John Thomas
Bio
Professor Thomas received his B. S. degree in Physics at MIT in 1973 and his Ph. D. in Physics at MIT in 1979. At MIT, he was a Hertz Foundation predoctoral Fellow (1973-1978) and received a C. S. Draper Career Development Chair (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1980-1981), before joining the Physics Department at Duke University in 1986. At Duke, he received a NIST Precision Measurements Grant (1990-1993) and was named the Fritz London Distinguished Professor in 2004. In 2011, he moved his research group (JETlab) to North Carolina State University, where he is currently the John S. Risley Distinguished Professor of Physics.
Publications
- Energy-resolved spin correlation measurements: Decoding transverse spin dynamics in weakly interacting Fermi gases , Physical Review A (2024)
- Verifying a quasiclassical spin model of perturbed quantum rewinding in a Fermi gas , PHYSICAL REVIEW A (2023)
- Hydrodynamic Relaxation in a Strongly Interacting Fermi Gas , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2022)
- Energy-Resolved Information Scrambling in Energy-Space Lattices , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2021)
- Fermi Gases in Bichromatic Superlattices , (2020)
- Designer Spatial Control of Interactions in Ultracold Gases , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2019)
- Measuring the Hydrodynamic Linear Response of a Unitary Fermi Gas , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2019)
- Spin-energy correlation in degenerate weakly interacting Fermi gases , PHYSICAL REVIEW A (2019)
- Atom Pairing in Optical Superlattices , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2018)
- Probing Energy-Dependent Feshbach Resonances by Optical Control , PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS (2018)