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Publications of John E. Thomas    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Papers Published

  1. Joseph, JA; Thomas, JE; Kulkarni, M; Abanov, AG, Observation of shock waves in a strongly interacting Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 106 no. 15 (April, 2011), pp. 150401 [21568532], [doi]  [abs]
  2. Cao, C; Elliott, E; Joseph, J; Wu, H; Petricka, J; Schäfer, T; Thomas, JE, Universal quantum viscosity in a unitary Fermi gas., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 331 no. 6013 (January, 2011), pp. 58-61 (This is the first measurement of a transport property in a universal Fermi gas, the quantum viscosity, currently of great interest in the search for "perfect fluids," which relates the highest temperature matter in the universe, a quark-gluon plasma at 2 trillion degrees, to the coldest matter, a strongly interacting Fermi gas at 0.1 microdegree.) [21148347], [doi]  [abs]
  3. J.E. Thomas, The nearly perfect Fermi gas, May 2010, Physics Today (May, 2010), pp. 34-37 (This is part of a feature on perfect fluids, which I wrote along with two quark-gluon plasma experimentalists and a string theorist.)
  4. Thomas, JE, Is an ultra-cold strongly interacting Fermi gas a perfect fluid, Nucl. Phys. A, vol. 830 (October, 2009), pp. 635
  5. Du, X; Zhang, Y; Petricka, J; Thomas, JE, Controlling spin current in a trapped Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 103 no. 1 (July, 2009), pp. 010401, ISSN 0031-9007 [19659125], [doi]  [abs]
  6. Du, X; Zhang, Y; Thomas, JE, Inelastic collisions of a Fermi gas in the BEC-BCS crossover., Physical review letters, vol. 102 no. 25 (June, 2009), pp. 250402, ISSN 0031-9007 [19659058], [doi]  [abs]
  7. Luo, L; Thomas, JE, Thermodynamic measurements in strongly interacting Fermi gas, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 154 no. 1-2 (January, 2009), pp. 1-29, Springer Nature, ISSN 0022-2291 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  8. Du, X; Luo, L; Clancy, B; Thomas, JE, Observation of anomalous spin segregation in a trapped Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 101 no. 15 (October, 2008), pp. 150401, ISSN 0031-9007 [18999574], [doi]  [abs]
  9. Thomas, JE, Energy measurement and virial theorem for confined universal Fermi gases, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 78 no. 1 (July, 2008), pp. 013630, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  10. Turlapov, A; Kinast, J; Clancy, B; Luo, L; Joseph, J; Thomas, JE, Is a gas of strongly interacting atomic fermions a nearly perfect fluid?, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 150 no. 3-4 (February, 2008), pp. 567-576, Springer Nature, ISSN 0022-2291 (Online version of paper, published Nov. 2007.) [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  11. Clancy, B; Luo, L; Thomas, JE, Observation of nearly perfect irrotational flow in normal and superfluid strongly interacting Fermi gases., Physical review letters, vol. 99 no. 14 (October, 2007), pp. 140401, ISSN 0031-9007 [17930648], [doi]  [abs]
  12. Joseph, J; Clancy, B; Luo, L; Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Measurement of sound velocity in a fermi gas near a feshbach resonance, Physical Review Letters, vol. 98 no. 17 (April, 2007), pp. 170401, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  13. Luo, L; Clancy, B; Joseph, J; Kinast, J; Thomas, JE, Measurement of the entropy and critical temperature of a strongly interacting Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 98 no. 8 (February, 2007), pp. 080402, ISSN 0031-9007 [17359072], [doi]  [abs]
  14. Luo, L; Clancy, B; Joseph, J; Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Evaporative cooling of unitary Fermi gas mixtures in optical traps, New Journal of Physics, vol. 8 no. 9 (September, 2006), pp. 213-213, IOP Publishing, ISSN 1367-2630 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  15. Thomas, JE, Ultracold Fermi gas on a chip, Nature Physics, vol. 2 no. 6 (June, 2006), pp. 377-378, Springer Science and Business Media LLC, ISSN 1745-2473 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  16. 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.)
  17. 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.)
  18. Thomas, JE, Optically-trapped Fermi gases, Habitation, vol. 10 (2006), pp. 242 (NASA Invited talk, Orlando, February 5-8 2006.)
  19. Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Optically trapped Fermi gases model strong interactions in nature, Optics and Photonics News, vol. 16 no. 12 SPEC. ISS. (December, 2005), pp. 21, The Optical Society [doi]  [abs]
  20. Lu, ZH; Thomas, JE; Bali, S, Observation of phase-sensitive temporal correlations in the resonance fluorescence from two-level atoms., Optics letters, vol. 30 no. 18 (September, 2005), pp. 2478-2480, ISSN 0146-9592 [16196358], [doi]  [abs]
  21. Reil, F; Thomas, JE, Observation of phase conjugation of light arising from enhanced backscattering in a random medium., Physical review letters, vol. 95 no. 14 (September, 2005), pp. 143903, ISSN 0031-9007 [16241655], [doi]  [abs]
  22. Thomas, JE; Kinast, J; Turlapov, A, Virial theorem and universality in a unitary fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 95 no. 12 (September, 2005), pp. 120402, ISSN 0031-9007 [16197054], [doi]  [abs]
  23. Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Damping of a unitary Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 94 no. 17 (May, 2005), pp. 170404, ISSN 0031-9007 [15904273], [doi]  [abs]
  24. Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE; Chen, Q; Stajic, J; Levin, K, Heat capacity of a strongly interacting Fermi gas., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 307 no. 5713 (February, 2005), pp. 1296-1299 [15681340], [doi]  [abs]
  25. Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Breakdown of hydrodynamics in the radial breathing mode of a strongly interacting Fermi gas, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 70 no. 5 A (November, 2004), pp. 051401(R), American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  26. Kinast, J; Hemmer, SL; Gehm, ME; Turlapov, A; Thomas, JE, Evidence for superfluidity in a resonantly interacting Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 92 no. 15 (April, 2004), pp. 150402, ISSN 0031-9007 [15169270], [doi]  [abs]
  27. Lee, KF; Thomas, JE, Entanglement with classical fields, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 69 no. 5 A (January, 2004), pp. 052311, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  28. Thomas, J; Gehm, M, Optically Trapped Fermi Gases, American Scientist, vol. 92 no. 3 (2004), pp. 238-238, Sigma Xi, ISSN 0003-0996 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]
  29. Gehm, ME; Hemmer, SL; O’Hara, KM; Thomas, JE, Unitarity-limited elastic collision rate in a harmonically trapped Fermi gas, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 68 no. 1 (January, 2003), pp. 4, American Physical Society (APS) [0304633v1], [doi]  [abs]
  30. Gehm, ME; Hemmer, SL; Granade, SR; O’Hara, KM; Thomas, JE, Mechanical stability of a strongly interacting Fermi gas of atoms, Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 68 no. 1 (January, 2003), pp. 4, American Physical Society (APS) [0212499v2], [doi]  [abs]
  31. Thomas, JE; Hemmer, SL; Kinast, J; Turlapov, A; Gehm, ME; O'Hara, KM, Dynamics of a highly-degenerate, strongly-interacting Fermi gas of atoms, Journal of Low Temperature Physics, vol. 104 no. 1-2 (2003), pp. 655-664, World Scientific [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  32. O'Hara, KM; Hemmer, SL; Gehm, ME; Granade, SR; Thomas, JE, Observation of a strongly interacting degenerate Fermi gas of atoms., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 298 no. 5601 (December, 2002), pp. 2179-2182 [12424386], [doi]  [abs]
  33. Lee, KF; Thomas, JE, Experimental simulation of two-particle quantum entanglement using classical fields., Physical review letters, vol. 88 no. 9 (March, 2002), pp. 097902, ISSN 0031-9007 [11864055], [doi]  [abs]
  34. Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; O'Hara, KM; Thomas, JE, All-optical production of a degenerate Fermi gas., Physical review letters, vol. 88 no. 12 (March, 2002), pp. 120405, ISSN 0031-9007 [11909435], [doi]  [abs]
  35. O’Hara, KM; Hemmer, SL; Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; Thomas, JE; Venturi, V; Tiesinga, E; Williams, CJ, Measurement of the zero crossing in a Feshbach resonance of fermionic [Formula Presented], Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, vol. 66 no. 4 (January, 2002), pp. 4, American Physical Society (APS) [0207717v1], [doi]  [abs]
  36. 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
  37. 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.
  38. 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
  39. 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,
  40. 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
  41. 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.
  42. 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
  43. O’Hara, KM; Thomas, JE, Standing room only at the quantum scale, Science, vol. 291 no. 5513 (2001), pp. 2556 [doi]
  44. O’Hara, KM; Gehm, ME; Granade, SR; Thomas, JE, Scaling laws for evaporative cooling in time-dependent optical traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 64 no. 5 (2001), pp. 051403(R), American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  45. O’Hara, KM; Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; Thomas, JE, Loading Dynamics of CO2 Laser Traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 63 no. 4 (2001), pp. 043403, ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  46. O'Hara, KM; Gehm, ME; Granade, SR; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Stable, strongly attractive, two-state mixture of lithium fermions in an optical trap, Physical review letters, vol. 85 no. 10 (September, 2000), pp. 2092-2095 [10970470], [doi]  [abs]
  47. 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.)
  48. 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.)
  49. 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
  50. Wax, A; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Path-length-resolved optical phase space distributions for enhanced backscatter, Phys. Rev. Lett., vol. 85 (2000), pp. 66
  51. Lee, KF; Reil, F; Bali, S; Wax, A; Thomas, JE, Heterodyne measurement of Wigner distributions for classical optical fields., Optics letters, vol. 24 no. 19 (October, 1999), pp. 1370-1372, ISSN 0146-9592 [doi]  [abs]
  52. Wax, A; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Optical phase-space distributions for low-coherence light., Optics letters, vol. 24 no. 17 (September, 1999), pp. 1188-1190, ISSN 0146-9592 [doi]  [abs]
  53. 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.)
  54. O’hara, KM; Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; Savard, TA; Bali, S; Freed, C; Thomas, JE, Ultrastable CO2laser trapping of lithium fermions, Physical Review Letters, vol. 82 no. 21 (January, 1999), pp. 4204-4207, American Physical Society (APS) [0003049v1], [doi]  [abs]
  55. 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..)
  56. Wax, A; Bali, S; Alphonse, GA; Thomas, JE, Characterizing the coherence of broadband sources using optical phase space contours, J. Biomed. Opt., vol. 4 (1999), pp. 1-8
  57. Savard, TA; Granade, SR; O’Hara, KM; Gehm, ME; Thomas, JE, Raman-induced magnetic resonance imaging of atoms in a magneto-optical trap, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 60 no. 6 (1999), pp. 4788, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  58. Bali, S; O’Hara, KM; Gehm, ME; Granade, SR; Thomas, JE, Quantum-di ractive background gas collisions in atom-trap heating and loss, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 60 no. 1 (1999), pp. R29, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  59. Gehm, ME; O’Hara, KM; Savard, TA; Thomas, JE, Noise induced Population Loss in Atom Traps, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 44 (1999), pp. 1153
  60. Lu, ZH; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Observation of Phase-dependent Temporal Correlations in Resonance Fluorescence, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 44 (1999), pp. 413
  61. Lu, ZH; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Observation of squeezing in the phase-dependent fluorescence spectra of two-level atoms, Physical Review Letters, vol. 81 no. 17 (October, 1998), pp. 3635-3638, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 0031-9007 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  62. 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,
  63. 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
  64. Wax, A; Thomas, JE, Measurement of smoothed Wigner phase-space distributions for small-angle scattering in a turbid medium., Journal of the Optical Society of America. A, Optics, image science, and vision, vol. 15 no. 7 (July, 1998), pp. 1896-1908, ISSN 1084-7529 [9656479], [doi]  [abs]
  65. 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
  66. Savard, TA; O’Hara, KM; Granade, SR; Gehm, ME; Thomas, JE, Raman Induced Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Atoms in a MOT, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 43 (1998), pp. 1292
  67. Lu, ZH; Bali, S; Thomas, JE, Observation of Squeezing in Free Space Phase-Dependent Resonance Fluorescence, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 43 (1998), pp. 1288
  68. Gehm, ME; O’Hara, KM; Savard, TA; Thomas, JE, Dynamics of Noise-Induced Heating in Atom Traps, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 58 no. 5 (1998), pp. 3914-3921, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]
  69. Zhao, HZ; Lu, ZH; Bacon, AM; Wang, LJ; Thomas, JE, Precision Measurement of Phase-Dependent Resonance Fluorescence Spectra, Phys. Rev. A, vol. 57 no. 2 (1998), pp. 1427-1447, American Physical Society (APS), ISSN 1050-2947 [Gateway.cgi], [doi]  [abs]

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. 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)

Papers Submitted

  1. J.E. Thomas, Unitary Fermi gases, in Contemporary Concepts of Condensed Matter Science: Ultracold Bosonic and Fermionic Gases (August, 2010), Elsevier

Other

  1. J.E. Thomas, Experiments with Interacting Fermi gases, Bull. Am. Phys. Soc., vol. 54 (May, 2009), pp. 109
  2. J. E. Thomas, L. Luo, B. Clancy, J. Joseph, Y. Zhang, C. Cao, X. Du, and J. Petricka,, Fermi Gases with Tunable Interactions, in Proceedings of the XXI International Conference on Atomic Physics, edited by R. Cote, P. L. Gould, M. Rozman, and W. W. Smith (April, 2009), pp. 201-212, World Scientific
  3. J. E. Thomas, L. Luo, B. Clancy, J. Joseph, Y. Zhang, C. Cao, X. Du, and J. Petricka, Fermi Gases with Tunable Interactions, in Conference proceedings, ICAP 2008 (June, 2008)

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