Travis Nicholson
Email: travis.nicholson@duke.edu
Office: Chesterfield Building
Research Interests
I am an experimental physicist at Duke University. My research interests include ultracold atoms, quantum optics, atomic physics, quantum information, quantum metrology, and novel quantum devices.
About Me
I began my physics career working as an undergraduate scientist in the group of Deborah Jin at JILA, helping to build the first generation of her KRb molecule experiment. This experiment was recognized as a top research breakthrough of 2008 by the American Physical Society.
I then performed my PhD research at JILA in the group of Jun Ye, building an atomic clock based on ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. My PhD thesis reported the achievement of the world’s most accurate clock, which neither gains nor loses a second in 15 billion years.
After completing my PhD, I became a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the groups of Vladan Vuletic and Mikhail Lukin, studying nonlinear quantum optics with Rydberg EIT. During that time my team observed symmetry-protected collisions between photons, and we also realized a trimer molecule of photons.
After my postdoc, I joined the faculty at the National University of Singapore, where I was a principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. My research focused on realizing the first ultracold gas of a Main Group III atom (indium).
I am now a professor at Duke University and a principal investigator at the Duke Quantum Center. I hold appointments in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
More Information
Travis Nicholson
Email: travis.nicholson@duke.edu
Office: Chesterfield Building
Research Interests
I am an experimental physicist at Duke University. My research interests include ultracold atoms, quantum optics, atomic physics, quantum information, quantum metrology, and novel quantum devices.
About Me
I began my physics career working as an undergraduate scientist in the group of Deborah Jin at JILA, helping to build the first generation of her KRb molecule experiment. This experiment was recognized as a top research breakthrough of 2008 by the American Physical Society.
I then performed my PhD research at JILA in the group of Jun Ye, building an atomic clock based on ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice. My PhD thesis reported the achievement of the world’s most accurate clock, which neither gains nor loses a second in 15 billion years.
After completing my PhD, I became a postdoctoral fellow at MIT in the groups of Vladan Vuletic and Mikhail Lukin, studying nonlinear quantum optics with Rydberg EIT. During that time my team observed symmetry-protected collisions between photons, and we also realized a trimer molecule of photons.
After my postdoc, I joined the faculty at the National University of Singapore, where I was a principal investigator at the Centre for Quantum Technologies. My research focused on realizing the first ultracold gas of a Main Group III atom (indium).
I am now a professor at Duke University and a principal investigator at the Duke Quantum Center. I hold appointments in the Department of Physics and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering.