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About

Our group aims to theoretically AND experimentally investigate various quantum properties of light-matter interaction for applications in future optoelectronic devices, quantum information processing, and sensing. Moreover, we explore associated fundamental phenomena, such as many-body physics, that could emerge in such physical systems. Our research is at the interface of quantum optics, condensed matter physics, quantum information sciences, and more recently, machine learning.

Research

  • Quantum Simulation
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  • Machine Learning in quantum systems hero image
  • Topological photonics hero image

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News

  • a schematic illustration of light carrying orbital angular momentum interacting with electrons in a sample of graphene

    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    November 26, 2024

    In a new paper, scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and matter demonstrated a novel way to use light to give electrons a spinning kick. They reported the results of their experiment, which shows that a light beam can reliably transfer orbital angular momentum to itinerant electrons in graphene, on Nov. 26, 2024, in the journal Nature Photonics.

  • A dark reflective chip with gold lines on it and small wires coming from all sides. The chip is dominated by three squiggly lines that each lead down to rectangles that contain small bright dots in their center.

    New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction

    October 21, 2024
  • close up of a grid of rings with light swirling inside and spikes jutting out representing the elements of a frequency comb

    New Photonic Chip Spawns Nested Topological Frequency Comb

    June 20, 2024

    In new work, researchers at JQI have combined two lines of research into a new method for generating frequency combs.

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