Publications of John E Thomas     :chronological  combined  bibtex listing:

Papers Published
  1. A. Turlapov, J. Kinast, B. Clancy, L. Luo, J. Joseph, and J.E. Thomas, Is a gas of strongly interacting atomic fermions a nearly perfect fluid?, J. Low Temp. Phys. (November, 2007)(Online version of paper..) .
  2. J.E. Thomas, Observation of nearly perfect irrotational flow in normal and superfluid strongly interacting Fermi gases, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 99 (October, 2007), pp. 140401 .
  3. J. Joseph, B. Clancy, L. Luo, J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J.E. Thomas, Measurement of sound velocity in a Fermi gas near a Feshbach resonance, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 98 (April, 2007), pp. 170401 .
  4. L. Luo, B. Clancy, J. Joseph, J. Kinast, and J. E. Thomas, Measurement of the entropy and critical temperature of a strongly interacting Fermi gas, Phys. Rev. Lett, vol. 98 (February, 2007), pp. 080402 .
  5. J. E. Thomas, J. Joseph, B. Clancy, L. Luo, J. Kinast, and A. Turlapov, Optical trapping and fundamental studies of atomic Fermi gases, in Proceedings of the SPIE, vol. 6326 (2006), pp. 632602(Invited talk, San Diego.) .
  6. L. Luo, B. Clancy, J. Joseph, J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J. E. Thomas, Evaporative cooling of a unitary Fermi mixtures in optical traps, New J. Phys., vol. 8 (2006), pp. 213 .
  7. J. E. Thomas, J. Kinast, and A. Turlapov, Universal thermodynamics of a strongly interacting Fermi gas, in AIP Conference Proceedings, edited by Y. Takano, S. P. Hershfield, S. O. Hill, P. J. Hirshfeld, and A. M. Goldman, vol. 850 (2006), pp. 69-76, AIP(Low temperature Physics: 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics.) .
  8. J.E. Thomas, Atom cooling: Ultracold Fermi gas on a chip, Nature Physics, vol. 2 (2006), pp. 377-8 .
  9. J. Kinast, A. Turlapov and J.E. Thomas, Optically trapped Fermi gases model strong interactions in nature, Optics and Photonics News, vol. 16 (December, 2005), pp. 21 .
  10. J.E. Thomas, J. Kinast and A. Turlapov, Virial theorem and universality in a unitary Fermi gas, Physical Review Letters, vol. 95 (September, 2005), pp. 120402 .
  11. F. Reil and J.E. Thomas, Observation of phase conjugation of light arising from enhanced backscattering in a random medium, Physical Review Letters, vol. 95 (September, 2005), pp. 143903 .
  12. J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J.E. Thomas, Heat capacity of a strongly-interacting Fermi gas, Science, vol. 307 (February, 2005), pp. 1296 .
  13. J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J.E. Thomas, Damping of a unitary Fermi gas, Physical Review Letters, vol. 94 (2005), pp. 170404 .
  14. Z. H. Lu, J.E. Thomas, and S. Bali, Obserrvation of phase-sensitive temporal correlations in the resonance fluorescence from two-level atoms, Optics Letters, vol. 30 (2005), pp. 2478 .
  15. J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, and J.E. Thomas, Breakdown of hydrodynamics in the radial breathing mode of a strongly interacting Fermi gas, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 70 (November, 2004), pp. 051401(R) .
  16. K. F. Lee and J.E. Thomas, Entanglement with Classical Fields, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 69 (May, 2004), pp. 052311 .
  17. J.E. Thomas and M. E. Gehm, Optically trapped Fermi gases, American Scientist, vol. 92 (May, 2004), pp. 238-245 .
  18. J. Kinast, S. L. Hemmer, M. E. Gehm, A. Turlapov, and J.E. Thomas, Evidence for superfluidity in a resonantly interacting Fermi, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 92 (April, 2004), pp. 150402 .
  19. M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, K. M. O'Hara and J. E. Thomas, Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms, Physical Review A, vol. 68 (2003), pp. 011401(R) .
  20. M. E. Gehm, S. L. Hemmer, K. M. O'Hara, and J. E. Thomas, Unitarity-limited elastic collision rate in a harmonically trapped Fermi gas, Physical Review A, vol. 68 (2003), pp. 011603(R) .
  21. K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, and J.E. Thomas, Observation of a strongly-interacting degenerate Fermi gas of atoms, Science, vol. 298 (December, 2002), pp. 2179 .
  22. K. M. O'Hara, S. L. Hemmer, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, and J.E. Thomas, Measurement of the zero crossing in a Feshbach resonance of fermionic 6-Li, Physical Review A Rapid Communications, vol. 66 (October, 2002), pp. 041401 .
  23. S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, K. M. O'Hara, and J.E. Thomas, All-optical production of a degenerate Fermi gas, Physical Review Letters, vol. 88 no. 12 (March, 2002), pp. 120405 .
  24. K. F. Kee and J.E. Thomas, Experimental simulation of two-particle quantum entanglement using classical fields, Physical Review Letters, vol. 88 (March, 2002), pp. 097902 .
  25. F. Reil and J. E. Thomas, Time-resolved, two-window measurement of Wigner functions for coherent backscatter from a turbid medium, in Saratov Fall Meeting 2001: Coherent Optics of Ordered and Random Media II, edited by Dmitry A. Zimnyakov, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4705 (2002), pp. 22-29 .
  26. S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, K. M. O’Hara, and J.E. Thomas, Preparation of a degenerate, two-component Fermi gas by evaporation in a single beam optical trap, in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2002), OSA Technical Digest, Postconference Edition, vol. 74 (2002), pp. 169-170, Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. .
  27. J. E. Thomas, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, M.-S. Chang, and K. M. O’Hara, Optical trapping of a two-component Fermi gas, in Proceedings of the XV International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy, edited by S. Chu, V. Vuletic, A. J. Kerman, and C. Chin (2002), pp. 46-54, World Scientific, New Jersey .
  28. K. M. O’Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, and J. E. Thomas, Loading Dynamics of CO2 Laser Traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 63 (2001), pp. 043403 .
  29. K. M. O’Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, M.-S. Chang, and J. E. Thomas, Modeling the evaporative cooling of fermionic atoms in an optical trap, in Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2001), Technical Digest, Postconference Edition, OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS), vol. 57 (2001), pp. 253, Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, .
  30. M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, M.-S. Chang, K. M. O’Hara, and J.E. Thomas, Optically trapped Fermi gas, in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Postconference Edition, vol. 57 (2001), pp. 253-254, Optical Society of America, Washington, DC .
  31. K. F. Lee, F. Reil, and J.E. Thomas, Classical-wave analogs of quantum measurement, in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2001), Technical Digest, Postconference Edition, vol. 57 (2001), pp. 62-63, Optical Society of America, Washington, D.C. .
  32. F. Reil, K. F. Lee, and J.E. Thomas, Two-window heterodyne methods for measurement of optical coherence in multiple scattering media, in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS 2001), Technical Digest, Postconference edition, vol. 57 (2001), pp. 145-146, Optical Society of America, Washington, DC .
  33. K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J.E. Thomas, Scaling laws for evaporative cooling in time-dependent optical traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 64 (2001), pp. 051403(R) .
  34. K. M. O’Hara and J.E. Thomas, Standing room only at the quantum scale, Science, vol. 291 (2001), pp. 2556 .
  35. A. Wax, F. Reil, K. F. Lee, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Time-resolved optical phase space distributions for coherent backscatter, in Saratov Fall Meeting ‘99: Optical Technologies in Biophysics and Medicine, edited by Valery V. Tuchin; Dmitry A Zimnyakov; Alexander B. Pravdin, Proc. SPIE, vol. 4001 (2000), pp. 130-134(invited internet talk.) .
  36. A. Wax, S Bali, and J.E. Thomas, Path-length-resolved optical phase space distributions for enhanced backscatter, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 85 (2000), pp. 66 .
  37. J. E. Thomas, F. Reil, K. F. Lee, A. Wax, and S. Bali, Wigner Phase Space Distributions and Coherence Tomography, to appear in Proc. SPIE, vol. 3914 (2000)(invited talk BIOS 2000.) .
  38. J. E. Thomas, F. Reil, K. F Lee, A. Wax, S. Bali, Wigner Phase Space Distributions and Coherence Tomography, in Optical Pulse and Beam Propagation II, edited by Yehuda B Band, Proc. SPIE, vol. 3927 (2000), pp. 147-155 .
  39. K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Stable, strongly attractive, two-state mixture of lithium fermions in an optical trap, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 85 (2000), pp. 2092 .
  40. A. Wax and J. E. Thomas, Measurement of Smoothed Wigner Phase Space Distributions for Low-Coherence Light in Multiple Scattering Media, in Coherence Domain Optical Methods in Biomedical Science and Clinical Applications III, edited by Valery V. Tuchin and Joseph A. Izatt, Proc. SPIE, vol. 3598 (January, 1999), pp. 2(San Jose, CA.) .
  41. A. Wax and J. E. Thomas, Optical Phase Space Distributions for Low Coherence Light in Turbid Media, in Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest Series (1999), Optical Society of America(Washington, D.C..) .
  42. K. M. O’Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, T. A. Savard, S. Bali, and J.E. Thomas, Ultrastable CO2 Laser Trapping of Lithium Fermions, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 44 (1999), pp. 269 .
  43. Z. H. Lu, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Observation of Phase-dependent Temporal Correlations in Resonance Fluorescence, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 44 (1999), pp. 413 .
  44. M. E. Gehm, K. M. O’Hara, T. A. Savard, and J. E. Thomas, Noise induced Population Loss in Atom Traps, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 44 (1999), pp. 1153 .
  45. K. M. O’Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, T. A. Savard, S. Bali, C. Freed, and J.E. Thomas, Ultrastable CO2 laser trapping of lithium fermions, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 82 (1999), pp. 4204 .
  46. S. Bali, K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, S. R. Granade, and J.E. Thomas, Quantum-di ractive background gas collisions in atom-trap heating and loss, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 60 (1999), pp. R29 .
  47. A. Wax, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Optical phase-space distributions for low-coherence light, Opt. Lett., vol. 24 (1999), pp. 1188 .
  48. T. A. Savard, S. R. Granade, K. M. O’Hara, M. E. Gehm, and J.E. Thomas, Raman-induced magnetic resonance imaging of atoms in a magneto-optical trap, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 60 (1999), pp. 4788 .
  49. K. F. Lee, F. Reil, S. Bali, A. Wax, and J.E. Thomas, Heterodyne measurement of Wigner distributions for classical fields, Opt. Lett., vol. 24 (1999), pp. 1370 .
  50. A. Wax, S. Bali, G. A. Alphonse, and J.E. Thomas, Characterizing the coherence of broadband sources using optical phase space contours, J. Biomed. Opt., vol. 4 (1999), pp. 1-8 .
  51. A. Wax and J. E. Thomas, Measurement of Smoothed Wigner Phase Space Distributions for Coherence Tomography, in International Workshop and Autumn School for Young Scientists and Students, Light Scattering Technologies for Mechanics, Biomedical and Material Science, Proc. SPIE, vol. 3726 (October, 1998), pp. 494, Saratov, Russia, .
  52. Z. H. Lu, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Observation of Squeezing in Free Space Resonance Fluorescence, in Proceedings, QCM’98 (August, 1998), Northeastern Univ., Evanston, IL .
  53. H. Z. Zhao, Z. H. Lu, A. M. Bacon, L. J. Wang, and J. E. Thomas, Precision Measurement of Phase-Dependent Resonance Fluorescence Spectra, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 57 (1998), pp. 1427-1447 .
  54. A. Wax and J. E. Thomas, Measurement of Wigner Phase-Space Distributions for Small-Angle Scattering in a Turbid Media, J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., vol. 15 (1998), pp. 1896-1908 .
  55. M. E. Gehm, K. M. O’Hara, T. A. Savard, and J. E. Thomas, Dynamics of Noise-Induced Heating in Atom Traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 58 (1998), pp. 3914-3921 .
  56. Z. H. Lu, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Observation of Squeezing in Free Space Phase-Dependent Resonance Fluorescence, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 43 (1998), pp. 1288 .
  57. T. A. Savard, K. M. O’Hara, S. R. Granade, M. E. Gehm, and J.E. Thomas, Raman Induced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atoms in a MOT, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 43 (1998), pp. 1292 .
  58. Z. H. Lu, S. Bali, and J. E. Thomas, Observation of Squeezing in the Phase-Dependent Fluorescence Spectra of Two-Level Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 81 (1998), pp. 3635 .
  59. A. Wax and J.E. Thomas, Measurement of Smoothed Wigner Phase Space Distributions in Multiple Scattering Media, in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics, Advances in Optical Imaging and Photon Migration, edited by James G. Fujimoto and Michael S. Patterson, vol. 21 (1998), pp. 348-352, Optical Society of America, Washington, DC .
  60. J.E. Thomas, Optically-trapped Fermi gases, Habitation, vol. 10 , pp. 242(NASA Invited talk, Orlando, February 5-8 2006.) .
Papers Accepted
  1. J.E. Thomas, J. Kinast, and A. Turlapov, Universal thermodynamics of a strongly-interacting Fermi gas, in Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics (August, 2005) .
  2. J.E. Thomas, Thermodynamics and mechanical properties of a strongly-interacting Fermi gas, in Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (June, 2005) .
  3. J. E. Thomas, S. L. Hemmer, J. M. Kinast, A. V. Turlapov, M. E. Gehm, and K. M. O'Hara, Dynamics of a highly-Degenerate, strongly-Interacting Fermi gas, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Laser, edited by H. Bacor and P. Hannaford (2003) .
  4. J. E. Thomas, S. L. Hemmer, J. Kinast, A. Turlapov, M. E. Gehm, and K. M. O'Hara, Dynamics of a highly-degenerate, strongly-interacting Fermi gas of atoms, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 104 (2003) .
  5. J. E. Thomas, S. L. Hemmer, J. M. Kinast, A. V. Turlapov, M. E. Gehm, and K. M. O'Hara, Dynamics of a highly-Degenerate, strongly-Interacting Fermi gas, in Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Laser, edited by H. Bacor and P. Hannaford (2003) .