Leonid Prokhorov
Research Fellow
Leonid works on the development of strontium optical lattice clocks. His research focuses on building both a high‑performance laboratory Sr clock for precision measurements and a compact transportable clock designed for real‑world and industrial applications. He joined the group in 2025 after working on highly charged ion clocks at Birmingham, where he developed UHV and 4 K cryogenic systems, ion trapping apparatus, and control software for Ca⁺ and Ar¹²⁺ experiments. Before that, he worked in the Institute for Gravitational Wave Astronomy, contributing to LIGO.
His broader background includes laser cooling and ionisation, interferometric sensors, RF and low‑frequency electronics, mechanical design, and precision instrumentation for quantum and gravitational‑wave experiments.
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Selected Publications
Coulomb crystallization of xenon highly charged ions in a laser-cooled Ca⁺ matrix
L. G. Prokhorov et al.
ArXiv, December 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.12266
Measuring the stability of fundamental constants with a network of clocks.
G. Barontini et al. EPJ Quantum Technol.9, 12 (2022).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1140/epjqt/s40507-022-00130-5
Design and sensitivity of a 6‑axis seismometer for gravitational wave observatories
L. G. Prokhorov et al. Physical Review D 109(4) (2024)
Measurement of mechanical losses in the carbon nanotube black coating of silicon wafers
L. G. Prokhorov et al. Classical and Quantum Gravity (January 2020)
Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
B. P. Abbott et al. (LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration) Physical Review Letters 116, 061102 (2016)
