We are a relatively new lab at Caltech that uses lasers to control atoms and molecules for table-top experiments in fundamental nuclear and particle physics, by using and developing techniques that also have applications to quantum information, computation, and many-body systems.  There are openings for research positions and internships at all levels - undergraduate, masters, graduate, and post-doc.

SiPM crosstalk paper published in Optics Express.

SiPM crosstalk paper posted to the arXiv.

YbOH hyperfine paper posted to the arXiv.

Buffer gas beam simulation paper published in Physical Review Research.

Team AC advances to the Geothermal Manufacturing Prize Semifinals.

Thanks to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for supporting our research through a Sloan Research Fellowship!

YbOH axionlike particle sensitivity paper published in Phys. Rev. A

Mercury polyatomic EDM sensitivity paper published in Atoms.

Probing Fundamental Symmetries of Deformed Nuclei in Symmetric Top Molecules published in Physical Review Letters as an Editor's Suggestion.  See accompanying viewpoint from APS Physics here.

Buffer gas beam simulation paper posted to the arXiv.

Polyatomic precision measurement review published in Quantum Science and Technology

Digital whiteboard teaching demo using OneNote posted on YouTube as part of the Caltech Adaptable Teaching Series

You can also click here to view some notes about how to use OneNote as a digital whiteboard for teaching.  Some of the specifics are tailored to Caltech, but hopefully the notes are easily applied elsewhere.  Watch the video above for a description of the advantages of this approach, but a primary advantage is the ability to have all the notes be viewable in a browser window in real time.  In other words, students can "scroll back" and see what you wrote a few minutes ago.

Paper on Probing Fundamental Symmetries of Deformed Nuclei in Symmetric Top Molecules posted to the arXiv.

Perspective on Polyatomic Molecules as Quantum Sensors for Fundamental Physics posted on the arXiv.

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Welcome SURF and WAVE students!

Congratulations to Arian Jadbabaie for winning the John S. Stemple Memorial Prize!

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ShutDownSTEM (June 10, 2020)

Our chemical enhancement results were featured in Physics World.

Learn more about the motivation for some of our research in this Minute Physics video about the missing anti-matter in the universe. 

YbOH MQM sensitivity paper published in J. Chem. Phys.

Chemical enhancement paper published in New Journal of Physics.

Thank you to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for funding our PolyEDM search for the electron EDM using laser-cooled polyatomic molecules!

YbOH MQM sensitivity paper posted on the arXiv.

Chemically enhanced beam production paper posted on the arXiv.

Please consider applying for a Postdoctoral Prize Fellowships in Experimental Physics or Astrophysics.  Applications are due November 8.

Good bye to Cherie Capri, who is starting as the administrator for the Caltech SphereX team.  Thanks for everything!

Welcome to our new administrative assistant, Nancy Roth-Rappard.

Binning paper published in Metrologia.  Chi squared sometimes shouldn't be one!

Hypermetallic molecules for precision measurements paper published in PRA as an Editor's Suggestion.

Welcome Summer Research Connection!

Welcome SURF and WAVE students!