NACTI2019 Zhou Lab

Research highlights

Research grants

  • Army Research Office: HBCU/MI Acquisition of a direct write lithography system for quantum research, $548,100, 2024.6 - 2025.6
  • NASA, Advancing Mid-Infrared Tunable Laser Technology: Achieving Sub-Kilohertz Precision for Spectroscopy of Interstellar Molecules, $50,000, 2024.9.2025.6
  • HDRFS, Advancing Fire Science with Optical Frequency Comb Spectroscopy, $30,000, 2024.8 - 2025.5
  • RII Track-4 NSF: Introducing Quantum Logic Spectroscopy to Greater Southern Nevada as a Vital Quantum Control and Information Process Method, $287,475, 2024.1 - 2026.1
  • UNLV TTDGRA: Development of Quantum InterConnects - a key step towards quantum advantage, $65,000, 2023.9 - 2026.5.
  • Army Research Office: Bolstering quantum science in southern Nevada through new experimental capabilities, $650,000, 2023.2.1 - 2024.2.1
  • NSF MRI grant: Acquisition of a Phase Stabilized Optical Frequency, $828,904, 2021.9.15 - 2024.8.31
  • UNLV Faculty Opportunity Award, $20,000, 2021.7 - 2022.6

    • Thesis defenses

  • Trevor Talor, Master Thesis Defense. 2024.4
  • Stephanie Letourneau, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2024.5
  • Casey Johnson, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2023.5
  • Erick Serrano, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2023.5
  • Thomas Mcpartland, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2023.5
  • Timothy Chung, Master Thesis Defense. 2022.7
  • Weilun Tang, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2022.5
  • Trevor Taylor, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2021.12
  • Oliver Walton, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2021.5
  • Antonio Bernardino, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2021.5
  • Thomas Conibear, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2020.12
  • Jeremiah Foley, Senior Thesis Defense (PHYS 493). 2020.12

    • Fellowships

  • Justin Frideman, UNLV Pile-up Undergraduate Fellowship. 2024.2
  • Bernardo Gutierrez, NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.5
  • Bernardo Gutierrez, UNLV OUR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.6
  • Casey Johnson, NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.10
  • Trevor Taylor, Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program (URSP). 2021.6.
  • Antonio Bernardino, UNLV OUR Summer Fellowship. 2020.7

    • Recent selected papers

    2024
  • Additive Manufacturing for Ultra-High Vacuum Applications: Leveraging Photo-polymer Resin Technologies.
    Jiaqi Li, Thomas Mcpartland, Bernardo Gutierrez, Jan Pedersen, Yan Zhou. Vacuum. 220, 112769, (2024). online
    • 2023
  • Quantum logic control and precision measurements of molecular ions in a ring trap - a new approach for testing fundamental symmetries.
    Yan Zhou, Joshua O. Island, Matt Grau. Submitted. (2023). arXiv PDF
    • 2022
  • Spectroscopy on the eEDM-sensitive states of ThF+.
    Kia Boon Ng, Yan Zhou, Lan Cheng, Noah Schlossberger, Sun Yool Park, Tanya S. Roussy, Luke Caldwell, Yuval Shagam, Antonio J. Vigil, Eric A. Cornell, and Jun Ye, Phys. Rev. A. 105, 022823, (2022). arXiv PDF
    • 2021
  • Experimental constraint on axion-like particle coupling over seven orders of magnitude in mass.
    T. S. Roussy, D. A. Palken, W. B. Cairncross, B. M. Brubaker, D. N. Gresh, M. Grau, K. C. Cossel, K. B. Ng, Y. Shagam, Y. Zhou, V. V. Flambaum, K. W. Lehnert, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 171301, (2021). arXiv PDF
    • 2020
  • Second-Scale Coherence Measured at the Quantum Projection Noise Limit with Hundreds of Molecular Ions.
    Y. Zhou, Y. Shagam, W. B. Cairncross, K. B. Ng, T. S. Roussy, T. Grogan, K. Boyce, A. Vigil, M. M. Pettine, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 124, 053201, (2020). arXiv PDF
    • 2019
  • Visible and Ultraviolet Laser Spectroscopy of ThF
    Y. Zhou, K. B. Ng, L. Cheng, D. N. Gresh, R. W. Field, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, J. Mol. Spec. 358, 1-16, (2019). arXiv PDF
    • 2017
  • A precision measurement of the electron's electric dipole moment using trapped molecular ions
    W. B. Cairncross, D. N. Gresh, M. Grau, K. C. Cossel, T. S. Roussy, Y. Ni, Y. Zhou, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 153001 (2017). arXiv PDF