Publications

Weak Signal Detection

• 1. Jonah Quirk, Carol Tanner, and D.S. Elliott, "Measurement of the ratio of the scalar polarizability to the vector polarizability for the 6s ²S_1/2→7s ²S_1/2 transition in cesium," Phys. Rev. A 109, 062809.

  2. Amy Damitz, Jonah Quirk, Carol Tanner, and D.S. Elliott, "Technique for a direct measurement of the cesium anapole moment using coherent rf and Raman interactions," Phys. Rev. A 109 (3), 032810 (2024).

  3. J. Choi and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement scheme and analysis for weak ground-state-hyperfine-transition moments through two-pathway coherent control," Phys. Rev. A 93, 023432 (2016).

  4. Antypas and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of weak optical transition moments through two-pathway coherent control," Can. J. Chem. 92, 144-156 (2014).

  5. D. Antypas and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of a weak transition moment using two-pathway coherent control," Phys. Rev. A 87, 042505 (2013).

  6. M. Gunawardena and D. S. Elliott, "Weak signal detection using coherent control," Phys. Rev. A 76, 033412 (2007).

  7. M. Gunawardena and D. S. Elliott, "Atomic homodyne detection of weak atomic transitions," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 043001 (2007).

 

Precision measurements of Electric Dipole Amplitudes and Static Polarizabilities

• 1. Jonah A. Quirk, Aidan Jacobsen, Amy Damitz, Carol E. Tanner, and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the Static Stark Shift of the 7⁢𝑠 ²𝑆_1/2 Level in Atomic Cesium," Phys. Rev. Lett. 132, 233201.

  2. George Toh, Nathan Chalus, Andrew Burgess, Amy Damitz, Poolad Imany, Daniel E. Leaird, Andrew M. Weiner, Carol E. Tanner, and D. S. Elliott, Phys. Rev. A 100, 052507 (2019).

  3. George Toh, Amy Damitz, Carol E. Tanner, W. R. Johnson, and D. S. Elliott, "Determination of the scalar and vector polarizabilities of the cesium 6s²S_1/2 → 7s²S_1/2 transition and implications for atomic parity nonconservation," Phys. Rev. L 123, 073002 (2019).

  4. Amy Damitz, George Toh, Eric Putney, Carol E. Tanner, and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the radial matrix elements for the 6s²S_1/2 → 7p²P_J transitions in cesium," Phys. Rev. A 99, 062510 (2019).

  5. George Toh, Amy Damitz, Nathan Glotzbach, Jonah Quirk, I. C. Stevenson, J. Choi, M. S. Safronova, and D. S. Elliott, "Electric dipole matrix elements for the 6p²P_J → 7s²S_1/2 transition in atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 99, 032904 (2019).

  6. George Toh, Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas, Nathan Glotzbach, Jonah Quirk, Ian C. Stevenson, J. Choi, Andrew M. Weiner, and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the lifetime of the 7s²S _1/2 state in atomic cesium using asynchronous gated detection," Phys. Rev. A 97, 052507 (2018).

  7. George Toh, D. Antypas, and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the Stark shift of the 6s²S_1/2 → 7p²P_J transitions in atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 89, 042512 (2014).

  8. D. Antypas and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the radial matrix elements of the 6s²S_1/2 → 7p²P_J transitions in atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 88, 052516 (2013).

  9. D. Antypas and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the static polarizability of the 8s²S_1/2 state of atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 83, 062511 (2011).

  10. M. Gunawardena, D. S. Elliott, M. S. Safronova, and U. Safronova, "Determination of the static polarizability of the 8s² S_1/2 state of atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 75, 022507 (2007).

 

Lithium Rubidium Dimers

• 1. I. C. Stevenson, D. B. Blasing, Y. P. Chen and D. S. Elliott, "The C ¹Σ⁺, A ¹Σ⁺, and b ³Π_0⁺ states of LiRb," Phys. Rev. A 94, 062503 (2016)

  2. D. B. Blasing, I. C. Stevenson, J. Pérez-Ríos, D. S. Elliott, Y. P. Chen, "Short-range Photoassociation of LiRb," Phys. Rev. A 94, 062504 (2016)

  3. I. C. Stevenson, D. B. Blasing, A. Altaf, Y. P. Chen, D. S. Elliott, "The d ³Π state of LiRb," J. Chem. Phys. 145, 224301 (2016)

  4. I. C. Stevenson, D. B. Blasing, Y. P. Chen and D. S. Elliott, "Production of ultracold ground state LiRb molecules by photoassociation through a resonantly coupled state," Phys. Rev. A 94, 062510 (2016)

  5. Adeel Altaf, Sourav Dutta, John Lorenz, Jesus Perez-Rios, Yong P. Chen, and D. S. Elliott, "Formation of ultracold ⁷Li⁸⁵Rb molecules in the lowest triplet electronic state by photoassociation and their detection by ionization spectroscopy," J. Chem. Phys. 142, 114310 (2015).

  6. John Lorenz, Adeel Altaf, Sourav Dutta, Yong P. Chen, and D. S. Elliott, "Formation of deeply bound LiRb via Photoassociation near the Li 2S_1/2 + Rb 5P_3/2 asymptote," Phys. Rev. A 90, 062513 (2014).

  7. Sourav Dutta, Adeel Altaf, John Lorenz, D. S. Elliott and Yong P. Chen, "Interspecies collision-induced losses in a dual species ⁷Li-⁸⁵Rb magneto-optical trap," J. Phys. B: Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics 47, 105301 (2014)

  8. Sourav Dutta, John Lorenz, Adeel Altaf, D. S. Elliott, and Yong P. Chen, "Photoassociation of ultracold LiRb molecules: observation of high efficiency and rate saturation," Phys. Rev. A 89, 020702(R) (2014).

  9. Sourav Dutta, D. S. Elliott and Yong P. Chen, "Formation of ultracold ⁷Li⁸⁵Rb molecules by photoassociation near the Li (2s²S_1/2) + Rb (5p²P_1/2) asymptote," Euro. Phys. Lett. 104, 63001 (2013).

  10. Sourav Dutta, Adeel Altaf, D. S. Elliott and Yong P. Chen, "Laser spectroscopy of the X¹Σ⁺ and B¹Π states of LiRb molecule," Chemical Physics Letters 511, 7-11 (2011).

 

Other Related Projects

• 1. Jonah A. Quirk, Liam Sherman, Amy Damitz, Carol E. Tanner, and D. S. Elliott, "Measurement of the hyperfine coupling constants and absolute energies of the 8p ²P_1/2 and 8p ²P_3/2 levels in atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 107, 012807

  2. Jonah Qurk, Amy Damitz, Carol Tanner, and D.S. Elliott, "Measurement of the hyperfine coupling constants nd absoulte energies of the 12s²S_1/2, 13s²S_1/2, and 11d²D_j levels in atomic cesium," Phys. Rev. A 105, 022819

  3. J. Choi and D. S. Elliott, "Influence of interaction time and population redistribution on the localization of atomic excitation through electromagnetically induced transparency," Phys. Rev. A 89, 013414 (2014).

  4. A. K. Mills and D. S. Elliott, "Nonlinear ground-state pump-probe spectroscopy in an ultracold rubidium system," Phys. Rev. A 86, 063819 (2012).

  5. Sourav Dutta, D. S. Elliott and Yong P. Chen, "Mode-hop-free tuning over 135 GHz of external cavity diode lasers without antireflection coating," Applied Physics B 106, 629-633 (2012).

Theses

Amy Damitz

PROGRESS TOWARDS A PRECISION MEASUREMENT OF THE NUCLEAR ANAPOLE MOMENT IN CESIUM

George Toh

PROGRESS TOWARDS A NEW PARITY NON-CONSERVATION MEASUREMENT IN CESIUM-133

Jungu "Joseph" Choi

TOWARD MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR SPIN-DEPENDENT(NSD) PARITY NON-CONSERVING (PNC) INTERACTION IN 133CS HYPERFINE GROUND STATES VIA TWO-PATHWAY COHERENT CONTROL

Ian Stevenson

SPECTROSCOPY OF ULTRACOLD LITHIUM-RUBIDIUM MOLECULES

John Lorenz

FORMATION OF DEEPLY BOUND LIRB MOLECULES VIA PHOTOASSOCIATION TO NEAR ASYMPTOTIC STATES

Adeel Altaf

SPECTROSCOPY OF ULTRACOLD LIRB MOLECULES USING IONIZATION DETECTION

Sourav Dutta

EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF LIRB: SPECTROSCOPY AND ULTRACOLD MOLECULE FORMATION BY PHOTOASSOCIATION

Dionysios Antypas

MEASUREMENT OF A WEAK TRANSITION MOMENT USING COHERENT CONTROL

Posters

Damop 2020 Jonah Quirk

Measurement of the ratio of scalar to vector transition polarizabilities for the 6s→7s transition in atomic cesium