Group of Vladan Vuletic
Experimental Atomic Physics
Center
for Ultracold Atoms and Research
Laboratory of Electronics
Department of Physics,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Vladan Vuletic
Lester Wolfe Associate Professor of Physics
MIT Room 26-231 Location
on MIT campus
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139-4309
phone (617) 324-1174
fax (617) 253-4876
@mit.edu
Administrative contact:
Joanna Keseberg, (617) 253-6830 (phone), (617) 253-4876 (fax), j_k@MIT.EDU
Mailing address: Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Room 26-231, Cambridge,
MA 02139-4309
Spin Squeezing, many-body entanglement, measurements below standard quantum limit
- Collective State Measurement of Mesoscopic Ensembles with Single-Atom Resolution. Hao Zhang, Robert McConnell, Senka Cuk, Qian Lin, Monika Schleier-Smith, Ian D. Leroux, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 133603 (2012).
- Unitary Cavity Spin Squeezing by Quantum Erasure. Ian D. Leroux, Monika Schleier-Smith, Hao Zhang, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. A 85, 013803 (2012).
- Generating Entanglement and Squeezed States of Nuclear Spins in Quantum Dots. Mark S. Rudner, L. M.K. Vandersypen, Vladan Vuletic, and Leonid Levitov, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 206806 (2011).
- Orientation-Dependent Entanglement Lifetime in a Squeezed Atomic Clock. Ian D. Leroux, Monika Schleier-Smith, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 250801 (2010);
- Implementation of Cavity Squeezing of a Collective Atomic Spin. Ian D. Leroux, Monika Schleier-Smith, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 073602 (2010);
- Squeezing the Collective Spin of a Dilute Atomic Ensemble by Cavity Feedback. Monika Schleier-Smith, Ian D. Leroux, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. A 81, 021804(R) (2010).
- States of an Ensemble of Two-Level Atoms with Reduced Quantum Uncertainty. Monika Schleier-Smith, Ian D. Leroux, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 073604 (2010), supporting material.
- Producing Squeezed Input States for an Atomic Clock Using an Optical Cavity. Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, and Vladan Vuletic, in: Proceedings of the Joint Meeting of the European Frequency and Time Forum and the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium (EFTF/IFCS), Besancon, France (2010).
- Spin Squeezing on an Atomic Clock Transition. Monika Schleier-Smith, Ian D. Leroux, and Vladan Vuletic, published in: Proceedings of the XXI. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2008, Storrs, Connecticut, 7/2008), edited by R. Côté, P.L Gould, M. Rozman, and W.W. Smith (World Scientific 2009).
Cavity quantum electrodynamics with atomic ensembles, quantum information science, quantum optics
- Quantum nonlinear optics with single photons enabled by strongly interacting atoms. Thibault Peyronel, Ofer Firstenberg, Qiyu Liang, Sebastian Hofferberth, Alexey V. Gorshkov, Thomas Pohl, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Vladan Vuletic, Nature 488, 57 (2012).
- Vacuum-Induced Transparency. Haruka Tanji, Wenlan Chen, Renate Landig, Jonathan Simon, and Vladan Vuletic, Science 333, 1266 (2011), accompanying Science Perspectives by Michael Fleischhauer, accompanying MIT News Story.
- Ion crystal transducer for strong coupling between single ions and single photons. Lucas Lamata, David R. Leibrandt, Isaac Chuang, J. Ignacio Cirac, Mikhail D. Lukin, Vladan Vuletic, and Susanne F. Yelin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 030501 (2011).
- Interaction between Atomic Ensembles and Optical Resonators: Classical Description. Haruka Tanji-Suzuki, Ian D. Leroux, Monika H. Schleier-Smith, Marko Cetina, Andrew T. Grier, Jonathan Simon, and Vladan Vuletic, Adv. At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 60, 201 (2011), quant-ph/1104.3594.
- Laser-cooled atoms inside a hollow-core photonic-crystal fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Thibault Peyronel, Vlatko Balic, Qiyu Liang, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. A 83, 063830 (2011); accompanying Physics Synopsis.
- Few-photon switching with slow light in hollow fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin, published in: Proc. of SPIE, Vol. 7226 (Advances in Slow and Fast Light II), 722609 (2009).
- Trapping and Manipulation of Isolated Atoms Using Nanoscale Plasmonic Structures. Darrick E. Chang, James D. Thompson, Hongkun Park, Vladan Vuletic, Alexander S. Zibrov, Peter Zoller, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 123004 (2009).
- Switching of light with light using cold atoms inside a hollow optical fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Thibault Peyronel, Vlatko Balic, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Mikhail D. Lukin, and V. Vuletic, published in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2009, Hokkaido, Japan), edited by H. Katori.
- Heralded Single-Magnon Quantum Memory for Photon Polarization States. Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Jonathan Simon, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 043601 (2009);
- Efficient All-Optical Switching Using Slow Light within a Hollow Fiber. Michal Bajcsy, Sebastian Hofferberth, Vlatko Balic, Thibault Peyronel, Mohammed Hafezi, Alexander S. Zibrov, Vladan Vuletic, and Mikhail D. Lukin, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 203902 (2009);
- Heralded atomic-ensemble quantum memory for photon polarization states. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, Benjamin Bloom, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Scr. T134, 014010 (2009).
- Crystallization of strongly interacting photons in a nonlinear optical fiber. Darrick E. Chang, Vladimir Gritsev, Giovanna Morigi, Vladan Vuletic, Mikhail D. Lukin, and Eugene Demler, Nature Physics 4, 884 (2008).
- Single-Photon Bus between Spin-Wave Quantum Memories. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, Saikat Ghosh, and Vladan Vuletic, Nature Physics 3, 765 (2007) .
- Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons. Jonathan Simon, Haruka Tanji, James K. Thompson, and V. Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 183601 (2007).
- A High-Brightness Source of Narrowband, Identical-Photon Pairs. James K. Thompson, Jonathan Simon, Huanqian Loh, and Vladan Vuletic, Science 313, 74 (2006), supporting material.
- On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency. Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 133601 (2005).
New laser cooling methods for atoms, ions or molecules: Cavity cooling and feedback cooling
- Optomechanical Cavity Cooling of an Atomic Ensemble. Monika H. Schleier-Smith, Ian D. Leroux, Hao Zhang, Mackenzie A.Van Camp, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett, 107, 143005 (2011).
- Cavity Sideband Cooling of a Single Trapped Ion. David R. Leibrandt, Jaroslaw Labaziewicz, Vladan Vuletic, and Isaac L. Chuang, Phys. Rev. Lett, 103, 103001 (2009);
Supplementary Information.
- selected as Editors’ Suggestion, Synopsis.
- External-Feedback Laser Cooling of Gases. Vladan Vuletic, Jonathan Simon, Adam T. Black, and James K. Thompson, Phys. Rev. A. 75, 051405(R) (2007).
- Collective light forces on atoms in resonators. Adam T. Black, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, J. Phys. B: At. Mol. Opt. Phys. 38, (2005) (special issue Einstein year).
- Atomic Samples in Resonators: Forces, Photons, Feedback. James K. Thompson, Adam T. Black, and Vladan Vuletic, in Proceedings of the XIX. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2004, Rio de Janeiro), edited by V. Bagnato, (World Scientific 2005).
- Observation of Collective Friction Forces due to Spatial Self-Organization of Atoms: From Rayleigh to Bragg Scattering. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 203001 (1-4) (2003).
- Self-Organization of Atomic Samples in Resonators and Collective Light Forces. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 2003, Palm Cove), edited by P. Hannaford, A. Sidorov, H. Bachor, and K. Baldwin, pp. 345-352 (World Scientific, Singapore 2004).
- Observation of Collective-Emission-Induced Cooling of Atoms in an Optical Cavity. Hilton W. Chan, Adam T. Black, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 063003 (1-4) (2003).
- Cooling of Cesium Atoms by Collective Emission inside an Optical Resonator. Adam T. Black, Hilton W. Chan, and Vladan Vuletic, in Proceedings of the XVIII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2002, Boston), edited by H. Sadeghpour, R. Heller, and D. Pritchard, pp. 91-98, (World Scientific, Singapore 2003).
- Cavity Cooling with a Hot Cavity. Vladan Vuletic, in Laser Physics at the Limits, edited by H. Figger, D. Meschede, and C. Zimmermann, pp. 67-74, (Springer 2001).
- Three-dimensional cavity Doppler cooling and cavity sideband cooling. Vladan Vuletic, Hilton W. Chan, and Adam T. Black, Phys. Rev. A 64, 033405 (1-7) (2001).
- Laser Cooling: Beyond optical molasses and beyond closed transitions. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2000, Florence), edited by E. Arimondo, P. De Natale, and M. Inguscio, pp. 356-366, (American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York 2001).
- Laser Cooling of Atoms, Ions, or Molecules by Coherent Scattering. Vladan Vuletic and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3787 (2000).
Microchip traps for Bose-Einstein condensates or ions
- Magnetic Microchips for Atomic Clocks. Vladan Vuletic, Ian D. Leroux, and M. H. Schleier-Smith, in: Atom Chips, edited by J. Reichel and V. Vuletic, (Wiley, Weinheim 2011).
- Multi-Layer Atom Chips for Atom Tunneling Experiments near the Chip Surface. Ho-Chiao Chuang, Evan A. Salim, Vladan Vuletic, Dana Z. Anderson, and Victor M. Bright, Sensors and Actuators A: Physical 65, 101 (2011).
- Bright source of cold ions for surface-electrode traps. Marko Cetina, Andrew Grier, Jonathan Campbell, Isaac Chuang, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. A. 97, 041401(R) (2007).
- Resonator-Aided Single-Atom Detection on a Microfabricated Chip. Igor Teper, Yu-ju Lin, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023002 (2006).
- Impact of the Casimir-Polder potential and Johnson Noise on Bose-Einstein Condensate Stability near Surfaces. Yu-ju Lin, Igor Teper, Cheng Chin, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 050404 (2004).
- Microscopic Magnetic Quadrupole Trap for Neutral Atoms with Extreme Adiabatic Compression. Vladan Vuletic, Thomas Fischer, Michael Praeger, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80, 1634 (1998).
- Steep Magnetic Trap for Ultracold Atoms. Vladan Vuletic, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Europhys. Lett. 36, 349 (1996).
- Generation of Cylindrically Symmetric Magnetic Fields with Permanent Magnets and µ-Metal. Leo Ricci, Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Applied Physics B 59, 195 (1994).
Laser cooling: Degenerate Raman sideband cooling
- Laser Cooling: Beyond optical molasses and beyond closed transitions. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVII. International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2000, Florence), edited by E. Arimondo, P. De Natale, and M. Inguscio, pp. 356-366, (American Institute of Physics, Melville, New York 2001).
- Beyond Optical Molasses: 3D Raman Sideband Cooling of Atomic Cesium to High Phase-Space Density. Andrew J. Kerman, Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 439 (2000).
- Raman Sideband Cooling in An Optical Lattice. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (ICOLS 1999, Innsbruck), edited by R. Blatt, J. Eschner, D. Leibfried, and F. Schmidt-Kaler, pp. 207-216, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1999).
- Degenerate Raman Sideband Cooling of Trapped Cesium Atoms at Very High Atomic Densities. Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 81, 5768 (1998).
Cold collisions, Feshbach resonances, molecule formation
- Observation of Cold Collisions between Trapped Ions and Trapped Atoms. Andrew Grier, Marko Cetina, Fedj Orucevic, and Vladan Vuletic, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 223201 (2009).
- Sensitive Detection of Cold Cesium Molecules Formed on Feshbach Resonances. Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, Vladan Vuletic, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 033201 (2003).
- Determination of Cs-Cs Interaction Parameters Using Feshbach Spectroscopy. Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Steven Chu, Paul J. Leo, Carl J. Williams, and Paul S. Julienne, in Proceedings of the Euroconference on Atomic Optics and Interferometry (Cargese 2000).
- High Resolution Feshbach Spectroscopy of Cesium. Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85, 2717 (2000).
- High precision Feshbach spectroscopy of ultracold cesium collisions. Cheng Chin, Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman and Steven Chu, in Proceedings of the XVI. International Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics, Nuclear Physics A (Elsevier Science, Taipeh, 2000).
- Observation of Low-Field Feshbach Resonances in Collisions of Cesium Atoms. Vladan Vuletic, Andrew J. Kerman, Cheng Chin, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett.82, 1406 (1999).
- Suppression of Atomic Radiative Collisions by Tuning the Ground-State Scattering Length. Vladan Vuletic, Cheng Chin, Andrew J. Kerman, and Steven Chu, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 943 (1999).
Laser spectroscopy
- Optical Pumping Saturation Effect in Selective Reflection. Vladan Vuletic, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Claus Zimmermann and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 108, 77 (1994).
- Measurement of Cesium Resonance Line Self-Broadening and Shift with Doppler-free Selective Reflection Spectroscopy. Vladan Vuletic, Vladimir A. Sautenkov, Claus Zimmermann and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 99, 185 (1993).
Laser design
- Long-external-cavity distributed Bragg reflector laser with subkilohertz intrinsic linewidth. Qian Lin, Hao Zhang, Mackenzie Van Camp, Brana Jelenkovic, and Vladan Vuletic, Opt. Lett. 37, 1989-1991 (2012).
- Influence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers. Huanqian Loh, Yu-ju. Lin, Igor Teper, Marko Cetina, Jonathan Simon, James K. Thompson, and Vladan Vuletic, Applied Optics 45, 9191-9197 (2006).
- A Broad Emitter Diode Laser System for Lithium Spectroscopy. Michael Praeger, Vladan Vuletic, Thomas Fischer, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Applied Physics B67, 163 (1998).
- Bichromatic Frequency Conversion in Potassium Niobate. Alexander Hohla, Vladan Vuletic, Theodor W. Hänsch, and Claus Zimmermann, Optics Lett. 23, 436-438 (1998).
- A Compact Grating-Stabilized Diode Laser System for Atomic Physics. Leo Ricci, Matthias Weidemüller, Tilman Esslinger, Andreas Hemmerich, Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Wolfgang König, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Commun. 117, 541 (1995).
- All Solid State Laser Source for Tunable Blue and Ultraviolet Radiation. Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Andreas Hemmerich, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 2318 (1995).
- Design for a Compact Tunable Ti:Sapphire Laser. Claus Zimmermann, Vladan Vuletic, Andreas Hemmerich, Leo Ricci, and Theodor W. Hänsch, Optics Lett. 20, 297 (1995).