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Derek  F  Kimball

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What makes me unique

Prof. Derek F. Jackson Kimball uses techniques of experimental atomic physics and nonlinear optics for precision tests of the fundamental laws of physics.  In particular, his research focuses on searches for exotic spin-dependent interactions that may have a connection to dark matter or dark energy.

Prof. Jackson Kimball established the first externally funded physics research program in the history of 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay. He has mentored over ninety undergraduate students in his research laboratory. More than thirty of his students have gone on to graduate physics programs, and three of his students have been awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships. Former students now have careers at Intel, Google, Apple, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, for example. 

Prof. Jackson Kimball received his Ph.D. in 2005 from the University of California at Berkeley under the mentorship of Prof. Dmitry Budker, where he studied nonlinear magneto-optical rotation and its application to precision measurement of atomic spin precession. Prof. Jackson Kimball is the co-author of Atomic Physics: an exploration through problems and solutions (Oxford University Press, 2008), Optical Magnetometry (Cambridge University Press, 2013), The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter (Springer, 2022) and over 100 peer-reviewed research articles. 

Prof. Jackson Kimball served as the Chair of the 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay Department of Physics from 2011-14 and also during 2016. He was the 2020-2021 Chair of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants and the Chair of the 2023 Atomic Physics Gordon Conference. 

He was named 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay’s 2011-12 George and Miriam Phillips Outstanding Professor, received the 2019 Spitzer Distinguished Science Faculty Award.

In 2018, Prof. Jackson Kimball was elected a fellow of the American Physical Society "for outstanding contributions to the development of new techniques in atomic magnetometry and their application to fundamental-physics research, including testing the fundamental symmetries of nature and searches for ultralight dark-matter candidates."

In 2022, Prof. Jackson Kimball won the American Physical Society Prize for a Faculty Member for Research in an Undergraduate Institution "for innovative methods in dark matter detection, exemplary contributions to research, and high impact teaching to a diverse undergraduate student body using research projects."

  • Prof. Jackson Kimball uses techniques of experimental atomic physics and nonlinear optics for precision tests of the fundamental laws of physics.  In particular, his research focuses on searches for exotic spin-dependent interactions that may have a connection to dark matter or dark energy.

    An experiment carried out at 麻豆传媒社区入口 to search for a spin-gravity coupling of the proton improved constraints on such effects by three orders-of-magnitude. Related projects with several different collaborators have established some of the most stringent constraints on exotic dipole-dipole interactions of electrons, neutrons, and protons at the atomic scale.

    Prof. Jackson Kimball is a co-inventor of the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers to search for Exotic physics (GNOME) and is the GNOME collaboration’s Scientific Coordinator. The GNOME is sensitive to transient effects that could arise if the Earth passed through a compact dark-matter object such as an axion "star" or domain wall, or bursts of exotic low-mass fields (ELFs) generated by cataclysmic astrophysical events such as black hole mergers.

    He is also the Scientific Coordinator of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), an experiment that uses the techniques of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to search for signatures of oscillating ultralight dark matter fields.

    Another major collaborative research initiative is the Search for Non-Interacting Particles Experimental Hunt (SNIPE Hunt). In this experiment, the Earth-ionosphere system acts as a transducer to converrt ultralight dark matter into a coherent magnetic field signal pattern across the surface of the Earth that can be searched for using unshielded magnetometers. Along with researchers from around the world, 麻豆传媒社区入口 faculty and students have taken measurements in wilderness areas to search for dark-matter-induced magnetic fields.

    Prof. Jackson Kimball, along with colleagues Alex Sushkov and Dmitry Budker, predicted that micron-scale, levitated ferromagnets would behave as gyroscopes in sufficiently small magnetic fields. Devices based on such levitared ferromagnetic gyroscopes (LFGs) enable rapid averaging of quantum uncertainty in spin precession measurements, a development that could potentially improve sensitivity to exotic physics by many orders of magnitude. Experimental development of such LFGs is presently an active area of research at 麻豆传媒社区入口.

  • 1998 B.A. (Physics and Mathematics), University of California at Berkeley2002 M.S. (Physics), University of California at Berkeley2005 Ph.D. (Physics), University of California at Berkeley

  • Spring Semester 2026

    Course #SecCourse TitleDaysFromToLocationCampus
    PHYS 49001Independent StudyARRARRHayward Campus
    PHYS 46101Atomic PhysicsMWF9:00AM9:50AMSC-N321Hayward Campus
    PHYS 35101Quantum Mechanics IIMWF10:00AM10:50AMSC-N321Hayward Campus

  • Books

    Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Kimball, and David P. DeMille. Atomic Physics: an exploration through problems and solutions (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2004).

    Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Kimball, and David P. DeMille. Atomic Physics: an exploration through problems and solutions (2nd Edition). (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2008).

    Dmitry Budker and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, eds. Optical Magnetometry (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013).

    Derek F. Jackson Kimball and Karl van Bibber, eds. The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter (Springer, Cham Switzerland, 2022).

    Selected Articles

    1. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optics and reduced group velocity of light in atomic vapor with slow ground state relaxation, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83(9), 1767-70 (1999).

    2. D. F. Kimball, D. Clyde, D. Budker, D. DeMille, S. J. Freedman, S. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, and M. Zolotorev, Collisional perturbation of states in atomic ytterbium by helium and neon, Phys. Rev. A 60(2), 1103-11 (1999).

    3. A.-T. Nguyen, D. Brown, D. Budker, D. DeMille, D. F. Kimball, and M. Zolotorev, Search for parity nonconservation in atomic dysprosium, in Parity Violation in Atoms and Electron Scattering. Edited by B. Frois and M.-A. Bouchiat (World Scientific, New York, 1999).

    4. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear Magneto-optical Rotation via Alignment-to-Orientation Conversion, Phys. Rev. Lett. 85(10), 2088-91 (2000).

    5. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Sensitive Magnetometry based on nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Phys. Rev. A 62(4), 043403 (2000).

    6. S. M. Rochester, D. S. Hsiung, D. Budker, R. Y. Chiao, D. F. Kimball, and V. V. Yashchuk. Self-rotation of resonant elliptically polarized light in collision-free rubidium vapor. Phys. Rev. A 63(4), 043814 (2001).

    7. D. F. Kimball, Parity-nonconserving optical rotation on the 6s6p 3P0 - 6s6p 1P1 transition in atomic ytterbium, Phys. Rev. A 63(5), 052113 (2001).

    8. B. DeBoo, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and D. Budker, Multichannel conical emission and parametric and nonparametric nonlinear optical processes in ytterbium vapor, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 18(5), 639 (2001).

    9. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear electro- and magneto-optical effects related to Bennett structures, Phys. Rev. A 65(3), 033401 (2002).

    10. D. F. Kimball, D. Budker, D. English, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S. M. Rochester, A. Sushkov, V. V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Progress towards fundamental symmetry tests with nonlinear optical rotation, in Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, no.596, edited by D. Budker, P. H. Bucksbaum, and S. J. Freedman (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2001), pp.84-107.

    11. D. S. English, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, A.-T. Nguyen, S. M. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, S. J. Freedman, and M. Zolotorev, Atomic Tests of Discrete Symmetries at Berkeley, in Art and Symmetry in Experimental Physics. American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings, no.596, edited by D. Budker, P. H. Bucksbaum, and S. J. Freedman (American Institute of Physics, New York, 2001), pp.108-119.

    12. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, V. V. Yashchuk, and M. Zolotorev, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 65(5), 055403 (2002).

    13. E. B. Alexandrov, M. V. Balabas, D. Budker, D. English, D. F. Kimball, C.-H. Li, and V. V. Yashchuk, Light-induced desorption of alkali-metal atoms from paraffin coating, Phys. Rev. A 66(4), 042903 (2002).

    14. A. B. Matsko, I. Novikova, G. R. Welch, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, and S. M. Rochester, Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation, Phys. Rev. A 66(4), 043815 (2002).

    15. D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and A. Weis, Resonant nonlinear magneto-optical effects in atoms, Rev. Mod. Physics 74(4), 1153-1201 (2002).

    16. D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and J. T. Urban, Alignment-to-orientation conversion and nuclear quadrupole resonance, Chem. Phys. Lett. 378(3-4), 440-448 (2003).

    17. V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, W. Gawlik, D. F. Kimball, Yu. P. Malakyan, and S. M. Rochester, Selective Addressing of High-Rank Polarization Moments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90(25), 253001 (2003).

    18. Yu. P. Malakyan, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, and V. V. Yashchuk, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation of frequency-modulated light resonant with a low-J transition, Phys. Rev. A 69(1), 013817 (2004).

    19. V. V. Yashchuk, J. Granwehr, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, A. H. Trabesinger, J. T. Urban, D. Budker, and A. Pines, Hyperpolarized Xenon Nuclear Spins Detected by Optical Atomic Magnetometry, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(16), 160801 (2004).

    20. M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, J. E. Stalnaker, A. O. Sushkov, and V. V. Yashchuk, Can a quantum nondemolition measurement improve the sensitivity of an atomic magnetometer? Phys. Rev. Lett. 93(17), 173002 (2004).

    21. E. B. Alexandrov, M. Auzinsh, D. Budker, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, and V. V. Yashchuk, Dynamic effects in nonlinear magneto-optics of atoms and molecules, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22(1), 7-20 (2005).

    22. D. Budker, L. Hollberg, D. F. Kimball, J. Kitching, S. Pustelny, and V. V. Yashchuk, Microwave transitions and nonlinear magneto-optical rotation in anti-relaxation-coated cells, Phys. Rev. A 71, 012903 (2005).

    23. M. T. Graf, D. F. Kimball, S. M. Rochester, K. Kerner, C. Wong, D. Budker, E. B. Alexandrov, and M. V. Balabas, Relaxation of atomic polarization in paraffin-coated cesium vapor cells, Phys. Rev. A 72, 023401 (2005).

    24. S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, Pump-Probe nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light, Phys. Rev. A 73, 023817 (2006).

    25. V. Acosta, M. P. Ledbetter, S. M. Rochester, D. Budker, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. C. Hovde, W. Gawlik, S. Pustelny, and J. Zachorowski, Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with frequency-modulated light in the geophysical field range, Phys. Rev. A 73, 053404 (2006).

    26. S. Pustelny, D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Influence of magnetic-field inhomogeneity on nonlinear magneto-optical resonances, Phys. Rev. A 74, 063406 (2006).

    27. S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, D. F. Jackson Kimball, V. V. Yashchuk, D. Budker, and W. Gawlik. Nonlinear magneto-optical rotation with modulated light in tilted magnetic fields. Phys. Rev. A 74, 063420 (2006).

    28. V. M. Acosta, M. Auzinsh, W. Gawlik, P. Grisins, J. M. Higbie, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, L. Krzemien, M. P. Ledbetter, S. Pustelny, S. M. Rochester, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Production and detection of atomic hexadecapole at Earth's magnetic field, Optics Express 16(15), 11423 (2008).

    30. T. Karaulanov, M. T. Graf, D. English, S. M. Rochester, Y. Rosen, K. Tsigutkin, D. Budker, M. V. Balabas, D. F. Jackson Kimball, F. A. Narducci, S. Pustelny, V. V. Yashchuk, Controlling atomic vapor density in paraffin-coated cells using light-induced atomic desorption, Phys. Rev. A 79, 012902 (2009).

    31. D. F. Jackson Kimball, Khoa Nguyen, K. Ravi, Arijit Sharma, Vaibhav S. Prabhudesai, S. A. Rangwala, V. V. Yashchuk, M. V. Balabas, and D. Budker, Electric-field-induced change of alkali-metal vapor density in paraffin-coated cells, Phys. Rev. A 79, 032901 (2009).

    32. D. F. Jackson Kimball, L. R. Jacome, Srikanth Guttikonda, Eric J. Bahr, and Lok Fai Chan, Magnetometric sensitivity optimization for nonlinear optical rotation with frequency-modulated light: Rb D2 line, J. of Appl. Phys. 106, 063113 (2009).

    33. V. M. Acosta, A. Jarmola, D. Windes, E. Corsini, M. P. Ledbetter, T. Karaulanov, M. Auzinsh, S. A. Rangwala, D. F. Jackson Kimball, and D. Budker, Rubidium dimers in paraffin-coated cells, New Journal of Physics 12, 083054 (2010).

    34. S. J. Seltzer, D. J. Michalak, M. H. Donaldson, M. V. Balabas, S. K. Barber, S. L. Bernasek, M.-A. Bouchiat, A. Hexemer, A. M. Hibberd, D. F. Jackson Kimball, C. Jaye, T. Karaulanov, F. A. Narducci, S. A. Rangwala, H. G. Robinson, A. K. Shmakov, D. L. Voronov, V. V. Yashchuk, A. Pines, and D. Budker, Investigation of Anti-Relaxation Coatings for Alkali-Metal Vapor Cells Using Surface Science Techniques, J. Chem. Phys. 133, 144703 (2010).

    35. D. F. Jackson Kimball, Alec Boyd, and D. Budker, Constraints on anomalous spin-spin interactions from spin-exchange collisions, Phys. Rev. A 82, 062714 (2010).

    36. J. E. Stalnaker, S. L. Chen, M. E. Rowan, K. Nguyen, T. Pradhananga, C. A. Palm, and D. F. Jackson Kimball, Velocity-selective direct frequency-comb spectroscopy of atomic vapors, Phys. Rev. A 86, 033832 (2012).

    37. M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, M. P. Ledbetter, D. F. Jackson Kimball, W. Gawlik, and D. Budker, Detecting Domain Walls of Axionlike Models Using Terrestrial Experiments, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 021803 (2013).

    38. M. P. Ledbetter, M. V. Romalis, and D. F. Jackson Kimball, Constraints on Short-Range Spin-Dependent Interactions from Scalar Spin-Spin Coupling in Deuterated Molecular Hydrogen, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 040402 (2013).

    39. D. F. Jackson Kimball, E. B. Alexandrov, and D. Budker, General principles and characteristics of optical magnetometers, in Optical Magnetometry, edited by D. Budker and D. F. Jackson Kimball (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 3-24.

    40. D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. Pustelny, V. V. Yashchuk, and D. Budker, Optical magnetometry with modulated light, in Optical Magnetometry, edited by D. Budker and D. F. Jackson Kimball (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 104-124.

    41. D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. K. Lamoreaux, and T. E. Chupp, Tests of fundamental physics with optical magnetometers, in Optical Magnetometry, edited by D. Budker and D. F. Jackson Kimball (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2013), pp. 339-368.

    42. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Ian Lacey, Julian Valdez, Jerlyn Swiatlowski, Cesar Rios, Rodrigo Peregrina-Ramirez, Caitlin Montcrieffe, Jackie Kremer, Jordan Dudley, and C. Sanchez, A dual-isotope rubidium comagnetometer to search for anomalous long-range spin-mass (spin-gravity) couplings of the proton, Annalen der Physik 525(7), 514–528 (2013).

    43. Szymon Pustelny, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Chris Pankow, Micah P. Ledbetter, Przemyslaw Wlodarczyk, Piotr Wcislo, Maxim Pospelov, Joshua R. Smith, Jocelyn Read, Wojciech Gawlik, and Dmitry Budker, The Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic physics (GNOME): A novel scheme to search for physics beyond the Standard Model, Annalen der Physik 525(8-9), 659–670 (2013).

    44. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Nuclear spin content and constraints on exotic spin-dependent couplings, New J. of Physics 17, 073008 (2015).

    45. Shlomi Kotler, Roee Ozeri, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Constraints on Exotic Dipole-Dipole Couplings between Electrons at the Micrometer Scale, Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 081801 (2015).

    46. Dmitry Budker and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Paper Craft, Nature 529, 427 (2016).

    47. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Dmitry Budker, Precessing Ferromagnetic Needle Magnetometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 190801 (2016).

    48. D. F. Jackson Kimball, J. Dudley, Y. Li, S. Thulasi, S. Pustelny, D. Budker, and M. Zolotorev, Magnetic shielding and exotic spin-dependent interactions, Phys. Rev. D 94, 082005 (2016).

    49. Filip Ficek, Derek F Jackson Kimball, Mikhail G Kozlov, Nathan Leefer, Szymon Pustelny, and Dmitry Budker, Constraints on exotic spin-dependent interactions between electrons from helium fine-structure spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. A 95, 032505 (2017).

    50. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Jordan Dudley, Yan Li, and Dilan Patel, In situ measurement of light polarization with ellipticity-induced nonlinear magneto-optical rotation, Phys. Rev. A 96, 033823 (2017).

    51. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Jordan Dudley, Yan Li, Dilan Patel, and Julian Valdez, Constraints on long-range spin-gravity and monopole-dipole couplings of the proton, Phys. Rev. D 96, 075004 (2017).

    52. Tao Wang, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, Deniz Aybas, John W. Blanchard, Gary Centers, Sean R. O’ Kelley, Arne Wickenbrock, Jiancheng Fang, and Dmitry Budker, Application of spin-exchange relaxation-free magnetometry to the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment, Physics of the Dark Universe 19, 27 (2018).

    53. A. Garcon, D. Aybas, J. Blanchard, G. Centers, N. Figueroa, P. W. Graham, D. F. Kimball, S. Rajendran, M. G. Sendra, and A. Sushkov, The Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr): a dark-matter search with nuclear magnetic resonance, Quantum Science and Technology 3, 014008 (2018).

    54. D. F. Jackson Kimball, Viewpoint: Spin Gyroscope is Ready to Look for New Physics, Physics 11, 5 (2018).

    55. D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. Budker, J. Eby, M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, T. Scholtes, Y. V. Stadnik, A. Weis, and A. Wickenbrock, Searching for axion stars and Q-balls with a terrestrial magnetometer network, Phys. Rev. D 97, 043002 (2018).

    56. Filip Ficek, Pavel Fadeev, Victor V. Flambaum, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, and Dmitry Budker, Constraints on Exotic Spin-Dependent Interactions Between Matter and Antimatter from Antiprotonic Helium Spectroscopy, Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 183002 (2018).

    57. M.S. Safranova, D. Budker, D. DeMille, D. F. Jackson Kimball, A. Derevianko, and C.W. Clark, Search for new physics with atoms and molecules, Rev. Mod. Phys. 90, 025008 (2018).

    58. Teng Wu, John W. Blanchard, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Min Jiang, and Dmitry Budker, Nuclear-Spin Comagnetometer Based on a Liquid of Identical Molecules, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121, 023202 (2018).

    59. S. Afach, D. Budker, G. DeCamp, V. Dumont, Z. D. Grujić, H.Guo, D. F. Jackson Kimball, T. W. Kornack, V. Lebedev, W. Li, H. Masia-Roiga, S. Nix, M. Padniuk, C. A. Palm, C. Pankow, A. Penaflor, X. Peng, S. Pustelny, T. Scholtes, J. A. Smiga, J. E. Stalnaker, A. Weis, A. Wickenbrock, and D. Wurm, Characterization of the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers to search for Exotic physics (GNOME), Physics of the Dark Universe 22, 162 (2018).

    60. Jason Mora, Aracely Cobos, Dominic Fuentes, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Measurement of the Ratio between g-Factors of the Ground States of Rb-87 and Rb-85, Annalen der Physik 2018, 1800281 (2018).

    61. Tao Wang, Sean Lourette, Sean R. O’Kelley, Metin Kayci, Y. B. Band, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O Sushkov, and Dmitry Budker, Dynamics of a Ferromagnetic Particle Levitated over a Superconductor, Physical Review Applied 11, 044041 (2019).

    62. Teng Wu, John W. Blanchard, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Antoine Garcon, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Surjeet Rajendran, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Alexander O. Sushkov, Arne Wickenbrock, and Dmitry Budker, Search for Axionlike Dark Matter with a Liquid-State Nuclear Spin Comagnetometer, Phys. Rev. Lett. 122, 191302 (2019).

    63. Teng Wu, John W. Blanchard, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Antoine Garcon, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Surjeet Rajendran, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Alexander O. Sushkov, Arne Wickenbrock, and Dmitry Budker, Wu et al. Reply, Phys. Rev. Lett. 123, 169002 (2019).

    64. Antoine Garcon, John W. Blanchard, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Surjeet Rajendran, Alexander O. Sushkov, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Arne Wickenbrock, Teng Wu, and Dmitry Budker, Constraints on bosonic dark matter from ultralow-field nuclear magnetic resonance, Science Advances 5, eaax4539 (2019).

    65. Hector Masia-Roig, Joseph A. Smiga, Dmitry Budker, Vincent Dumont, Zoran Grujic, Dongok Kim, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Victor Lebedev, Madeline Monroy, Szymon Pustelny, Theo Scholtes, Perrin C. Segura, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Yun Chang Shin, Jason E. Stalnaker, Ibrahim Sulai, Antoine Weis, and Arne Wickenbrock, Analysis method for detecting topological defect dark matter with a global magnetometer network, Physics of the Dark Universe 28, 100494 (2020).

    66. Dmitry Budker, Roger W. Falcone, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Valeriy V. Yashchuk, and Alexander Zholents, In Memoriam: Max S. Zolotorev, 1941-2020, Physics Today 73, DOI:10.1063/PT.6.4o.20200504a (2020).

    67. Wenxiang Hu, Matthew M. Lawson, Dmitry Budker, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Allen P. Mills Jr., and Christian Voigt, A network of superconducting gravimeters as a detector of matter with feeble nongravitational coupling, Eur. Phys. J. D 74, 115 (2020).

    68. Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Szymon Pustelny, Sensing a passage through the unknown, CERN Courier 60(4), 25 (2020).

    69. D. F. Jackson Kimball, S. Afach, D. Aybas, J. W. Blanchard, D. Budker, G. Centers, M. Engler, N. L. Figueroa, A. Garcon, P. W. Graham, H. Luo, S. Rajendran, M. G. Sendra, A. O. Sushkov, T. Wang, A. Wickenbrock, A. Wilzewski, and T. Wu, Overview of the Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment (CASPEr), in Microwave Cavities and Detectors for Axion Research edited by Gianpaolo Carosi and Gray Rybka (Springer, New York, 2020) pp. 105-121.

    70. C. Dailey, C. Bradley, D. F. Jackson Kimball, I. A. Sulai, S. Pustelny, A. Wickenbrock, and A. Derevianko, Quantum sensor networks as exotic field telescopes for multi-messenger astronomy, Nature Astronomy 5, 150 (2021).

    71. Pavel Fadeev, Chris Timberlake, Tao Wang, Andrea Vinante, Y. B. Band, Dmitry Budker, Alexander O. Sushkov, Hendrik Ulbricht, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Ferromagnetic gyroscopes for tests of fundamental physics, Quantum Science and Technology 6, 024006 (2021).

    72. Pavel Fadeev, Tao Wang, Y. B. Band, Dmitry Budker, Peter W. Graham, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Gravity Probe Spin: Prospects for measuring general-relativistic precession of intrinsic spin using a ferromagnetic gyroscope, Phys. Rev. D 103, 044056 (2021).

    73. D. Aybas, J. Adam, E. Blumenthal, A. V. Gramolin, D. Johnson, A. Kleyheeg, S. Afach, J. W. Blanchard, G. P. Centers, A. Garcon, M. Engler, N. L. Figueroa, M. Gil Sendra, A. Wickenbrock, M. Lawson, T. Wang, T. Wu, H. Luo, H. Mani, P. Mauskopf, P. W. Graham, S. Rajendran, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. Budker, and A. O. Sushkov, Search for Axionlike Dark Matter Using Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 141802 (2021).

    74. Deniz Aybas, Hendrik Bekker, John W. Blanchard, Dmitry Budker, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Alexander V. Gramolin, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Arne Wickenbrock, and Alexander O. Sushkov, Quantum sensitivity limits of nuclear magnetic resonance experiments searching for new fundamental physics, Quantum Science and Technology 6, 034007 (2021).

    75. Andrea Vinante, Chris Timberlake, Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Hendrik Ulbricht, Surpassing the Energy Resolution Limit with Ferromagnetic Torque Sensors, Phys. Rev. Lett. 127, 070801 (2021).

    76. Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Saarik Kalia, Earth as a transducer for dark-photon dark-matter detection, Phys. Rev. D 104, 075023 (2021).

    77. Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Saarik Kalia, Search for dark-photon dark matter in the SuperMAG geomagnetic field dataset, Phys. Rev. D 104, 095032 (2021).

    78. S. Afach, B. C. Buchler, D. Budker, C. Dailey, A. Derevianko, V. Dumont, N. L. Figueroa, I. Gerhardt, Z. D. Grujić, H. Guo, C.P. Hao, P. S. Hamilton, M. Hedges, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. Kim, S. Khamis, T. Kornack, V. Lebedev, Z.-T. Lu, H. Masia-Roig, M. Monroy, M. Padniuk, C. A. Palm, S. Y. Park, K. V. Paul, A. Penaflor, X. Peng, M. Pospelov, R. Preston, S. Pustelny, T. Scholtes, P. C. Segura, Y. K. Semertzidis, D. Sheng, Y. C. Shin, J. A. Smiga, J. E. Stalnaker, I. Sulai, D. Tandon, T. Wang, A. Weis, A. Wickenbrock, T. Wilson, T. Wu, D. Wurm, W. Xiao, Y. Yang, D. Yu, and J. Zhang, Search for topological defect dark matter with a global network of optical magnetometers, Nature Physics 17, 1396 (2021).

    79. G. P. Centers, J. W. Blanchard, J. Conrad, N. L. Figueroa, A. Garcon, A. V. Gramolin, D. F. Jackson Kimball, M. Lawson, B. Pelssers, J. A. Smiga, A. O. Sushkov, A. Wickenbrock, D. Budker, and A. Derevianko, Stochastic fluctuations of bosonic dark matter, Nature Communications 12, 7321 (2021).

    80. Alexander V. Gramolin, Arne Wickenbrock, Deniz Aybas, Hendrik Bekker, Dmitry Budker, Gary P. Centers, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Alexander O. Sushkov, Spectral signatures of axionlike dark matter, Phys. Rev. D 105, 035029 (2022).

    81. Ariel Arza, Michael A. Fedderke, Peter W. Graham, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Saarik Kalia, Earth as a transducer for axion dark-matter detection, Phys. Rev. D 105, 095007 (2022).

    82. Dongok Kim, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Hector Masia-Roig, Joseph A. Smiga, Arne Wickenbrock, Dmitry Budker, Younggeun Kim, Yun Chang Shin, and Yannis K. Semertzidis, A machine learning algorithm for direct detection of axion-like particle domain walls, Physics of the Dark Universe 37, 101118 (2022).

    83. Derek F. Jackson Kimball and D. Budker, Introduction to Dark Matter, in The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter, edited by Derek F. Jackson Kimball and Karl van Bibber (Springer, Cham Switzerland, 2022), pp. 1-30.

    84. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Leanne D. Duffy and David J. E. Marsh, Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter Theory, in The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter, edited by Derek F. Jackson Kimball and Karl van Bibber (Springer, Cham Switzerland, 2022), pp. 31-72.

    85. Derek F. Jackson Kimball and Arran Phipps, Dark Matter Radios, in The Search for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter, edited by Derek F. Jackson Kimball and Karl van Bibber (Springer, Cham Switzerland, 2022), pp. 201-218.

    86. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Jordan Dudley, Yan Li, Dilan Patel, and Julian Valdez, Erratum: Constraints on long-range spin-gravity and monopole-dipole couplings of the proton, Phys. Rev. D 107, 019903 (2023).

    87. Emmanuel Klinger, Tianhao Liu, Mikhail Padniuk, Martin Engler, Thomas Kornack, Szymon Pustelny, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker, and Arne Wickenbrock, Optimization of Nuclear Polarization in an Alkali-Noble Gas Comagnetometer, Phys. Rev. Appl. 19, 044092 (2023).

    88. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Testing Gravity’s Effect on Quantum Spins, Physics 16, 80 (2023).

    89. Hector Masia-Roig, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Ariday Bordon, Joseph A. Smiga, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Dmitry Budker, Gary P. Centers, Alexander V. Gramolin, Paul S. Hamilton, Sami Khamis, Christopher A. Palm, Szymon Pustelny, Alexander O. Sushkov, Arne Wickenbrock, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Intensity interferometry for ultralight bosonic dark matter detection, Phys. Rev. D 108, 015003 (2023).

    90. Samer Afach, Deniz Aybas Tumturk, Hendrik Bekker, Ben C. Buchler, Dmitry Budker, Kaleb Cervantes, Andrei Derevianko, Joshua Eby, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Ron Folman, Daniel Gavilán-Martín, Menachem Givon, Zoran D. Gruji´c, Hong Guo, Paul Hamilton, Morgan P. Hedges, Derek F. Jackson Kimball,* Sami Khamis, Dongok Kim, Emmanuel Klinger, Abaz Kryemadhi, Xiyu Liu, Grzegorz Łukasiewicz, Hector Masia-Roig, Mikhail Padniuk, Christopher A. Palm, Sun Yool Park, Heather R. Pearson, Xiang Peng, Maxim Pospelov, Szymon Pustelny, Yossi Rosenzweig, Ophir M. Ruimi, Theo Scholtes, Perrin C. Segura, Yannis K. Semertzidis, Yun Chang Shin, Joseph A. Smiga, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, Jason E. Stalnaker, Ibrahim A. Sulai, Dhruv Tandon, Kenneth Vu, Antoine Weis, Arne Wickenbrock, Tatum Z. Wilson, Teng Wu, Wei Xiao, Yucheng Yang, Dongrui Yu, Felix Yu, Jianwei Zhang, and Yixin Zhao, What Can a GNOME Do? Search Targets for the Global Network of Optical Magnetometers for Exotic Physics Searches, Annalen der Physik 2023, 2300083 (2023).

    91. Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker, Timothy E. Chupp, Andrew A. Geraci, Shimon Kolkowitz, Jaideep T. Singh, and Alexander O. Sushkov, Probing fundamental physics with spin-based quantum sensors, Phys. Rev. A 108, 010101 (2023).

    92. Andrew J. Winter, Tanja Marić, Viktoriya A. Balabanova, János Ádám, Glenn Randall, Arne Wickenbrock, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker, and Alexander O. Sushkov, Calibration of the Solid-State Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Search for Axion-Like Dark Matter, Annalen der Physik 2023, 2300252 (2023).

    93. Yuzhe Zhang, Deniz Aybas Tumturk, Hendrik Bekker, Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, and Arne Wickenbrock, Frequency-Scanning Considerations in Axionlike Dark Matter Spin-Precession Experiments, Annalen der Physik 2023, 2300223 (2023).

    94. Ibrahim A. Sulai, Saarik Kalia, Ariel Arza, Itay M. Bloch, Eduardo Castro Muñoz, Christopher Fabian, Michael A. Fedderke, Madison Forseth, Brian Garthwaite, Peter W. Graham, Will Griffith, Erik Helgren, Katie Hermanson, Andres Interiano-Alvarado, Brittany Karki, Abaz Kryemadhi, Andre Li, Ehsanullah Nikfar, Jason E. Stalnaker, Yicheng Wang, and Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Hunt for magnetic signatures of hidden-photon and axion dark matter in the wilderness, Phys. Rev. D 108, 096026 (2023).

    95. Mikhail Padniuk, Emmanuel Klinger, Grzegorz Łukasiewicz, Daniel Gavilan-Martin, Tianhao Liu, Szymon Pustelny, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Dmitry Budker, and Arne Wickenbrock, Universal determination of comagnetometer response to spin couplings, Phys. Rev. Research 6, 013339 (2024).

    96. Andrei Derevianko, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, and Conner Dailey, Reply to: Highlighting the back-action contribution of matter to quantum sensor network performance in multi-messenger astronomy, Nature Astronomy 8, s41550-024-02246-3 (2024).

    97. Saarik Kalia, Dmitry Budker, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Wei Ji, Zhen Liu, Alexander O. Sushkov, Chris Timberlake, Hendrik Ulbricht, Andrea Vinante, and Tao Wang, Ultralight dark matter detection with levitated ferromagnets, Phys. Rev. D 110, 115029 (2024).

    98. Daniel Gavilan-Martin, Grzegorz Łukasiewicz, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Szymon Pustelny, Dmitry Budker and Arne Wickenbrock, Notes on optimizing a multi-sensor gradient axion-like particle dark matter search, Proceedings of Science 474, 41 (2025).

    99. Daniel Gavilan-Martin, Grzegorz Łukasiewicz, Mikhail Padniuk, Emmanuel Klinger, Magdalena Smolis, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Alexander O. Sushkov, Szymon Pustelny, Dmitry Budker, and Arne Wickenbrock, Searching for dark matter with a spin-based interferometer, Nature Commun. 16, 4953 (2025).

    100. Lei Cong, Wei Ji, Pavel Fadeev, Filip Ficek, Min Jiang, Victor V. Flambaum, Haosen Guan, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Mikhail G. Kozlov, Yevgeny V. Stadnik, and Dmitry Budker, Spin-dependent exotic interactions, Rev. Mod. Phys. 97, 025005 (2025).

    101. S. S. Khamis, I. A. Sulai, P. Hamilton, S. Afach, B. C. Buchler, D. Budker, N. L. Figueroa, R. Folman, D. Gavilán-Martín, M. Givon, Z. D. Grujić, H. Guo, M. P. Hedges, D. F. Jackson Kimball, D. Kim, E. Klinger, T. Kornack, A. Kryemadhi, N. Kukowski, G. Łukasiewicz, H. Masia-Roig, M. Padniuk, C. A. Palm, S. Y. Park, X. Peng, M. Pospelov, S. Pustelny, Y. Rosenzweig, O. M. Ruimi, P. C. Segura, T. Scholtes, Y. K. Semertzidis, Y. C. Shin, J. E. Stalnaker, D. Tandon, A. Weis, A. Wickenbrock, T. Z. Wilson, T. Wu, J. Zhang, and Y. Zhao, Multimessenger Search for Exotic Field Emission with a Global Magnetometer Network, Phys. Rev. X 15, 031048 (2025).

    102. Julian Walter, Olympia Maliaka,Yuzhe Zhang, John W. Blanchard, Gary Centers, Arian Dogan, Martin Engler, Nataniel L. Figueroa, Younggeun Kim, Derek F. Jackson Kimball, Matthew Lawson, Declan W. Smith, Alexander O. Sushkov, Dmitry Budker,
    Hendrik Bekker, and Arne Wickenbrock, Search for axionlike dark matter using liquid-state nuclear magnetic resonance, Phys. Rev. D 112, 052008 (2025).

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  • RUI: Search for a spin-gravity coupling using laser-addressed atomic gyroscopes, National Science Foundation ($254,150 over 3 years, 2007-10)

    Major Research Instrumentation, Recovery and Re-investment: Acquisition of a Femtosecond Optical Frequency Comb and THz Spectrometer for Atomic, Molecular and Condensed Matter Spectroscopy, National Science Foundation ($393,388 over 1 year, 2010-2011)

    RUI: Search for Anomalous Proton Spin Interactions with A Dual-Isotope Rubidium Magnetometer, National Science Foundation ($309,514 over 3 years, 2010-13)

    RUI: Search for Anomalous Spin Interactions with Atomic Comagnetometers, National Science Foundation ($299,917 over 4 years, 2013-17)

    The Cosmic Axion Spin Precession Experiment, Simons and Heising-Simons Foundations ($457,343 over 5 years, 2015-2020)

    Collaborative Research (RUI): Search for Exotic Transient Spin-dependent Signals from Ultralight Dark Matter Fields, National Science Foundation ($306,048 over 4 years, 2017-2021)

    Collaborative Research: PM: RUI - Searches for Ultralight Bosonic Dark Matter with Atomic Magnetometer Networks, National Science Foundation ($315,013 over 4 years, 2021-2025)

    Collaborative Research: RUI: BSM-PM: Exotic Physics Searches with Magnetometer Networks, National Science Foundation ($300,001 over 3 years, 2025-2028)

     

  • 2018-2021: Chair Line of the American Physical Society’s (APS) Topical Group on Precision Measurements and Fundamental Constants (GPMFC).

    2014-2017: Member of the Executive Committee of the APS GPMFC; Chair of Membership Committee.

    2017-2020: Member of APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP) Program Committee; Chair of Precision Measurement Subcommittee (2018-20).

    2018 National Academy of Sciences Review Panel for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Physical Measurement Laboratory, Time & Frequency Division.

    2019 Vice Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics.

    2021 Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics.

    2023 Chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Atomic Physics.

    2009-2010 & 2013-2014: 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay: Academic Senate Executive Committee

    2011-2012: 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay: Chair of Committee on Research

    2015-present: 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay: Educational Foundation Board & Advancement Committee

    2024-2025: 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay: Chair of College of Science Dean Search Committee

    2025: 麻豆传媒社区入口 – East Bay: Advisory Task Force on Focused Program Review

    2024-2027: American Physical Society Leroy Apker Award Committee