Jacob P. Covey
Assistant Professor
Primary Research Area
- AMO / Quantum Physics
Research Interests
- Quantum Optics
- Atomic Physics
- Quantum Information Science
Research Statement
Arrays of neutral atoms are quickly emerging as a scalable platform for quantum science. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the individual control of large numbers of neutral atoms through the use of reconfigurable optical tweezer arrays. More recently, this control has been extended to alkaline-earth(-like) atoms, which are employed in the most precise atomic clocks. Covey's research group will focus on arrays of neutral alkaline-earth(-like) atoms in optical tweezers. He is interested in a wide range of topics from fundamental physics to metrology to device engineering.
Honors
- Springer PhD Thesis Award (2018)
- Richard Chace Tolman Prize Postdoctoral Fellowship, Caltech (2017)
- DoD National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) Fellowship (2013)
- Hilldale Undergraduate Research Fellowship, UW-Madison (2010)
Selected Articles in Journals
- V. V. Albert, J. P. Covey, and J. Preskill, Robust Encoding of a Qubit in a Molecule, Phys. Rev. X 10, 031050 (2020).
- I. S. Madjarov*, J. P. Covey*, A. L. Shaw, J. Choi, A. Kale, A. Cooper, H. Pichler, V. Schkolnik, J. R. Williams, and M. Endres, (*equal contribution), High-fidelity entanglement and detection of alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms, Nature Physics 16, 857-861 (2020)
- N. Lauk, N. Sinclair, S. Barzanjeh, J. P. Covey, M. Saffman, M. Spiropulu, C. Simon, Perspectives on quantum transduction, Quantum Science and Technology 5, 020501 (2020)
- I. S. Madjarov, A. Cooper, A. L. Shaw, J. P. Covey, V. Schkolnik, T. H. Yoon, J. R. Williams, and M. Endres, An Atomic-Array Optical Clock with Single-Atom Readout, Phys. Rev. X 9, 041052 (2019)
- J. P. Covey, A. Sipahigil, and M. Saffman, Microwave-to-optical conversion via four-wave-mixing in a cold ytterbium ensemble, Phys. Rev. A 100, 012307 (2019)
- J. P. Covey, I. Madjarov, A. Cooper, and M. Endres, 2000-times repeated imaging of strontium atoms in clock-magic tweezer arrays, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 173201 (2019)
- J. P. Covey, A. Sipahigil, S. Szoke, N. Sinclair, M. Endres, and O. Painter, Telecom-Band Quantum Optics with Ytterbium Atoms and Silicon Nanophotonics, Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 034044 (2019)
- L. De Marco, G. Valtolina, K. Matsuda, W. Tobias, J. P. Covey, and J. Ye, A Fermi Degenerate Gas of Polar Molecules, Science 363, 6429 853-856 (2019)
- A. Cooper, J. P. Covey, I. Madjarov, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, and M. Endres, Alkaline-Earth Atoms in Optical Tweezers, Phys. Rev. X 8, 041055 (2018)
- J. P. Covey, L. De Marco, O. L. Acevedo, A. M. Rey, and J. Ye, An approach to spin-resolved molecular gas microscopy, New Journal of Physics 20, 043031 (2018)
- S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, M. T. Miecnikowski, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, New frontiers for quantum gases of polar molecules, Nature Physics 13, 1 13-20 (2017)
- J. P. Covey, S. A. Moses, M. Garttner, A. Safavi-Naini, M. T. Miecnikowski, Z. Fu, J. Schachenmayer, P. S. Julienne, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, Doublon dynamics and polar molecule production in an optical lattice, Nature Communications 7, 11279 (2016)
- S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, M. T. Miecnikowski, B. Yan, B. Gadway, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin, Creation of a low entropy quantum gas of polar molecules in an optical lattice, Science 350, 6261 (2015)
- K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, N. Yao, M. D. Lukin, J. Ye, D. S. Jin, and A. M. Rey, Many-body dynamics of dipolar molecules in an optical lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 195302 (2014)
- B. Zhu, B. Gadway, M. Foss-Feig, J. Schachenmayer, M. L. Wall, K. R. A. Hazzard, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, D. S. Jin, J. Ye, M. Holland, and A. M. Rey, Suppressing the Loss of Ultracold Molecules Via the Continuous Quantum Zeno Effect, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 070404 (2014)
- B. Yan, S. A. Moses, B. Gadway, J. P. Covey, K. R. A. Hazzard, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, Observation of dipolar spin-exchange interactions with lattice-confined polar molecules, Nature 501, 521-525 (2013)
- B. Neyenhuis, B. Yan, S. A. Moses, J. P. Covey, A. Chotia, A. Petrov, S. Kotochigova, J. Ye, and D. S. Jin, Anisotropic Polarizability of Ultracold Polar 40K87Rb Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 109, 230403 (2012)
- A. Chotia, B. Neyenhuis, S. A. Moses, B. Yan, J. P. Covey, M. Foss-Feig, A. M. Rey, D. S. Jin, and J. Ye, Long-lived dipolar molecules and Feshbach molecules in a 3D optical lattice, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 080405 (2012)