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• Experiments:
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• Ytterbium
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• Cold Collisions

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• Department of Physics
• University of Nevada, Reno

Publications

• Chemical Reactions of Atomic Lithium and Molecular Calcium Monohydride at 1 K
  Vijay Singh, Kyle S. Hardman, Naima Tariq, Mei-Ju Lu, Aja Ellis, Muir J. Morrison, and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Physical Review Letters 108, 203201 (2012).
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  Paper in .pdf format
  
• Electromagnetically induced transparency in an open multilevel system
  Tian Li, Mei-Ju Lu, and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Physical Review A 84, 023801 (2011).
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  Paper in .pdf format
  
• Stopped light with a cryogenic ensemble of 173Yb atoms
  Mei-Ju Lu, Franklin Jose, and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Physical Review A 82, 061802(R) (2010).
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• Entangling the lattice clock: Towards Heisenberg-limited timekeeping
  Jonathan D. Weinstein, Kyle Beloy, and Andrei Derevianko
  Physical Review A 81, 030302(R) (2010).
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• Electromagetically induced transparency with nuclear spin
  Mei-Ju Lu and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Optics Letters 35, 622 (2010).
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• Suppression of Zeeman relaxation in cold collisions of 2P1/2 atoms
  T. V. Tscherbul, A. A. Buchachenko, A. Dalgarno, M.-J. Lu, and J. D. Weinstein
  Physical Review A 80, 040701(R) (2009).
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• Cold TiO-He collisions
  Mei-Ju Lu and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  New Journal of Physics 11, 055015 (2009).
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• Inelastic titanium-titanium collisions
  Mei-Ju Lu, Vijay Singh, and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Physical Review A, 79, 050702(R) (2009).
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• Theoretical and laboratory study of suppression effects in fine-structure-changing collisions of Ti with He
  Bernard Zygelman and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Physical Review A 78, 012705 (2008).
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• Fine-structure changing collisions in atomic titanium
  Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle S. Hardman, Jonathan D. Weinstein, and Bernard Zygelman
  Physical Review A 77, 060701(R) (2008).
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• Trapping radioactive 82Rb in an optical dipole trap and evidence of spontaneous spin polarization.
  D. Feldbaum, H. Wang, J. Weinstein, D. Vieira, and X. Zhao,
  Physical Review A 76, 051402(R) (2007).
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• All optical generation and photoassociative probing of sodium Bose-Einstein condensates.
  R. Dumke, M. Johanning, E. Gomez, J. D. Weinstein, K. M. Jones, and P. D. Lett,
  New Journal of Physics 8, 64 (2006).
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Presentations

• Cold chemistry and quantum optics with cryogenic atoms and molecules
  Atomic Physics Seminar, University of Connecticut, December 2011.
• Cold chemistry & collisions with cryogenic molecules
  Fundamental Science with Ultracold Molecules , ITAMP, Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, October 2011.
• Fun with cryogenic atoms and molecules
  Physics Department Colloqium, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, September 2011.
• Fun with cryogenic atoms and molecules
  Ph11 Conference, Caltech, August 2011.
• Degenerate four-wave mixing in atomic ytterbium
  Tian Li, Ryan Baker, and Jonathan Weinstein
  DAMOP, Atlanta GA, June 2011.
• Cold chemical reactions of CaH and Li
  Vijay Singh, Kyle Hardman, Mei-Ju Lu, Aja Ellis, Muir Morrison, and Jonathan Weinstein
  DAMOP, Atlanta GA, June 2011.
• Quantum optics & controlled chemistry with cryogenic atoms and molecules
  AMO Seminar, Peter Wall Institute, University of British Columbia, March 2011.
• Inelastic collisions of CaH molecules at cryogenic temperatures
  Vijay Singh, Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle Hardman, Muir Morrision, and Jonathan Weinstein
  DAMOP, Houston TX, May 2010.
• Cold Chemical Reactions of CaH and Li
  Kyle Hardman, Mei-Ju Lu, Vijay Singh, Muir Morrision, and Jonathan Weinstein
  DAMOP, Houston TX, May 2010.
• Slow light in a pure nuclear spin system
  Mei-Ju Lu and Jonathan Weinstein
  DAMOP, Houston TX, May 2010.
• Entangling the lattice clock: Towards Heisenberg-limited timekeeping
  Jonathan D. Weinstein, Kyle Beloy, and Andrei Derevianko
  DAMOP, Houston TX, May 2010.
• Cryogenic atoms for quantum information & cold chemistry
  BYU Physics Colloquium, Brigham Young University, Provo UT, February 2010.
• Cryogenically-cooled atoms & molecules for nonlinear optics & cold chemistry
  Oregon Center for Optics Seminar, University of Oregon, Eugene OR, October 2009.
• Inelastic collisions in non-sigma-state molecules
  Colorado Cold Molecule Workshop, Boulder CO, June 2009.
• Collisions of anisotropic atoms
  Mei-Ju Lu, Vijay Singh, and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Gordon Research Conference, Tilton NH, July 2009.
• Coherent coupling of nuclear spin with photons
  Mei-Ju Lu and Jonathan D. Weinstein
  Gordon Research Conference, Tilton NH, July 2009.
• Cold collision experiments with anisotropic atoms and molecules
  US-Japan Workshop on Cold Atoms and Molecules: Collisions, Field-Effects, and Applications, Kyoto Japan, June 2009.
• Inelastic Titanium-Titanium Collisions,
  Mei-Ju Lu, Vijay Singh, and Jonathan D. Weinstein,
  ICAP, July 2008.
• Cold Titanium-Helium Collisions,
  Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle S. Hardman, and Jonathan D. Weinstein,
  ICAP, July 2008.
  Poster in .pdf format
• Fine-structure changing collisions in atomic titanium,
  Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle S. Hardman, and Jonathan D. Weinstein,
  DAMOP, May 2008.
• Helium buffer-gas cooling & molecular collisions: elastic, inelastic, and reactive
  Mei-Ju Lu, Kyle Hardman, Jonathan Weinstein
  Coherent Control of Ultracold Molecular Processes, Vancouver, August 2007.
  Poster in .pdf format
• Optical dipole trapping of short-lived radioactive 82Rb,
  David Feldbaum, Haiyan Wang, Jonathan Weinstein, David Vieira, Xinxin Zhao,
  DAMOP, June 2007.
• Fun with cryogencially cooled atoms and molecules,
  Atomic, Molecular, and Optical science seminar, UC Berkeley, May 2007.
• Laser spectroscopy of cryogenic atoms and molecules,
  New Laser Scientists Conference, Rochester, New York, October 2006.
• Atom-molecule coherence and other ultracold oddities,
  Atomic Physics Seminar, Yale University, October 2006.

Theses

• Aja Ellis (2011)
• Ryan Baker (2011)
• Kyle Hardman (2011)
• Mei-Ju Lu (2011)
  Thesis
• Michael Gallaspy (2010)
• Franklin Jose (2010)
  Thesis
• Tyler Daykin (2010)
• Matthew Karam (2008)
  Thesis
• Kyle Hardman (2008)
  Thesis
• Jonathan Weinstein (2001)
  Thesis
  Corrections

This material is based upon work supported by: the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 0900190, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. PHY 0903847, and the University of Nevada.

Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nevada or the National Science Foundation.