Publications

Kolkowitz group publications and pre-prints

X. Zheng, J. Dolde, M.C. Cambria, H.M. Lim, and S. Kolkowitz, “A lab-based test of the gravitational redshift with a miniature clock network,” Nature Communications 14, 4886 (2023).
M.C. Cambria, G. Theiring, A. Norambuena, H.T. Dinani, A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, V. Lordi, A. Gali, J.R. Maze, and S. Kolkowitz, “A physically motivated analytical expression for the temperature dependence of the zero-field splitting of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond,” arXiv:2306.05318 (2023).
M.C. Cambria, A. Norambuena, H.T. Dinani, G. Theiring, A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, Y. Li, V. Lordi, A. Gali, J.R. Maze, and S. Kolkowitz, “Temperature-dependent phonon-induced relaxation of the nitrogen-vacancy spin triplet in diamond,” Physical Review Letters, 130 256903 (2023).
X. Zheng, J. Dolde, and S. Kolkowitz, “Reducing the instability of an optical lattice clock using multiple atomic ensembles,” arXiv:2305.12315 (2023).
R. Vidrio, D. Vincent, B. Bachman, C. Saucedo, M. Zahedian, Z. Xu, J. Lai, T.A. Grotjohn, S. Kolkowitz, J.-H. Seo, R.J. Hamers, K.G. Ray, Z. Ma, J.T. Choy, “Effects of molecular contamination and sp2 carbon on oxidation of (100) single-crystal diamond surfaces,” arXiv:2304.02217 (2023).
M. Zahedian, J. Liu, R. Vidrio, S. Kolkowitz, J.T. Choy, “Modeling of Radiative Emission from Shallow Color Centers in Single Crystalline Diamond,” Laser and Photonics Review, 2200529 (2023).

J. Rovny, Z. Yuan, M. Fitzpatrick, A.I. Abdalla, L. Futamura, C. Fox, M.C. Cambria, S. Kolkowitz, and N.P. de Leon, “Nanoscale covariance magnetometry with diamond quantum sensors,” Science, 378, no. 6626 (2022).
I. Alonso, et al. “Cold Atoms in Space: Community Workshop Summary and Proposed Road- Map.” EPJ Quantum Technology 9 (1), 1-55 (2022).
V. Schkolnik, et al. “Optical Atomic Clock aboard an Earth-orbiting Space Station (OACESS): Enhancing searches for physics beyond the standard model in space.” Quantum Science and Technology 8 (1), 014003 (2022).
A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, Y. Li, M. Zahedian, M.C. Cambria, X. Xu, V. Lordi, A. Gali, J.R. Maze, J. Choy, and S. Kolkowitz, “Super-resolution Airy disk microscopy of individual color centers in diamond,” ACS Photonics, (2022).
Y. Wu, S. Kolkowitz, S. Puri, and J.D. Thompson, “Erasure conversion for fault-tolerant quantum computing in alkaline earth Rydberg atom arrays,” Nature Communications, 13, 4657 (2022).
A. Sharma, S. Kolkowitz, and M. Saffman, “Analysis of a Cesium lattice optical clock,” pre-print available at: arXiv:2203.08708 (2022).
X. Zheng, J. Dolde, V. Lochab, B.N. Merriman, H. Li, and S. Kolkowitz, “Differential clock comparisons with a multiplexed optical lattice clock,” Nature 602, 425–430 (2022).

A. Gardill, I. Kemeny, M.C. Cambria, Y. Li, H.T. Dinani, A. Norambuena, J.R. Maze, V. Lordi, and S. Kolkowitz, “Probing charge dynamics in diamond with an individual color center,” Nano Letters, 21 (16), 6960-6966 (2021).
L.V.H. Rodgers, L.B. Hughes, M. Xie, P.C. Maurer, S. Kolkowitz, A.C. Bleszynski Jayich, and N.P. de Leon, “Materials challenges for quantum technologies based on color centers in diamond,” MRS Bulletin, 46, 623-633 (2021).
B.F. Bachman, Z.R. Jones, G.R. Jaffe, J. Salman, R. Wambold, Z. Yu, J.T. Choy, S.J. Kolkowitz, M.A. Eriksson, M.A. Kats, and R.J. Hamers, “High-Density Covalent Grafting of Spin-Active Molecular Moieties to Diamond Surfaces,” Langmuir, 37 (30), 9222-9231 (2021).
J. Van Damme, X. Zheng, M. Saffman, M.G. Vavilov, and S. Kolkowitz, “Impacts of random filling on spin squeezing via Rydberg dressing in optical clocks,” PRA, 103, 023106 (2021).
M.C. Cambria, A. Gardill, Y. Li, A. Norambuena, J.R. Maze, and S. Kolkowitz, “State-dependent phonon-limited spin relaxation of nitrogen-vacancy centers,” Physical Review Research, 3, 013123 (2021).
R.A. Wambold, Z. Yu, Y. Xiao, B. Bachman, G. Jaffe, S. Kolkowitz, J.T. Choy, M. Eriksson, R.J. Hamers, and M.A. Kats, “Adjoint-optimized nanoscale light extractor for nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond,” Nanophotonics, 10(1), 393-401 (2021).

A. Gardill, M.C. Cambria, and S. Kolkowitz, “Fast relaxation on qutrit transitions of nitrogen-vacancy Centers in nanodiamonds,” Physical Review Applied 13, 034010 (2020).
M.A. Sedda, et al., “The Missing Link in Gravitational-Wave Astronomy: Discoveries waiting in the decihertz range,” Classical & Quantum Gravity 37, 21 (2020).
E. Barausse, et al. (LISA Consortium), “Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA,” General Relativity and Gravitation, 52, 81 (2020).

S. Kimmel and S. Kolkowitz, “No-go bounds for quantum seals,” Physical Review A 100, 052326 (2019).

S. Kolkowitz and J. Ye, “Precision Timekeeping: Optical Atomic Clocks,” pp. 139-156 in Handbook of Laser Technology & Applications, 2nd Ed., C. Guo, Ed., CRC Press, London (2021). (Invited)

For a list of Shimon’s publications from before he came to UW-Madison, please consult his C.V., which can be found here.