Jake Higgins
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Postdoc JILA, Ye Group | PhD UChicago, Engel Group | they/them
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Michael Wong
3 months ago
Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?" Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."
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My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today!
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Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock
Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition---an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.113801
7 months ago
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JILA
7 months ago
In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and
@colorado.edu
physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium
#nuclearclock
setup drove energy shifts.
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Quanta Magazine
9 months ago
In Tennessee, where Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli lives and works, policies targeting transgender people are on the rise. “Fifty percent of my brain is thinking about this, how can I survive, and in the remaining 50% of the brain, I can think about physics.”
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The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World | Quanta Magazine
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unli...
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicist-decoding-the-nonbinary-nature-of-the-subatomic-world-20250110/
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JILA
9 months ago
The winter issue of "Light & Matter" is here! Read the latest about
#nuclearclocks
,
#AtomicClocks
,
#quantumphysicstumphysics
#physicsresearch
, and more in the latest installment of our quarterly journal.
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