Carsten Weber

TL;DR: Rabi oscillations renormalized and a damping that depends on the input pulse strength, a behavior not known from exponential dephasing mechanisms are found.

TL;DR: Spectroscopy of radio-frequency transitions between nearly degenerate, opposite-parity excited states in atomic dysprosium (Dy) finds that kα, the dimensionless parameter characterizing a possible coupling of α to a changing gravitational potential, is essentially consistent with zero and the best constraint to date.

TL;DR: The results suggest that carbon nanotubes are excellent substrates for the optical readout of spiropyran-based molecular switches and the gained insights can be applied to other noncovalently functionalized one-dimensional nanostructures in an externally induced dipole field.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the different aspects of the interaction of mesoscopic quantum systems with gravitational fields and discuss two proposed interaction mechanisms: (i) the use of quantum fluids as generator and/or detector of gravitational waves in the laboratory, and (ii) the inclusion of gravitomagnetic fields in the study of the properties of rotating superconductors.

TL;DR: A finite width of the zero-phonon line is found already in the lowest-order calculation of the optical properties of quantum dots embedded in a catalytically grown semiconductor nanowire.