David Hume

National Institute of Standards and Technology

David Hume is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).  He received his PhD from the University of Colorado in 2010 for developing quantum metrology techniques with trapped ions.  As a postdoctoral researcher at Heidelberg University he pursued spin-squeezing and single-atom counting with neutral atoms in a Bose-Einstein condensate.  Currently he leads a research group at NIST developing trapped-ion optical clocks with world-leading accuracy and stability using quantum information techniques.

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