Molecular and Optical Physics
Measurement-induced heating of a trapped ion
We experimentally study the heating of trapped atomic ions during measurement of their internal qubit states. During measurement, ions are projected into one of two basis states and discriminated by their state-dependent fluorescence. We observe that i…
Molecular and Optical Physics
Efficient coupling of single photons from chromium-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds into end-to-end aligned optical nanowires
We report a numerical simulation on the coupling of chromium-vacancy centers in nanodiamond (CrV-ND) with end-to-end aligned optical nanowires (ONWs) structure. The structure is designed using finite-difference time-domain simulations to maximize the b…
Molecular and Optical Physics
Valence photoelectron spectra of aminobenzoic acid molecules: a combined theoretical and experimental study
The valence photoelectron spectra (PES) of gas-phase aminobenzoic acids (meta-, ortho- and para-isomers) were measured using synchrotron radiation and calculated from first principles using Density Functional Theory (DFT) with popular hybrid exchange-c…
Molecular and Optical Physics
Resonant Raman Auger spectroscopy on transient core-excited Ne ions
Short-lived core-ionized neon atoms were investigated by measuring under resonant Raman conditions the Auger decay following the excitation of a second core electron into a Rydberg state. Making use of intense and narrow bandwidth x-ray free-electron l…
Molecular and Optical Physics
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules
Ultralong-range Rydberg molecules (ULRMs) comprise a Rydberg atom in whose electron cloud are embedded one (or more) ground-state atoms that are weakly-bound through their scattering of the Rydberg electron. The existence of such novel molecular specie…