Tanya Zelevinsky

Tanya Zelevinsky is an associate professor of physics at Columbia University. Her research focuses on high-precision spectroscopy of cold molecules for fundamental physics measurements and she is a leader in the field of quantum optics. Her group is developing molecular lattice clocks, ultracold molecule photodissociation, as well as cooling and quantum state manipulation techniques for diatomic molecules with the goal of testing the Standard Model of particle physics and searching for new physics with tabletop experiments. Professor Zelevinsky graduated from MIT in 1999 and received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2004. Subsequently, she worked as a post doctoral research associate at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA) on atomic lattice clocks.  She joined Columbia University in 2008 to start Columbia’s first research program in modern atomic, molecular, and optical physics. Professor Zelevinsky became a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2018 and received the Francis M. Pipkin Award in 2019.[1]

Tanya Zelevinsky
Alma materMIT and Harvard University
Known forHigh-precision spectroscopy and Quantum Optics
AwardsFellow of the American Physical Society (2018)
Francis M. Pipkin Award Recipient (2019)

Research

Zelevinsky laboratory uses laser light to create ultracold diatomic molecules of strontium. These molecules measure important properties of molecular quantum physics and chemistry [2] and more fundamentally, provide an ensemble of molecular clocks where the vibrations determine the 'ticking' rate.[3] Zelevinsky also explores ways to experimentally cool molecules in order to manipulate and study them using a combination of buffer gas cooling and laser cooling with the goal of creating a magneto-optical trap. Recently, in collaboration with the Laboratory for Astrophysics at Columbia University, Zelevinsky built an apparatus used in dark matter searches.

References
  1. "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  2. "Researchers combine quantum expertise to advance research in ultracold molecules". phys.org. Retrieved 2020-04-02.
  3. "A molecular clock for testing fundamental forces" (PDF). Retrieved 2020-04-02.
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