Gopalakrishnan, Sarang, Lev, Benjamin L., Goldbart, Paul M.
We propose that condensed matter phenomena involving the spontaneous emergence and dynamics of crystal lattices can be realized in the setting of ultracold Bose-condensed atoms coupled to multimode...
Biaxial nematic phases in ultracold dipolar Fermi gases (2009)
Fregoso, Benjamin M., Sun, Kai, Fradkin, Eduardo, Lev, Benjamin L.
Ultracold dipolar Fermi gases represent relatively unexplored, strongly correlated systems arising from long-range and anisotropic interactions. We demonstrate the possibility of a spontaneous...
Optical interferometers with reduced sensitivity to thermal noise (2008)
Kimble, H. J., Lev, Benjamin L., Ye, Yun
A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometry is thermal noise that drives fluctuations in the positions of the surfaces of the interferometer's mirrors, and thereby in the phase...
Optical Interferometers with Reduced Sensitivity to Thermal Noise (2008)
Kimble, H. J., Lev, Benjamin L., Ye, Jun
A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometry is thermal noise that drives fluctuations in the positions of the surfaces of the interferometer's mirrors, and thereby in the phase...
Loss of molecules in magneto-electrostatic traps due to nonadiabatic transitions (2008)
Lara, Manuel, Lev, Benjamin L., Bohn, John L.
We analyze the dynamics of a paramagnetic, dipolar molecule in a generic "magneto-electrostatic'' trap where both magnetic and electric fields may be present. The potential energy that governs the...
COLLISION EXPERIEMNTS UTILIZING TRAPPED NEUTRAL OH MOLECULES (2008)
Wang, Dajun, Sawyer, Brian C., Stuhl, Benjamin K., Yeo, Eng Hiang, Lev, Benjamin L., Ye, Jun
Author Institution: JILA, National Institute of Standards and Technology and the; University of Colorado, Department of Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309-0440, USA; Department...
Prospects for the cavity-assisted laser cooling of molecules (2007)
Lev, Benjamin L., Vukics, Andras, Hudson, Eric R., Sawyer, Brian C., Domokos, Peter, Ritsch, Helmut, ...
Cooling of molecules via free-space dissipative scattering of photons is thought not to be practicable due to the inherently large number of Raman loss channels available to molecules and the...
Mitigation of loss within a molecular Stark decelerator (2007)
Sawyer, Brian C., Stuhl, Benjamin K., Lev, Benjamin L., Hudson, Eric R., Ye, Jun
The transverse motion inside a Stark decelerator plays a large role in the total efficiency of deceleration. We differentiate between two separate regimes of molecule loss during the slowing process....
Magneto-electrostatic trapping of ground state OH molecules (2007)
Sawyer, Brian C., Lev, Benjamin L., Hudson, Eric R., Stuhl, Benjamin K., Lara, Manuel, Bohn, John L., ...
We report the magnetic confinement of neutral, ground state hydroxyl radicals (OH) at a density of $\sim3\times10^{3}$ cm$^{-3}$ and temperature of $\sim$30 mK. An adjustable electric field of...
OH hyperfine ground state: from precision measurement to molecular qubits (2006)
Lev, Benjamin L., Meyer, Edmund R., Hudson, Eric R., Sawyer, Brian C., Bohn, John L., Ye, Jun
We perform precision microwave spectroscopy--aided by Stark deceleration--to reveal the low magnetic field behavior of OH in its ^2\Pi_{3/2} ro-vibronic ground state, identifying two...