UO Atom Optics: Publications

13 December 2014

Dissertations and Theses

  1. Matthew Briel, “Design and Characterization of a Custom Aspheric Lens System for Single Atom Imaging” Master's Thesis, University of Oregon (2012). (local copy)

  2. Elizabeth Schoene, “Cold Atom Control with an Optical One-Way Barrier,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon (2010). (local copy)

  3. Tao Li, “Manipulation of Cold Atoms Using an Optical One-Way Barrier,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Oregon (2008). (local copy)

  4. Matthias Fuchs, “Development of a High Power Stabilized Diode Laser System,” Master's Thesis, University of Oregon (2006). (local copy)

  5. Daniel Adam Steck, “Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics,” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin (2001). Available online at http://steck.us/dissertation.

Papers

  1. Jayampathi C. B. Kangara, Andrew J. Hachtel, Matthew C. Gillette, Jason T. Barkeloo, Ethan Clements, Samir Bali, Brett E. Unks, Nicholas A. Proite, Deniz D. Yavuz, Paul J. Martin, Jeremy J. Thorn, and Daniel A. Steck, “Design and construction of cost-effective tapered amplifier systems for laser cooling and trapping experiments,” American Journal of Physics 82, 805 (2014). (journal link) (local copy) DOI: 10.1119/1.4867376.

  2. Eryn C. Cook, Paul J. Martin, Tobias L. Brown–Heft, Jeffrey C. Garman, and Daniel A. Steck, “High-passive-stability diode-laser design for use in atomic-physics experiments,” Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 043101 (2012). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1203.0597. DOI: 10.1063/1.3698003.

  3. Mark Raizen and Daniel A. Steck, “Cold atom experiments in quantum chaos,” Scholarpedia 6, 10468 (2011). (journal link) DOI: 10.4249/scholarpedia.10468.

  4. Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A. Steck, “Engineering Quantum States, Nonlinear Measurements, and Anomalous Diffusion by Imaging,” New Journal of Physics 13, 013016 (2011). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1008.4121. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/1/013016.

  5. I. Lizuain, J. Echanobe, A. Ruschhaupt, J. G. Muga, and D. A. Steck, “Structural and dynamical aspects of avoided crossing resonances in a 3-level $\Lambda$ system,” Physical Review A 82, 065602 (2010). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1008.2078. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.065602.

  6. Jonathan B. Mackrory, Kurt A. Jacobs, and Daniel A. Steck, “Reflections from quantum measurements,” New Journal of Physics 12, 113023 (2010). Includes online data animations. (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1009.4968. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113023.

  7. Elizabeth A. Schoene, Jeremy J. Thorn, and Daniel A. Steck, “Cooling atoms with a moving one-way barrier,” Physical Review A 82, 023419 (2010). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1012.3207. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023419.

  8. Peter E. Gaskell, Jeremy J. Thorn, Sequoia Alba, and Daniel A. Steck, “An open-source, extensible system for laboratory timing and control,” Reviews of Scientific Instruments 80, 115103 (2009). (journal link) (local copy) DOI: 10.1063/1.3250825.

  9. Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck, “Dynamics of Cold Atoms Crossing a One-Way Barrier,”Physical Review A 79, 063402 (2009). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 0903.3635. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.06340 2.

  10. Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck, “Experimental Realization of an Optical One-Way Barrier for Neutral Atoms,” Physical Review Letters 100, 240407 (2008) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint 0802.1585. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.240407.

    Media coverage of this paper:

    1. PRL “Editor's Suggestion.”
    2. Kate Mcalpine, “Physicist's atom-sorting 'demon' created with lasers,” New Scientist 198 No. 2661, 14 (21 June 2008) (journal link).
    3. Davide Castelvecchi, “One-way gate mimics 'demon' to trap atoms,” Science News 174 No. 2, 7 (19 July 2008) (Web version link).
    4. David Voss,“Cold atoms on a one-way ticket,” Physics (14 July 2008) (jo urnal link).
    5. Adela Marian and Bretislav Friedrich,“News & Views: Maxwell's demon opens new doors,”Nature Photonics 2, 463 (2008) (journal link).
    6. John Wallace,“Asymmetric optical potential barrier becomes Maxwell's demon,” Laser Focus World, 44 (November 2008) (journal link).
    7. P. M. Binder,“Science Perspectives: Reflections on a Wall of Light,” Science 322, 1334 (2008) (journal link) .

  11. Kevin A. Mitchell and Daniel A. Steck, “Fractal templates in the escape dynamics of trapped ultracold atoms,” Physical Review A 76, 031403(R) (2006) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint arXiv preprint physics/0612052.

  12. Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A. Steck, “A Straightforward Introduction to Continuous Quantum Measurement,” Contemporary Physics 47, 279 (2007) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint quant-ph/0611067. DOI: 10.1080/00107510601101934.

  13. Daniel A. Steck, Kurt Jacobs, Hideo Mabuchi, Salman Habib, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, “Feedback cooling of atomic motion in cavity QED,” Physical Review A 74, 012322 (2006) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint quant-ph/0509039 and LANL Release LA-UR-04-4687. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.012322.

Selected Unpublished Works

  1. Daniel A. Steck, “Cesium D Line Data,” available online at http://steck.us/alkalidata; extensive, periodically updated compilation of atomic data relevant to quantum optics and atom optics experiments involving cesium, along with a thorough and consistent theoretical framework for the tabulated quantities. Also available as “Sodium D Line Data.” and “Rubidium 87 D Line Data.”.