Thompson Group Publications

2026
99. Collective three-body interactions enable a robust quantum speedup
Physical Review Research, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. L032025, (August, 2026), Link to paper
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Maruko, Bohr, Thompson, and Rey

98. Lieb-Mattis States for Robust Entangled Differential Phase Sensing
Physical Review X, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 021052, (June, 2026), Link to paper
Kaubruegger, Fallas Padilla, Shankar, Hotter, Muleady, Bringewatt, Baamara, Abbasgholinejad, Gorshkov, Mølmer, Thompson, and Rey

97. A chip-scale atomic beam for nonclassical light
Science Advances, vol. 12, no. 23, pp. eaec3179, (June, 2026), Link to paper
Larsen, Hensley, Martinez, Staron, McGehee, Kitching, and Thompson

2025
96. Simulation of topological superconductors and their competing orders using photon-mediated interactions
arXiv, (December, 2025), Link to paper
Chu, Kwan, Song, Chew, Thompson, and Rey

95. Realization of three- and four-body interactions between momentum states in a cavity
Science, vol. 390, no. 6776, pp. 925–929, (November, 2025), Link to paper
Luo, Zhang, Maruko, Bohr, Chu, Rey, and Thompson

94. Solitons in Arbitrary Dimensions Stabilized by Photon-Mediated Interactions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 135, no. 17, pp. 173402, (October, 2025), Link to paper
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Thompson, and Rey

93. Symmetry-Protected Topological Optical Lattice Clock
PRX Quantum, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 030322, (August, 2025), Link to paper
Xu, Chu, Kim, Thompson, Ye, Esslinger, and Rey

92. Time-Resolved Spectral Gap Spectroscopy in a Quantum Simulator of Fermionic Superfluidity inside an Optical Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 18, pp. 183404, (May, 2025), Link to paper
Young, Song, Chu, Barberena, Niu, Schäfer, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson

91. A dissipation-induced superradiant transition in a strontium cavity-QED system
Science Advances, vol. 11, no. 17, pp. eadu5799, (April, 2025), Link to paper
Song, Barberena, Young, Chaparro, Chu, Agarwal, Niu, Young, Rey, and Thompson

90. Hamiltonian engineering of collective XYZ spin models in an optical cavity
Nature Physics, pp. 1–8, (April, 2025), Link to paper
Luo, Zhang, Chu, Maruko, Rey, and Thompson

89. Continuous recoil-driven lasing and cavity frequency pinning with laser-cooled atoms
Nature Physics, pp. 1–7, (April, 2025), Link to paper
Schäfer, Niu, Cline, Young, Song, Ritsch, and Thompson

88. Many-Body Gap Protection against Motional Dephasing of an Optical Clock Transition
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 11, pp. 113403, (March, 2025), Link to paper
Niu, Schäfer, Zhang, Wagner, Taylor, Young, Song, Chu, Rey, and Thompson

87. Engineering One Axis Twisting via a Dissipative Berry Phase Using Strong Symmetries
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 4, pp. 040801, (January, 2025), Link to paper
Young, Chaparro, Piñeiro Orioli, Thompson, and Rey

86. Continuous Collective Strong Coupling of Strontium Atoms to a High Finesse Ring Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 134, no. 1, pp. 013403, (January, 2025), Link to paper
Cline, Schäfer, Niu, Young, Yoon, and Thompson

2024
85. Entanglement Generation in Weakly Driven Arrays of Multilevel Atoms via Dipolar Interactions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 133, no. 23, pp. 233003, (December, 2024), Link to paper
Agarwal, Orioli, Thompson, and Rey

84. Entangled matter waves for quantum enhanced sensing
Phys. Rev. A, vol. 110, no. 4, pp. L041301, (October, 2024), Link to paper
Wilson, Reilly, Zhang, Luo, Chu, Thompson, Rey, and Holland

83. Trade-offs between unitary and measurement induced spin squeezing in cavity QED
Phys. Rev. Res., vol. 6, no. 3, pp. L032037, (August, 2024), Link to paper
Barberena, Chu, Thompson, and Rey

82. Momentum-exchange interactions in a Bragg atom interferometer suppress Doppler dephasing
Science, vol. 384, no. 6695, pp. 551–556, (May, 2024), Link to paper
Luo, Zhang, Koh, Wilson, Chu, Holland, Rey, and Thompson

81. Observing dynamical phases of BCS superconductors in a cavity QED simulator
Nature, vol. 625, no. 7996, pp. 679–684, (January, 2024), Link to paper
Young, Chu, Song, Barberena, Wellnitz, Niu, Schäfer, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson

80. Direct comparison of two spin-squeezed optical clock ensembles at the 10−17 level
Nature Physics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 208–213, (January, 2024), Link to paper
Robinson, Miklos, Tso, Kennedy, Bothwell, Kedar, Thompson, and Ye

2023
79. Control and amplification of Bloch oscillations via photon-mediated interactions
Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. L032039, (September, 2023), Link to paper
Zhang, Chu, Luo, Thompson, and Rey

78. Ultra narrow linewidth frequency reference via measurement and feedback
Comptes Rendus. Physique, vol. 24, no. S3, pp. 1–14, (June, 2023), Link to paper
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Rey, and Thompson

77. Photon-mediated correlated hopping in a synthetic ladder
Physical Review Research, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. L022034, (May, 2023), Link to paper
Chu, Orioli, Barberena, Thompson, and Rey

76. Bosonic Pair Production and Squeezing for Optical Phase Measurements in Long-Lived Dipoles Coupled to a Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 130, no. 11, pp. 113202, (March, 2023), Link to paper
Sundar, Barberena, Orioli, Chu, Thompson, Rey, and Lewis-Swan

75. Opportunities and Limitations in Broadband Sensing
Physical Review Applied, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 014029, (January, 2023), Link to paper
Polloreno, Beckey, Levin, Shlosberg, Thompson, Foss-Feig, Hayes, and Smith

2022
74. Resonant light enhances phase coherence in a cavity QED simulator of fermionic superfluidity
Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 4, pp. L042032, (November, 2022), Link to paper
Kelly, Thompson, Rey, and Marino

73. Entanglement-enhanced matter-wave interferometry in a high-finesse cavity
Nature, vol. 610, no. 7932, pp. 472–477, (October, 2022), Link to paper
Greve, Luo, Wu, and Thompson

72. Entropy transfer from a quantum particle to a classical coherent light field
Physical Review Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 013218, (March, 2022), Link to paper
Bartolotta, Jäger, Reilly, Norcia, Thompson, Smith, and Holland

71. Emergent Dark States from Superradiant Dynamics in Multilevel Atoms in a Cavity
Physical Review X, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 011054, (March, 2022), Link to paper
Piñeiro Orioli, Thompson, and Rey

2021
70. Quantum Enhanced Cavity QED Interferometer with Partially Delocalized Atoms in Lattices
Physical Review Letters, vol. 127, no. 21, pp. 210401, (November, 2021), Link to paper
Chu, He, Thompson, and Rey

69. Cavity-QED measurements of the Sr 87 millihertz optical clock transition and determination of its natural linewidth
Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 023152, (May, 2021), Link to paper
Muniz, Young, Cline, and Thompson

68. Cavity-QED Quantum Simulator of Dynamical Phases of a Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer Superconductor
Physical Review Letters, vol. 126, no. 17, pp. 173601, (April, 2021), Link to paper
Lewis-Swan, Barberena, Cline, Young, Thompson, and Rey

67. Site-dependent selection of atoms for homogeneous atom-cavity coupling
arXiv, (April, 2021), Link to paper
Wu, Greve, Luo, and Thompson

2020
66. Atom-light entanglement for precise field sensing in the optical domain
Physical Review A, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 052615, (November, 2020), Link to paper
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, and Rey

65. Facilitating spin squeezing generated by collective dynamics with single-particle decoherence
Physical Review A, vol. 102, no. 5, pp. 051701, (November, 2020), Link to paper
Tucker, Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, Restrepo, and Rey

64. Protocol for Precise Field Sensing in the Optical Domain with Cold Atoms in a Cavity
Physical Review Letters, vol. 124, no. 19, pp. 193602, (May, 2020), Link to paper
Lewis-Swan, Barberena, Muniz, Cline, Young, Thompson, and Rey

63. Exploring dynamical phase transitions with cold atoms in an optical cavity
Nature, vol. 580, no. 7805, pp. 602–607, (April, 2020), Link to paper
Muniz, Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Young, Cline, Rey, and Thompson

2019
62. Laser cooling with adiabatic transfer on a Raman transition
New Journal of Physics, vol. 21, no. 7, pp. 073045, (July, 2019), Link to paper
Greve, Wu, and Thompson

61. Continuous Real-Time Tracking of a Quantum Phase Below the Standard Quantum Limit
Physical Review Letters, vol. 122, no. 23, pp. 233602, (June, 2019), Link to paper
Shankar, Greve, Wu, Thompson, and Holland

60. Driven-dissipative quantum dynamics in ultra-long-lived dipoles in an optical cavity
Physical Review A, vol. 99, no. 5, pp. 053411, (May, 2019), Link to paper
Barberena, Lewis-Swan, Thompson, and Rey

59. An active optical frequency reference using a pulsed superradiant laser
Optical, Opto-Atomic, and Entanglement-Enhanced Precision Metrology, pp. 78, (March, 2019), Link to paper
Muniz Silva, Cline, Thompson, and Norcia

2018
58. Robust Spin Squeezing via Photon-Mediated Interactions on an Optical Clock Transition
Physical Review Letters, vol. 121, no. 7, pp. 070403, (August, 2018), Link to paper
Lewis-Swan, Norcia, Cline, Thompson, and Rey

57. Laser cooling by sawtooth-wave adiabatic passage
Physical Review A, vol. 98, no. 2, pp. 023404, (August, 2018), Link to paper
Bartolotta, Norcia, Cline, Thompson, and Holland

56. Cavity-mediated collective spin-exchange interactions in a strontium superradiant laser
Science, vol. 361, no. 6399, pp. 259–262, (July, 2018), Link to paper
Norcia, Lewis-Swan, Cline, Zhu, Rey, and Thompson

55. A Robust Narrow-Line Magneto-Optical Trap using Adiabatic Transfer
arXiv, (June, 2018), Link to paper
Muniz, Norcia, Cline, and Thompson

54. Frequency Measurements of Superradiance from the Strontium Clock Transition
Physical Review X, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 021036, (May, 2018), Link to paper
Norcia, Cline, Muniz, Robinson, Hutson, Goban, Marti, Ye, and Thompson

53. Narrow-line laser cooling by adiabatic transfer
New Journal of Physics, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 023021, (February, 2018), Link to paper
Norcia, Cline, Bartolotta, Holland, and Thompson

2017
52. Role of atoms in atomic gravitational-wave detectors
Physical Review A, vol. 96, no. 4, pp. 042118, (October, 2017), Link to paper
Norcia, Cline, and Thompson

51. Magnetically Induced Optical Transparency on a Forbidden Transition in Strontium for Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy
Physical Review Letters, vol. 118, no. 26, pp. 263601, (June, 2017), Link to paper
Winchester, Norcia, Cline, and Thompson

50. Phase synchronization inside a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 95, pp. 033808, (March, 2017), Link to paper
Weiner, Cox, Bohnet, and Thompson

2016
49. Spatially homogeneous entanglement for matter-wave interferometry created with time-averaged measurements
Physical Review A, vol. 94, no. 6, pp. 061601, (December, 2016), Link to paper
Cox, Greve, Wu, and Thompson

48. Steady-state superradiance with Rydberg polaritons
arXiv, (November, 2016), Link to paper
Gong, Xu, Foss-Feig, Thompson, Rey, Holland, and Gorshkov

47. Superradiance on the millihertz linewidth strontium clock transition
Science Advances, vol. 2, no. 10, pp. e1601231, (October, 2016), Link to paper
Norcia, Winchester, Cline, and Thompson

46. Cold-Strontium Laser in the Superradiant Crossover Regime
Physical Review X, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 011025, (March, 2016), Link to paper
Norcia, and Thompson

45. Deterministic Squeezed States with Collective Measurements and Feedback
Physical Review Letters, vol. 116, no. 9, pp. 093602, (March, 2016), Link to paper
Cox, Greve, Weiner, and Thompson

44. Strong coupling on a forbidden transition in strontium and nondestructive atom counting
Physical Review A, vol. 93, no. 2, pp. 023804, (February, 2016), Link to paper
Norcia, and Thompson

43. Simple laser stabilization to the strontium 88Sr transition at 707 nm
Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 87, no. 2, pp. 023110, (February, 2016), Link to paper
Norcia, and Thompson

2015
42. Generating entanglement between atomic spins with low-noise probing of an optical cavity
2015 Joint Conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium & the European Frequency and Time Forum, pp. 351–356, (April, 2015), Link to paper
Cox, Weiner, Greve, and Thompson

41. Atomic doughnuts from single photons
Nature, vol. 519, no. 7544, pp. 420–421, (March, 2015), Link to paper
Thompson

2014
40. Reducing collective quantum state rotation errors with reversible dephasing
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 105, no. 26, pp. 261102, (December, 2014), Link to paper
Cox, Norcia, Weiner, Bohnet, and Thompson

39. Phase diagram for injection locking a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 90, no. 5, pp. 053845, (November, 2014), Link to paper
Cox, Weiner, and Thompson

38. Synchronization of Two Ensembles of Atoms
Physical Review Letters, vol. 113, no. 15, pp. 154101, (October, 2014), Link to paper
Xu, Tieri, Fine, Thompson, and Holland

37. Reduced spin measurement back-action for a phase sensitivity ten times beyond the standard quantum limit
Nature Photonics, vol. 8, no. 9, pp. 731–736, (September, 2014), Link to paper
Bohnet, Cox, Norcia, Weiner, Chen, and Thompson

36. Cavity-aided nondemolition measurements for atom counting and spin squeezing
Physical Review A, vol. 89, no. 4, pp. 043837, (April, 2014), Link to paper
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson

35. Linear-response theory for superradiant lasers
Physical Review A, vol. 89, no. 1, pp. 013806, (January, 2014), Link to paper
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson

2013
34. A quasi-continuous superradiant Raman laser with < 1 intracavity photon
EPJ Web of Conferences, vol. 57, pp. 03003, (August, 2013), Link to paper
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, Meiser, Holland, and Thompson

33. Active and passive sensing of collective atomic coherence in a superradiant laser
Physical Review A, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 013826, (July, 2013), Link to paper
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson

2012
32. Superradiant Raman laser magnetometer
Applied Physics Letters, vol. 101, no. 26, pp. 261107, (December, 2012), Link to paper
Weiner, Cox, Bohnet, Chen, and Thompson

31. Relaxation Oscillations, Stability, and Cavity Feedback in a Superradiant Raman Laser
Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, no. 25, pp. 253602, (December, 2012), Link to paper
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Cox, and Thompson

30. Steady-State Many-Body Entanglement of Hot Reactive Fermions
Physical Review Letters, vol. 109, no. 23, pp. 230501, (December, 2012), Link to paper
Foss-Feig, Daley, Thompson, and Rey

29. General formalism for evaluating the impact of phase noise on Bloch vector rotations
Physical Review A, vol. 86, no. 3, pp. 032313, (September, 2012), Link to paper
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, and Thompson

28. A steady-state superradiant laser with less than one intracavity photon
Nature, vol. 484, no. 7392, pp. 78–81, (April, 2012), Link to paper
Bohnet, Chen, Weiner, Meiser, Holland, and Thompson

27. A low phase noise microwave source for atomic spin squeezing experiments in 87Rb
Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 83, no. 4, pp. 044701, (April, 2012), Link to paper
Chen, Bohnet, Weiner, and Thompson

2011
26. Conditional Spin Squeezing of a Large Ensemble via the Vacuum Rabi Splitting
Physical Review Letters, vol. 106, pp. 133601, (April, 2011), Link to paper
Chen, Bohnet, Sankar, Dai, and Thompson

2007
25. External-feedback laser cooling of molecular gases
Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 5, pp. 051405, (May, 2007), Link to paper
Vuletić, Thompson, Black, and Simon

24. Interfacing Collective Atomic Excitations and Single Photons
Physical Review Letters, vol. 98, pp. 183601, (May, 2007), Link to paper
Simon, Tanji, Thompson, and Vuletic

2006
23. Influence of grating parameters on the linewidths of external-cavity diode lasers
20 December 2006 # Vol. 45, No. 36 # APPLIED OPTICS, vol. 45, no. 36, pp. 9191, (December, 2006), Link to paper
Loh, Lin, Teper, Cetina, Simon, Thompson, and Vuletic

22. A High-Brightness Source of Narrowband, Identical-Photon Pairs
Science, vol. 313, no. 5783, pp. 74–77, (July, 2006), Link to paper
Thompson, Simon, Loh, and Vuletić

2005
21. A direct test of E= mc2
Nature, vol. 438, no. 7071, pp. 1096–1097, (December, 2005), Link to paper
Rainville, Thompson, Myers, Brown, Dewey, Kessler Jr, Deslattes, Börner, Jentschel, Mutti, and Pritchard, David E

20. On-Demand Superradiant Conversion of Atomic Spin Gratings into Single Photons with High Efficiency
Physical Review Letters, vol. 95, no. 13, pp. 133601, (September, 2005), Link to paper
Black, Thompson, and Vuletić

19. Atomic Samples in Resonators: Forces, Photons, Feedback
AIP Conf. Proc., vol. 770, pp. 175–183, (May, 2005), Link to paper
Thompson, Black, and Vuletic

18. Collective light forces on atoms in resonators
Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, vol. 38, no. 9, pp. S605, (April, 2005), Link to paper
Black, Thompson, and Vuletic

2004
17. Cyclotron frequency shifts arising from polarization forces
Nature, vol. 430, no. 6995, pp. 58–61, (July, 2004), Link to paper
Thompson, Rainville, and Pritchard

16. An Ion Balance for Ultra-High-Precision Atomic Mass Measurements
Science, vol. 303, no. 5656, pp. 334–338, (January, 2004), Link to paper
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard

2003
15. Two-Ion Control and Polarization Forces for Precise Mass Comparisons
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (September, 2003), Link to paper
Thompson

14. Two ions in one trap: ultra-high precision mass spectrometry?
IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 292–296, (April, 2003), Link to paper
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard

2002
13. Single-ion mass spectrometry at 100 ppt and beyond
Canadian Journal of Physics, vol. 80, no. 11, pp. 1329–1336, (November, 2002), Link to paper
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard

12. Mass Spectrometry at 100 Parts Per Trillion
Trapped Particles and Fundamental Physics, pp. 245–258, (, 2002), Link to paper
Pritchard, and Thompson

11. Two ions in one trap: ultra-high precision mass spectrometry?
Conference Digest Conference on Precision Electromagnetic Measurements, pp. 318–319, (, 2002), Link to paper
Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard

2001
10. Single ion mass spectrometry and the fine structure constant
AIP Conference Proceedings, pp. 73–85, (January, 2001), Link to paper
Pritchard

9. Precise Measurements of the Masses of Cs, Rb and Na — A New Route to the Fine Structure Constant
Atomic Physics at Accelerators: Mass Spectrometry, pp. 177–187, (, 2001), Link to paper
Rainville, Bradley, Porto, Thompson, and Pritchard

2000
8. Lamb shift, fine structure and hyperfine structure in helium like ions by fast beam laser spectroscopy
Hyperfine Interactions, vol. 127, pp. 323–328, (August, 2000), Link to paper
Myers, Thompson, Margolis, Silver, and Tarbutt

1999
7. Penning Trap Measurements of the Masses of 133Cs, 87,85Rb, and 23Na with Uncertainties l0.2 ppb
Physical Review Letters, vol. 83, no. 22, pp. 4510–4513, (November, 1999), Link to paper
Bradley, Porto, Rainville, Thompson, and Pritchard

6. Precision Measurement of the 1 s 2 p P 3 2 − P 1 3 Fine Structure Interval in Heliumlike Fluorine
Physical Review Letters, vol. 82, no. 21, pp. 4200–4203, (May, 1999), Link to paper
Myers, Margolis, Thompson, Farmer, Silver, and Tarbutt

1998
5. Measurements of the 1 s 2 s 1 S 0 – 1 s 2 p 3 P 1 , 0 transitions in heliumlike nitrogen
Physical Review A, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 180–188, (January, 1998), Link to paper
Thompson, Howie, and Myers

1997
4. Measurement of the 1s2s [sup 1]S[sub 0]−1s2p [sup 3]P[sub 0,1] transitions in heliumlike nitrogen by fast-beam laser spectroscopy
The fourteenth international conference on the application of accelerators in research and industry, pp. 141–144, (February, 1997), Link to paper
Myers, Thompson, Howie, Gavathas, Claussen, and Silver

1996
3. Hyperfine-Induced 1 s 2 s 1 S 0 -1 s 2 p 3 P 0 Transition and Fine-Structure Measurement in Heliumlike Nitrogen
Physical Review Letters, vol. 76, no. 26, pp. 4899–4902, (June, 1996), Link to paper
Myers, Howie, Thompson, and Silver

2. Operation of a radio-frequency ion source in a tandem electrostatic accelerator
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 372, no. 1–2, pp. 280–282, (March, 1996), Link to paper
Myers, Thompson, Allen, Barber, Brown, Griffin, Schmidt, and Trimble

1995
1. Measurement of the 1 s 2 s S 1 − 1 s 2 p P 1 3 Interval in Heliumlike Nitrogen
Physical Review Letters, vol. 75, no. 20, pp. 3637–3640, (November, 1995), Link to paper
Myers, Thompson, Gavathas, Claussen, Silver, and Howie