Jason Stalnaker

Department Chair:
Dan Stinebring

Administrative Assistant:
Diane Doman

Department Email:
physics@oberlin.edu

Phone: (440) 775-8330
Fax: (440) 775-6379

Location:
Wright Laboratory of Physics
110 N. Professor St.
Oberlin, OH, 44074

Assistant Professor

E-mail:

Office:
Wright Laboratory 213
(440) 775-8336

Educational Background

Bachelor of Arts, University California Berkeley, 1998
Master of Arts, University California Berkeley, 2000
Doctor of Philosophy, University California Berkeley, 2005

Teaching

Fall 2007: Physics 058: The Charm and Strangeness of Particle Physics
Fall 2007: Physics 110: Mechanics and Relativity Workshop
Spring 2008: Physics 104 Lab: Elementary Physics II
Spring 2008: Physics 311: Electricity and Magnetism

Research

My research interests include precision atomic spectroscopy, femtosecond frequency combs, atomic clocks and magnetometers. I am currently setting up a lab for precision atomic spectroscopy utilizing a femtosecond frequency comb.

Background

National Research Council Post-doctoral Fellow 2005-2007

Optical Frequency Measurements Group
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder Colorado

Ph.D. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 2005

Dissertation Title: Progress Towards Parity Nonconservation in Ytterbium
Thesis Advisors: Dmitry Budker and Stuart Freedman

M.A. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 2000
B.A. in Physics University of California at Berkeley 1998

Publications

T. Rosenband, D.B. Hume, P.O. Schmidt, C.W. Chou, A. Brusch, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, R.E. Drullinger, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, W.C. Swann, N.R. Newbury, W.M. Itano, D.J. Wineland, and J.C. Bergquist, "Frequency ratio of Al+ and Hg+ single-ion optical clocks; metrology at the 17th decimal place," Science 319, 1808 (2008).

A.D. Ludlow, T. Zelevinsky, G.K. Campbell, S. Blatt, M.M. Boyd, M.H.G. de Miranda, M.J. Martin, J.W. Thomsen, S.M. Foreman, J. Ye, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, Y. Le Coq, Z.W. Barber, N. Poli, N.D. Lemke, K.M. Beck, and C.W. Oates, "Sr lattice clock at 1 x 10-16 fractional uncertainty by remote optical evaluation with a Ca clock," Science 319, 1805 (2008).

Z.W. Barber, J. E. Stalnaker, N. D. Lemke, N. Poli, C.W. Oates, T. M. Fortier, S. A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, and C.W. Hoyt, A.V. Taichenachev, and V. I. Yudin, "Optical Lattice Induced Light Shifts in an Yb Atomic Clock" Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 103002, (2008).

S.M. Foreman, A.D. Ludlow, M. de Miranda, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, and J. Ye, "Coherent optical carrier transfer over a 32-km fiber with long-term instability <10^-17," Phys. Rev. Lett 99, 153601 (2007).

J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, T.M. Fortier, K. Kim, L. Hollberg, J.C. Bergquist, W.M. Itano, M.J. Delany, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, T.P. Heavner, S.R. Jefferts, F. Levi, T.E. Parker and J. Shirley, "Optical-to-microwave frequency comparison with a fractional uncertainty of 10^-15 " Appl. Phys. B 89, 167 (2007).

K. Tsigutkin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and V. V. Yashchuk, "Towards measuring nuclear-spin-dependent and isotopic-chain atomic parity violation in Ytterbium", in From Parity Violation to Hadronic Structure and more..., Ed. by K. de Jager et al, Springer (2007).

T. Rosenband, P.O. Schmidt, D.B. Hume, W.M. Itano, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, K. Kim, S.A. Diddams, J.C.J. Koelemeij, J.C. Bergquist and D.J. Wineland, "Observation of the ¹S₀ ® ³P₀ clock transition in ²⁷Al⁺," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220801 (2007).

J.E. Stalnaker, Y. Le Coq, T.M. Fortier, S.A. Diddams, C.W. Oates and L. Hollberg, "Measurement of excited-state transitions in cold calcium atoms by direct femtosecond frequency-comb spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. A 75, 040502(R) (2007).

T.M. Fortier, N. Ashby, J.C. Bergquist, M.J. Delaney, S.A. Diddams, T.P. Heavner, L. Hollberg, W.M. Itano, S.R. Jefferts, K. Kim, F. Levi, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay, T.E. Parker, J. Shirley and J.E. Stalnaker, "Improved limits on variation of the fine structure constant and violation of local position invariance," Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 070801 (2007).

M.C. Stowe, M.J. Thorpe, A. Pe'er, J. Ye, J.E. Stalnaker, V. Gerginov and S.A. Diddams, "Direct Frequency Comb Spectroscopy" in: Advances in Atomic, Molecular Physics and Optical Physics 55, E. Arimondo, P. Berman, C. Lin Eds. Elsevier (2007).

J.S. Guzman, A. Wojciechowski, J.E. Stalnaker, K. Tsigutkin, V.V. Yashchuk and D. Budker, "Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Zeeman and hyperfine relaxation of potassium atoms in a paraffin-coated cell," Phys. Rev. A 74, 053415 (2006).

J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams, K. Kim, L. Hollberg, E.A. Donley, T.P. Heavner, S.R. Jefferts, F. Levi, T.E. Parker, J.C. Bergquist, W.M. Itano, M.J. Jensen, L. Lorini, W.H. Oskay and T.M. Fortier, "Absolute Optical Frequency Measurements with a Fractional Frequency Uncertainty at 1 × 10^-15," International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition IEEE 2006, 462 (2006).

C.W. Oates, C.W. Hoyt, Y. Le Coq, Z.W. Barber, T.M. Fortier, J.E. Stalnaker, S.A. Diddams and L. Hollberg, "Stability Measurements of the Ca and Yb Optical Frequency Standards," International Frequency Control Symposium and Exposition IEEE 2006, 74 (2006).

T.M. Fortier, Y. Le Coq, J.E. Stalnaker, D. Ortega, S.A. Diddams, C.W. Oates and L. Hollberg, "Kilohertz-Resolution Spectroscopy of Cold Atoms with an Optical Frequency Comb," Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 163905 (2006).

M.V. Balabas, D. Budker, J. Kitching, P.D.D. Schwindt and J.E. Stalnaker, "Magnetometry with millimeter-scale antirelaxation-coated alkali-metal vapor cells," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 23, 1001 (2006).

J.E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman, J.S. Guzman, S.M. Rochester and V.V. Yashchuk, "Dynamic Stark effect and forbidden-transition spectral line shapes," Phys. Rev. A 73, 43416 (2006).

M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D.F. Kimball, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, A.O. Sushkov and V.V. Yashchuk, "Can a quantum nondemolition measurement improve the sensitivity of an atomic magnetometer?," Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 173002 (2004).

D. Budker and J.E. Stalnaker, "Magnetoelectric Jones dichroism in atoms," Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 263901 (2003).

J.E. Stalnaker, D. Budker, D.P. DeMille, S.J. Freedman and V.V. Yashchuk, "Experimental determination of the 6s² ¹S₀ ® 6s5d ³D₁ magnetic-dipole transition amplitude in atomic ytterbium," Phys. Rev. A 65, 031403(R) (2002).

D. English, D.F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S.M. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker, V.V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S.J. Freedman and M. Zolotorev: "Atomic tests of discrete symmetries at Berkeley," in: Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics: Festschrift for Eugene D. Commins, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and P.H. Bucksbaum, Eds., AIP, pp. 108-122 (2001).

D.F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J.E. Stalnaker and M. Zolotorev, "Collisional perturbation of states in atomic ytterbium by helium and neon," Phys. Rev. A 60, 1103 (1999).

C.J. Bowers, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S.J. Freedman, G. Gwinner and J.E. Stalnaker, "Experimental investigation of the 6s² ¹S₀ ® 6s5d ³D_1,2 forbidden transitions in atomic ytterbium," Phys. Rev. A 59, 3513 (1999).