Curriculum Vitae
Generalities
- Poli, Nicola - 16/12/1976
- Researcher unique identifier(s): Scopus Author ID: 6603350447; ISI ResearcherID: B-2166-2012;
ORCID: 0000-0003-4225-6832 ; Google Scholar
Education
- 2001 Master Degree in Physics, Department of Physics - University of Florence
- 2005 PhD in Physics – Department of Physics, University of Florence - Thesis on Ultra-cold atoms in optical lattices for the study of optical forbidden transitions for future frequency standards. Supervisor Prof. G. M. Tino
CURRENT POSITION
- 2018 – Associate Professor; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence - 02/B1 – Physics of Matter;
- 2010 - 2017 Assistant Professor; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence
FELLOWSHIPS
- 2006 Research fellow - INRIM laboratories (Torino)
Two-way satellite system for remote comparison of primary atomic standards (cesium fountain clocks. Ref. Dr. A. Godone, Dr. F. Levi - 2007 Research fellow - NIST, Boulder (USA)
Remote comparisons between optical clocks based on alkaline-earth metals (calcium, strontium, characterization of an ytterbium optical lattice clock. Ref. Dr. C.W. Oates - 2008 - 2010 Research fellow - European Laboratory for Non-linear Spectroscopy (LENS).
Atom optics. Ref. Prof. G. M. Tino - 2017 Research Fellow - JILA, University of Colorado.
Ref. Dr. J. M. Thompson, Dr. J. Ye
Research highlights
- 2001-2002 Dynamics of ultra-cold Potassium atoms in optical lattices; new cooling methods based on parametric excitation in an-harmonic optical dipole traps [Poli2002-Phys.Rev.A(R), Jauregui2001-Phys.Rev.A].
- 2003 First absolute frequency measurement of the forbidden transitions of Sr atoms with optical frequency comb technique [Ferrari2003-Phys.Rev.Lett.]
- 2005 First ultra-cold isotopic mixtures of Sr atoms [Poli2005-Phys.Rev.A(R)], sympathetic cooling of Sr isotopes towards quantum degeneracy [Ferrari2006-Phys.Rev.A].
- 2006 Long coherence time Bloch oscillations of Sr atoms in optical lattices [Ferrari2006-Phys.Rev.Lett.].
- 2007-2008 First remote comparison of distant Sr and Ca optical atomic clocks through optical fiber link [Ludlow2008-Science], first characterization of 174Yb optical lattice clock with hyper-polarizability effects [Poli2008-Phys.Rev.A, Barber2008-PhysRevLett.]
- 2009 Simplified optical lattice clock on Sr [Poli2009-Appl.Phys.B]
- 2010-2011 Accurate Sr gravimeter [Poli2011-Phys.Rev.Lett.]
- 2011-2014, First Italian optical link (642 km long) between UNIFI and INRIM [Calonico2014-Appl.Phys.B, Clivati2013-IEEE Phot.Lett.2013], compact and transportable Sr optical lattice clock [Poli2014-Appl.Phys.B]. Review article on optical lattice clocks [Poli2013-Riv.NuovoCimento].
- 2014-2016 Sr atom interferometry: WEP and spin-gravity test at 10-7 level [Tarallo2014-Phys.Rev.Lett.]; high precision Sr Bragg gravimeter [Mazzoni2015-Phys.Rev.A], trapped Bragg-Bloch Sr interferometer [Zhang2016-Phys.Rev.A],
- 2016-2018 Sr atom gradiometer on ultra-narrow intercombination transition [DelAguila2018-New.J.Phys, Hu2017-Phys.Rev.Lett.], spin-squeezed states in Bragg interferometers [Salvi2017-Phys.Rev.Lett.] precise measurements of optical frequencies on Sr [Marti2018-Phys.Rev.Lett.]
- Bragg gravity-gradiometer using the 1S0–3P1 intercombination transition of 88Sr
R. P. del Aguila, T. Mazzoni, L. Hu, L. Salvi, G. M. Tino and N. Poli, New. J. Phys. 20, 043002 (2018) - Sr lattice clock at 1 x 10-16 fractional uncertainty by remote optical evaluation with a Ca clock
Ludlow, A. D.; Zelevinsky, T.; Campbell, G. K.; et al. , SCIENCE, 319(5871),1805-1808 (2008) - Long-lived Bloch oscillations with bosonic Sr atoms and application to gravity measurement at the micrometer scale
Ferrari, G.; Poli, N.; Sorrentino, F.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Volume: 97(6),060402 (2006) - Precision Measurement of Gravity with Cold Atoms in an Optical Lattice and Comparison with a Classical Gravimeter
By: Poli, N.; Wang, F. -Y.; Tarallo, M. G.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS , Volume: 106(3),038501 (2011) - Optical lattice induced light shifts in an Yb atomic clock
Barber, Z. W.; Stalnaker, J. E.; Lemke, N. D.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 100(10),103002 (2008) - Frequency evaluation of the doubly forbidden 1S0-3P0 transition in bosonic 174Yb
Poli, N.; Barber, Z. W.; Lemke, N. D.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW A 77 (5), 050501 (2008) - Precision frequency measurement of visible intercombination lines of strontium
Ferrari, G; Cancio, P; Drullinger, R; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, 91(24),243002 (2003) - High-accuracy coherent optical frequency transfer over a doubled 642-km fiber link
Calonico, D.; Bertacco, E. K.; Calosso, C. E.; et al. APPLIED PHYSICS B-LASERS AND OPTIC S 117 (3),979-986 (2014) - Optical atomic clocks
N. Poli, C. W. Oates, P. Gill and G.M. Tino La Rivista del Nuovo Cimento 36(12), 555 (2013) - Quantum sensor for atom-surface interactions below 10 microm
Sorrentino, F.; Alberti, A.; Ferrari, G.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW A, 79(1),013409 (2009) - Test of Einstein Equivalence Principle for 0-Spin and Half-Integer-Spin Atoms: Search for Spin-Gravity Coupling Effects
Tarallo, M. G.; Mazzoni, T.; Poli, N.; et al. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, Volume: 113(2), 023005 (2014)
Publications
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