Robert W. Boyd

TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured the radiative lifetime of Nd:YAG nanopowder with an average particle size of 20nm suspended in different organic and inorganic liquids.

TL;DR: A protocol is devised that, mimicking what happens to the guests of the hotel, maps the amplitudes of an infinite eigenbasis to twice their original quantum number in a coherent and deterministic manner, producing infinitely many unoccupied levels in the process.

TL;DR: In this article, the symmetrization method was used to perform optimal quantum cloning of high-dimensional photonic states by means of the symmetric method, and the universality of their technique was shown by conducting cloning of numerous arbitrary input states, and fully characterized their cloning machine by performing quantum state tomography on \emph{cloned} photons.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a simple analytical model for calculating the vibrational contribution to the nonlinear refractive index (Kerr coefficient) of a crystal in terms of known crystalline parameters such as the linear refractive indices, the coefficient of thermal expansion, the atomic density, and the reduced mass and the natural oscillation frequency of the vibration modes of the crystal lattice.

TL;DR: In this article, the first weak-value amplification in the azimuthal degree of freedom was demonstrated using a spin-orbit coupling and an applied geometric phase, and the authors estimate rotations using shifts in angular position and orbital angular momentum.