Publications by authors named "Vitaly Wirthl"

Magnetic nanoparticles have emerged as a promising approach to improving cancer treatment. However, many nanoparticle designs fail in clinical trials due to a lack of understanding of how to overcome the in vivo transport barriers. To address this shortcoming, we develop a computational model aimed at the study of magnetic nanoparticles in vitro and in vivo.

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We present an improved active fiber-based retroreflector (AFR) providing high-quality wavefront-retracing anti-parallel laser beams in the near UV. We use our improved AFR for first-order Doppler-shift suppression in precision spectroscopy of atomic hydrogen, but our setup can be adapted to other applications where wavefront-retracing beams with defined laser polarization are important. We demonstrate how weak aberrations produced by the fiber collimator may remain unobserved in the intensity of the collimated beam but limit the performance of the AFR.

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We have performed two-photon ultraviolet direct frequency comb spectroscopy on the 1S-3S transition in atomic hydrogen to illuminate the so-called proton radius puzzle and to demonstrate the potential of this method. The proton radius puzzle is a significant discrepancy between data obtained with muonic hydrogen and regular atomic hydrogen that could not be explained within the framework of quantum electrodynamics. By combining our result [ = 2,922,743,278,665.

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