferometry with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Microgravity arXiv:1301.5883 |
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| 5 March | Savino Piccolomo | Sensitivity Comparison of Mx and Frequency-Modulated Bell–Bloom Cs Magnetometers in a Microfabricated Cell IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 59, 379 (2010) |
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| 12 March | Elmar Haller | Tuning of Heteronuclear Interactions in a Degenerate Fermi-Bose Mixture PRL 97,120403 (2006) |
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| 19 March | Paul Griffin | Experimental delayed-choice entanglement swapping Nat. Phys. 8, 479 (2012) |
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| 26 March | Nicolas Sangouard | Direct measurement of the van der Waals interaction between two single atoms http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.4262 |
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| 2 April | Neal Radwell | Discussion of artificial spin-ice | |
| 9 April | Dylan Cotta | A quantum logic gate between a solid-state quantum bit and a photon Nature Photonics (2013), doi:10.1038/nphoton.2013.48 |
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| 16 April | Pedro Gomes | All-Optical Switching in Rubidium Vapor Science 308, 672 (2005) |
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| 30 April | Jesus Jimenez-Garcia | Excitable particles in an optical torque wrench Nature Physics 7, 259 (2011) |
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| 7 May | Andrew Kelly | Bose-Einstein Condensation of Microcavity Polaritons in a Trap Science 316, 5827 (2007) |
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| 14 May | Aline Dinkelaker | Information loss in black holes PRD 72, 084013 (2005) |
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| 21 May | Neal Radwell | Fast compression of a cold atomic cloud using a blue-detuned crossed dipole trap PRA 86, 053412 (2012) |
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| 28 May | Graham Bruce | Quantum interference-enhanced deep sub-Doppler cooling of 39 K atoms beyond gray molasses arXiv:1305.5480 |
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| 4 June | Billy Robertson | New Method for Gravitational Wave Detection with Atomic Sensors PRL 110, 171102 (2013) |
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| 11 June | Pedro Gomes | Optical parametric oscillation with distributed feedback in cold atoms Nature Photonics 6, 101 (2012) |
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| 18 June | James Hudson | Evolutionary Optimization of an Experimental Apparatus http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4094 |
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| 2 July | Jesus Jimenez-Garcia | Observing Geometric Frustration with Thousands of Coupled Lasers PRL 110, 184102 (2013) |
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| 16 July | Elmar Haller | Multiresonant Spinor Dynamics in a Bose-Einstein Condensate PRL 103, 195302 (2009) |
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| 23 July | Paul Griffin | Quantum Annealing with Manufactured Spins Nature 473, 194 (2011) |
Autumn / Winter 2012 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in JA 8.11 at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail Graham Bruce.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 22 August | Neal Radwell | Non-classical light generated by quantum-noise-driven cavity optomechanics Nature (2012) doi:10.1038/nature11325 |
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| 29 August | Elmar Haller | Observation of a pairing pseudogap in a two-dimensional Fermi gas Nature 480, 75-78 (2012) |
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| 5 September | Andreas Schindewolf | Spin-Injection Spectroscopy of a Spin-Orbit Coupled Fermi Gas PRL 109, 095302 (2012) |
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| 19 September | Andrew Kelly | Quantum Homodyning of Photonic Qubits, Qutrits and Ququads Emitted on Demand from an Atomic Source arXiv:1203.5614 |
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| 26 September | Jon Pritchard | Nanoplasmonic Lattices for Ultracold Atoms arXiv:1208.6293 |
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| 3 October | James Hudson | An SU(6) Mott insulator of an atomic Fermi gas realized by large-spin Pomeranchuk cooling Nature Phys. (2012), doi:10.1038/nphys2430 |
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| 10 October | Chris Carson | Relaxation and Prethermalization in an Isolated Quantum System Science 337, 1318 (2012) |
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| 17 October | Savino Piccolomo | Absolute absorption on rubidium D lines: comparison between theory and experiment J. Phys. B 41, 155004 (2008) |
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| 25 October | Paul Griffin | Simultaneous measurement of gravity acceleration and gravity gradient with an atom interferometer Appl. Phys. Lett. 101, 114106 (2012) |
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| 1 November | Graham Bruce | Demonstration of a Fundamental Quantum Logic Gate Phys. Rev. Lett. 75, 4714–4717 (1995) – – – – – – – and – – – – – – – Quantum jumps of light recording the birth and death of a photon in a cavity Nature 446, 297-300 (2007) |
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| 8 November | Nicolas Sangouard | Sub-Doppler laser cooling of fermionic 40K atoms in three-dimensional gray optical molasses arXiv:1210.1310 |
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| 15 November | Neal Radwell | High Densities of Cold Atoms in a Dark Spontaneous-Force Optical Trap PRL 70, 2253 (1993) – – – – – – – and – – – – – – – Behavior of atoms in a compressed magneto-optical trap JOSA B 11, 1332 (1994) |
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| 22 November | Elmar Haller | ||
| 29 November | Andreas Schindewolf | ||
| 6 December | Pedro Gomes | ||
| 13 December | Jon Pritchard | (Will be held in JA3.27) |
Spring 2012 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in JA 8.13 at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail Jon Pritchard.
| Date | Introduced by | Paper | |
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| 25 January | Jon Pritchard | Entangling Macroscopic Diamonds at Room Temperature Science 334, 6060 (2011) |
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| 2 February | Andrew Kelly | Onset of Fermi Degeneracy in a Trapped Atomic Gas Science 285, 1703 (1999) |
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| 9 February | James Hudson | Fermionic transport and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in a homogeneous Hubbard model with ultracold atoms Nature Phys. (2012) |
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| 16 February | Paul Griffin | Atomic homodyne detection of continuous-variable entangled twin-atom states Nature 480, 219 (2011) | |
| 23 February | Chris Carson | Cavity cooling using intense blue-detuned light J. Mod. Opt. 58, 1336 (2011) |
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| 1 March | Jon Pritchard | Optical Magnetometer Array for Fetal Magnetocardiography arXiv:1202.5019 |
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| 8 March | Aline Dinkelaker | Photon Bubbles in Ultracold Matter Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 033001 (2012) |
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| 15 March | Graham Bruce | Orbital excitation blockade and algorithmic cooling in quantum gases Nature 480, 500 (2011) |
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| 22 March | Neil Radwell | Quantum-coherent coupling of a mechanical oscillator to an optical cavity mode Nature 482, 63 (2012) |
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| 29 March | Elmar Haller | Direct Measurement of Long-Range Third-Order Coherence in Bose-Einstein Condensates Science 331, 1026 (2011) |
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| 5 April | Andreas Schindewolf | Quantum phase transition to unconventional multi-orbital superfluidity in optical lattices Nature Phys. 8, 71 (2012) |
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| 12 April | Holiday | ||
| 19 April | Pedro Gomes | Mode-hop-free tuning over 135 GHz of external cavity diode lasers without antireflection coating App. Phys. B 106, 629 (2012) |
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| 26 April | Andrew Kelly | Inserting single Cs atoms into an ultracold Rb Gas App. Phys. B 106, 513 (2012) |
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Autumn/Winter 2011 Timetable
All meetings unless otherwise stated will be in JA 8.13 at 9 am. For details or corrections e-mail Jon Pritchard.
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| 1 September | Jon Pritchard | Can a Bose Gas Be Saturated? Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 230401 (2011) |
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| 8 September | Graham Bruce | Interaction and filling-induced quantum phases of dual Mott insulators of bosons and fermions Nature Phys. 7, 642 (2011) [Presentation.pdf] |
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| 15 September | Matthieu Vangeleyn | A synthetic electric force acting on neutral atoms Nature Phys. 7, 531 (2011) |
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| 22 September | Aline Dinkelaker | Superflow in a Toroidal Bose-Einstein Condensate: An Atom Circuit with a Tunable Weak Link Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 130401 (2011) |
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| 29 September | Chris Burrows | A strongly dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensate of Dysprosium arXiv:1108.5993 |
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| 6 October | Graham Walker | Electromagnetically Induced Transparency in Cesium Vapor with Probe Pulses on the Single-Photon Level Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 153605 (2011) |
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| 13 October | Neil Radwell | Bose–Einstein condensation of photons in an optical microcavity Nature 468, 545 (2010) |
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| 19 October | James Hudson | Multiband Spectroscopy of Ultracold Fermions: Observation of Reduced Tunneling in Attractive Bose-Fermi Mixtures PRL 107, 135303 (2011) |
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| 26 October | Andrew Kelly | Three-Dimensional Anderson Localization of Ultracold Matter Science 334, 66 (2011) |
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| 2 November | Jon Pritchard | Vacuum-Induced Transparency Science 333, 1266 (2011) |
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| 9 November | Graham Bruce | Ultracold Atoms in a Tuneable Optical Kagome Lattice arXiv:1109.1591 |
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| 16 November | Aline Dinkelaker | Detecting inertial effects with airborne matter-wave interferometry Nature Comms. 2, 474 (2011) | |
| 23 November | Graham Walker | Enhanced frequency up-conversion in Rb vapour Opt. Express 18, 17020 (2010) | |
| 30 November | Graham Bruce | Robust Optical Sculpting for Manipulating UltraCold Atoms arXiv:1111.5941 | |
| 7 December | Matthieu Vangeleyn | Manipulating ultracold atoms with a reconfigurable nanomagnetic system of domain walls arXiv:1112.0485 | |
| 14 December | Neil Radwell | Azimuthal Sisyphus effect for atoms in a toroidal all-optical trap Phys. Rev. A 84, 043422 (2011) |
Reading Lists
Every few weeks a new list of recent papers from the major journals relevant to quantum degenerate gases, atom optics and quantum information is collated and updated.