Adam Vernon is a postdoctoral researcher at the College of William and Mary. He earned his PhD in nuclear physics from the University of Manchester.
Title: "Precision Atomic Physics with Hot, Radioactive Atoms"
Abstract: The ability to selectively address individual isotopes has made atomic physics a powerful probe of nuclear structure and fundamental symmetries, while also making isotopic selectivity a versatile resource for quantum information science. Advances in laser spectroscopy, ion and atom trapping, and quantum control are enabling measurements of nuclear properties beyond typical observables such as charge radii, magnetic dipole moments, and electric quadrupole moments, often in systems available at only a few ions or atoms per second. As spectroscopic precision and sensitivity continue to improve, increasingly subtle nuclear effects will become accessible in tabletop experiments, opening new opportunities for nuclear, fundamental physics and quantum computing architecture research based on isotopes which is traditionally limited to radioactive ion-beam facilities.
