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Group news

Research grants

  • RII Track-4:NSF: Introducing Quantum Logic Spectroscopy to Greater Southern Nevada as a Vital Quantum Control and Information Process Method, $287,475, 2024.1.1 - 2026.1.1

    • Research grants

  • Army Research Office (ARL-ARO) grant: Bolstering quantum science in southern Nevada through new experimental capabilities, $550,000, 2023.2.1 - 2024.2.1

    • Thesis defenses

  • Congrats Casey Johnson, Erick Serrano, and Thomas Mcpartland for completing senior thesis (PHYS 493) defense. 2023.5
  • Congrats to Timothy Chung for completing Master thesis defense. 2022.7
  • Congrats Weilun Tang for completing senior thesis (PHYS 493) defense. 2022.5

    • Fellowships

  • Congrats to Bernardo Gutierrez for NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.5
  • Congrats to Bernardo Gutierrez for UNLV OUR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.6
  • Congrats to Casey Johnson for NSF EPSCoR Undergraduate Research Fellowship. 2022.10

    • Presentation

  • Yan Zhou. Testing fundamental symmetries by precision measurements using polar molecular ions. Michigan State University. 2022.1. Online video

    • Thesis defense

  • Congrats to Trevor Taylor to for completing senior thesis (PHYS 493) defense. 2021.12

    • Research grants

  • 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

    • Award and fellowship

  • Congrats to Trevor Taylor and Yan Zhou for awards in Undergraduate Research Stimulus Program (URSP) Track 1: Undergraduate Research Mentor-Mentee Program (MMP), 2021.6.

    • Presentations

  • Timothy Chung, Tantalum Oxide spectroscopy to facilitate exploring new physics beyond the Standard Model, ISMS, 2021.6
  • Matthew Cooper, Using quantum logically controlled polar molecular ions as extremely sensitive quantum sensors to explore new physics beyond the Standard Model, DAMOP, 2021.6

    • Thesis defenses

  • Congrats to Oliver Walton, Antonio Bernardino to for completing senior thesis (PHYS 493) defense. 2021.5

    • Thesis defenses

  • Congrats to Thomas, Jeremiah to for completing senior thesis (PHYS 493) defense. 2020.12

    • Presentation

  • Yan Zhou. Precision measurements using ultracold molecular ions. Idaho State University. 2020.11.

    • Fellowship

  • Congrats to Antonio Bernardino for UNLV OUR Summer Fellowship. 2020.7

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    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