Phillips, David
Dr.
Development and applications of atomic clocks; precise tests of fundamental physical laws; quantum optics
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., California Institute of Technology
- Ph.D., Harvard University
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2018
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Phillips, David F., Ravi, Aakash, Ebadi, Reza, and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2021. "Milky Way Accelerometry via Millisecond Pulsar Timing." Physical Review Letters 126:141103. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.126.141103 2021
- Marshall, Mason C., Phillips, David F., Turner, Matthew J., Ku, Mark J. H., Zhou, Tao, Delegan, Nazar, Heremans, F. Joseph, Holt, Martin V., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2021. "Scanning X-Ray Diffraction Microscopy for Diamond Quantum Sensing." Physical Review Applied, 054032. 16, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.16.054032. 2021
- Ebadi, Reza, Mathur, Anubhav, Tanin, Erwin H., Tailby, Nicholas D., Marshall, Mason C., Ravi, Aakash, Trubko, Raisa, Fu, Roger R., Phillips, David F., Rajendran, Surjeet, and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2021. "Ultraheavy dark matter search with electron microscopy of geological quartz." Physical Review D, 015041. 104, https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.104.015041. 2021
- Ravi, Aakash, Langellier, Nicholas, Phillips, David F., Buschmann, Malte, Safdi, Benjamin R., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2019. "Probing Dark Matter Using Precision Measurements of Stellar Accelerations." Physical Review Letters 123:091101. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.091101 2019
- Phillips, David. 2016. "The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe." Physics Today 69:54-56. https://doi.org/10.1063/PT.3.3302 2016
- Klein, M., Hohensee, M., Phillips, D. F., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2011. "Electromagnetically induced transparency in paraffin-coated vapor cells." Physical Review A 83:13826. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.83.013826 2011
- Hohensee, Michael A., Stanwix, Paul L., Tobar, Michael E., Parker, Stephen R., Phillips, David F., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2010. "Improved constraints on isotropic shift and anisotropies of the speed of light using rotating cryogenic sapphire oscillators." Physical Review D 82:76001. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.82.076001 2010
- Xiao, Yanhong, Wang, Tun, Baryakhtar, Maria, van Camp, Mackenzie, Crescimanno, Michael, Hohensee, Michael, Jiang, Liang, Phillips, David F., Lukin, Mikhail D., Yelin, Susanne F., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2009. "Electromagnetically induced transparency with noisy lasers." Physical Review A 80:41805. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041805 2009
- Hohensee, Michael A., Lehnert, Ralf, Phillips, David F., and Walsworth, Ronald L. 2009. "Limits on isotropic Lorentz violation in QED from collider physics." Physical Review D 80:36010. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.80.036010 2009
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Conference Paper
- Phillips, D. F., Walsworth, Ronald L., and Kostelecky, Alan. 2014. "Application of Laser Frequency Combs and Nitrogen Vacancy Diamond Magnetometers to Searches for New Physics." In , , 249-251. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789814566438_0063 2014
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department