Mcgrew
William Mcgrew
Will joined the lab in October of 2021, as an NRC postdoctoral fellow, after completing his doctoral studies on the ytterbium optical lattice clock experiment of Andrew Ludlow. In the Ludlow lab, he worked to characterize and improve the performance of the optical clock system, ultimately attaining performance at the level of a few parts in a quintillion in the metrics of systematic uncertainty, measurement instability, and reproducibility. He is excited to leverage these atomic control techniques in the development of a ytterbium tweezer system, with applications for quantum information and simulation of many-body physics.
Affiliation After Leaving Group
Molecular clocks
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