People

Faculty

Norman Yao

Research Interest: My research lies at the interface between AMO physics, condensed matter, and quantum information science.Principal Investigatornyao[at]fas.harvard.edu

David Porras

Faculty AssistantLab Administratordporras[at]fas.harvard.edu(617)-495-0681

Postdoctoral Researchers

DinhDuy Vu

Research Interest: Neural-network-based simulation methods for exotic states & Non-equilibrium phases of matterstvu[at]fas.harvard.edu

Jonathan Nilsson Hallen

Research Interest: Disordered and frustrated many-body systems, magnetic noise spectroscopyjonathan_nilssonhallen[at]g.harvard.edu

Lysander Christakis

Research Interest: Focused on quantum many-body physics using dipolar rydberg atom tweezer arrays.lchristakis[at]g.harvard.edu

Sajant Anand

Research Interest: Quantum many-body physics from a methods (tensor network states, quantum Monte Carlo) framework, focusing on quantum dynamics, quantum error correction decoding, and topological phases.sajantanand[at]fas.harvard.edu

Tianle Wang

Research Interest: Theoretical and numerical study of 2D materials, topological order and topological phase transition, quantum sensing/simulation in AMO platforms.tianle_wang[at]g.harvard.edu

Wonjae Lee

Research Interest: Quantum Sensing and Quantum Simulation, Spin Defects in 2D Materialswlee[at]fas.harvard.edu

Zhipan (Zepp) Wang

Research Interest: Condensed Matter Physics, Quantum Physicszhipanwang[at]fas.harvard.edu

Graduate Students

Avi Kaplan-Lipkin

Research Interest: Quantum Simulation, Quantum Sensing, Tensor Networks, Quantum Monte Carloakaplanlipkin[at]g.harvard.edu

Che Liu

Research Interest: Quantum Many-Body Dynamics, AMO Experiment cheliu[at]g.harvard.edu

Dewei Gong

Research Interest: Alkaline Earth Atomsdeweigong[at]g.harvard.edu

Dominik Kufel

Research Interest: Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics of Many-Body Quantum Systems, Topological Phases, Solving Many-Body Problems with AIdkufel[at]g.harvard.edu

Esther Wang

Research Interest: High-Pressure Experimental Physicsestherwang[at]g.harvard.edu

Haopu Yang

Research Interest: milli-Kelvin many-body dynamicshaopuyang[at]g.harvard.edu

Jin Ming Koh

Research Interest: Quantum simulation, quantum algorithms, quantum many-body dynamics, error correction and mitigation, numerical methodjkoh[at]g.harvard.edu

Julia Wei

Research Interest: Quantum Dynamics, Tensor Networks, Computational Physicsjuliawei[at]g.harvard.edu

Marcus Bintz

Research Interest: Quantum Many-Body Theory, Spin Liquids, Rydberg Atoms, Tensor Networksmbintz[at]g.harvard.edu

Mincheol Park

Research Interest: Theory of Quantum Computation and Quantum Metrologymincheol_park[at]g.harvard.edu

Sangha Kim

Research Interest: Spin defects in 2d materialssanghakim[at]g.harvard.edu

Srinivas Mandyam

Research Interest: Quantum Sensing, Superconductivity, Criticalitysmandyam[at]g.harvard.edu

Tasuku Ono

Research Interest: NV Center, Quantum Sensingtasukuono[at]college.harvard.edu

Vincent Liu

Research Interests: Spin Liquids, Quantum Dynamics, Rydberg Atoms, Spin Defects in 2D.vliu[at]g.harvard.edu

Weijie Wu

Research Interest: Quantum Many-Body Dynamics with NV Centersweijiewu[at]g.harvard.edu

Zhelun Zhang

Research Interest: Classical shadow tomography, non-equilibrium many-body dynamics, and spin defects in hBN.zhelunzhang[at]g.harvard.edu

Ziguang Lin

Research Interest: cold atomic systemsziguanglin[at]g.harvard.edu

Zilin Wang

Research Interest: Many-Body Dynamics in NV Systemszilinwang[at]g.harvard.edu

Undergraduate Students

Benjamin Brenner

Research Interest: Quantum Information Theory, Quantum Many-body Dynamics, and Quantum Sensing.benjaminbrenner[at]college.harvard.edu

Nickolas Ellison

Research Interest: Quantum sensing, Quantum computation, Quantum materialsnwellison[at]college.harvard.edu

Visiting Researchers

Alumni

PhD Students

  • Kamphol Akkaravarawong, Software Engineer, TSMC
  • Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley in Holger Mueller’s Group
  • Maxwell Block, Technical Staff, MIT Lincoln Laboratory
  • Satcher Hsieh, Abate Lab at UCSF, San Francisco CA
  • Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer, Postdoctoral Scholar at MIT (Chuang and Shor Groups)
  • Helia Kamal
  • Bryce Kobrin, Researcher, Google Quantum
  • Francisco Machado, Group Leader at QuTech in TU Delft
  • Thomas Mittiga, Atom Computing, Berkeley CA
  • Chris Olund, Physicist at Northrup Grumman
  • Thomas Schuster, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, IQIM, Caltech
  • Yi Tan
  • Bingtian Ye, Postdoctoral Scholar at MIT in Soonwon Choi’s Group

Postdocs

  • Marin Bukov, Group leader, MPIPIKS Dresden | Bukov Group Website
  • Shubhayu Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Bijuan Chen, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Purdue University
  • Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor, MIT | Choi Group Website
  • Philip Crowley, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
  • Emily Davis, Assistant Professor, NYU | Davis Lab Website
  • Felix Flicker, Senior Lecturer, Bristol University, UK | Flicker Group Website
  • Snir Gazit, Assistant Professor, | Hebrew University, Israel | Gazit Group Website
  • Yichen Huang
  • Jack Kemp, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Cambridge University
  • Samuel Lederer, Physics teacher at The Harker School
  • Andrea Pizzi, Junior Research Fellow, Cambridge University
  • Nicholas Rivera, Assistant Professor, Cornell University | Rivera Group Website
  • Thomas Smart, Physicist at Sigray Inc.
  • Quntao Zhuang, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California | Zhuang Group Website
  • Chong Zu, Assistant Professor, Washington University St. Louis | Zu Lab Website

Undergraduate students

  • Nachiket Bhanushali, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  • Tianyang Chen, PhD Student, Princeton University
  • Tim Höhn, Graduate Student, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Deyuan Hu, PhD Student, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Yonna Kim, PhD Student, UC Santa Barbara
  • Che Liu, PhD Student, Harvard University
  • Libby Min, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  • Tasuku Ono, PhD Student, Harvard University
  • David Noachtar, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  • Eric Parsonnet, PhD Student, UC Berkeley
  • Khanh Pham, PhD Student, Harvard University
  • Nicholas Rui, PhD Student, Caltech
  • Rahul Sahay, PhD Student, Harvard University
  • Qian-Ze Zhu, PhD Student, Harvard University

Visting graduate students

  • Annika Böhler, PhD Student, Bohrdt Group, Regensburg University, Germany
  • Daniel Hetterich, Senior Software Consultant, TNG Technology Consulting
  • David Noachtar, PhD Student, University of Chicago
  • Anna Rupp, PhD Student, Högele group, LMU Munich