Welcome!
We are a research 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, chemistry, and many-body systems. There are openings for research positions and internships at all levels - undergraduate, masters, graduate, and post-doc.
News
1 June 2023
Polyatomic laser cooling intensity-borrowing paper posted on the arXiv.
25 May 2023
Congratulations to Chandler Conn for being selected as a 2023 Tombrello Scholar through the France A Córdova Graduate Student Fund, and to Yuiki Takahashi for winning the 2023 John S. Stemple Memorial Prize.
23 May 2023
Congratulations, Dr. Arian Jadbabaie!
4 May 2023
Paper describing the design of a "Nonresonant cavity for multipass laser intensity buildup" was published in Applied Optics.
27 April 2023
Paper on "Optical cycling in polyatomic molecules with complex hyperfine structure" posted to the arXiv.
26 April 2023
Paper on "Engineering field-insensitive molecular clock transitions for symmetry violation searches" posted to the arXiv.
14 April 2023
Some of Arian's outreach work with City of STEM was featred in a Caltech news article.
Arian Jadbabaie presents a superconductor demonstration to a large audience
Photo credit: Kitty Cahalan/Caltech
6 April 2023
FSNN NSAC LRP whitepaper posted to the arXiv. The paper explains the acronyms, NBD.
6 March 2023
Paper on molecular repump spectroscopy submitted to the arXiv.
21 February 2023
ITAMP Winter School 2023 slides can be found here
13 February 2023
"Non-resonant cavity for intensity buildup of multiple lasers" posted to the arXiv.
7 February 2023
"Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules" posted to the arXiv.
26 January 2023
Congratulations to Nachiket for winning third place in the SURF Seminar Day Doris S. Perpall Speaking Award Finals!
25 January 2023
Welcome to the newest member of our lab - cold radium!
22 January 2023
Paper on quantum control in trapped polyatomic molecules for eEDM searches posted to arXiv.
11 January 2023
Happy New Year!
Paper on characterizing the YbOH bending mode submitted to the arXiv.
1 December 2022
Paper on photon cycling in polyatomic molecules with multiple valence electrons published in Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys.
29 November 2022
Paper on molecular enhancement factors for P, T-violating eEDM in BaCH3 and YbCH3 symmetric top molecules published in PRA.
4 August 2022
Congratulations, Dr. Nick Pilgram!
4 August 2022
Paper on molecular enhancement factors for P, T-violating eEDM in BaCH3 and YbCH3 symmetric top molecules posted to the arXiv.
1 August 2022
We are excited to welcome the inaugural HSRC (hybrid summer research connection) class to Caltech.
22 June 2022
FUTURE 2022 will be held at Caltech September 12-13, 2022. Please consider nominating rising Junior or Senior Undergraduate Women who are interested in pursuing a physics PhD. The program is broadly inclusive of trans and genderqueer women, femmes, and gender non-confirming/non-binary students. Nominations must be submitted by August 1, 2022. Click here to learn more and apply.
2 June 2022
Congratulations to Katerina Gorou for winning the Richard P. Schuster Memorial Prize, and to Adrian Lopez for winning the 2022 Robert F. Christy Prize for an Outstanding Senior in Theoretical Physics, and to both of them for winning the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship!
25 May 2022
Paper on optical cycling in polyatomic molecules with multiple valence electrons posted on the arXiv.
1 April 2022
Welcome to the group, Adele, Alex, Chi, Nachiket, and Zitian!
5 November 2021
The Caltech Quantum Science and Engineering website is now live!
19 October 2021
Congratulations for Phelan Yu for being awarded an Eddleman Graduate Fellow through the IQIM!
24 September 2021
We will once again be teaching Ph 137a, Atoms and Photons, in person! Click here for more information.
22 September 2021
Consider applying to the Postdoctoral Prize Fellowships in Experimental Physics.
13 July 2021
Our research was featured in a popular science article: Designer Molecules May Provide Clues to Universe’s Biggest Unsolved Mysteries by Autumn Brower
30 June 2021
Welcome Summer Research Connection 2021!
29 June 2021
Fine and hyperfine interactions in 171YbOH and 173YbOH paper published in the Journal of Chemical Physics.
26 June 2021
Please attend the virtual workshop New Opportunities for Fundamental Physics Research with Radioactive Molecules
17 May 2021
SiPM crosstalk paper published in Optics Express.
21 August 2020
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.
10 July 2020
Hello Summer Research Connection!
We are extremely grateful to receive support from the following sources:
Researchers in our group have received fellowships supported by:
SURF Fellowships:
Bill Davis
James C. Whitney
Thomas Lauritsen
Mark Reinecke
Toni and Bob Perpall
WAVE Fellowships:
Kavli Nanoscience Institute (KNI)
Student awards:
France A. Córdova Fund/Tombrello Scholarship
Graduate Fellowships:
Roy T. Eddleman
Dominic Orr
Postdoctoral Fellowships:
David and Ellen Lee