Physics and Astronomy
Contact
Department Chair:
Dan Stinebring

Administrative Assistant:
Diane Doman

Department Email:


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

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

Research

Research

(undergraduate co-authors underlined) 

S.A. FitzGerald, K. Allen, P. Landerman, J. Hopkins, J. Matters, R. Myers, and J.L.C. Rowsell, "Quantum dynamics of adsorbed H2 in the microporous framework MOF-5 analyzed using diffuse reflectance infrared spectroscopy," Phys. Rev. B 77, 224301 (2008).

Y. Ijiri, T.C. Schulthess, J.A. Borchers, P.J. van der Zaag, and R.W. Erwin, "Link between perpendicular coupling and exchange biasing in Fe3O4/CoO multilayers," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 147201 (2007).

M. Sachan, C. Bonnoit, S.A. Majetich, Y. Ijiri, P.O. Mensah-Bonsu, J.A. Borchers, and J.J. Rhyne, "Field evolution of magnetic correlations in ε-Co nanoparticle assemblies," Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 152503 (2008).

S.M. Burrows, C.L. Martin, and E.A. Roberts, "High-latitude remote sensing of mesospheric wind speeds and carbon monoxide," J. Geophys. Res. − Atmospheres 112, D17109 (2007).

N. Poli, Z.W. Barber, N.D. Lemke, C.W. Oates, L.S. Ma, J.E. Stalnaker, T.M. Fortier, S.A. Diddams, L. Hollberg, J.C. Bergquist, A. Brusch, S. Jefferts, T. Heavner, and Parker, "Frequency evaluation of the doubly forbidden 1S03P0 transition in bosonic 174Yb," Phys. Rev. A 77, 050501-1 (2008).

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 1×10-16 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, "Optical Lattice Induced Light Shifts in a 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).

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).

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).

D.A. Hemberger and D.R. Stinebring, "Time variability of interstellar scattering and improvements to pulsar timing," ApJ. 674, L37 (2008).

D.F. Styer, "How do two moving clocks fall out of sync? A tale of trucks, threads, and twins," Am J Phys 75, 805 (2007).