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Publications (13)

quant-ph2026

Lunar Silicon Cavity

Jun Ye, Zoey Z. Hu, Ben Lewis +5

The Moon's permanently shadowed regions (PSRs) are among the coldest places in the Solar System and are expected to become key landing sites for upcoming international space agency…

physics.atom-ph2022

A grating-chip atomic fountain

Ben Lewis, Rachel Elvin, Aidan S. Arnold +2

Cold atom fountain clocks provide exceptional long term stability as they increase interrogation time at the expense of a larger size. We present a compact cold atom fountain using…

physics.atom-ph2025

Atomic clock frequency ratios with fractional uncertainty

Alexander Aeppli, Willa J. Arthur-Dworschack, Kyle Beloy +24

We report high-precision frequency ratio measurements between optical atomic clocks based on Al, Yb, and Sr. With total fractional uncertainties at or bel…

physics.atom-ph2025

A High-Power Clock Laser Spectrally Tailored for High-Fidelity Quantum State Engineering

Lingfeng Yan, Stefan Lannig, William R. Milner +5

Highly frequency-stable lasers are a ubiquitous tool for optical frequency metrology, precision interferometry, and quantum information science. While making a universally applicab…

physics.atom-ph2024

Coherent evolution of superexchange interaction in seconds long optical clock spectroscopy

William R. Milner, Stefan Lannig, Mikhail Mamaev +7

Measurement science now connects strongly with engineering of quantum coherence, many-body states, and entanglement. To scale up the performance of an atomic clock using a degenera…

physics.atom-ph2020

Cold-atom clock based on a diffractive optic

Rachel Elvin, Gregory W. Hoth, Michael Wright +5

Clocks based on cold atoms offer unbeatable accuracy and long-term stability, but their use in portable quantum technologies is hampered by a large physical footprint. Here, we use…

physics.atom-ph2026

Phase-continuous comparison of three all-optical time scales over 20 days

Dahyeon Lee, Kyungtae Kim, Zoey Z. Hu +11

Optical frequency standards have progressed rapidly over the past two decades, leading to the anticipated redefinition of the SI second by an optical frequency. However, time scale…

physics.data-an2021

A Fast Algorithm for Calculation of Thêo1

Ben Lewis

Thêo1 is a frequency stability statistic which is similar to the Allan variance but can provide stability estimates at longer averaging factors and with higher confidence. However…

physics.optics2025

Frequency stability of in a Si cavity with AlGaAs crystalline mirrors

Dahyeon Lee, Zoey Z. Hu, Ben Lewis +8

Developments in ultrastable lasers have fueled remarkable advances in optical frequency metrology and quantum science. A key ingredient in further improving laser frequency stabili…

physics.atom-ph2023

An additive-manufactured microwave cavity for a compact cold-atom clock

Etienne Batori, Alan Bregazzi, Ben Lewis +4

We present an additive-manufactured microwave cavity for a Ramsey-type, double resonance, compact cold-atom clock. Atoms can be laser cooled inside the cavity using a grating magne…

physics.atom-ph2023

A cold-atom Ramsey clock with a low volume physics package

Alan Bregazzi, Etienne Batori, Ben Lewis +4

We demonstrate a Ramsey-type microwave clock interrogating the 6.835~GHz ground-state transition in cold \textsuperscript{87}Rb atoms loaded from a grating magneto-optical trap (GM…

cs.LG2026

Mildly Overparameterized ReLU Networks on Orthogonal Data: Incremental Learning and Implicit Bias

James Town, Etienne Boursier, Ben Lewis +2

The successful training of neural networks hinges on the use of first order optimization methods, yet the theoretical characterization of these methods remains incomplete. This is…

astro-ph.IM2019

Optical design for CETUS: a wide-field 1.5m aperture UV payload being studied for a NASA probe class mission study

Robert A. Woodruff, William C. Danchi, Sara R. Heap +12

As part of a study funded by NASA Headquarters, we are developing a Probe-class mission concept called the Cosmic Evolution Through UV Spectroscopy (CETUS). CETUS includes a 1.5-m…