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Professor of Experimental Physics, Imperial College London 🔗
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Department(s)/lab(s): Physics – QOLS / Centre for Cold Matter | Centre for Cold Matter – eEDM / Precision Molecular Sensing @ Imperial
Summary:

Tarbutt co-leads the Imperial eEDM experiment using YbF molecules and runs an independent molecular array quantum computing/sensing programme. Two parallel eEDM experiments: (1) Ultracold YbF beam — 2D transverse laser cooling producing 200 μK, 2×10^5 molecules/shot, eEDM sensitivity of 1.8×10^−28 e·cm/day (near shot-noise limit); (2) YbF 3D optical lattice — aiming for 10^−30 e·cm/year, requires laser cooling to μK and loading into 3D optical lattice, using novel all-optical spin polarisation and analysis. Also leads UKRI project on testing fundamental physics using arrays of ultracold molecules (CaF in optical tweezers for two-qubit molecular gates). These experiments probe CP-violation and BSM physics at PeV energy scales through precision molecular spectroscopy.

Created at: May 14, 2025, 7 a.m. Updated at: May 14, 2025, 7 a.m. Metadata: As of May 2025