Welcome to the DeMille Group!
We are an atomic/molecular/optical (AMO) physics group that explores frontiers of molecular, particle, and nuclear physics! Our primary themes of research are:
- Using diatomic molecules as amplifying quantum sensors of fundamental physics
- Developing new methods to produce ultracold polar molecules
- Exploiting strong dipolar interactions between long-lived molecules
Our particle and nuclear experiments are:
- small enough to fit in a single room
- sensitive enough to
- detect certain new particles with mass >> 1 TeV
- measure poorly-understood properties of the electroweak force
Our Research
ACME
electron electric dipole moment search
(leptonic CP violation,
towards understanding cosmological
matter-antimatter asymmetry)
CeNTREX
proton electric dipole moment search
(hadronic CP violation,
towards understanding cosmological
matter-antimatter asymmetry)
ZOMBIES
nuclear anapole moment measurements
(hadronic parity violation,
to measure how the electroweak force
is modified by the strong force)
Direct laser cooling & trapping
of polar molecules
(towards quantum degeneracy
and a strongly-correlated quantum gas)
REDRUM: Researching Electric Dipole moments using Radioactive Ultracold Molecules
(towards quantum degeneracy
and a strongly-correlated quantum gas)
Miscellaneous projects
(Quantum information processing,
axion dark matter search, etc.)
Our Funding
