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Search Publications by: William D. Phillips (Fed)

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Strongly Inhibited Transport of a Degenerate 1D Bose Gas in a Lattice

April 1, 2005
Author(s)
C Fertig, K M. O'Hara, J H. Huckans, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips, James V. Porto
We report the observation of strongly damped dipole oscillations of a quantum degenerate 1D atomic Bose gas in a combined harmonic and optical lattice potential. Damping is significant for very shallow axial lattices (0.25 photon recoil energies), and

Study of a 1D Interacting Quantum Bose Gas

October 1, 2004
Author(s)
B Laburthe, K M. O'Hara, J H. Huckans, M Anderlini, James V. Porto, S L. Rolston, William D. Phillips
The loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate into a deep 2D optical lattice provides a unique way to study 1D Bose gases: the strong radial confinement freezes any motion in two dimensions, and for deep enough lattices, the system can be seen as an array

Observation of Reduced Three-Body Recombination in a Fermionized 1D Bose Gas

May 14, 2004
Author(s)
B L. Tolra, K M. O'Hara, J H. Huckans, William D. Phillips, S L. Rolston, James V. Porto
We investigate correlation properties of a one-dimensional interacting Bose gas by loading a mangnetically trapped 87Rb Bose-Einstein condensate into a deep two-dimensional optical lattice. We measure the three-body recombination rate for both the BEC in

Realization of a Quantum Random Walk With Ultracold Atoms

February 1, 2004
Author(s)
D Ciampini, M B. d'Arcy, J M. Grossman, Kristian Helmerson, Paul D. Lett, William D. Phillips, A Vaziri, S L. Rolston
Classical random walks have many applications in computer science. Quantum random walks (QRWs) [1] have been suggested as the potential basis for quantum computing algorithms. Such algorithms have been reported, some of which offer an exponential speed-up

Superfluid-to-Mott-Insulating Transition in a One-Dimensional Atomic Gas

February 1, 2004
Author(s)
C Fertig, K M. O'Hara, J H. Huckans, James V. Porto, William D. Phillips
Over the past two decades, the Mott-insulating phase transition has received a great deal of attention as a prototypical example of a quantum phase transition in a strongly-correlated system for which quantum fluctuations drive the phase transition at zero

Optical Manipulation of Atoms at the Nanoscale

August 11, 2003
Author(s)
William D. Phillips
These notes are to provide an outline of a lecture presented at the Enrico Fermi Summer School at Nanoscale Science, held in Varenna in July 2000. They are not intended as a complete account of that lecture, but as an indication of the topics covered and a

Quantum Information With Neutral Atoms as Qubits

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
James V. Porto, S L. Rolston, B L. Tolra, Carl J. Williams, William D. Phillips
Neutral atoms trapped in periodic optical potentials (optical lattices) offer a possible route toward quantum computation. The atoms can be kept well isolated from the environment, yet can be easily manipulated with the tools of atomic physics. This paper

Quantum Information With Neutral Atoms as Quibits

July 1, 2003
Author(s)
James V. Porto, S L. Rolston, B L. Tolra, Carl J. Williams, William D. Phillips
One of the essential features of a quantum computer is a quantum register of well-characterized qubits. Neural atoms in optical lattices are a natural candidate for such a register. We have demonstrated a pattern loading technique that can be used to load