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Item Rydberg Ensembles for Quantum Networking(2020) Craddock, Alexander Nicholas; Rolston, Steve; Porto, Trey; Physics; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Rydberg ensembles, atomic clouds with one or more atoms excited to a Rydberg state, have proven to be a good platform for the study of photon-photon interactions. This is due to the nonlinearities they exhibit at the single photon level arising from Rydberg-Rydberg interactions. As a result, they have shown promise for use in a multitude of applications, among them quantum networking. In this thesis I describe the construction and operation of an apparatus for the purpose of cooling, trapping and probing Rydberg ensemble physics in a cloud of ${}^{87}\textrm{Rb}$ atoms. In addition, I describe a pair of projects undertaken with the apparatus. In the first, I report our demonstration of a Rydberg ensemble based on-demand single photon source. Here, we make use of Rydberg blockade to allow us to prepare a single collective Rydberg excitation in the cloud. The spin wave excitation is then retrieved by coherently mapping it onto a propagating photon. Our source is highly pure and efficient, while producing narrow bandwidth and indistinguishable photons. Such sources are important devices for the purposes of quantum networking, computation and metrology. Following from this, I describe a collaborative project where we show time resolved Hong-Ou-Mandel interference between photons produced by our Rydberg ensemble source, and a collaborators source based on a single trapped barium ion. This demonstration is a critical step in the entanglement, and hybrid quantum networking, of these two disparate systems.Item Cross section measurements of charged pion photoproduction in hydrogen and deuterium from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV(2005-04) Zhu, L.Y.; Arrington, J.; Averett, T.; Beise, E.; Calarco, J.; Chang, T.; Chen, J.P.; Chudakov, E.; Coman, M.; Clasie, B.; Crawford, C.; Dieterich, S.; Dohrmann, F.; Dutta, D.; Fissum, K.; Frullani, S.; Gao, H.; Gilman, R.; Glashausser, C.; Gomez, J.; Hafidi, K.; Hansen, O.; Higinbotham, D.W.; Holt, R.J.; de Jager, C.W.; Jiang, X.; Kinney, E.; Kramer, K.; Kumbartzki, G.; LeRose, J.; Liyanage, N.; Mack, D.; Markowitz, P.; McCormick, K.; Meekins, D.; Meziani, Z.-E.; Michaels, R.; Mitchell, J.; Nanda, S.; Potterveld, D.; Ransome, R.; Reimer, P.E.; Reitz, B.; Saha, A.; Schulte, E.C.; Seely, J.; Sirca, S.; Strauch, S.; Sulkosky, V.; Vlahovic, B.; Weinstein, L.B.; Wijesooriya, K.; Williamson, C.; Wojtsekhowski, B.; Xiang, H.; Xiong, F.; Xu, W.; Zeng, J.; Zheng, X.; Jefferson Lab Hall A Collaboration; Jefferson Lab E94-104 CollaborationThe differential cross sections for the γn→π-p and the γp→π+n processes were measured at Jefferson Lab. The photon energies ranged from 1.1 to 5.5 GeV, corresponding to center-of-mass energies from 1.7 to 3.4 GeV. The pion center-of-mass angles varied from 50° to 110°. The π- and π+ photoproduction data both exhibit a global scaling behavior at high energies and high transverse momenta, consistent with the constituent counting rule prediction and the existing π+ data. The data suggest possible substructure of the scaling behavior, which might be oscillations around the scaling value. The data show an enhancement in the scaled cross section at center-of-mass energy near 2.2 GeV. The differential cross section ratios [dσ/dt(γn→π-p)/dσ/dt(γp→π+n)] at high energies and high transverse momenta can be described by calculations based on one-hard-gluon-exchange diagrams.Item Measurement of longitudinal and transverse cross sections in the 3He(e,e′π+)3H reaction at W=1.6 GeV(2001-12) Gaskell, D.; Ahmidouch, A.; Ambrozewicz, P.; Anklin, H.; Arrington, J.; Assamagan, K.; Avery, S.; Bailey, K.; Baker, O.K.; Beedoe, S.; Beise, B.; Breuer, H.; Brown, D.S.; Carlini, R.; Cha, J.; Chant, N.; Cowley, A.; Danagoulian, S.; De Schepper, D.; Dunne, J.; Dutta, D.; Ent, R.; Gan, L.; Gasparian, A.; Geesaman, D.F.; Gilman, R.; Glashausser, C.; Gueye, P.; Harvey, M.; Hashimoto, O.; Hinton, W.; Hofman, G.; Jackson, C.; Jackson, H.E.; Keppel, C.; Kinney, E.; Koltenuk, D.; Lung, A.; Mack, D.; McKee, D.; Mitchell, J.; Mkrtchyan, H.; Mueller, B.; Niculescu, G.; Niculescu, I.; O'Neill, T.G.; Papavassiliou, V.; Potterveld, D.; Reinhold, J.; Roos, P.; Sawafta, R.; Segel, R.; Stepanyan, S.; Tadevosyan, V.; Takahashi, T.; Tang, L.; Terburg, B.; Van Westrum, D.; Volmer, J.; Welch, T.P.; Wood, S.; Yuan, L.; Zeidman, B.; Zihlmann, B.The coherent 3He(e,e′π+)3H reaction was measured at Q2=0.4 (GeV/c)2 and W=1.6 GeV for two values of the virtual photon polarization, ε, allowing the separation of longitudinal and transverse cross sections. The results from the coherent process on 3He were compared to H(e,e′π+)n data taken at the same kinematics. This marks the first direct comparison of these processes. At these kinematics (pπ=1.1 GeV/c), pion rescattering from the spectator nucleons in the 3He(e,e′π+)3H process is expected to be small, simplifying the comparison to π+ production from the free proton.