Jacob P. Covey
Primary Research Area Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics
Assistant Professor
327 Loomis Laboratory
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Education
Ph.D., Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2017 (PhD advisors: Jun Ye and Deborah Jin. Thesis title: "Enhanced optical and electric manipulation of a quantum gas of KRb molecules")
M.S., Physics, University of Colorado-Boulder, 2013
B.S., Engineering Physics (Physics and Mathematics as additional majors), University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2011
Academic Positions
Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Physics, August 2020 - Present
Richard Chace Tolman Postdoctoral Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Physics, August 2017 - June 2020
(Postdoctoral advisor: Manuel Endres)
Research Interests
Quantum Optics
Atomic Physics
Quantum Information Science
Books Authored or Co-Authored (Original Editions)
Chapters in Books
Selected Articles in Journals
J. P. Covey, H. Weinfurter, and H. Bernien, "Quantum networks with neutral atom processing nodes", npj Quantum Information 9, 90 (2023)
W. Huie (W), L. Li (D), N. Chen (W), X. Hu (W), Z. Jia (D), W. K. C. Sun (D), and J. P. Covey, "Repetitive readout and real-time control of nuclear spin qubits in Yb-171 atoms", PRX Quantum 4, 030337 (2023)
J. Choi, A. L. Shaw, I. S. Madjarov, X. Xie, J. P. Covey, J. S. Cotler, D. K. Mark, H.-Y. Huang, A. Kale, H. Pichler, F. G.S.L. Brandao, S. Choi, and M. Endres, “Preparing random states and benchmarking with many-body quantum chaos”, Nature 613, 468-473 (2023)
L. Li (D), W. Huie (W), N. Chen (W), B. DeMarco, and J. P. Covey, “Active cancellation of servo-induced noise on stabilized lasers via feedforward”, Phys. Rev. Appl. 18, 064005 (2022)
A. J. Sigillito, J. P. Covey, J. M. Fink, K. Petersson, and S. Preble, "Emerging qubit systems: Guest editorial", Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 190401 (2022)
J. P. Covey, "Microwave-optical transducer efficiency boost", Nature Photonics 16, 262-264 (2022)
J. P. Covey, "Atom arrays for superresolution imaging", Physics 15, 23 (2022)
N. Chen (W), L. Li (P), W. Huie (W), M. Zhao (W, ugrad), I. Vetter (W, ugrad), C. H. Greene, and J. P. Covey, "Analyzing the Rydberg-based optical-metastable-ground architecture for 171 Yb nuclear spins", Phys. Rev. A 105, 052438 (2022)
J. Ang'ong'a (W), C. Huang (W), J. P. Covey, and B. Gadway, "Gray molasses cooling of 39 K atoms in optical tweezers", Phys. Rev. Research 4, 013240 (2022)
W. Huie (W), S. G. Menon, H. Bernien, and J. P. Covey, "Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities", Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043154 (2021)
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 Phys. 16, 857-861 (2020)
N. Lauk, N. Sinclair, S. Barzanjeh, J. P. Covey, M. Saffman, M. Spiropulu, C. Simon, "Perspectives on quantum transduction", Quantum Sci. & Tech. 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. Appl. 11, 034044 (2019)
L. De Marco, G. Valtolina, K. Matsuda, W. Tobias, J. P. Covey, and J. Ye, "A Degenerate Fermi 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 J. 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 Phys. 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 Commun. 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)
Patents
J. P. Covey, W. Huie, N. Chen, L. Li, H. Bernien, and S. G. Menon, "Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities", US Provisional Patent No. 63/359,699 (2022)
M. Endres, A. Cooper, J. P. Covey, I. S. Madjarov, A. L. Shaw, T. H. Yoon, V. schkolnik, and J. R. Williams, "Controlling Alkaline Earth Atoms For Quantum Computing And Metrology Applications", US Patent No. 10,809,177 B2 (2020)
Research Honors
Young Investigator Award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (2023)
Young Investigator Award, Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) (2022)
Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research (ONR)
(2022
)
Springer PhD Thesis Award (2018)
Other Honors
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)
Recent Courses Taught PHYS 211 - University Physics: Mechanics
PHYS 212 - University Physics: Elec & Mag
PHYS 213 - Univ Physics: Thermal Physics
PHYS 214 - Univ Physics: Quantum Physics
PHYS 370 - Intro to Quant Info and Comp
Semesters Ranked Excellent Teacher by Students Semester Course Outstanding Fall 2023 PHYS 370