Non-destructive cavity QED probe of Bloch oscillations in a gas of ultracold atoms (2009)
Peden, B. M., Meiser, D., Chiofalo, M. L., Holland, M. J.
We describe a scheme for probing a gas of ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice and moving in the presence of an external potential. The probe is non-destructive and uses the existing lattice...
Prospects for a mHz-linewidth laser (2009)
Meiser, D., Ye, Jun, Carlson, D. R., Holland, M. J.
We propose a new light source based on having alkaline-earth atoms in an optical lattice collectively emit photons on an ultra-narrow clock transition into the mode of a high Q-resonator. The...
Robustness of Heisenberg-limited interferometry with balanced Fock states (2008)
Interferometry with Heisenberg limited phase resolution may play an important role in the next generation of atomic clocks, gravitational wave detectors, and in quantum information science. For...
Spin squeezing in optical lattice clocks via lattice-based QND measurements (2007)
Meiser, D., Ye, Jun, Holland, M. J.
Quantum projection noise will soon limit the best achievable precision of optical atomic clocks based on lattice-confined neutral atoms. Squeezing the collective atomic pseudo-spin via measurement of...
Cavity QED determination of atomic number statistics in optical lattices (2006)
Chen, W., Meiser, D., Meystre, P.
We study the reflection of two counter-propagating modes of the light field in a ring resonator by ultracold atoms either in the Mott insulator state or in the superfluid state of an optical lattice....
The Super-Strong Coupling Regime of Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics (2006)
We describe a qualitatively new regime of cavity quantum electrodynamics, the super strong coupling regime. This regime is characterized by atom-field coupling strengths of the order of the free...
Coupled dynamics of atoms and radiation pressure driven interferometers (2005)
We consider the motion of the end mirror of a cavity in whose standing wave mode pattern atoms are trapped. The atoms and the light field strongly couple to each other because the atoms form a...
Quantum optics of ultra-cold molecules (2005)
Meiser, D., Miyakawa, T., Uys, H., Meystre, P.
Quantum optics has been a major driving force behind the rapid experimental developments that have led from the first laser cooling schemes to the Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of dilute atomic...
Full counting statistics of heteronuclear molecules from Feshbach-assisted photo association (2005)
Nunnenkamp, A., Meiser, D., Meystre, P.
We study the effects of quantum statistics on the counting statistics of ultracold heteronuclear molecules formed by Feshbach-assisted photoassociation [Phys. Rev. Lett. {\bf 93}, 140405 (2004)]....
We investigate the potential of the so-called XFROG cross-correlation technique originally developed for ultrashort laser pulses for the recovery of the amplitude and phase of the condensate wave...
Molecule formation as a diagnostic tool for second order correlations of ultra-cold gases (2004)
Meiser, D., Search, C. P., Meystre, P.
We calculate the momentum distribution and the second-order correlation function in momentum space, $g^{(2)}({\bf p},{\bf p}',t)$ for molecular dimers that are coherently formed from an ultracold...
Fluctuations in the formation time of ultracold dimers from fermionic atoms (2004)
Uys, H., Miyakawa, T., Meiser, D., Meystre, P.
We investigate the temporal fluctuations characteristic of the formation of molecular dimers from ultracold fermionic atoms via Raman photoassociation. The quantum fluctuations inherent to the...
Number statistics of molecules formed from ultra-cold atoms (2004)
We calculate the number statistics of a single-mode molecular field excited by photoassociation or via a Feshbach resonance from an atomic Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a normal atomic Fermi gas...
Diffraction of ultra-cold fermions by quantized light fields: Standing versus traveling waves (2004)
Meiser, D., Search, C. P., Meystre, P.
We study the diffraction of quantum degenerate fermionic atoms off of quantized light fields in an optical cavity. We compare the case of a linear cavity with standing wave modes to that of a ring...