Jake Higgins
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Postdoc JILA, Ye Group | PhD UChicago, Engel Group | they/them
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Michael Wong
6 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
10 months ago
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JILA
10 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
12 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
12 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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