Eric Cornell

Eric Cornell received his B.S. from Stanford University in 1985, and his PhD from MIT in 1990. His doctoral research, with Dave Pritchard, was on precision mass spectroscopy of single trapped molecular ions. Cornell went to JILA in Boulder, Colorado in 1990. Since 1992 he has been a senior scientist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is a Fellow of JILA and Professor Adjoint in the Physics Department of the University of Colorado. Research interests include various aspects of ultracold atoms -- in particular, Bose-Einstein condensation in strongly interacting Bose gases, and related few-body physics. He is also working on using precision molecular spectroscopy to explore possible extensions to the Standard Model of particle physics. His most recent research includes a project to measure the electric dipole moment of the electron.

Cornell received the Stratton Award from NIST in 1995, the Carl Zeiss Award in 1996, the Fritz London Prize in 1996, the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in 1996, the 1997 I.I. Rabi Award, the 1997 King Faisal International Prize for Science, the 1995-96 AAAS Newcomb-Cleveland Prize, the 1997 Alan T. Waterman Award, the Lorentz Medal in 1998, in 1999 the R. W. Wood Prize and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics, and in 2000 was elected as a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and a Member of the National Academy of Sciences. In 2005, he was elected Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2012 he was awarded the Ioannes Marcus Marci Medal for Molecular Spectroscopy. He shares the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl Wieman and Wolfgang Ketterle.

Awards

Lorentz Medal, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998

Nobel Prize in Physics 2001

Nobel Prize Citation: “for the achievement of Bose-Einstein condensation in dilute gases of alkali atoms, and for early fundamental studies of the properties of the condensates”

Published Works

C. E. Klauss, X. Xie, C. Lopez-Abadia, J. P. D’Incao, Z. Hadzibabic, D. S. Jin, and E. A. Cornell, “Observation of Efimov Molecules Created from a Resonantly Interacting Bose Gas,” Phys. Rev. Lett, 119, 143401, (October 5, 2017).

W. B. Cairncross, D. N. Gresh, M. Grau, K. C. Cossel, T. S. Roussy, Y. Q. Ni, Y. Zhou, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, “Precision Measurement of the Electron’s Electric Dipole Moment Using Trapped Molecular Ions,” Phys. Rev. Lett, 119, 153001 (October 9, 2017).

C. Eigen, J. A. P. Glidden, R. Lopes, E. A. Cornell, R. P. Smith, Z. Hadzibabic, “Universal Prethermal dynamics of Bose Gases Quenched to Unitarity,” Nature, 563, 221-224 (November 2018).

Yan Zhou, Kia Boon Ng, Lan Cheng, Daniel N. Gresh, Robert W. Field, Jun Ye, Eric A. Cornell, “Visible and ultraviolet laser spectroscopy of ThF,” J. Mol. Spec., 358, 1-16 (April 2019).

Lena H. Dogra, Jake A. P. Glidden, Timon A. Hilker, Christoph Eigen, Eric A. Cornell, Robert P. Smith, and Zoran Hadzibabic, “Can three-body recombination purify a quantum gas?”, Phys Rev Lett, 123, 020405, May 2019.

R. Chapurin, X. Xie, M. J. Van de Graaff, J. S. Popowski, J. P. D'Incao, P. S. Julienne, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, “A Precision Test of the Limits to Universality in Few-Body Physics,” Phys Rev Lett, 123, 233402, December 2019.

Y. Zhou, K. B. Ng, L. Cheng, D. N. Gresh, R. W. Field, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, “Visible and Ultraviolet Laser Spectroscopy of ThF,” J. Mol. Spec. 358, (2019) 1-16.

Y. Shagam, W. B. Cairncross, T. S. Roussy, Y. Zhou, K. B. Ng, D. N. Gresh, T. Grogan, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, “Continuous temporal detection combined with time-gated imaging: normalization over a large dynamic range,”J. Mol. Spec., (2020) 111257.

Y. Zhou, Y. Shagam, W. B. Cairncross, K. B. Ng, T. S. Roussy, T. Grogan, K. Boyce, A. Vigil, M. Pettine, T. Zelevinsky, J. Ye, E. A. Cornell, “Second-scale coherence measured at the projection noise limit with hundreds of molecular ions,” Phys Rev Lett, 124, 053201, February 2020.

Xin Xie, Michael J. Van de Graaff, Roman Chapurin, Matthew D. Frye, Jeremy M. Hutson, José P. D'Incao, Paul S. Julienne, Jun Ye, Eric A. Cornell, “Observation of Efimov Universality across a Non-Universal Feshbach Resonance in 39K,” submitted to PRL, arXiv:2008.00396.

Tanya S. Roussy, Daniel A. Palken, William B. Cairncross, Benjamin M. Brubaker, Daniel N. Gresh, Matt Grau, Kevin C. Cossel, Kia Boon Ng, Yuval Shagam, Yan Zhou, Victor V. Flambaum, Konrad W. Lehnert, Jun Ye, Eric A. Cornell, “Experimental constraint on axion-like particle coupling over seven orders of magnitude in mass,”arXiv 2006.15787.