Phone
Office Location
Smith 366
Xuejian Wu is an experimental atomic physicist. His research aims to advance quantum sensors to new regimes with unprecedented sensitivity, miniaturized size, turn-key operation, and versatile functions, and apply them for metrology, navigation, geophysics, and biology.
The Wu Lab (sites.google.com/view/wulabrun/) at Rutgers-Newark Physics is always looking for motivated students, postdocs, and visitors. Our lab is in Smith 360 and our offices are in Smith 366 & 368. Please contact Xuejian Wu for more information!
Currently, we are building a light-pulse atom interferometer with atoms above an optical nanofiber. We will use the evanescent wave guided by the optical nanofiber to coherently manipulate the surrounding atoms and form matter-wave interferometry. This quantum sensor can be used for measuring accelerations and rotations in applications such as inertial navigation. Additionally, we are interested in developing portable quantum inertial sensors and electromagnetic field detectors for geological surveys, underground water storage estimations, and volcano activity monitors. Using structured and squeezed light, we are interested in building high-resolution microscopy and spectroscopy instruments for visualizing cell mechanics, particle dynamics, and material chemical structures.
Courses Taught
26:755:621 Classical Electrodynamics
26:755:710 Special Topics in Experimental Physics: Advanced Optical Measurements
Education
Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA (01/2015 - 12/2020)
Ph.D. at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China (01/2015)
B.S. at Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, China (06/2009)
Expertise
Atom Interferometry, Laser Interferometry, Spectroscopy, and Microscopy
Publications
Recent Selected Publications:
- A flight capable atomic gravity gradiometer with a single laser. Storm Weiner, Xuejian Wu, Zachary Pagel, Dongzoon Li, Jacob Sleczkowski, Francis Ketcham, and Holger Müller, 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Inertial Sensors and Systems (INERTIAL) and Full Text.
- Gravity surveys using a mobile atom interferometer. Xuejian Wu, Zachary Pagel, Bola S. Malek, Timothy H. Nguyen, Fei Zi, Daniel S. Scheirer, and Holger Müller, Science Advances 5(9), eaax0800 (2019) and arXiv:1904.09084.
Secondary reports about this work
Phys.org: Gravity surveys using a mobile atom interferometer.
IOP Physics World: Quantum gravimeter drives out of the lab and into the hills.
The Berkeley Science Review: Measuring gravity goes mobile.
- Embedded control system for mobile atom interferometers, Bola Malek, Zachary Pagel, Xuejian Wu, Holger Müller, Review of Scientific Instruments 90, 073103 (2019) and arXiv:1812.01028.
- Adaptive cavity-enhanced dual-comb spectroscopy, Weipeng Zhang, Xinyi Chen, Xuejian Wu, Yan Li, Haoyun Wei, Photonics Research 7(8), 883-889 (2019).
- Multiaxis atom interferometry with a single-diode laser and a pyramidal magneto-optical trap. Xuejian Wu, Fei Zi, Jordan Dudley, Ryan J. Bilotta, Philip Canoza, and Holger Müller, Optica 4(12),1545-1551 (2017) and arXiv:1707.08693.
Secondary reports about this work
UC Berkeley Research News: How Many Lasers can You Fit into a Shoebox?
- High spectral specificity of local chemical components characterization with multichannel shift-excitation Raman spectroscopy. Kun Chen, Tao Wu, Haoyun Wei, Xuejian Wu, Yan Li, Scientific Reports 5, 13952 (2015).
- Interferometric diameter determination of a silicon sphere using a traceable single laser frequency synthesizer. Xuejian Wu, Yan Li, Haoyun Wei, Honglei Yang, Guoce Yang, Jitao Zhang, Measurement Science and Technology 24, 115202 (2013).
Secondary reports about this work
IOP Science: Precision measurement outstanding paper award 2013