Michael Crescimanno

QTC Affiliate Scientist

Princeton, BS, Physics

U.C. Berkeley, Ph. D. Physics

MIT, CTP Postdoc

YSU, Professor of Physics

Quantum optics theory

Teaching PHY270 this semester.

Fun Fact: Mike enjoys making bread and wine! Married, 3 adult kids.

All-optical photoluminescence response of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond at low magnetic fields. Xiechen Zheng, Jeyson Támara-Isaza, Zechuan Yin, Johannes Cremer, John W. Blanchard, Connor A. Hart, Michael Crescimanno, Paul V. Petruzzi, Matthew J. Turner, and Ronald L. Walsworth. Phys. Rev. Appl. 24, 064049 (2025). link PDF
BibTeX
@article{ZHENG2025, sort_date = {2025-12-18}, sort_date_type = {journal-publication}, title = {All-optical photoluminescence response of nitrogen-vacancy ensembles in diamond at low magnetic fields}, author = {Zheng, Xiechen and T\'amara-Isaza, Jeyson and Yin, Zechuan and Cremer, Johannes and Blanchard, John W. and Hart, Connor A. and Crescimanno, Michael and Petruzzi, Paul V. and Turner, Matthew J. and Walsworth, Ronald L.}, journal = {Phys. Rev. Appl.}, volume = {24}, issue = {6}, pages = {064049}, numpages = {23}, year = {2025}, month = {Dec}, publisher = {American Physical Society}, doi = {10.1103/ls1d-r771}, day = {18}, url_link = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/ls1d-r771}, url_pdf = {/files/2025/12/2025_Zheng_PRApplied.pdf}, keywords = {quantum-sensing}, eprint = {2502.11943}, archiveprefix = {arXiv} }

arXiv

Electromagnetically induced transparency with noisy lasers. Yanhong Xiao, Tun Wang, Maria Baryakhtar, Mackenzie Van Camp, Michael Crescimanno, Michael Hohensee, Liang Jiang, David F. Phillips, Mikhail D. Lukin, Susanne F. Yelin, and Ronald L. Walsworth. Physical Review A 80, 041805 (2009). link PDF
BibTeX
@article{Xiao2009, sort_date = {2009-10-09}, sort_date_type = {journal-publication}, author = {Xiao, Yanhong and Wang, Tun and Baryakhtar, Maria and Van Camp, Mackenzie and Crescimanno, Michael and Hohensee, Michael and Jiang, Liang and Phillips, David F. and Lukin, Mikhail D. and Yelin, Susanne F. and Walsworth, Ronald L.}, title = {Electromagnetically induced transparency with noisy lasers}, journal = {Physical Review A}, year = {2009}, volume = {80}, number = {4}, pages = {041805}, month = {oct}, comment = {10}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041805}, keywords = {slow-light}, url_link = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041805}, url_pdf = {/files/2020/08/2009_Xiao_PRA.pdf} }

Lineshape asymmetry for joint coherent population trapping and three-photon N resonances. Cindy Hancox, Michael Hohensee, Michael Crescimanno, David F. Phillips, and Ronald L. Walsworth. Optics Letters 33, 1536–1538 (2008). link PDF
BibTeX
@article{Hancox2008, eprint = {0805.3384}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, sort_date = {2008-07-01}, sort_date_type = {journal-issue}, author = {Hancox, Cindy and Hohensee, Michael and Crescimanno, Michael and Phillips, David F. and Walsworth, Ronald L.}, title = {Lineshape asymmetry for joint coherent population trapping and three-photon N resonances}, journal = {Optics Letters}, year = {2008}, volume = {33}, number = {13}, pages = {1536--1538}, month = {jul}, comment = {07}, doi = {10.1364/OL.33.001536}, keywords = {rb-clock}, url_link = {https://www.osapublishing.org/ol/abstract.cfm?uri=ol-33-13-1536}, url_pdf = {/files/2020/08/2008_Hancox_OptLett.pdf} }

arXiv

Modulation-induced frequency shifts in a coherent-population-trapping-based atomic clock. David F. Phillips, Irina Novikova, Christine Y.-T. Wang, Ronald L. Walsworth, and Michael Crescimanno. Journal of the Optical Society of America B 22, 305–310 (2005). link PDF
BibTeX
@article{Phillips2005, eprint = {physics/0404076}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, sort_date = {2005-02}, sort_date_type = {journal-issue}, author = {Phillips, David F. and Novikova, Irina and Wang, Christine Y.-T. and Walsworth, Ronald L. and Crescimanno, Michael}, title = {Modulation-induced frequency shifts in a coherent-population-trapping-based atomic clock}, journal = {Journal of the Optical Society of America B}, year = {2005}, volume = {22}, number = {2}, pages = {305--310}, month = {feb}, comment = {02}, doi = {10.1364/JOSAB.22.000305}, keywords = {rb-clock}, url_link = {https://www.osapublishing.org/josab/abstract.cfm?uri=josab-22-2-305}, url_pdf = {/files/2020/08/2005_Phillips_JOSA.pdf} }

arXiv

Analytical estimate of the critical velocity for vortex pair creation in trapped Bose condensates. M. Crescimanno, C. G. Koay, R. Peterson, and R. Walsworth. Physical Review A 62, 063612 (2000). link PDF
BibTeX
@article{Crescimanno2000, eprint = {cond-mat/0001163}, archiveprefix = {arXiv}, sort_date = {2000-11-15}, sort_date_type = {journal-publication}, author = {Crescimanno, M. and Koay, C. G. and Peterson, R. and Walsworth, R.}, title = {Analytical estimate of the critical velocity for vortex pair creation in trapped {Bose} condensates}, journal = {Physical Review A}, year = {2000}, volume = {62}, number = {6}, pages = {063612}, month = {nov}, comment = {11}, doi = {10.1103/PhysRevA.62.063612}, url_pdf = {/files/2020/08/2000_Crescimanno_PRA.pdf}, url_link = {https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.62.063612}, keywords = {} }

arXiv