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Indirect measurement of atomic magneto-optical rotation via Hilbert transform 通过希尔伯特变换间接测量原子磁光旋转

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-08-06 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e24

Jack D Briscoe, Danielle Pizzey, Steven A Wrathmall and Ifan G Hughes

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Doppler sensitivity and resonant tuning of Rydberg atom-based antennas 基于雷德贝格原子的天线的多普勒灵敏度和谐振调谐

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-24 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad6385

Peter B Weichman

{"title":"Doppler sensitivity and resonant tuning of Rydberg atom-based antennas","authors":"Peter B Weichman","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad6385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad6385","url":null,"abstract":"Radio frequency antennas based on Rydberg atom vapor cells can in principle reach sensitivities beyond those of any conventional wire antenna, especially at lower frequencies where very long wires are needed to accommodate the increasing wavelength. They also have other desirable features such as consisting of nonmetallic, hence lower profile, elements. This paper presents a detailed theoretical investigation of Rydberg antenna sensitivity, elucidating parameter regimes that could cumulatively lead to a sensitivity increase 2–3 orders of magnitude beyond that of currently tested configurations. The key insight is to optimally combine the advantages of two well-studied approaches: (i) three laser ‘2D star configuration’ setups that, when enhanced with increased laser power, to some degree compensate for atom motion-induced Doppler broadening, and (ii) resonant coupling between a pair of near-degenerate Rydberg levels, tuned via a local oscillator to the incident signal of interest. The advantage of the star setup is subtle because it only restores the overall sensitivity to the expected Doppler-limited value, compensating for additional significant off-resonance reductions where differently moving atom sub-populations destructively interfere with each other in the net signal. An additional unique advantage of local oscillator tuning is that it leads to vastly narrower line widths, as low as ∼10 kHz set by the intrinsic Rydberg state lifetimes, rather than the typical ∼10 MHz scale set by the core state lifetimes. Intuitively, with this setup the two Rydberg states may be tuned to act as an independent high-q cavity, a point of view supported by a study of the frequency-dependence of the antenna resonant response. There are a number of practical experimental advances, especially larger ∼1 cm laser beam widths, required to suppress various extrinsic line broadening effects and to fully exploit this ‘Rydberg superheterodyne’ response.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141782045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Dissociative recombination of NS+ in collision with slow electrons NS+ 与慢速电子碰撞时的分解重组

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-17 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e20

R Hassaine, F Gauchet, F Iacob, J Zs Mezei, E Roueff, J Tennyson and I F Schneider

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Exploring the origin of stronger survival of polarized vortex beams through scattering media 探索极化涡流束在散射介质中生存能力更强的原因

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e22

Atharva Paranjape, Shyamal Guchhait, Athira B S and Nirmalya Ghosh

{"title":"Exploring the origin of stronger survival of polarized vortex beams through scattering media","authors":"Atharva Paranjape, Shyamal Guchhait, Athira B S and Nirmalya Ghosh","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e22","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e22","url":null,"abstract":"Laguerre–Gaussian (LG) beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have shown promise in deep tissue imaging, medical diagnostics, and optical communication due to their robust propagation properties through scattering media. The insight on the mechanism for stronger survival of OAM carrying beam in tissue-like turbid media is expected to contribute towards a better understanding of light transport in the presence of scattering, as well as guide optimization of the intensity, phase, and polarization structure of light for use in biomedical applications like in tissue imaging. We examine the scattering properties by studying the propagation of polarized vortex beams transmitted through tissue-like turbid scattering media. We demonstrate that the intensity profile has a much more profound effect on depolarization than the phase profile for LG beams. Our results indicate that the observed stronger propagation for the higher-order LG beams is due to a higher anisotropy factor g, as seen by the incident beam. We have performed the degree of polarization measurements for the forward scattered light in the case of both LG beams and perfect vortex beams with varying topological charges. A comparison between the observed depolarization trends for the two classes of OAM-carrying beams suggests that the robust scattering properties of the LG beams originate from the intensity profile while the phase profile does not seem to play a major role in the stronger survival of OAM-carrying beam in turbid media.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The electron affinity of rubidium: a state selective measurement 铷的电子亲和力：状态选择性测量

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-11 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e25

Annie Ringvall-Moberg, Miranda Nichols, José E Navarro Navarrete, Uldis Bērziņš, Viola C D’mello, Julia Karls, Di Lu, Yazareth Peña Rodríguez, Rachel Poulose, Andrea Morales Rodríguez, Keerthana Ravi, Meera Ramachandran, Vitali Zhaunerchyk, Dag Hanstorp and David Leimbach

{"title":"The electron affinity of rubidium: a state selective measurement","authors":"Annie Ringvall-Moberg, Miranda Nichols, José E Navarro Navarrete, Uldis Bērziņš, Viola C D’mello, Julia Karls, Di Lu, Yazareth Peña Rodríguez, Rachel Poulose, Andrea Morales Rodríguez, Keerthana Ravi, Meera Ramachandran, Vitali Zhaunerchyk, Dag Hanstorp and David Leimbach","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e25","url":null,"abstract":"Negative ions, which are formed when an electron is attached to a neutral system, are unique quantum systems. The lack of a long-range Coulomb force causes the inter-electronic interactions to become relatively more important. As a consequence, the independent particle model, which adequately describes atomic structure under normal conditions, breaks down. The alkali negative ions, with a closed valence s-shell, are among the simplest anionic systems. Hence, they can favorably be used to benchmark atomic theory. In this work, we have determined the electron affinity of 85Rb by measuring the relative partial photodetachment cross section of the negative ion, leaving the residual atom in the 5p excited state. Resonance ionization spectroscopy allows for state selectivity and the ability to measure the Wigner s-wave threshold onset of the photodetachment process. The electron affinity of 85Rb was determined to be 485.887(6) meV.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"20 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141608491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Evolution of level population in Ar interacting with XFEL pulses: impact of resonant absorptions 与 XFEL 脉冲相互作用的氩气中电平群的演变：共振吸收的影响

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-10 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5ee5

Jie Yan, Guanpeng Yan, Fengtao Jin, Yongjun Li, Cheng Gao, Jiaolong Zeng and Jianmin Yuan

{"title":"Evolution of level population in Ar interacting with XFEL pulses: impact of resonant absorptions","authors":"Jie Yan, Guanpeng Yan, Fengtao Jin, Yongjun Li, Cheng Gao, Jiaolong Zeng and Jianmin Yuan","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad5ee5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5ee5","url":null,"abstract":"Theoretical exploration of the population dynamics at fine-structure levels of Ar atoms interacting with ultrafast ultraintense x-ray free electron laser (XFEL) pulses is conducted. A time-dependent rate equation based on a detailed-level accounting approach is applied for tracking population levels, encompassing microscopic atomic processes such as photoexcitation, radiative decay, photoionization and Auger decay. A Monte Carlo algorithm is implemented to solve large-scale rate equations efficiently. The primary investigation centers on generating Ar17+ through resonant absorption by the second-harmonic radiation of the x-ray pulse. The calculated population ratios of Ar17+ to Ar16+ align well with the experimental measurements (LaForge et al 2021 Phys. Rev. Lett.127 213202). In comparison to the transition energy of the strongest line, of Ar16+, there is a distinct ∼25 eV red shift in the peak ratio, which is attributed to the presence of intricate resonant channels in the lower ionization stages. The results demonstrate the sensitivity of the population ratio Ar17+/Ar16+ to the laser pulse parameters such as x-ray pulse duration, bandwidth and the contribution of second-harmonic radiation, indicating their potential as diagnostic tools in future experiments.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141585122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Influence of orbital angular momentum of light on random spin-split modes in disordered anisotropic optical media 光的轨道角动量对无序各向异性光学介质中随机自旋分裂模式的影响

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e21

Anwesha Panda, Sneha Dey, Yogishree Arabinda Panda, Aditya Anurag Dash, Aloke Jana and Nirmalya Ghosh

{"title":"Influence of orbital angular momentum of light on random spin-split modes in disordered anisotropic optical media","authors":"Anwesha Panda, Sneha Dey, Yogishree Arabinda Panda, Aditya Anurag Dash, Aloke Jana and Nirmalya Ghosh","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5e21","url":null,"abstract":"Spin–orbit interaction of light in a disordered anisotropic medium is known to yield spin split modes in the momentum domain because of the random spatial gradient of the geometric phase of light. Here, we have studied the statistics of such spin-split modes for beams carrying intrinsic orbital angular momentum through the quantification of momentum domain entropy and investigated its dependence on various beam parameters. The influence of the spatial structure of the beam and the phase vortex on the statistics of the spin split modes were separately investigated using input Laguerre–Gaussian and Perfect Vortex beams passing through a disordered anisotropic medium with controlled input disorder parameter, which was realized by modulating the pixels of a liquid crystal-based spatial light modulator. The results of systematic investigations on the impact of beam waist, spot size and topological charge of the vortex beam show that the influence of the spot size on the emergence of the random spin split modes is much more significant as compared to the other beam parameters.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570056","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Avoiding lateral mode leakage in thin film lithium niobate waveguides for the generation of spectrally pure photons at telecom wavelengths 避免铌酸锂薄膜波导中的横向模式泄漏，在电信波长上产生光谱纯净的光子

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-09 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5c3e

Muskan Arora, Pranav Chokkara, Jasleen Lugani

{"title":"Avoiding lateral mode leakage in thin film lithium niobate waveguides for the generation of spectrally pure photons at telecom wavelengths","authors":"Muskan Arora, Pranav Chokkara, Jasleen Lugani","doi":"10.1088/1361-6455/ad5c3e","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/ad5c3e","url":null,"abstract":"Photonic integrated optical components, notably straight waveguides, serve as pivotal elements for on-chip generation and manipulation of quantum states of light. In this work, we focus on optimizing waveguides based on lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) to generate photon pairs at telecom wavelengths using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). Specifically, we investigate lateral leakage for all possible SPDC processes involving type 0, type I, and type II phase matching conditions in an X-cut lithium niobate waveguide and provide a recipe to avoid leakage loss for the interacting photons. Furthermore, focusing on type II phase matching, we engineer the waveguide in the single-mode regime such that it also satisfies group index matching for generating spectrally pure single photons with high purity (99.33%). We also address fabrication imperfections of the optimized design and find that the spectral purity of the generated photons is robust to fabrication errors. This work offers guidance for the suitable selection of morphological parameters to obtain lossless, single-mode LNOI waveguides for building linear optical circuits and photon pair generation at telecom wavelengths using desired phase-matching conditions.","PeriodicalId":16826,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics","volume":"163 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141570057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mass spectrometric study of fast heavy-ion induced products on microdroplet surfaces 微滴表面快速重离子诱导产物的质谱研究

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-07-03 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad31ae

Kensei Kitajima, Takuya Majima and Hidetsugu Tsuchida

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A simple, practical experiment to investigate atomic wavefunction reduction within a Stern–Gerlach magnet 研究斯特恩-格拉赫磁体内原子波函数还原的简单实用实验

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Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Pub Date : 2024-06-26 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6455/ad5992

Michael Devereux

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