UO Atom Optics: Publications

10 June 2009

Dissertations and Theses

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

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

  3. 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. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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) .

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 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.”.