Chinese-American physicist
NIST physicist Jun Ye adjusts the laser setup for a strontium atomic clock in his laboratory at JILA in 2009.
Jun Ye (
Chinese : 叶军 ;
pinyin : Yè Jūn ; born 1967) is a Chinese-American
physicist at
JILA ,
National Institute of Standards and Technology , and the
University of Colorado Boulder , working primarily in the field of
atomic, molecular, and optical physics .
Education & career
Ye was born in Shanghai, China, shortly after the beginning of the
Cultural Revolution . His father was a naval officer and his mother an environmental scientist. He was primarily raised by his grandmother.
[1] Ye graduated with a bachelor's degree in physics from
Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 1989. He then moved to the
United States to commence graduate studies, completing a master's degree at the
University of New Mexico under
Marlan Scully in theoretical
quantum optics in 1991. He also gained experience in experimental physics under John McInerney working on
semiconductor lasers , and spent a summer at the
Los Alamos National Laboratory .
[1]
Ye then went to the
University of Colorado Boulder to begin a Ph.D. in physics. He was accepted as the last graduate student of eventual
Nobel Prize laureate
John L. Hall . His thesis was on high-resolution and high-sensitivity molecular
spectroscopy , which he completed in 1997.
[2] He then moved to
California Institute of Technology as a Milikan Postdoctoral Fellow, working under
Jeff Kimble .
[3]
Ye moved back to Boulder and
JILA as a JILA Associate Fellow and
NIST physicist in 1999. John Hall donated most of his lab space to him.
[1] He was promoted to full Fellow in 2001 and has been there since, establishing a research program in
AMO physics and
precision measurement .
[4]
Research
Ye's research focuses on
ultracold atoms , ultracold molecules, and laser-based precision measurement. In 2018 JILA reported that the 3D quantum gas clock reached a frequency precision of 2.5 × 10−19 over 6 hours.
[5]
Such clocks could potentially be used for research into variations in the
Earth's gravitational field , searching for particles of
dark matter , performing
quantum simulations of
many-body physics , and investigating the fundamental nature of
light and
matter .
[6]
[7] He also conducts research on strontium for experiments in
quantum information science (collaborating with
Mikhail Lukin ,
Ana Maria Rey ,
Peter Zoller , and others).
[8]
Popularization of science
Ye appeared in the 2018 Netflix documentary
The Most Unknown
[9] on scientific research directed by
Ian Cheney .
Honors and awards
Ye has received numerous awards in the field of science, particularly AMO physics. These include:
In 2015,
President Obama selected Jun Ye to receive a
Presidential Rank Award for “sustained extraordinary accomplishment”, citing his work advancing "the frontier of light-matter interaction and focusing on precision measurement, quantum physics and ultracold matter, optical frequency metrology, and ultrafast science."
[23] He was elected a Fellow of the
American Physical Society
[24] and a Fellow of the
Optical Society of America . In 2011 he was elected to the
National Academy of Sciences ,
[25] and also named a Frew Fellow from the
Australian Academy of Science . In 2017, Ye was elected as a foreign member of the
Chinese Academy of Sciences .
[26]
He is one of the most highly cited researchers in experimental atomic physics in the world, having according to
Google Scholar a
h-index of 120 (As of 2022
[update] )
[27] and being regularly named as a
Thomson-Reuters (
ISI ) Highly Cited Researcher.
[28]
Ye also holds four
U.S. Patents for frequency combs and laser technology.
References
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"Jun Ye | JILA Science" . jila.colorado.edu . Archived from
the original on June 15, 2017. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"John Hall's JILA Home Page" . jila.colorado.edu . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Quantum Optics: Past Members" . quantumoptics.caltech.edu . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Ye Group" . jilawww.colorado.edu . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
^ Laura Ost (March 5, 2018).
"JILA Team Invents New Way to 'See' the Quantum World" . JILA . Retrieved March 30, 2017 .
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"About Time | JILA Science" . jila.colorado.edu . Archived from
the original on September 19, 2015. Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"The most accurate clock ever built only loses one second every 15 billion years" . The Verge . April 22, 2015. Retrieved November 26, 2015 .
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"Research | Ye Group" . jilawww.colorado.edu . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"The Most Unknown (2018) - IMDb" . www.imdb.com . Retrieved June 9, 2021 .
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"GW News Center" . www.gwu.edu . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Profile: Prof. Dr. Jun Ye" . www.humboldt-foundation.de . Retrieved November 1, 2023 .
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"William F. Meggers Award – Awards – OSA.org | The Optical Society" . www.osa.org . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Carl Zeiss Research Award" . www.zeiss.com . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Prize Recipient" . www.aps.org . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Fifty-Third Annual Honor Awards Program" (PDF) . US Department of Commerce – Office of Human Resources Management . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
^ NIST, US Department of Commerce (December 7, 2011).
"National Institute of Standards and Technology Recognizes Staff" . www.nist.gov . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"2019 - Gold Medal Award---Kyle Beloy, David Hume, David Leibrandt, Andrew Ludlow, Nathan Newbury, Jeffrey Sherman, Laura Sinclair, William Swann, Jun Ye" . NIST . November 14, 2019.
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"2022 - Gold Medal Award---Jun Ye" . NIST . December 22, 2022.
^ NIST, US Department of Commerce (December 10, 2014).
"National Institute of Standards and Technology Presents 2014 Awards to Outstanding Employees" . www.nist.gov . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries" . www.aps.org . Retrieved October 25, 2018 .
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"Winners of the 2022 Breakthrough Prizes in life sciences, fundamental physics and mathematics announced" . Retrieved September 9, 2020 .
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"Dr Jun Ye receives the 2021 Julius Springer Prize for Applied Physics" . www.springer.com . Retrieved November 1, 2023 .
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"Jun Ye Selected for 2015 Presidential Rank Award | JILA Science" . jilawww.colorado.edu . Retrieved December 20, 2015 .
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"APS Fellow Archive" . www.aps.org . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
^ NIST, US Department of Commerce (May 10, 2011).
"NIST/JILA Physicist Jun Ye Elected to National Academy of Sciences" . www.nist.gov . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
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"关于公布2017年中国科学院院士增选当选院士名单的公告" (in Chinese). Chinese Academy of Sciences. November 28, 2017. Retrieved November 22, 2019 .
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Jun Ye publications indexed by
Google Scholar
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"Home | Highly Cited Researchers" . Highly Cited Researchers . Retrieved November 25, 2015 .
Mathematics
Fundamental physics
Nima Arkani-Hamed ,
Alan Guth ,
Alexei Kitaev ,
Maxim Kontsevich ,
Andrei Linde ,
Juan Maldacena ,
Nathan Seiberg ,
Ashoke Sen ,
Edward Witten (2012)
Special :
Stephen Hawking ,
Peter Jenni ,
Fabiola Gianotti (ATLAS),
Michel Della Negra ,
Tejinder Virdee ,
Guido Tonelli ,
Joseph Incandela (CMS) and
Lyn Evans (LHC) (2013)
Alexander Polyakov (2013)
Michael Green and
John Henry Schwarz (2014)
Saul Perlmutter and members of the
Supernova Cosmology Project ;
Brian Schmidt ,
Adam Riess and members of the
High-Z Supernova Team (2015)
Special :
Ronald Drever ,
Kip Thorne ,
Rainer Weiss and contributors to
LIGO project (2016)
Yifang Wang ,
Kam-Biu Luk and the
Daya Bay team ,
Atsuto Suzuki and the
KamLAND team,
Kōichirō Nishikawa and the
K2K /
T2K team,
Arthur B. McDonald and the
Sudbury Neutrino Observatory team,
Takaaki Kajita and
Yōichirō Suzuki and the
Super-Kamiokande team (2016)
Joseph Polchinski ,
Andrew Strominger ,
Cumrun Vafa (2017)
Charles L. Bennett ,
Gary Hinshaw ,
Norman Jarosik ,
Lyman Page Jr. ,
David Spergel (2018)
Special :
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (2018)
Charles Kane and
Eugene Mele (2019)
Special :
Sergio Ferrara ,
Daniel Z. Freedman ,
Peter van Nieuwenhuizen (2019)
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration (2020)
Eric Adelberger ,
Jens H. Gundlach and
Blayne Heckel (2021)
Special :
Steven Weinberg (2021)
Hidetoshi Katori and
Jun Ye (2022)
Charles H. Bennett ,
Gilles Brassard ,
David Deutsch ,
Peter W. Shor (2023)
John Cardy and
Alexander Zamolodchikov (2024)
Life sciences
Cornelia Bargmann ,
David Botstein ,
Lewis C. Cantley ,
Hans Clevers ,
Titia de Lange ,
Napoleone Ferrara ,
Eric Lander ,
Charles Sawyers ,
Robert Weinberg ,
Shinya Yamanaka and
Bert Vogelstein (2013)
James P. Allison ,
Mahlon DeLong ,
Michael N. Hall ,
Robert S. Langer ,
Richard P. Lifton and
Alexander Varshavsky (2014)
Alim Louis Benabid ,
Charles David Allis ,
Victor Ambros ,
Gary Ruvkun ,
Jennifer Doudna and
Emmanuelle Charpentier (2015)
Edward Boyden ,
Karl Deisseroth ,
John Hardy ,
Helen Hobbs and
Svante Pääbo (2016)
Stephen J. Elledge ,
Harry F. Noller ,
Roeland Nusse ,
Yoshinori Ohsumi ,
Huda Zoghbi (2017)
Joanne Chory ,
Peter Walter ,
Kazutoshi Mori ,
Kim Nasmyth ,
Don W. Cleveland (2018)
C. Frank Bennett and
Adrian R. Krainer ,
Angelika Amon ,
Xiaowei Zhuang ,
Zhijian Chen (2019)
Jeffrey M. Friedman ,
Franz-Ulrich Hartl ,
Arthur L. Horwich ,
David Julius ,
Virginia Man-Yee Lee (2020)
David Baker ,
Catherine Dulac ,
Dennis Lo ,
Richard J. Youle [
de ] (2021)
Jeffery W. Kelly ,
Katalin Karikó ,
Drew Weissman ,
Shankar Balasubramanian ,
David Klenerman and
Pascal Mayer (2022)
Clifford P. Brangwynne ,
Anthony A. Hyman ,
Demis Hassabis ,
John Jumper ,
Emmanuel Mignot ,
Masashi Yanagisawa (2023)
Carl June ,
Michel Sadelain ,
Sabine Hadida ,
Paul Negulescu ,
Fredrick Van Goor ,
Thomas Gasser ,
Ellen Sidransky and
Andrew Singleton (2024)
International National Academics Other