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

Bijuan Chen

Research Interests: My research focuses on high-pressure condensed matter physics, specifically on studying emergent phenomena like superconductivity, magnetism, and phase transitions in quantum materials at high pressure by using novel optical techniques (like nitrogen-vacancy centers in diamond), combined with transport and theoretical approaches.bijuan_chen[at]fas.harvard.edu

DinhDuy Vu

tvu[at]fas.harvard.edu

Jack Kemp

jack_kemp[at]g.harvard.edu

Johannes Feldmeier

Research Interests: Quantum Simulation

Nicholas Rivera

Research Interests: Quantum Optics, Many-Body Physicshttps://scholar.harvard.edu/nriveranrivera[at]fas.harvard.edu

Philip Crowley

Research Interests: Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Driven Quantum Systems, Disordered Quantum Systems, Superconductivity https://scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=FvCmptAAAAAJ&hl=enphilip.jd.crowley[at]gmail.com

Wonjae Lee

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

Yichen Huang

Research Interests: Quantum Many-body Physicsyichenhuang[at]fas.harvard.edu

Zhipan (Zepp) Wang

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

Graduate Students

Avi Kaplan-Lipkin

Research Interests: Tensor Networks, AMO Systems, Quantum Informationakaplanlipkin[at]g.harvard.edu

Che Liu

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

Dewei Gong

Research Interests: Alkaline Earth Atoms, Quantum simulationdeweigong[at]g.harvard.edu

Dominik Kufel

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

Esther Wang

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

Helia Kamal

Research Interests: Quantum Information and Quantum Computing, Quantum Many-Body Physicshkamal[at]g.harvard.edu

Julia Wei

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

Marcus Bintz

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

Maxwell Block

Research Interests: Quantum Dynamics, Quantum Metrology, Atomic Physics, Critical Phenomenamblock[at]g.harvard.edu

Sabrina Chern

Research Interests: Quantum Many-Body Physics, AMO Experiments, Spin Liquidsschern[at]g.harvard.edu

Srinivas Mandyam

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

Vincent Liu

vliu[at]g.harvard.edu

Weijie Wu

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

Yi Tan

Research Interests: Many-Body Physics and Quantum Informationyitan[at]g.harvard.edu

Zilin Wang

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

Undergraduate Students

Libby Min

Research Interests: Quantum sensing using NV’s

Tasuku Ono

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

Visiting Researchers

David Wellnitz

Research Interest: Quantum dynamics, Ultracold Molecules, Matrix Product StatesDavid.Wellnitz[at]colorado.edu

Alumni

PhD Students

  • Thomas Schuster, Sherman Fairchild Postdoctoral Fellow, IQIM, Caltech
  • Bryce Kobrin, Researcher, Google Quantum
  • Francisco Machado, ITAMP Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University
  • Prabudhya Bhattacharyya, Postdoctoral Scholar at UC Berkeley in Holger Mueller’s Group
  • Thomas Mittiga, Atom Computing, Berkeley CA
  • Satcher Hsieh, Abate Lab at UCSF, San Francisco CA
  • Greg Kahanamoku-Meyer, Postdoctoral Scholar at MIT (Chuang and Shor Groups)
  • Chris Olund

Postdocs

  • Emily Davis, Assistant Professor, NYU | Davis Lab Website
  • Andrea Pizzi, Junior Research Fellow, Cambridge University
  • Soonwon Choi, Assistant Professor, MIT | Choi Lab Website
  • Shubhayu Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Chong Zu, Assistant Professor, Washington University | Zu Lab Website
  • Felix Flicker, Senior Lecturer, Bristol University, UK
  • Snir Gazit, Assistant Professor, | Hebrew University, Israel | Gazit Lab Website
  • Quntao Zhuang, Assistant Professor, University of South California | Zhuang Lab Website
  • Marin Bukov, Group leader, MPIPIKS Dresden
  • Thomas Smart
  • Samuel Lederer

Undergraduate students

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

Visting graduate students

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