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Long working distance objective lenses for single atom trapping and imaging

Review of Scientific Instruments 87, 073107 (2016)

We present a pair of optimized objective lenses with long working distances of 117 mm and 65 mm, respectively, that offer diffraction …

J. D. Pritchard, J. A. Isaacs, M. Saffman

Measurement of holmium Rydberg series through magneto-optical trap depletion spectroscopy

Physical Review A 91, 012507 (2015)

We report measurements of the absolute excitation frequencies of Ho165 4f116sns and 4f116snd odd-parity Rydberg series. The states are …

J. Hostetter, J. D. Pritchard, J. E. Lawler, M. Saffman

Microwave control of the interaction between two optical photons

Physical Review A 89, 043827 (2014)

A microwave field is used to control the interaction between pairs of optical photons stored in highly excited collective states …

D. Maxwell, D. J. Szwer, D. Paredes-Barato, H. Busche, J. D. Pritchard, A. Gauguet, M. P. A. Jones, C. S. Adams

Hybrid atom-photon quantum gate in a superconducting microwave resonator

Physical Review A 89, 010301 (2014)

We propose a hybrid quantum gate between an atom and a microwave photon in a superconducting coplanar waveguide cavity by exploiting …

J. D. Pritchard, J. A. Isaacs, M. A. Beck, R. McDermott, M. Saffman

Storage and Control of Optical Photons Using Rydberg Polaritons

Physical Review Letters 110, 103001 (2013)

We use a microwave field to control the quantum state of optical photons stored in a cold atomic cloud. The photons are stored in …

D. Maxwell, D. J. Szwer, D. Paredes-Barato, H. Busche, J. D. Pritchard, A. Gauguet, K. J. Weatherill, M. P. A. Jones, C. S. Adams

Demonstration of an inductively coupled ring trap for cold atoms

New Journal of Physics 14, 103047 (2012)

J. D. Pritchard, A. N. Dinkelaker, A. S. Arnold, P. F. Griffin, E. Riis

Correlated Photon Emission from Multiatom Rydberg Dark States

Physical Review Letters 108, 043601 (2012)

We consider three-level atoms driven by two resonant light fields in a ladder scheme where the upper level is a highly excited Rydberg …

J. D. Pritchard, C. S. Adams, K. Mølmer

Fractional photon-assisted tunneling of ultra-cold atoms in periodically shaken double-well lattices

Laser Physics Letters 9, 160 (2011)

M. Esmann, J. D. Pritchard, C. Weiss

Microwave dressing of Rydberg dark states

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44, 184020 (2011)

M. Tanasittikosol, J. D. Pritchard, D. Maxwell, A. Gauguet, K. J. Weatherill, R. M. Potvliege, C. S. Adams

Optical non-linearity in a dynamical Rydberg gas

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 44, 184019 (2011)

J. D. Pritchard, A. Gauguet, K. J. Weatherill, C. S. Adams

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