List of Publications

Daniel A. Steck
Department of Physics and Oregon Center for Optics
1274 University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon 97403-1274

4 April 2012

Papers

  1. Eryn C. Cook, Paul J. Martin, Tobias L. Brown–Heft, Jeffrey C. Garman, and Daniel A. Steck, “High-passive-stability diode-laser design for use in atomic-physics experiments,” Review of Scientific Instruments 83, 043101 (2012). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1203.0597. DOI: 10.1063/1.3698003.

  2. Mark Raizen and Daniel A. Steck, “Cold atom experiments in quantum chaos,” Scholarpedia 6, 10468 (2011). (journal link) DOI: 10.4249/scholarpedia.10468.

  3. Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A. Steck, “Engineering Quantum States, Nonlinear Measurements, and Anomalous Diffusion by Imaging,” New Journal of Physics 13, 013016 (2011). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1008.4121. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/1/013016.

  4. I. Lizuain, J. Echanobe, A. Ruschhaupt, J. G. Muga, and D. A. Steck, “Structural and dynamical aspects of avoided crossing resonances in a 3-level $\Lambda$ system,” Physical Review A 82, 065602 (2010). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1008.2078. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.065602.

  5. Jonathan B. Mackrory, Kurt A. Jacobs, and Daniel A. Steck, “Reflections from quantum measurements,” New Journal of Physics 12, 113023 (2010). Includes online data animations. (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1009.4968. DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/12/11/113023.

  6. Elizabeth A. Schoene, Jeremy J. Thorn, and Daniel A. Steck, “Cooling atoms with a moving one-way barrier,” Physical Review A 82, 023419 (2010). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 1012.3207. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.023419.

  7. Peter E. Gaskell, Jeremy J. Thorn, Sequoia Alba, and Daniel A. Steck, “An open-source, extensible system for laboratory timing and control,” Reviews of Scientific Instruments 80, 115103 (2009). (journal link) (local copy) DOI: 10.1063/1.3250825.

  8. Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck, “Dynamics of Cold Atoms Crossing a One-Way Barrier,” Physical Review A 79, 063402 (2009). (journal link) (local copy) Also available as arXiv preprint 0903.3635. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.063402.

  9. Jeremy J. Thorn, Elizabeth A. Schoene, Tao Li, and Daniel A. Steck, “Experimental Realization of an Optical One-Way Barrier for Neutral Atoms,” Physical Review Letters 100, 240407 (2008) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint 0802.1585. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.240407.

    Media coverage of this paper:

    1. PRL “Editor's Suggestion.”
    2. Kate Mcalpine, “Physicist's atom-sorting 'demon' created with lasers,” New Scientist 198 No. 2661, 14 (21 June 2008) (journal link).
    3. Davide Castelvecchi, “One-way gate mimics 'demon' to trap atoms,” Science News 174 No. 2, 7 (19 July 2008) (Web version link).
    4. David Voss, “Cold atoms on a one-way ticket,” Physics (14 July 2008) (journal link).
    5. Adela Marian and Bretislav Friedrich, “News & Views: Maxwell's demon opens new doors,” Nature Photonics 2, 463 (2008) (journal link).
    6. John Wallace, “Asymmetric optical potential barrier becomes Maxwell's demon,” Laser Focus World, 44 (November 2008) (journal link).
    7. P. M. Binder, “Science Perspectives: Reflections on a Wall of Light,” Science 322, 1334 (2008) (journal link).

  10. Kevin A. Mitchell and Daniel A. Steck, “Fractal templates in the escape dynamics of trapped ultracold atoms,” Physical Review A 76, 031403(R) (2007) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint arXiv preprint physics/0612052.

  11. Kurt Jacobs and Daniel A. Steck, “A Straightforward Introduction to Continuous Quantum Measurement,” Contemporary Physics 47, 279 (2006) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint quant-ph/0611067. DOI: 10.1080/00107510601101934.

  12. Daniel A. Steck, Kurt Jacobs, Hideo Mabuchi, Salman Habib, and Tanmoy Bhattacharya, “Feedback cooling of atomic motion in cavity QED,” Physical Review A 74, 012322 (2006) (journal link) (local copy). Also available as arXiv preprint quant-ph/0509039 and LANL Release LA-UR-04-4687. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.74.012322.

  13. Daniel A. Steck, Kurt Jacobs, Hideo Mabuchi, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, and Salman Habib, “Quantum Feedback Control of Atomic Motion in an Optical Cavity,” Physical Review Letters 92, 223004 (2004) (journal link) (local copy). Includes auxiliary material and data animations in the EPAPS repository. Also available as arXiv preprint quant-ph/0310153 and LANL Release LA-UR-03-6826. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.223004.

  14. Windell H. Oskay, Daniel A. Steck, and Mark G. Raizen, “Observation of Cumulative Spatial Focusing of Atoms,” Physical Review Letters 89, 283001 (2002) (journal link) (local copy).

    Media coverage of this paper:

    1. Phillip Espinasse, “Atom focusing gets its kicks,” OE Magazine, March 2003, p. 10 (journal link). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.283001.

  15. Windell H. Oskay, Daniel A. Steck, and Mark G. Raizen, “Timing Noise Effects on Dynamical Localization,” Chaos, Solitons and Fractals 16, 409 (2003) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(02)00302-8.

  16. Daniel A. Steck, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen, “Fluctuations and Decoherence in Chaos-Assisted Tunneling,” Physical Review Letters 88, 120406 (2002) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.120406.

  17. Daniel A. Steck, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen, “Observation of Chaos-Assisted Tunneling between Islands of Stability,” Science 293, 274 (2001); published online 5 July 2001 (10.1126/science.1061569) (journal link) (local copy). Supplementary material is available online at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/1061569/DC1.

    Media coverage of this paper:

    1. Salman Habib, “No Mere Anarchy,” Science 293, 221 (2001) (journal link).
    2. Eric J. Heller, “Air juggling and other tricks,” Nature 412, 33 (2001) (local copy).
    3. Barbara Goss Levi, “Atoms Hop between Islands of Regular Motion in a Sea of Chaos,” Physics Today, August 2001, p. 15 (journal link).
    4. Amaury Mouchet and Denis Ullmo, “Chaos gives quantum tunnelling a hand,” Physics World, September 2001, p. 24 (local copy).
    5. Mark Sincell, “Atoms Island-Hop,” ScienceNOW -- 2001 (706): 1 (journal link).
    6. “Atoms perform a quantum flip,” PhysicsWeb News, 5 July 2001 (journal link).
    7. Nicole Stricker, “Quantum wizardry: New research turns a bright light on atoms’ tunneling phenomenon,” The Dallas Morning News, 30 July 2001, p. 3C. DOI: 10.1126/science.1061569.

  18. Jianxin Zhong, R. B. Diener, Daniel A. Steck, Windell H. Oskay, Mark G. Raizen, Zhenyu Zhang, E. Ward Plummer, and Qian Niu, “The Shape of the Quantum Diffusion Front,” Physical Review Letters 86, 2485 (2001) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.86.2485.

  19. Daniel A. Steck, Valery Milner, Windell H. Oskay, and Mark G. Raizen, “Quantitative study of amplitude noise effects on dynamical localization,” Physical Review E 62, 3461 (2000) (local copy). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.62.3461.

  20. V. Milner, D. A. Steck, W. H. Oskay, and M. G. Raizen, “Recovery of classically chaotic behavior in a noise-driven quantum system,” Physical Review E 61, 7223 (2000) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.61.7223.

  21. W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, V. Milner, B. G. Klappauf, and M. G. Raizen, “Ballistic peaks at quantum resonance,” Optics Communications 179, 137 (2000) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(00)00453-3.

  22. B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen, “Quantum chaos with cesium atoms: pushing the boundaries,” Physica D 131, 78 (1999) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1016/S0167-2789(98)00221-8.

  23. W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, B. G. Klappauf, and M. G. Raizen, “Quantum Chaos with Cold Cesium Atoms,” Laser Physics 9, 265 (1999) (local copy).

  24. B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen, “Experimental Study of Quantum Dynamics in a Regime of Classical Anomalous Diffusion,” Physical Review Letters 81, 4044 (1998) (journal link) (local copy). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.4044.

  25. B. G. Klappauf, W. H. Oskay, D. A. Steck, and M. G. Raizen, “Observation of Noise and Dissipation Effects on Dynamical Localization,” Physical Review Letters81, 1203 (1998) (journal link) (local copy); Erratum, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 241 (1999) (journal link) (local copy).

    Media coverage of this paper:

    1. Graham P. Collins, “The World of Quantum Chaos,” Physical Review Focus 2, story 8 (10 August 1998) (journal link).
    2. Meher Antia, “Action at the Classical-Quantum Border,” InSCIght (27 August 1998). DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1203.

Other Publications

  1. Salman Habib, Tanmoy Bhattacharya, Andrew Doherty, Benjamin Greenbaum, Asa Hopkins, Kurt Jacobs, Hideo Mabuchi, Keith Schwab, Kosuke Shizume, Daniel Steck, and Bala Sundaram, “Nonlinear Quantum Dynamics,” arXiv preprint quant-ph/0505046.

  2. Daniel Adam Steck, “Quantum Chaos, Transport, and Decoherence in Atom Optics,” Ph.D. dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin (2001). Available online at http://steck.us/dissertation.

  3. M. G. Raizen, V. Milner, W. H. Oskay, and D. A. Steck, “Experimental Study of Quantum Chaos with Cold Atoms,” in Proceedings of the International School of Physics “Enrico Fermi,” Course CXLIII (20-30 July 1999): New Directions in Quantum Chaos, G. Casati, I. Guarneri and U. Smilansky, Eds.  (IOS Press, Amsterdam, 2000) (book link) (local copy).

Selected Unpublished Works

  1. Daniel A. Steck, “Cesium D Line Data,” available online at http://steck.us/alkalidata; extensive, periodically updated compilation of atomic data relevant to quantum optics and atom optics experiments involving cesium, along with a thorough and consistent theoretical framework for the tabulated quantities. Also available as “Sodium D Line Data,” “Rubidium 87 D Line Data,” and and “Rubidium 85 D Line Data.”