James K. Thompson
@jila.colorado.edu
Professor and Fellow of JILA at JILA & Dept. of Physics
JILA and Dept. of Physics, University of Colorado, Bouldere
RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, General Physics and Astronomy
5853
Scholar Citations
37
Scholar h-index
61
Scholar i10-index
RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- Many-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition
Z Niu, VM Schfer, H Zhang, C Wagner, NR Taylor, DJ Young, EY Song, ...
Physical Review Letters 134 (11), 113403 2025 - Engineering One Axis Twisting via a Dissipative Berry Phase Using Strong Symmetries
JT Young, E Chaparro, A Pieiro Orioli, JK Thompson, AM Rey
Physical Review Letters 134 (4), 040801 2025 - A symmetry-protected topological optical lattice clock
T Xu, A Chu, K Kim, JK Thompson, J Ye, T Esslinger, AM Rey
arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.09658 2025 - Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity
JRK Cline, VM Schfer, Z Niu, DJ Young, TH Yoon, JK Thompson
Physical Review Letters 134 (1), 013403 2025 - Entanglement Generation in Weakly Driven Arrays of Multilevel Atoms via Dipolar Interactions
S Agarwal, AP Orioli, JK Thompson, AM Rey
Physical Review Letters 133 (23), 233003 2024 - Realization of three and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity through optical dressing
C Luo, H Zhang, C Maruko, EA Bohr, A Chu, AM Rey, JK Thompson
arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.12132 2024 - Entangled matter waves for quantum enhanced sensing
JD Wilson, JT Reilly, H Zhang, C Luo, A Chu, JK Thompson, AM Rey, ...
Physical Review A 110 (4), L041301 2024 - Many-body gap protection of motional dephasing of an optical clock transition
Z Niu, VM Schfer, H Zhang, C Wagner, NR Taylor, DJ Young, EY Song, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.16265 2024 - Hot Atoms and Light Cooperating
H Hensley, B Larsen, JK Thompson
Frontiers in Optics, JTu5A. 39 2024 - Time-resolved pairing gap spectroscopy in a quantum simulator of fermionic superfluidity inside an optical cavity
DJ Young, EY Song, A Chu, D Barberena, Z Niu, VM Schfer, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.12640 2024 - A dissipation-induced superradiant transition in a strontium cavity-QED system
EY Song, D Barberena, DJ Young, E Chaparro, A Chu, S Agarwal, Z Niu, ...
arXiv preprint arXiv:2408.11086 2024 - A dissipation-induced superradiant transition in a strontium cavity-QED system
E Yilun Song, D Barberena, DJ Young, E Chaparro, A Chu, S Agarwal, ...
arXiv e-prints, arXiv: 2408.11086 2024 - Trade-offs between unitary and measurement induced spin squeezing in cavity QED
D Barberena, A Chu, JK Thompson, AM Rey
Physical Review Research 6 (3), L032037 2024 - Many-body gap-protection of a strontium optical transition against Doppler dephasing via all-to-all exchange interactions mediated by a ring cavity
Z Niu, D Young, E Song, VM Schfer, C Luo, J Thompson
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2024 - Cavity-mediated Interaction in a Bragg Interferometer: Hamiltonian Engineering and Mssbauer-like Suppression of Doppler Dephasing
C Maruko, C Luo, H Zhang, A Chu, V Koh, J Wilson, M Holland, AM Rey, ...
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2024 - Cavity-Mediated Interaction in a Bragg Interferometer (II): Hamiltonian Engineering for Momentum States
C Luo, H Zhang, A Chu, C Maruko, AM Rey, J Thompson
Bulletin of the American Physical Society 2024 - Spin-squeezed strontium optical lattice clock comparison at the 10-17 level
M Miklos, YM Tso, J Robinson, J Hur, J Thompson, J Ye
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts 2024 2024 - Exploring BCS-like Dynamical Phases in a Multilevel Atomic System
D Young, E Song, A Chu, Z Niu, VM Schfer, D Barberena, D Wellnitz, ...
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts 2024 2024 - Observing dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator
J Thompson
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts 2024 2024 - Observation of driven-dissipative transitions in a Strontium cavity-QED System
E Song, D Barberena, D Young, Z Niu, A Chu, E Chaparro, J Young, ...
APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Meeting Abstracts 2024 2024
MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS
- A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon
JG Bohnet, Z Chen, JM Weiner, D Meiser, MJ Holland, JK Thompson
Nature 484 (7392), 78-81 2012
Citations: 597 - Penning Trap Measurements of the Masses of , , and with Uncertainties ppb
MP Bradley, JV Porto, S Rainville, JK Thompson, DE Pritchard
Physical Review Letters 83 (22), 4510 1999
Citations: 358 - Deterministic squeezed states with collective measurements and feedback
KC Cox, GP Greve, JM Weiner, JK Thompson
Physical review letters 116 (9), 093602 2016
Citations: 297 - A high-brightness source of narrowband, identical-photon pairs
JK Thompson, J Simon, H Loh, V Vuletic
Science 313 (5783), 74-77 2006
Citations: 293 - Superradiance on the millihertz linewidth strontium clock transition
MA Norcia, MN Winchester, JRK Cline, JK Thompson
Science advances 2 (10), e1601231 2016
Citations: 252 - Interfacing collective atomic excitations and single photons
J Simon, H Tanji, JK Thompson, V Vuletić
Physical review letters 98 (18), 183601 2007
Citations: 236 - Synchronization of two ensembles of atoms
M Xu, DA Tieri, EC Fine, JK Thompson, MJ Holland
Physical review letters 113 (15), 154101 2014
Citations: 224 - A direct test of E=mc2
S Rainville, JK Thompson, EG Myers, JM Brown, MS Dewey, ...
Nature 438 (7071), 1096-1097 2005
Citations: 222 - Cavity-mediated collective spin-exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser
MA Norcia, RJ Lewis-Swan, JRK Cline, B Zhu, AM Rey, JK Thompson
Science 361 (6399), 259-262 2018
Citations: 220 - Reduced spin measurement back-action for a phase sensitivity ten times beyond the standard quantum limit
JG Bohnet, KC Cox, MA Norcia, JM Weiner, Z Chen, JK Thompson
Nature Photonics 8 (9), 731-736 2014
Citations: 215 - Conditional spin squeezing of a large ensemble via the vacuum Rabi splitting
Z Chen, JG Bohnet, SR Sankar, J Dai, JK Thompson
Physical review letters 106 (13), 133601 2011
Citations: 211 - Exploring dynamical phase transitions with cold atoms in an optical cavity
JA Muniz, D Barberena, RJ Lewis-Swan, DJ Young, JRK Cline, AM Rey, ...
Nature 580 (7805), 602-607 2020
Citations: 207 - An ion balance for ultra-high-precision atomic mass measurements
S Rainville, JK Thompson, DE Pritchard
Science 303 (5656), 334-338 2004
Citations: 204 - Cold-strontium laser in the superradiant crossover regime
MA Norcia, JK Thompson
Physical Review X 6 (1), 011025 2016
Citations: 156 - Frequency measurements of superradiance from the strontium clock transition
MA Norcia, JRK Cline, JA Muniz, JM Robinson, RB Hutson, A Goban, ...
Physical Review X 8 (2), 021036 2018
Citations: 146 - On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings<? format?> into Single Photons with High Efficiency
AT Black, JK Thompson, V Vuletić
Physical review letters 95 (13), 133601 2005
Citations: 134 - Entanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity
GP Greve, C Luo, B Wu, JK Thompson
Nature 610 (7932), 472-477 2022
Citations: 116 - Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces
JK Thompson, S Rainville, DE Pritchard
Nature 430 (6995), 58-61 2004
Citations: 107 - Cavity-aided nondemolition measurements for atom counting and spin squeezing
Z Chen, JG Bohnet, JM Weiner, KC Cox, JK Thompson
Physical Review A 89 (4), 043837 2014
Citations: 95 - Robust spin squeezing via photon-mediated interactions on an optical clock transition
RJ Lewis-Swan, MA Norcia, JRK Cline, JK Thompson, AM Rey
Physical review letters 121 (7), 070403 2018
Citations: 79