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JILA: Boulder, CO, US

2006-09 to present | Professor (Dept. of Physics)
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James K. Thompson

Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Cambridge, MA, US

2003 to 2006 | Postdoctoral Researcher (Dept. of Physics, Center for Ultracold Atoms, Research Laboratory of Electronics)
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James K. Thompson

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology: cambridge, ma, US

1997-09 to 2003 | Ph.D. (Dept. of Physics)
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James K. Thompson

Works (50 of 56)

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Continuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms

Nature Physics
2025-04-11 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-02854-4
Contributors: Vera M. Schäfer; Zhijing Niu; Julia R. K. Cline; Dylan J. Young; Eric Yilun Song; Helmut Ritsch; James K. Thompson
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Many-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition

Physical Review Letters
2025-03-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.113403
Contributors: Zhijing Niu; Vera M. Schäfer; Haoqing Zhang; Cameron Wagner; Nathan R. Taylor; Dylan J. Young; Eric Yilun Song; Anjun Chu; Ana Maria Rey; James K. Thompson
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Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity

Physical Review Letters
2025-01-10 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.013403
Contributors: Julia R. K. Cline; Vera M. Schäfer; Zhijing Niu; Dylan J. Young; Tai Hyun Yoon; James K. Thompson
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Trade-offs between unitary and measurement induced spin squeezing in cavity QED

Physical Review Research
2024-08-16 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.6.L032037
Contributors: Diego Barberena; Anjun Chu; James K. Thompson; Ana Maria Rey
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Momentum-exchange interactions in a Bragg atom interferometer suppress Doppler dephasing

Science
2024-05-03 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.adi1393
Contributors: Chengyi Luo; Haoqing Zhang; Vanessa P. W. Koh; John D. Wilson; Anjun Chu; Murray J. Holland; Ana Maria Rey; James K. Thompson
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Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level

Nature Physics
2024-02 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02310-1
Contributors: John M. Robinson; Maya Miklos; Yee Ming Tso; Colin J. Kennedy; Tobias Bothwell; Dhruv Kedar; James K. Thompson; Jun Ye
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Observing dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator

Nature
2024-01-25 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-023-06911-x
Contributors: Dylan J. Young; Anjun Chu; Eric Yilun Song; Diego Barberena; David Wellnitz; Zhijing Niu; Vera M. Schäfer; Robert J. Lewis-Swan; Ana Maria Rey; James K. Thompson
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Publisher Correction: Entanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity

Nature
2022-12-22 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05582-4
Contributors: Graham P. Greve; Chengyi Luo; Baochen Wu; James K. Thompson
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Entanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity

Nature
2022-10-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05197-9
Contributors: Graham P. Greve; Chengyi Luo; Baochen Wu; James K. Thompson
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Cavity-QED measurements of the Sr87 millihertz optical clock transition and determination of its natural linewidth

Physical Review Research
2021-05-27 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.3.023152
Contributors: Juan A. Muniz; Dylan J. Young; Julia R. K. Cline; James K. Thompson
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Frequency measurements of superradiance from the strontium clock transition

Physical Review X
2018 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Cavity-mediated collective spin-exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser

Science
2018-07-20 | Journal article
DOI: 10.1126/science.aar3102
Contributors: Matthew A. Norcia; Robert J. Lewis-Swan; Julia R. K. Cline; Bihui Zhu; Ana M. Rey; James K. Thompson
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Linear-response theory for superradiant lasers

Physical Review A
2014 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Conditional Spin Squeezing via Quantum Non-demolition Measurements with an Optical Cycling Transition

APS Meeting Abstracts
2013 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon

Nature
2012 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

A Superradiant Raman Laser with< 1 Intracavity Photons

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2012 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Dynamics and Stability of a Superradiant Laser

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2012 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Precise Measurements of the Masses of Cs, Rb and

Atomic Physics at Accelerators: Mass Spectrometry: Proceedings of the APAC 2000, held in Cargèse, France, 19--23 September 2000
2012 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Spin squeezing and cavity-aided nondemolition measurements

Laser Science
2012 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Steady-state many-body entanglement of hot reactive fermions

Physical review letters
2012 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Conditional spin squeezing of a large ensemble via the vacuum Rabi splitting

Physical Review Letters
2011 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Towards Spin Squeezing via Collective Quantum Non-Demolition Measurements

APS Four Corners Section Meeting Abstracts
2009 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Can we make precision measurements more precise?

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2008 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

External-feedback laser cooling of molecular gases

Physical Review A
2007 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Interfacing collective atomic excitations and single photons

Physical review letters
2007 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

A high-brightness source of narrowband, identical-photon pairs

Science
2006 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Influence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers

Applied optics
2006 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Atomic Samples in Resonators: Forces, Photons, Feedback

AIP Conference Proceedings
2005 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Collective light forces on atoms in resonators

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
2005 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Ion balance mass spectrometry

AIP Conference Proceedings
2005 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

On-demand superradiant conversion of atomic spin gratings into single photons with high efficiency

Physical review letters
2005 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Quantum Manipulation of Ultracold Atoms

RLE Progress Report
2005 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

World Year of Physics: A direct test of E= mc 2

Nature
2005 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

An ion balance for ultra-high-precision atomic mass measurements

Science
2004 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces

Nature
2004 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Testing E= mc^ 2 with a Two-Ion Mass Balance

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2004 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Does E= mc^ 2?

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2003 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Two ions in one trap: ultra-high precision mass spectrometry?

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement
2003 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Two-ion control and polarization forces for precise mass comparisons

2003 | Dissertation or Thesis
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James K. Thompson

Mass Spectrometry at 100 parts per trillion

Trapped Particles and Fundamental Physics
2002 | Book chapter
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James K. Thompson

Single-ion mass spectrometry at 100 ppt and beyond

Canadian journal of physics
2002 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Precise measurements of the masses of cs, rb and na--a new route to the fine structure constant

Hyperfine interactions
2001 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Single ion mass spectrometry and the fine structure constant

AIP Conference Proceedings
2001 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Towards an order of magnitude improvement in high-precision atomic mass measurements

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2001 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Lamb shift, fine structure and hyperfine structure in helium like ions by fast beam laser spectroscopy

Hyperfine Interactions
2000 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

New sub-ppb measurements of the masses of Cs, Rb, and Na

APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts
2000 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson

Penning Trap Measurements of the Masses of C 133 s, R 8 7, 8 5 b, and N 23 a with Uncertainties≤ 0.2 ppb

Physical Review Letters
1999 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Precision Measurement of the 1 s 2 p P 3 2- P 1 3 Fine Structure Interval in Heliumlike Fluorine

Physical review letters
1999 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Measurements of the 1 s 2 s 1 S 0--1 s 2 p 3 P 1, 0 transitions in heliumlike nitrogen

Physical Review A
1998 | Journal article
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James K. Thompson

Fast-Beam Laser Spectroscopy of Helium-like Ions

APS April Meeting Abstracts
1997 | Conference paper
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James K. Thompson
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