Category: AMO

In the first two general articles I wrote about the ACME EDM experiment, I outlined the basic goal of the experiment (to measure the electron electric dipole moment) and the broad principle of how we accomplish that (by performing a spin precession measurement on a molecule in an electric field). Here, I will get into … Continue reading “Guide to the ACME EDM Experiment: Atomic Structure”

A shorter introduction to the ACME EDM experiment can be found here. In the first introductory post of this series I outlined the immense precision of the ACME experiment in measuring the electron’s “shape.” A natural followup question is, how did we do that? In this post I will outline the basic measurement scheme in our … Continue reading “Guide to the ACME EDM Experiment: A Simple Overview”

Update, October 2018: This has now been superseded by a more informative and streamlined introduction here: Introducing the ACME EDM Experiment. It’s been almost two months since I last updated this blog, and the reason is because I’ve been utterly busy with both my courses and all the research going on in my experiment. As … Continue reading “Introducing the ACME EDM Experiment”