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Jake Higgins

@jakehiggins.bsky.social
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Postdoc Northwestern | PhD UChicago, Engel Group | they/them

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Jake Higgins @jakehiggins.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Probing Ultralight Dark Matter at the Mega-Planck Scale with the Thorium Nuclear Clock arxiv.org/abs/2602.16804
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Probing Ultralight Dark Matter at the Mega-Planck Scale with the Thorium Nuclear Clock
Ultralight dark matter is expected to induce oscillations of nuclear parameters. These oscillations are characterized by extremely weak couplings or high suppression scales, with the Planck scale - th...
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Michael Wong @miquai.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Me: "What did you learn at journal club today?" Intern: "That one day I'm going to publish a paper, and a bunch of people are going to sit around a table and rip it apart."
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Jake Higgins @jakehiggins.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract...
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Temperature Sensitivity of a Thorium-229 Solid-State Nuclear Clock
Researchers have characterized the temperature-induced frequency shifts of a thorium-229 nuclear transition---an important step in establishing thorium clocks as next-generation frequency standards.
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · 17/03/2025
In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and NIST Fellow and @colorado.edu physics prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/...
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Quanta Magazine @quantamagazine.org · 10/01/2025
In Tennessee, where Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli lives and works, policies targeting transgender people are on the rise. “Fifty percent of my brain is thinking about this, how can I survive, and in the remaining 50% of the brain, I can think about physics.” www.quantamagazine.org/the-physicis...
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The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World | Quanta Magazine
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unli...
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JILA @jila.colorado.edu · 07/01/2025
The winter issue of "Light & Matter" is here! Read the latest about #nuclearclocks, #AtomicClocks, #quantumphysicstumphysics #physicsresearch, and more in the latest installment of our quarterly journal. jila.colorado.edu/bibcite/refe...
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