Sanner Lab Colorado State University

Testing Fundamental Symmetries with Optical Atomic Clocks


Sanner Lab at Colorado State University

Precision measurement
at the quantum frontier

Our research sits at the intersection of optical precision spectroscopy, quantum simulation, and light-matter interfacing. We work with laser-cooled ytterbium ions interrogated on a highly forbidden electric octupole transition — developing novel quantum sensors for low-energy tests of fundamental physics and exploring new regimes of collective atom-photon coupling.

Sanner Lab

We use laser-cooled ytterbium ions as quantum sensors, interrogating a highly forbidden electric octupole transition to probe fundamental physics at low energies and explore collective regimes of atom-photon coupling. Based in Fort Collins at Colorado State University.