Ultracold Molecule and Quantum Optics Lab @ Purdue
2026
Vapor Phase Assembly of Molecular Emitter Crystals for Photonic Integrated Circuits
Arya D. Keni, Christian M. Lange, Adhyyan S. Mansukhani, Emma Daggett, Ankit Kundu, Ishita Agarwal, Patrick Bak, Benjamin Cerjan, Jonathan D. Hood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.18517
2025
Cavity QED with molecular defects coupled to to a photonic crystal cavity
Christian M. Lange, Arya D. Keni, Ishita Agarwal, Emma Daggett, Adhyyan S. Mansukhani, Ankit Kundu, Benjamin Cerjan, Libai Huang, Jonathan D. Hood
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01917
Narrow-Line Electric Quadrupole Cooling And Background-Free Imaging Of A Single Cs Atom With Spatially Structured Light
Karl N. Blodgett *, Saumitra S. Phatak *, Meng Raymond Chen, David Peana, Claire Pritts, and Jonathan D. Hood.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.10540v1
2024
A Generalized Theory for Optical Cooling of a Trapped Atom with Spin
Saumitra S. Phatak, Karl N. Blodgett, David Peana, Meng Raymond Chen, and Jonathan D. Hood
Phys. Rev. A 110, 043116 – Published 24 October, 2024
Superradiant and subradiant states in lifetime-limited organic molecules through laser-induced tuning
Christian Lange, Emma Daggett, Valentin Walther, Libai Huang, Jonathan D Hood
Nature Physics 416 2024, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-024-02404-4
News and Views article: Organic molecules pumped to resonance
arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.08037, 2023
2023
Imaging a Li Atom In An Optical Tweezer 2000 Times with -Enhanced Gray Molasses
KN Blodgett, D Peana, S Phatak, LM Terry, MP Montes, Jonathan D Hood
Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 083001 – Published 21 August 2023
High resolution photoassociation spectroscopy of the excited potential of NaCs
Lewis RB Picard, Jessie T Zhang, William B Cairncross, Kenneth Wang, Gabriel E Patenotte, Annie J Park, Yichao Yu, Lee R Liu, Jonathan D Hood, Rosario González-Férez, Kang-Kuen Ni
Phys. Rev. Research 5, 023149 2023
arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09113, 2023
2021
Coherent optical creation of a single molecule
Yichao Yu, Kenneth Wang, Jonathan D Hood, Lewis RB Picard, Jessie T Zhang, William B Cairncross, Jeremy M Hutson, Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez, Till Rosenband, Kang-Kuen Ni
Physical Review X 11 (3), 031061, 2021
Before 2021
Forming a single molecule by magnetoassociation in an optical tweezer
JT Zhang, Y Yu, WB Cairncross, K Wang, LRB Picard, JD Hood, Y-W Lin, JM Hutson, K-K Ni
Physical Review Letters 124, 253401, 2020. arXiv.
Reduction of laser intensity noise over 1 MHz band for single atom trapping
Optics Express 28(21), 31209-31215v, 2020. arXiv.
Y Wang, K Wang, EF Fenton, YW Lin, K-K Ni, JD Hood
Multichannel interactions of two atoms in an optical tweezer
Physical Review Research 2(2), 023108, 2020. arXiv
JD Hood, YC Yu, YW Lin, JT Zhang, K Wang, LR Liu, B Gao, and K-K Ni
Building one molecule from a reservoir of two atoms
Science (cover), 360(6391):900–903, 2018. arXiv.
LR Liu, JD Hood, YC Yu, JT Zhang, NR Hutzler, T Rosenband, and K-K Ni
Motional ground-state cooling outside the lamb-dicke regime
Physical Review A, 97(6):063423. arXiv.
YC Yu, NR Hutzler, JT Zhang, LR Liu, JD Hood, T Rosenband, and K-K Ni
2018.
Atom-light interactions in quasi-one-dimensional nanostructures: A green’s-function perspective
Physical Review A, 95(3):033818, 2017. arXiv.
A Asenjo-Garcia, JD Hood, DE Chang, and HJ Kimble
Atom-atom interactions around the band edge of a photonic crystal waveguide
PNAS, 113(38):10507–10512, 2016. arXiv.
JD Hood, A Goban, A Asenjo-Garcia, M Lu, S-P Yu, DE Chang, and HJ Kimble
Superradiance for atoms trapped along a photonic crystal waveguide
Physical Review Letters, 115(6):063601, 2015. arXiv.
A Goban†, C-L Hung†, JD Hood†, S-P Yu†, JA Muniz, O Painter, and HJ Kimble
Atom–light interactions in photonic crystals
Nature Communications, 5, 2014. arXiv.
A Goban†, C-L Hung†, S-P Yu†, JD Hood†, JA Muniz†, JH Lee, MJ Martin, AC Mc-
Clung, KS Choi, DE Chang, et al.
Nanowire photonic crystal waveguides for single-atom trapping and strong light-matter interactions
Applied Physics Letters, 104(11):111103, 2014. arXiv.
S-P Yu†, JD Hood†, JA Muniz, MJ Martin, R Norte, C-L Hung, SM Meenehan, JD Cohen,
O Painter, and HJ Kimble
Enhancement of mechanical q factors by optical trapping
Physical Review Letters, 108(21):214302, 2012. arXiv.
K-K Ni, R Norte, DJ Wilson, JD Hood, DE Chang, O Painter, and HJ Kimble
Theses
David Peana, Purdue 2024, ....
Hood 2016, Caltech, Atom-Light Interactions in a Photonic Crystal Waveguide