Month: November 2015

1. New Publication: “Increasing the Brightness of Cold Ion Beams by Suppressing Disorder-Induced Heating with Rydberg Blockade”

   We have shown that the phenomena of Rydberg blockade can be used to increase the ordering of ions in a cold expanding bunch, leading to an increase in focusability for our cold atom ion source. Reference: D. Murphy, R. E. Scholten, B. M. Sparkes, Physical Review Letters 115, 214802 (2015) [pdf] 

   blogs.unimelb.edu.au/atomopt/2015/11/24/new-publication-increasing-the-brightness-of-cold-ion-beams-by-suppressing-disorder-induced-heating-with-rydberg-blockade