I am an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara in the Department of Physics. With trapped atomic and molecular ions I study fundamental symmetries as well as explore new opportunities for optical clocks and quantum information science.
I received my bachelor’s degree from Harvard and my PhD from Yale, advised by Jack Harris. Following my PhD I did a postdoc for Wes Campbell, where we laser cooled and trapped atoms with an optical frequency comb.
Tray Launcher, our first foray onto PyPI
Radium monomethoxide in the news
Radioactive molecules on demand
A Ra+ transition measurement and first undergraduates are on a paper
Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Award
New permanent electric dipole moment measurement technique published in PRL
Radium cooled to its motional ground state!
Undergrads cool to the quantum ground state of motion
Driving the radium ion's optical clock transition
A measurement of and theory for radium's P_3/2 branching fractions
Strong optical forces paper appears in PRL
Radium ion laser cooling published in PRL
The lab's second ion trap is operational