APPLIED PHYSICS GRADUATE PROGRAMJoint PhD Program Between Weinberg College and Mccormick School of Engineering

Research Interests

Professor Odom’s group works with atoms and molecules trapped in inert cryogenic crystals.  One application is to use these systems for searches for physics beyond the Standard Model, including dark matter and time-reversal symmetry violation. They might also be used in quantum sensing applications. 

Selected Publications

C.-Y. Lien, C.M. Seck, Y.-W. Lin, J.H.V. Nguyen, D. Tabor, B.C. Odom,“Broadband Optical Cooling of Molecular Rotors from Room Temperature to the Ground State,”Nat. Commun. 5, 4783 (2014).

Y.-W. Lin, S. Williams, and B. C. Odom, "Resonant Few-Photon Excitation of a Single-Ion Oscillator," Phys. Rev. A 87, 011402(R) (2013).

D.A. Tabor, V. Rajagopal, Y-W. Lin and B. Odom, "Suitability of linear quadrupole ion traps for large Coulomb crystals," Appl. Phys. B 107, 1097-1104 (2012).

C. Lien, S. Williams and B. Odom, "Optical pulse-shaping for internal cooling of molecules," Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 13, 18825-18829 (2011).

J.H.V. Nguyen, C.R. Viteri, E.G. Hohenstein, C.D. Sherrill, K.R. Brown and B. Odom, "Challenges of laser-cooling molecular ions," New J. Phys. 13, 063023 (2011).

J.H.V. Nguyen and B. Odom, "Prospects for Doppler cooling of three-electronic-level molecules," Phys Rev. A 83, 053404 (2011).

“Improved Spin-Dependent WIMP Limits from a Bubble Chamber,” E. Behnke, J.I. Collar, P.S. Cooper, K. Crum, M. Crisler, M. Hu, I. Levine, D. Nakazawa, H. Nguyen, B. Odom, E. Ramberg, J. Rasmussen, N. Riley, A. Sonnenschein, M. Szydagis, and R. Tschirhart. Science 319, 933 (2008).