Visiting Student - PHY - Zhang, Ruomu - 10.15.26

Argonne National Laboratory • Lemont, IL

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About The Position

The visiting student will contribute to constructing and operating an instrument that continuously reloads individual ytterbium atoms into an optical tweezer array strongly coupled to an optical cavity. Together with a similar instrument at the University of Chicago, the instrument will be used to establish long-distance entanglement between ytterbium atoms and conduct proof-of-principle measurements. These measurements will use ytterbium’s optical clock transition to probe quantum-mechanical effects arising from gravitational shifts of the clock transition in curved space-time. This work is part of the Q-NEXT center.

The position is classified as a Visiting Student Graduate role and is a part-time contingent-worker appointment scheduled for 20 hours per week. Applicants must be currently enrolled full-time at an accredited institution and be at least 18 years old when the appointment begins.

Requirements

• Experience with optics, lasers, opto-mechanics, feedback control, and electronics.
• Must be currently enrolled full-time at an accredited institution.
• Must be at least 18 years old when the appointment begins.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the construction of an instrument for continuously reloading individual ytterbium atoms into an optical tweezer array strongly coupled to an optical cavity.
• Contribute to operating the instrument.
• Support work to establish long-distance entanglement between ytterbium atoms using the instrument and a similar instrument at the University of Chicago.
• Support proof-of-principle measurements using ytterbium’s optical clock transition to probe quantum-mechanical effects related to gravitational shifts in curved space-time.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Intern
• Education Level: No Education Listed