David Hume

National Institute of Standards and Technology — United States

Physics and Astronomy · Physical Sciences

29h-index8.4kcitations124works8.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Advanced Frequency and Time Standards(45), Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates(32), Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research(29), Quantum Information and Cryptography(26), Scientific Measurement and Uncertainty Evaluation(12)

Publications124 total

High-Stability Single-Ion Clock with <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mn>5.5</mml:mn><mml:mo>×</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mn>10</mml:mn></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mn>19</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow></mml:math> Systematic Uncertainty
Physical Review Letters·2025· 22 citedOpen Access
Quantum metrology algorithms for dark matter searches with clocks
Physical review. A/Physical review, A·2025· 5 cited
Cryogenic sapphire optical reference cavity with crystalline coatings at 1 × 10−16 fractional frequency instability
Review of Scientific Instruments·2024· 6 cited
Cryogenic sapphire optical reference cavity with crystalline coatings at $\mathrm{ 1 \times 10^{-16}}$ fractional instability
arXiv (Cornell University)·2024Open Access
Enhancing divalent optical atomic clocks with the <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mrow/><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mn>1</mml:mn></mml:mmultiscripts><mml:msub><mml:mi>S</mml:mi><mml:mn>0</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mo>↔</mml:mo><mml:msup><mml:mrow/><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msup><mml:msub><mml:mi>P</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math> transition
Physical review. A/Physical review, A·2023· 5 cited
Quantum Sensors for High Energy Physics
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 2 citedOpen Access
Enhancing Divalent Optical Atomic Clocks with the $^{1}\mathrm{S}_0$$\leftrightarrow$$^{3}\mathrm{P}_{2}$ Transition
arXiv (Cornell University)·2023· 1 citedOpen Access
Erratum: <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:mrow><mml:mmultiscripts><mml:mrow><mml:msup><mml:mrow><mml:mi>Al</mml:mi></mml:mrow><mml:mrow><mml:mo>+</mml:mo></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:mrow><mml:mprescripts/><mml:none/><mml:mrow><mml:mn>27</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:mmultiscripts></mml:mrow></mml:math> Quantum-Logic Clock with a Systematic Uncertainty below <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><mml:msup><mml:mn>10</mml:mn><mml:mrow><mml:mo>−</mml:mo><mml:mn>18</mml:mn></mml:mrow></mml:msup></mml:math> [Phys. Rev. Lett. <b>123</b>, 033201 (2019)]
Physical Review Letters·2023· 4 citedOpen Access
Improved interspecies optical clock comparisons through differential spectroscopy
Nature Physics·2022· 37 cited
Scalable Quantum Logic Spectroscopy
Physical Review Letters·2022· 6 cited
Scalable quantum logic spectroscopy
arXiv (Cornell University)·2022Open Access
Leveraging correlated laser noise to improve optical frequency comparisons
Optical and Quantum Sensing and Precision Metrology II·2022
Optical coherence between atomic species at the second scale: improved clock comparisons via differential spectroscopy
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021· 3 citedOpen Access
Optical coherence between atomic species at the second scale: improved\n clock comparisons via differential spectroscopy
arXiv (Cornell University)·2021· 1 citedOpen Access
Powering the Blue Economy: A Survey of Station-Keeping Methods for Mooringless Platforms
2021Open Access
Scalable quantum logic spectroscopy using a Schrӧdinger cat interferometer
Bulletin of the American Physical Society·2021
Frequency ratio measurements at 18-digit accuracy using an optical clock network
Nature·2021· 355 cited
Opportunities for DOE National Laboratory-led QuantISED Experiments
ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University)·2021Open Access
Measurement of the <sup>27</sup> Al <sup>+</sup> and <sup>87</sup> Sr absolute optical frequencies
Metrologia·2020· 10 cited
Optical atomic clock comparison through turbulent air
Physical Review Research·2020· 27 citedOpen Access
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Frequent Co-authors

David R. Leibrandt(20), T. Rosenband(14), C. W. Chou(14), D. J. Wineland(14), Tara M. Fortier(13), Scott A. Diddams(10), Wayne M. Itano(10), Samuel M. Brewer(10), Jwo-Sy Chen(9), Ethan Clements(8), Jonas Bergquist(7), Holly Leopardi(7), William F. McGrew(7), Piet O. Schmidt(6), William C. Swann(6), Nathan R. Newbury(6), D. J. Wineland(6), Markus K. Oberthaler(6), Youssef S. Hassan(6), Andrew D. Ludlow(6)