Thompson Group Publications
2026
99.ÌýCollective three-body interactions enable a robust quantum speedup
Physical Review Research, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. L032025, (August, 2026),
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Maruko, Bohr, Thompson, and Rey
98.ÌýLieb-Mattis States for Robust Entangled Differential Phase Sensing
Physical Review X, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 021052, (June, 2026),
Kaubruegger, Fallas Padilla, Shankar, Hotter, Muleady, Bringewatt, Baamara, Abbasgholinejad, Gorshkov, Mølmer, Thompson, and Rey
97.ÌýA chip-scale atomic beam for nonclassical light
Science Advances, vol. 12, no. 23, pp. eaec3179, (June, 2026),
Larsen, Hensley, Martinez, Staron, McGehee, Kitching, and Thompson
2025
96.ÌýSimulation of topological superconductors and their competing orders using photon-mediated interactions
arXiv, (December, 2025),
Chu, Kwan, Song, Chew, Thompson, and Rey
95.ÌýRealization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity
Science, vol. 390, no. 6776, pp. 925–929, (November, 2025),
Luo, Zhang, Maruko, Bohr, Chu, Rey, and Thompson
94.ÌýSolitons in Arbitrary Dimensions Stabilized by Photon-Mediated Interactions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 135, no. 17, pp. 173402, (October, 2025),
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Thompson, and Rey
93.ÌýSymmetry-Protected Topological Optical Lattice Clock
PRX Quantum, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 030322, (August, 2025),
Xu, Chu, Kim, Thompson, Ye, Esslinger, and Rey
92.ÌýTime-Resolved Spectral Gap Spectroscopy in a Quantum Simulator of Fermionic Superfluidity inside an Optical Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 18, pp. 183404, (May, 2025),
Young, Song, Chu, Barberena, Niu, Schäfer, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson
91.ÌýA dissipation-induced superradiant transition in a strontium cavity-QED system
Science Advances, vol. 11, no. 17, pp. eadu5799, (April, 2025),
Song, Barberena, Young, Chaparro, Chu, Agarwal, Niu, Young, Rey, and Thompson
90.ÌýHamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity
Nature Physics, pp. 1–8, (April, 2025),
Luo, Zhang, Chu, Maruko, Rey, and Thompson
89.ÌýContinuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms
Nature Physics, pp. 1–7, (April, 2025),
Schäfer, Niu, Cline, Young, Song, Ritsch, and Thompson
88.ÌýMany-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 11, pp. 113403, (March, 2025),
Niu, Schäfer, Zhang, Wagner, Taylor, Young, Song, Chu, Rey, and Thompson
87.ÌýEngineering One Axis Twisting via a Dissipative Berry Phase Using Strong Symmetries
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 4, pp. 040801, (January, 2025),
Young, Chaparro, Piñeiro Orioli, Thompson, and Rey
86.ÌýContinuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 013403, (January, 2025),
Cline, Schäfer, Niu, Young, Yoon, and Thompson
2024
85.ÌýEntanglement Generation in Weakly Driven Arrays of Multilevel Atoms via Dipolar Interactions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 133, no. 23, pp. 233003, (December, 2024),
Agarwal, Orioli, Thompson, and Rey
84.ÌýEntangled matter waves for quantum enhanced sensing
Phys. Rev. A, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. L041301, (October, 2024),
Wilson, Reilly, Zhang, Luo, Chu, Thompson, Rey, and Holland
83.ÌýTrade-offs between unitary and measurement induced spin squeezing in cavity QED
Phys. Rev. Res., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. L032037, (August, 2024),
Barberena, Chu, Thompson, and Rey
82.ÌýMomentum-exchange interactions in a Bragg atom interferometer suppress Doppler dephasing
Science, vol. 384, no. 6695, pp. 551–556, (May, 2024),
Luo, Zhang, Koh, Wilson, Chu, Holland, Rey, and Thompson
81.ÌýObserving dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator
Nature, vol. 625, no. 7996, pp. 679–684, (January, 2024),
Young, Chu, Song, Barberena, Wellnitz, Niu, Schäfer, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson
80.ÌýDirect comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level
Nature Physics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 208–213, (January, 2024),
Robinson, Miklos, Tso, Kennedy, Bothwell, Kedar, Thompson, and Ye
2023
79.ÌýControl and amplification of Bloch oscillations via photon-mediated interactions
Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. L032039, (September, 2023),
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Thompson, and Rey
78.ÌýUltra narrow linewidth frequency reference via measurement and feedback
Comptes Rendus. Physique, vol. 24, no. S3, pp. 1–14, (June, 2023),
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson
77.ÌýPhoton-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder
Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. L022034, (May, 2023),
Chu, Orioli, Barberena, Thompson, and Rey
76.ÌýBosonic Pair Production and Squeezing for Optical Phase Measurements in Long-Lived Dipoles Coupled to a Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 130, no. 11, pp. 113202, (March, 2023),
Sundar, Barberena, Orioli, Chu, Thompson, Rey, and Lewis-Swan
75.ÌýOpportunities and Limitations in Broadband Sensing
Physical Review Applied, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 014029, (January, 2023),
Polloreno, Beckey, Levin, Shlosberg, Thompson, Foss-Feig, Hayes, and Smith
2022
74.ÌýResonant light enhances phase coherence in a cavity QED simulator of fermionic superfluidity
Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. L042032, (November, 2022),
Kelly, Thompson, Rey, and Marino
73.ÌýEntanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity
Nature, vol. 610, no. 7932, pp. 472–477, (October, 2022),
Greve, Luo, Wu, and Thompson
72.ÌýEntropy transfer from a quantum particle to a classical coherent light field
Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 013218, (March, 2022),
Bartolotta, Jäger, Reilly, Norcia, Thompson, Smith, and Holland
71.ÌýEmergent Dark States from Superradiant Dynamics in Multilevel Atoms in a Cavity
Physical Review X, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 011054, (March, 2022),
Piñeiro Orioli, Thompson, and Rey
2021
70.ÌýQuantum Enhanced Cavity QED Interferometer with Partially Delocalized Atoms in Lattices
Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 21, pp. 210401, (November, 2021),
Chu, He, Thompson, and Rey
69.ÌýCavity-QED measurements of the Sr 87 millihertz optical clock transition and determination of its natural linewidth
Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 023152, (May, 2021),
Muniz, Young, Cline, and Thompson
68.ÌýCavity-QED Quantum Simulator of Dynamical Phases of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor
Physical Review Letters, vol. 126, no. 17, pp. 173601, (April, 2021),
Lewis-Swan, Barberena, Cline, Young, Thompson, and Rey
67.ÌýSite-dependent selection of atoms for homogeneous atom-cavity coupling
arXiv, (April, 2021),
Wu, Greve, Luo, and Thompson
2020
66.ÌýAtom-light entanglement for precise field sensing in the optical domain
Physical Review A, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 052615, (November, 2020),
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, and Rey
65.ÌýFacilitating spin squeezing generated by collective dynamics with single-particle decoherence
Physical Review A, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 051701, (November, 2020),
Tucker, Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, Restrepo, and Rey
64.ÌýProtocol for Precise Field Sensing in the Optical Domain with Cold Atoms in a Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 124, no. 19, pp. 193602, (May, 2020),
Lewis-Swan, Barberena, Muniz, Cline, Young, Thompson, and Rey
63.ÌýExploring dynamical phase transitions with cold atoms in an optical cavity
Nature, vol. 580, no. 7805, pp. 602–607, (April, 2020),
Muniz, Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Young, Cline, Rey, and Thompson
2019
62.ÌýLaser cooling with adiabatic transfer on a Raman transition
New Journal of Physics, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 073045, (July, 2019),
Greve, Wu, and Thompson
61.ÌýContinuous Real-Time Tracking of a Quantum Phase Below the Standard Quantum Limit
Physical Review Letters, vol. 122, no. 23, pp. 233602, (June, 2019),
Shankar, Greve, Wu, Thompson, and Holland
60.ÌýDriven-dissipative quantum dynamics in ultra-long-lived dipoles in an optical cavity
Physical Review A, vol. 99, no. 5, pp. 053411, (May, 2019),
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, and Rey
59.ÌýAn active optical frequency reference using a pulsed superradiant laser
Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology, pp. 78, (March, 2019),
Muniz Silva, Cline, Thompson, and Norcia
2018
58.ÌýRobust Spin Squeezing via Photon-Mediated Interactions on an Optical Clock Transition
Physical Review Letters, vol. 121, no. 7, pp. 070403, (August, 2018),
Lewis-Swan, Norcia, Cline, Thompson, and Rey
57.ÌýLaser cooling by sawtooth-wave adiabatic passage
Physical Review A, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 023404, (August, 2018),
Bartolotta, Norcia, Cline, Thompson, and Holland
56.ÌýCavity-mediated collective spin-exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser
Science, vol. 361, no. 6399, pp. 259–262, (July, 2018),
Norcia, Lewis-Swan, Cline, Zhu, Rey, and Thompson
55.ÌýA Robust Narrow-Line Magneto-Optical Trap using Adiabatic Transfer
arXiv, (June, 2018),
Muniz, Norcia, Cline, and Thompson
54.ÌýFrequency Measurements of Superradiance from the Strontium Clock Transition
Physical Review X, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 021036, (May, 2018),
Norcia, Cline, Muniz, Robinson, Hutson, Goban, Marti, Ye, and Thompson
53.ÌýNarrow-line laser cooling by adiabatic transfer
New Journal of Physics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 023021, (February, 2018),
Norcia, Cline, Bartolotta, Holland, and Thompson
2017
52.ÌýRole of atoms in atomic gravitational-wave detectors
Physical Review A, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 042118, (October, 2017),
Norcia, Cline, and Thompson
51.ÌýMagnetically Induced Optical Transparency on a Forbidden Transition in Strontium for Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy
Physical Review Letters, vol. 118, no. 26, pp. 263601, (June, 2017),
Winchester, Norcia, Cline, and Thompson
50.ÌýPhase synchronization inside a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 95, pp. 033808, (March, 2017),
Weiner, Cox, Bohnet, and Thompson
2016
49.ÌýSpatially homogeneous entanglement for matter-wave interferometry created with time-averaged measurements
Physical Review A, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 061601, (December, 2016),
Cox, Greve, Wu, and Thompson
48.ÌýSteady-state superradiance with Rydberg polaritons
arXiv, (November, 2016),
Gong, Xu, Foss-Feig, Thompson, Rey, Holland, and Gorshkov
47.ÌýSuperradiance on the millihertz linewidth strontium clock transition
Science Advances, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. e1601231, (October, 2016),
Norcia, Winchester, Cline, and Thompson
46.ÌýCold-Strontium Laser in the Superradiant Crossover Regime
Physical Review X, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 011025, (March, 2016),
Norcia, and Thompson
45.ÌýDeterministic Squeezed States with Collective Measurements and Feedback
Physical Review Letters, vol. 116, no. 9, pp. 093602, (March, 2016),
Cox, Greve, Weiner, and Thompson
44.ÌýStrong coupling on a forbidden transition in strontium and nondestructive atom counting
Physical Review A, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 023804, (February, 2016),
Norcia, and Thompson
43.ÌýSimple laser stabilization to the strontium 88Sr transition at 707 nm
Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 023110, (February, 2016),
Norcia, and Thompson
2015
42.ÌýGenerating entanglement between atomic spins with low-noise probing of an optical cavity
2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium & the European Frequency and Time Forum, pp. 351–356, (April, 2015),
Cox, Weiner, Greve, and Thompson
41.ÌýAtomic doughnuts from single photons
Nature, vol. 519, no. 7544, pp. 420–421, (March, 2015),
Thompson
2014
40.ÌýReducing collective quantum state rotation errors with reversible dephasing
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 105, no. 26, pp. 261102, (December, 2014),
Cox, Norcia, Weiner, Bohnet, and Thompson
39.ÌýPhase diagram for injection locking a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 053845, (November, 2014),
Cox, Weiner, and Thompson
38.ÌýSynchronization of Two Ensembles of Atoms
Physical Review Letters, vol. 113, no. 15, pp. 154101, (October, 2014),
Xu, Tieri, Fine, Thompson, and Holland
37.ÌýReduced spin measurement back-action for a phase sensitivity ten times beyond the standard quantum limit
Nature Photonics, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 731–736, (September, 2014),
Bohnet, Cox, Norcia, Weiner, Chen, and Thompson
36.ÌýCavity-aided nondemolition measurements for atom counting and spin squeezing
Physical Review A, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 043837, (April, 2014),
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson
35.ÌýLinear-response theory for superradiant lasers
Physical Review A, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 013806, (January, 2014),
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson
2013
34.ÌýA quasi-continuous superradiant Raman laser with < 1 intracavity photon
EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 57, pp. 03003, (August, 2013),
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, Meiser, Holland, and Thompson
33.ÌýActive and passive sensing of collective atomic coherence in a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 013826, (July, 2013),
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson
2012
32.ÌýSuperradiant Raman laser magnetometer
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 101, no. 26, pp. 261107, (December, 2012),
Weiner, Cox, Bohnet, Chen, and Thompson
31.ÌýRelaxation Oscillations, Stability, and Cavity Feedback in a Superradiant Raman Laser
Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, no. 25, pp. 253602, (December, 2012),
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson
30.ÌýSteady-State Many-Body Entanglement of Hot Reactive Fermions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, no. 23, pp. 230501, (December, 2012),
Foss-Feig, Daley, Thompson, and Rey
29.ÌýGeneral formalism for evaluating the impact of phase noise on Bloch vector rotations
Physical Review A, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 032313, (September, 2012),
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, and Thompson
28.ÌýA steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon
Nature, vol. 484, no. 7392, pp. 78–81, (April, 2012),
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Meiser, Holland, and Thompson
27.ÌýA low phase noise microwave source for atomic spin squeezing experiments in 87Rb
Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 044701, (April, 2012),
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, and Thompson
2011
26.ÌýConditional Spin Squeezing of a Large Ensemble via the Vacuum Rabi Splitting
Physical Review Letters, vol. 106, pp. 133601, (April, 2011),
Chen, Bohnet, Sankar, Dai, and Thompson
2007
25.ÌýExternal-feedback laser cooling of molecular gases
Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 051405, (May, 2007),
Vuletić, Thompson, Black, and Simon
24.ÌýInterfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons
Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, pp. 183601, (May, 2007),
Simon, Tanji, Thompson, and Vuletic
2006
23.ÌýInfluence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers
20 December 2006 # Vol. 45, No. 36 # APPLIED OPTICS, vol. 45, no. 36, pp. 9191, (December, 2006),
Loh, Lin, Teper, Cetina, Simon, Thompson, and Vuletic
22.ÌýA High-Brightness Source of Narrowband, Identical-Photon Pairs
Science, vol. 313, no. 5783, pp. 74–77, (July, 2006),
Thompson, Simon, Loh, and Vuletić
2005
21.ÌýA direct test of E= mc2
Nature, vol. 438, no. 7071, pp. 1096–1097, (December, 2005),
Rainville, Thompson, Myers, Brown, Dewey, Kessler Jr, Deslattes, Börner, Jentschel, Mutti, and Pritchard, David E
20.ÌýOn-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency
Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 13, pp. 133601, (September, 2005),
Black, Thompson, and Vuletić
19.ÌýAtomic Samples in Resonators: Forces, Photons, Feedback
AIP Conf. Proc., vol. 770, pp. 175–183, (May, 2005),
Thompson, Black, and Vuletic
18.ÌýCollective light forces on atoms in resonators
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. S605, (April, 2005),
Black, Thompson, and Vuletic
2004
17.ÌýCyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces
Nature, vol. 430, no. 6995, pp. 58–61, (July, 2004),
Thompson, Rainville, and Pritchard
16.ÌýAn Ion Balance for Ultra-High-Precision Atomic Mass Measurements
Science, vol. 303, no. 5656, pp. 334–338, (January, 2004),
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard
2003
15.ÌýTwo-Ion Control and Polarization Forces for Precise Mass Comparisons
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (September, 2003),
Thompson
14.ÌýTwo ions in one trap: ultra-high precision mass spectrometry?
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 292–296, (April, 2003),
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard
2002
13.ÌýSingle-ion mass spectrometry at 100 ppt and beyond
Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 80, no. 11, pp. 1329–1336, (November, 2002),
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard
12.ÌýMass Spectrometry at 100 Parts Per Trillion
Trapped Particles and Fundamental Physics, pp. 245–258, (, 2002),
Pritchard, and Thompson
11.ÌýTwo ions in one trap: ultra-high precision mass spectrometry?
Conference Digest Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, pp. 318–319, (, 2002),
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard
2001
10.ÌýSingle ion mass spectrometry and the fine structure constant
AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 73–85, (January, 2001),
Pritchard
9.ÌýPrecise Measurements of the Masses of Cs, Rb and Na — A New Route to the Fine Structure Constant
Atomic Physics at Accelerators: Mass Spectrometry, pp. 177–187, (, 2001),
Rainville, Bradley, Porto, Thompson, and Pritchard
2000
8.ÌýLamb shift, fine structure and hyperfine structure in helium like ions by fast beam laser spectroscopy
Hyperfine Interactions, vol. 127, pp. 323–328, (August, 2000),
Myers, Thompson, Margolis, Silver, and Tarbutt
1999
7.ÌýPenning Trap Measurements of the Masses of 133Cs, 87,85Rb, and 23Na with Uncertainties l0.2 ppb
Physical Review Letters, vol. 83, no. 22, pp. 4510–4513, (November, 1999),
Bradley, Porto, Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard
6.ÌýPrecision Measurement of the 1 s 2 p P 3 2 − P 1 3 Fine Structure Interval in Heliumlike Fluorine
Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 21, pp. 4200–4203, (May, 1999),
Myers, Margolis, Thompson, Farmer, Silver, and Tarbutt
1998
5.ÌýMeasurements of the 1 s 2 s 1 S 0 – 1 s 2 p 3 P 1 , 0 transitions in heliumlike nitrogen
Physical Review A, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 180–188, (January, 1998),
Thompson, Howie, and Myers
1997
4.ÌýMeasurement of the 1s2s [sup 1]S[sub 0]−1s2p [sup 3]P[sub 0,1] transitions in heliumlike nitrogen by fast-beam laser spectroscopy
The fourteenth international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry, pp. 141–144, (February, 1997),
Myers, Thompson, Howie, Gavathas, Claussen, and Silver
1996
3.ÌýHyperfine-Induced 1Ìýs 2Ìýs 1 S 0 -1Ìýs 2Ìýp 3 P 0 Transition and Fine-Structure Measurement in Heliumlike Nitrogen
Physical Review Letters, vol. 76, no. 26, pp. 4899–4902, (June, 1996),
Myers, Howie, Thompson, and Silver
2.ÌýOperation of a radio-frequency ion source in a tandem electrostatic accelerator
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 372, no. 1–2, pp. 280–282, (March, 1996),
Myers, Thompson, Allen, Barber, Brown, Griffin, Schmidt, and Trimble
1995
1.ÌýMeasurement of the 1 s 2 s S 1 − 1 s 2 p P 1 3 Interval in Heliumlike Nitrogen
Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 20, pp. 3637–3640, (November, 1995),
Myers, Thompson, Gavathas, Claussen, Silver, and Howie
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