Sensing low frequency electric fields with a Rydberg beam

Paul Kunz serves as Chief of the Quantum Science & Technology Branch within DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory (ARL). The Branch researches the physics and applications of optically coupled quantum systems, including sensors of electric and magnetic fields, clocks, and information processing units based on neutral atoms, trapped ions, and solid-state color centers. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder for his thesis work on laser-cooled atomic clocks, and subsequently joined ARL where he initiated experiments on Rydberg-vapor sensors and cold-atom quantum memories. In 2021 he started the ARL South quantum research group at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds an adjunct faculty position within the Physics department’s Center for Complex Quantum Systems.