January, 2026: Congratulations to team Strongtium for their new publication in Physical Review A on new MOT loading techniques!
January, 2026: Congratulations to team AIG for their new publication in Physical Review Applied on a new Sr atom interferometer gyroscope and detection techniques!
January, 2026: Congratulations to team AIG for the submission of a new US Patent application for Sr AIG detection technique!
December 17, 2025:
Picture of our new strontium optical dipole trap!
October, 2025: Grant receives a new US patent #12/449,256 “Compact grating magneto-optical trap sensor head for inertial navigation in dynamic environments.”
October, 2025: In collaboration with our friends at Physical Science Inc., we have won a new grant for “Collimated Array of Neutral Atoms by Lithography of Silicon.” Congratulations Team!!!!
October, 2025: In collaboration with our friends Sandia National Laboratories., we have won a new grant for “Matterwave Sensing with Cold Atoms.” Congratulations Team!!!!
September, 2025: In collaboration with our friends in the group of Professor Bilitewski, we have won a new grant from DEPSCoR for “Spatio-Temporal Control for Quantum Simulation, Entanglement Generation and State Preparation of Bosonic States.” Congratulations Team!!!!
September, 2025: Grant receives a new US patent #12/424,810 “Compact atom interferometry inertial navigation sensors with tailored diffractive optics.”
December 17, 2025:
Strontium 3D MOT
July 17, 2024:
Strontium Winching Wednesday;
The new cell and and coils are in place
July, 2024: Grant receives a new US patent #11,971,256 “Guided cold atom inertial sensors with membrane integrated photonics on atom trap integrated platforms”
May 02, 2024:
Sweet dreams Y’all! Enjoy a picture of our first strontium 3D MOT
April 22, 2024:
Series of images of Cs atoms loaded in a 2D array trap
February, 2024: Grant receives a new US patent #11,914,188 “Suspended waveguides on membrane and needle structures towards photonic atom trap integrated platforms”
March 27, 2023: Boosting of single atom loading. Image of 29 atoms created with 32 traps:
January 26, 2023: Time-lapse of our lab build from Spring 2020 to Spring 2022
January 3, 2023: Grant receives a new US patent 11,545,815 “COMPACT LASER SOURCE WITH FREQUENCY MODULATORS GENERATING MULTIPLE LINES.”
December, 2022: Congratulations to Nathan Marliere who successfully defended his MS thesis on the strontium gyroscope project!
November 1, 2022: We’ve developed our own atom rearrangement capability to produce defect-free arrays of single atoms (qubits) for quantum information studies. Below are before and after images of single cesium atoms held in optical tweezers.
October 18, 2022: Grant presents at the Experimental Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information workshop at the University of New Hampshire.
July 29, 2022: In collaboration with our friends in the groups of Professor Blume and Professor Marino, we have won a new grant from the Keck Foundation to explore Quantum Synchronization. See OU news release here. Congratulations Team!!!!!
June 20, 2022: In collaboration with our friends in the group of Professor Lewis-Swan, we have won a new grant from DEPSCoR for “Probing the influence of anisotropic and disordered interactions on the dynamics of quantum information in a Rydberg tweezer array.” Congratulations Team!!!!
May 22, 2022: Single atom yo-yo
May 5, 2022: Jamie Boyd receives Departmental Fowler Prize for top graduating senior. Congratulations Jamie!!!!!
October 1, 2021: Marius Gaudesius to join the group for postdoctoral research. Welcome Marius!!!!!
September 12, 2021: The beginning of single atoms
May, 2021: Welcome to our new post doc Akbar Jahangiri Jozani!!!!! \:D/
April 15, 2021: Grant was recognized by the Vice President for Research and Partnerships Annual Award for Excellence in Research Grants for obtaining extramural sponsored research awards of $1 million or more during the past year.
April 1, 2021: Apparently, the Easter Bunny likes cold atoms! Chocolates are everywhere…
March 5, 2021: Congratulations team! Two new proposals have been awarded for experimental investigations of electrometry with Rydberg states and Matterwave interferometry. Contact Dr. Biedermann to join the team!
January 29, 2021: In collaboration with our friends at Sandia National Laboratories, three new papers are posted online!
- “Characterization of Suspended Membrane Waveguides towards a Photonic Atom Trap Integrated Platform,” arXiv:2101.00386 (2021)
- “Passively pumped vacuum package sustaining cold atoms for more than 200 days,” arXiv:2101.01051 (2021)
- “Membrane MOT in a Sub-Millimeter Membrane Hole,” arXiv:2011.06692 (2020)
August 11, 2020: In collaboration with our friends at Sandia National Laboratories, our new paper, “Characterization of Errors in Interferometry with Entangled Atoms,” has been accepted for publication in PRX, Quantum!
July 14, 2020: Cautious development continues on our new Cs experiment.
July 8, 2020: Our newest paper characterizing errors in interferometry with entangled atoms is posted online.
May 4, 2020: Welcome to our new group members: Jacob, Angela, Luke, Kevin and Alec!
February 18, 2020: In collaboration with our friends in the Deutsch group at the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory, our recent paper exploring a “Robust Molmer-Sorensen gate for neutral atoms using rapid adiabatic Rydberg dressing” was accepted in PRA rapid.
February 5, 2020: Snowing in Norman. Here’s a striking view of Lin Hall in the snow.
February 3, 2020: Dr. Hoang-Van Do has joined the group! Welcome!
February 2, 2020: Grant gives invited talk in San Francisco (Photonics West)
January 2020: Optical tables delivered to new lab space in Lin Hall!
January 7, 2020: Grant gives invited talk at Snowbird, Utah (Physics of Quantum Electronics)
