Unlike all other quantum technology platforms, photonics encodes quantum information without noise at room temperature, without the need for high vacuum, pumping / cooling, or magnetic / electrical shielding. Frustratingly, these advantages must be sacrificed when high-efficiency photon counting is required, as >95% photo-detection efficiency is only available via superconducting photo-detector...

This article presents a new experiment aiming at BEC of metastable helium atoms. It describes the design of a high flux discharge source of atoms and a robust laser system using a DBR diode coupled with a high power Yb doped fiber amplifier for manipulating the beam of metastable atoms. The atoms are trapped in a small quartz cell in an extreme high vacuum. The trapping design uses an additiona...

In this work, we combine the large per-photon optical gradient force with the sensitive feedback of a high quality factor whispering-gallery microcavity. The cavity geometry, consisting of a pair of silica disks separated by a nanoscale gap, shows extremely strong dynamical backaction, powerful enough to excite coherent oscillations even under heavily damped conditions (mechanical Q approximate...

The heat transfer performance of vapor-condenser has been studied under different temperature of cold trap and different thickness of the frost layer in this paper. The relationship between dimensionless number and is obtained. The results show that the capturing efficiency of cold trap increases with the decrease of the surface temperature of vapor-condenser. The frost accumulated on the surfa...

We present evidence for disconnected contributions to the σπN term and the flavor singlet axial coupling g 0 A of the proton on full QCD configurations, which are obtained by means of improved stochastic estimator techniques. Furthermore we discuss results from the fermionic determination of the topological charge of the QCD vacuum (in the spirit of the Athiya-Singer theorem) again achieved wit...

Doubly dipolar molecules exhibit complex internal spin dynamics when electric and magnetic fields are both applied. Near magnetic trap minima, these spin dynamics lead to enhancements in Majorana spin-flip transitions by many orders of magnitude relative to atoms and are thus an important obstacle for progress in molecule trapping and cooling. We conclusively demonstrate and address this with O...

Four single cell rf cavities currently provide the required energy to the x-ray ring beam. Mechanical deficiencies and limitations of these early cavities necessitated their replacement with newly designed units. The selection of forged OFHC copper, replacement of traditional Conflat flanges with integrally machined Marmon type flanges, use of commercial spring loaded metal seals for both vacuu...

in the present work, deoxidation and refining of 316lvm steel (low carbon vacuum melted) during the vacuum induction melting process was studied. this grade of stainless steel is one of the most important materials in medical applications. vacuum deoxidation by carbon is the first stage of 316lvm stainless steel production process. in this stage, aluminum must be absent to avoid killing the c-o...

purpose: to evaluate the effect of vacuum and flow rate on endothelial cell loss after high versus low vacuum phacoemulsification. methods: this randomized clinical trial was performed on 60 eyes of 60 patients with moderate lens opacity (nuclear sclerosis 3+). all surgeries were performed by one experienced surgeon using stop and chop technique with sovereign white star machine (amo). patients...