After 5.5 fun and productive years in the Physics Department at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, the Kolkowitz Lab has moved to a new home at UC Berkeley!
While I’m quite sad to leave UW – Madison and the wonderful physics community there, I’m also very excited about this new chapter for me and my research group. You can find the new Kolkowitz Lab webpage at: https://physics.berkeley.edu/research-faculty/kolkowitz-lab
Congratulations to Xin, Jack, Hong Ming, and Matt on the publication of their paper “A lab-based test of the gravitational redshift with a miniature clock network” in Nature Communications! You can read the entire published paper at this link (with no paywall or special access required): https://rdcu.be/djkVc.
In this paper, we experimentally confirm that time passes more slowly for a clock that is just 2.5 millimeters higher off the ground than another otherwise identical clock, as predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity. Observing this effect and confirming that it is there required comparing to clocks at 19 digits of precision and accuracy!
Congratulations to Dr. Aedan Gardill, who successfully defended his PhD today! His thesis is entitled: “Nanoscale metrology using the spin and charge states of single nitrogen vacancy centers in diamond.” Aedan will now move on from the Kolkowitz group to start a new position as a Product Development and Sales Engineer at Mad City Labs.
Like the classical computers we use every day, quantum computers can make mistakes when manipulating and storing the quantum bits (qubits) used to perform quantum algorithms. Theoretically, a quantum error correction protocol can correct these …
Read the full article at: https://www.physics.wisc.edu/2022/09/12/nsf-quantum-center-collaboration-finds-path-to-fault-tolerance-in-neutral-atom-qubits/Congratulations to Aedan, Ishita, Matt, Sam, and Sissi, whose paper “Super-resolution Airy disk microscopy of individual color centers in diamond” has now been published online in ACS Photonics: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsphotonics.2c00713. The paper will also be featured on the cover of a future issue of the journal!
Today Shimon’s job title changed from assistant professor to associate professor (which means he is now officially tenured.)
Congratulations to Aedan, Ishita, Matt, Sam, and Sissi, whose paper “Super-resolution Airy disk microscopy of individual color centers in diamond” has now been posted to the arXiv!
Congratulations to Xin and Jack, as well as Kolkowitz group alums Brett, Haoran, and Varun, on the publication of their paper “Differential clock comparisons with a multiplexed optical lattice clock” in Nature! You can read the entire published paper at this link (with no paywall or special access required): https://rdcu.be/cG9co.
To learn more about what we did in the paper, you can read our original post about it here: https://kolkowitzlab.physics.wisc.edu/2021/09/28/a-brand-new-vari…ted-to-the-arxiv/.
Our results, as well as the results reported in a complementary (and very exciting) paper from our friends in the Ye group at JILA that was published back to back with our own, are also generating a bit of buzz! Here are a couple of choice links:
A Nature News and Views about both papers by Dr. Ksenia Khabarova.
The UW-Madison press release about our paper.
And the Ye group paper was even featured on the cover of this issue of Nature(!):
