Novel Cooling and Trapping Techniques for Atoms and Molecules

Presentations

• Sympathetic Cooling Scheme in Same-Isotope Trapped-Ion Chains

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 2:00 PM – June 2, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Kavyashree Ranawat

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Kavyashree Ranawat

    • Duke University

  • Jiyong Yu

    • Duke University

  • Andrew Van Horn

  • Jacob Whitlow

    • Duke University

  • Jungsang Kim

    • Duke University

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• A Sympathetic Cooling Scheme with Dual-Isotope Yb+ Ions for Long-Chain Quantum Simulation

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 2:12 PM – June 2, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Tianyi Wang

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Tianyi Wang

    • Duke University

  • Marko Cetina

    • Duke University

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• A cryogenic pulsed supersonic beam source of metastable helium with chirped laser slowing for hybrid circuit QED

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 2:24 PM – June 2, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Ivneet Bhangoo

    • University College London

  Authors

  • Ivneet Bhangoo

    • University College London

  • Luke Brown

    • University College London

  • Stephen Hogan

    • University College London

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• Loading molecular magneto-optical traps with rainbow slowing

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 2:36 PM – June 2, 2026, 2:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Kaiya Wilson

    • University of Southern California

  Authors

  • Kaiya Wilson

    • University of Southern California

  • Ebram Youssef

    • University of Southern California

  • Jiahe Cao

    • University of Southern California

  • Reilly Brislawn

    • University of Southern California

  • Kun Liu

  • Aaron Teo

  • Phoebe Turner

    • University of Southern California

  • Avani Lakkireddy

    • University of Southern California

  • Loic Anderegg

    • University of Southern California

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• Rapid and Highly Efficient Generation of ⁸⁷Rb BEC via EIT Cooling

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 2:48 PM – June 2, 2026, 3:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Liang-Chen Yeh

    • National Taiwan University

  Authors

  • Liang-Chen Yeh

    • National Taiwan University

  • Yu-Cheng Tien

    • National Taiwan University

  • Wui Seng Leong

  • Yu-Te Tsai

  • Shau-Yu Lan

    • National Taiwan University

  • Tz-Ching Tseng

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• Ultracold gas of a triel atom

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 3:00 PM – June 2, 2026, 3:12 PM

  Publication: Li, P.*, Yu, X.*, Chew, S. H. P., Mo, J., Lu, T., and Nicholson, T. L., "Sub-Doppler Cooling, State Preparation, and Optical Trapping of a Triel Atom," PRX Quantum 6, 040328 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Xianquan Yu

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • Xianquan Yu

    • Duke University

  • Connor Bowerman

    • Duke University

  • Travis Nicholson

    • Duke University

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• Modulator-free sub-doppler rubidium cooling using an electrically controllable PZT photonic resonator

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 3:12 PM – June 2, 2026, 3:24 PM

  Publication: We are preparing to submit a manuscript entitled "Sub-Doppler rubidium atom cooling using a programmable agile integrated PZT-on-SiN resonator" to Science Advances, which is composed of a portion of this work.

  Presenters

  • Steven Carpenter

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  Authors

  • Steven Carpenter

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Andrei Isichenko

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Nick Montifiori

  • Jiawei Wang

  • MAYAND DANGI

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Nitesh Chauhan

  • Pritha Mukherjee

  • Xuting Yang

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

  • Nitin Indukuri

  • Mark Harrington

  • Chuan Zhong

  • Iain Kierzewski

  • Rudy Ryan

  • Daniel Blumenthal

    • University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Jennifer Choy

    • University of Wisconsin - Madison

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• Nondestructive Characterization of Laser-Cooled Atoms with Machine Learning

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 3:24 PM – June 2, 2026, 3:36 PM

  Publication: G. de Sousa, M. Doris, D. D'Amato, B. Egleston, J. P. Zwolak, I. B. Spielman, "Nondestructive characterization of laser-cooled atoms using machine learning", Newton (in review)

  Presenters

  • Dario D'Amato

    • University of Maryland College Park

  Authors

  • Dario D'Amato

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Guilherme de Sousa

  • Michael Doris

    • University of Maryland College Park

  • Brady Egleston

    • University of Washington

  • Justyna Zwolak

    • National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

  • Ian Spielman

    • University of Maryland College Park

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• Combining high intensity cavities with cryogenic buffer-gas cells for deep dipole trapping of molecules

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 3:36 PM – June 2, 2026, 3:48 PM

  Presenters

  • Ashwin Singh

    • University of California, Berkeley

  Authors

  • Ashwin Singh

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Lothar Maisenbacher

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Isaac Pope

    • University of California, Berkeley

  • Holger Müller

    • University of California, Berkeley

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• Simulations of a Pulsed Ring Stark Decelerator for CH Molecules

  Oral

  June 2, 2026, 3:48 PM – June 2, 2026, 4:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Alexander Preston

    • University of Connecticut

  Authors

  • Alexander Preston

    • University of Connecticut

  • Aritra Paul

    • University of Connecticut

  • Steven Hoekstra

    • University of Groningen, and Nikhef

  • Daniel McCarron

    • University of Connecticut

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