Publications

[Last updated 4/2024]

(* indicates undergraduate author)

Augenbraun Lab Publications (Williams College)

1. T. Chen, C. Zhang, L. Cheng, K. B. Ng, S. Malbrunot-Ettenauer, V. Flambaum, Z. Lasner, J. M. Doyle, P. Yu, C. Conn, C. Zhang, N. R. Hutzler, A. Jayich, B. L. Augenbraun, and D. DeMille, "Relativistic Exact Two-Component Coupled-Cluster Study of Molecular Sensitivity Factors for Nuclear Schiff Moments," submitted to J. Phys. Chem. A (2024).

As a member of the Doyle Group (Harvard University)

2. B. L. Augenbraun, L. Anderegg, C. Hallas, Z. D. Lasner, N. B. Vilas, and J. M. Doyle, "Direct Laser Cooling of Polyatomic Molecules," Advances in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Vol. 72, 89-182 (2023). [Read for free: arXiv:2302.10161]

3. B. L. Augenbraun, S. Burchesky, A. Winnicki*, and J. M. Doyle, "High Resolution Laser Spectroscopy of a Functionalized Aromatic Molecule," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 10771-10777 (2022).

4. G. Lao, G.-Z. Zhu, C. E. Dickerson, B. L. Augenbraun, A. N. Alexandrova, J. R. Caram, E. R. Hudson, and W. C. Campbell, "Laser Spectroscopy of Aromatic Molecules with Optical Cycling Centers: Strontium(I) Phenoxides," J. Phys. Chem. Lett., 13, 11029-11035 (2022).

5. H. Sawaoka, A. Frenett, A. Nasir, T. Ono*, B. L. Augenbraun, T. C. Steimle, and J. M. Doyle, "Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration for Heavy Molecules with Perturbed Excited-State Structure," Phys. Rev. A 107, 022810 (2023).

6. G.-Z. Zhu, D. Mitra, B. L. Augenbraun, C. E. Dickerson, M. J. Frim*, G. Lao, Z. D. Lasner, A. N. Alexandrova, W. C. Campbell, J. R. Caram, J. M. Doyle, and E. R. Hudson, "Functionalizing Aromatic Compounds with Optical Cycling Centers," Nat. Chem. 14, 995–999 (2022).

7. D. Mitra, Z. D. Lasner, G.-Z. Zhu, C. E. Dickerson, B. L. Augenbraun, A. N. Alexandrova, W. C. Campbell, J. Caram, E. R. Hudson, and J. M. Doyle, "Pathway Towards Optical Cycling of Functionalized Arenes," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 13, 7029-7035 (2022).

8. W. C. Campbell and B. L. Augenbraun, "Photon spin molasses for laser cooling molecular rotation," J. Mol. Spec. 385, 111596 (2022).

9. B. L. Augenbraun, A. Frenett, H. Sawaoka, C. Hallas, N. B. Vilas, A. Nasir, Z. D. Lasner, and J. M. Doyle, "Zeeman-Sisyphus Deceleration of Molecular Beams," Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 263002 (2021).

10. C. Zhang, B. L. Augenbraun, Z. D. Lasner, N. B. Vilas, J. M. Doyle, and L. Cheng, "Accurate prediction and measurement of vibronic branching ratios for laser-coolable linear polyatomic molecules," J. Chem. Phys. 155, 091101 (2021).

11. B. L. Augenbraun, Z. D. Lasner, A. Frenett, H. Sawaoka, A. T. Le, J. M. Doyle, and T. C. Steimle, "Observation and laser spectroscopy of ytterbium monomethoxide, YbOCH3," Phys. Rev. A 103, 022814 (2021). 

12. C. E. Dickerson, H. Guo, A. J. Shin, B. L. Augenbraun, J. R. Caram, W. C. Campbell, A. N. Alexandrova, "Franck-Condon tuning of optical cycling centers by organic functionalization," Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 123002 (2021).

13. B. L. Augenbraun, John M. Doyle, T. Zelevinsky, and I. Kozyryev, "Molecular Asymmetry and Optical Cycling: Laser Cooling Asymmetric Top Molecules," Phys. Rev. X 10, 031022 (2020).

14. L. Baum, N. Vilas, C. Hallas, B. L. Augenbraun, S. Raval, D. Mitra, and J. M. Doyle, "Establishing a nearly closed cycling transition in a polyatomic molecule," Phys. Rev. A 103, 043111 (2021).

15. D. Mitra, N. Vilas, C. Hallas, L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, L. Baum, C. Miller*, S. Raval, and J. M. Doyle, "Direct Laser Cooling of a Symmetric Top Molecule," Science 369 6509, 1366 (2020).

16. E. T. Mengesha, A. T. Le, T. C. Steimle, L. Cheng, C. Zhang, B. L. Augenbraun, Z. Lasner, and J. Doyle, "Branching Ratios, Radiative Lifetimes and Transition Dipole Moments for YbOH," J. Phys. Chem. A 124, 16, 3135-3148 (2020).

17. L. Baum, N. B. Vilas, C. Hallas, B. L. Augenbraun, S. Raval, D. Mitra, and J. M. Doyle, "1D Magneto-Optical Trap of Polyatomic Molecules," Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 133201 (2020).

18. B. L. Augenbraun, Z. D. Lasner, A. Frenett, H. Sawaoka, C. Miller, T. C. Steimle, and J. M. Doyle, "Laser-Cooled Polyatomic Molecules for Improved Electron Electric Dipole Moment Searches," New J. Phys. 22 022003 (2020).

19. A. L. Collopy, S. Ding, Y. Wu, I. A. Finneran, L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, J. M. Doyle, and J. Ye, "3D Magneto-Optical Trap of Yttrium Monoxide," Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 213201 (2018).

20. L. W. Cheuk, L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, W. Ketterle, and J. M. Doyle, "Λ-Enhanced Imaging of Molecules in an Optical Trap," Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 083201 (2018).

21. L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, Y. Bao, S. Burchesky, L. W. Cheuk, W. Ketterle, and J. M. Doyle, "Laser cooling of optically trapped molecules," Nature Phys. 14, 890-893 (2018).

22. L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, E. Chae, B. Hemmerling, N. R. Hutzler, A. Ravi, A. Collopy, J. Ye, W. Ketterle, and J. M. Doyle, "Radio Frequency Magneto-Optical Trapping of CaF with High Density," Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 103201 (2017).

23. I. Kozyryev, L. Baum, K. Matsuda, B. L. Augenbraun, L. Anderegg, A. P. Sedlack, and J. M. Doyle, "Sisyphus Laser Cooling of a Polyatomic Molecule," Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 173201 (2017).

24. E. Chae, L. Anderegg, B. L. Augenbraun, A. Ravi, B. Hemmerling, N. R Hutzler, A. L Collopy, J. Ye, W. Ketterle, and J. M Doyle, "One-dimensional magneto-optical compression of a cold CaF molecular beam," New J. Phys. 19 (2017).

As a member of the Majumder Lab (Williams College)

25. B. L. Augenbraun, A. Carter, P. M. Rupasinghe, and P. K. Majumder, "Measurement of the scalar polarizability of the indium 6p1/2 state using two-step atomic-beam spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. A 94, 022515 (2016).