My group uses atoms to study the nature of physical laws. Our current projects involve

  • looking for physics beyond the Standard Model
  • building new kinds of atomic clocks

Recent work

  1. Comagnetometry using mirror-symmetric ions in a crystal arXiv:2412.17276 (2024)
  2. First results from a search for axionlike dark matter using octupole-deformed nuclei in a crystal arXiv:2410.02218 (2024)
  3. Measuring the nuclear magnetic quadrupole moment of optically trapped ytterbium atoms in the metastable state New J. Phys. (2024)
  4. Development of room-temperature and cryogenic strontium ion clocks EFTS/IFCS Conf. (2023)
  5. Nuclear T-violation search using octupole-deformed nuclei in a crystal Phys. Rev. A (2023)
  6. Optical control of BaF molecules trapped in neon ice New J. Phys. (2023)

Selected older publications

  1. Electron electric dipole moment searches using clock transitions in ultracold molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. (2020)
  2. A measurement of the atomic hydrogen Lamb shift and the proton charge radius, Science (2019)
  3. Improved estimate of the collisional frequency shift in Al+ clocks, Phys. Rev. Research (2019)
  4. Optical frequency standards for gravitational wave detection using satellite Doppler velocimetry, New. J. Phys. (2015)
  5. Order of magnitude smaller limit on the electric dipole moment of the electron, Science (2014)

Designs

Code and hardware designs developed in my group are available at github.com/vuthalab.

Diversions

Perhaps you are here for my list of content-free phrases?

ion trap

Contact

MP 033 (lab), MP 1121 (office)
Department of Physics
University of Toronto
60 St. George Street
Toronto ON M5S 1A7, Canada

Phone: +1 416 946 8503
Email: amar.vutha Ͽ utoronto.ca

'MP' is the McLennan Physics building in the downtown campus.

Support

Team

  • Takahiro Tow
  • Alek Radak
  • Dr. Mingyu Fan
  • Bassam Nima
  • Thomas Yeaman

Recent alumni

  • Kristen Cote, PhD
  • Ben Dobozy
  • Alison Okumura
  • Angela Xiang
  • Harish Ramachandran
  • Julia Ford