Jake Higgins

Probing Ultralight Dark Matter at the Mega-Planck Scale with the Thorium Nuclear Clock arxiv.org/abs/2602.16804

JILA researchers just took a major step toward next‑gen nuclear clocks. In a new @Nature study, @JunYeJILA's team tracked thorium‑doped crystals for nearly a year and found remarkably stable nuclear transitions—key for ultra‑precise, compact clocks. Read more: jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… @NIST | @CUBoulder | @CUBoulderPhys | @CUArtsSciences

Fine-structure constant sensitivity of the Th-229 nuclear clock transition nature.com/articles/s4146…

Some news! I'm a postdoc in the Gaynor Group at Northwestern now: sites.northwestern.edu/gaynorgroup/ja…. Reach out if you're in the Chicago area and want to catch up!!

Frequency reproducibility of solid-state Th-229 nuclear clocks new paper! arxiv.org/abs/2507.01180

@stanna_dorn Good luck!!!

@EAArsenault Congrats Eric!

Thrilled to be joining the Department of Chemistry at Yale!

It's world metrology day, and he still hasn't told me I’m beyond measure.

@CUBoulderPhys thank you cu boulder physics

@Jakehiggin Congrats! 🎉

My first author postdoc paper is finally published in PRL today! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

In an Editor's Choice "Physical Review Letters" paper, researchers from JILA and @NIST Fellow and @CUBoulderPhys prof Jun Ye's group looked at how various temperature changes in the thorium #nuclearclock setup drove energy shifts. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… @CUArtsSciences

@evamariawara @ChemistryUVA @stanna_dorn @RahelWoldeyes Yes please we definitely need to catch up!!

@Jakehiggin @ChemistryUVA Hi Jake!. Hope you are doing well. We definitely need to catch up. @stanna_dorn, @RahelWoldeyes and I are still in touch after our time in Boston.

I am excited to share that I will be starting my independent career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia (UVA) this Fall! @ChemistryUVA Muy contenta de empezar un nuevo capitulo en mi carrera academica!

🦋 jakehiggins

The next "Humans of JILA" article is here and written by our Sci-Com mentee, Willa Arthur-Dworschack! Meet JILA Postdoc @Jakehiggin, working on the nuclear #clock team in the lab of JILA and @NIST Fellow and @CUBoulderphys prof Jun Ye. jila.colorado.edu/blog/jila-jour… @CUArtsSciences

New arxiv posting! Non-perturbative exciton transfer rate analysis of the Fenna-Matthews-Olson photosynthetic complex under reduced and oxidised conditions arxiv.org/abs/2412.14883

In a new @Nature paper, JILA and @NIST Fellow and @CUBoulderphys prof Jun Ye and his team collaborated with @UCLA prof Eric Hudson to make a method for creating thin layers of thorium, a promising new platform for future #nuclearclocks. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ar… @CUArtsSciences

We recently launched our "Professional Research Development Program" for grad students and postdocs to gain skills beyond their core science training. jila.colorado.edu/news-events/ne… TY: Fellows Ana Maria Rey and Andreas Becker, @SarahMScheiner, @Jakehiggin, @aimlessinspace, Lauren Mason, Dr. Ellen Keister, Christine Jackson, and more! @STROBE_STC @NIST @CUBoulderPhys @CUArtsSciences

Our work was featured in the Washington Post! Read here: washingtonpost.com/science/2024/1…