CTQM Fellow

Akers

mhermele — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:24:37 +0000

Chris Akers

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

I am interested in combining quantum mechanics and gravity, especially by thinking about quantum mechanical aspects of black holes and the AdS/CFT correspondence (our best theory of quantum gravity so far).

To this end, I often use the tools of quantum information theory and quantum computation, and I am interested in expanding these connections. How can quantum computers be used to help the study of quantum gravity? In what ways does quantum gravitational physics affect the theory of computation?

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

high energy physics

quantum information science

chris.akers@colorado.edu

Gao

mhermele — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 13:18:12 +0000

Xun Gao

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Associate Fellow of JILA
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

My research interests lie in finding quantum computational advantages, especially for solving practical problems. Examples include the power & limitations of near-term quantum devices, quantum machine learning and quantum optimization algorithms. I would also like to explore quantum error correction and quantum-inspired approaches to design classical algorithms.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

quantum information science

xun.gao@colorado.edu

Romatschke

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:27:20 +0000

Paul Romatschke

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

I am currently an assistant professor in the Physics Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder. My research interests include: Cold Dense Matter, Relativistic Viscous Hydrodynamics, Non-Abelian Plasma Instabilities, and Nonlinear Gravity. For more on these areas, please see my Physics Department homepage.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

nuclear physics

paul.romatschke@colorado.edu

Phone

303-492-1578 (office)

303-492-3352 (fax)

Website

http://hep.itp.tuwien.ac.at/~paulrom/

Rey

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:24:18 +0000

Ana Maria Rey

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Fellow of JILA
Adjoint Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

My main research interest is ultracold atoms and molecules loaded in optical lattices, which are periodic trapping potentials created by illuminating the atoms and molecules with laser beams. Atoms in optical lattices are analogous to electrons in solid state crystals. Their big advantage is that these "artificial crystals of light" are perfectly clean and highly controllable. Therefore, they are ideal for exploring a whole range of fundamental phenomena that are extremely difficult — or impossible — to study in traditional condensed matter systems. My goal is to study how to control and manipulate these systems to engineer different quantum phases such as superfluids, insulators, quantum magnets, and topological matter. I plan to use them for understanding the physics of strongly correlated bosonic and fermionic systems and nonequilibrium phenomena. Additionally, I am interested in studying how to generate and manipulate entanglement in quantum systems for use in quantum information processing and precision measurements.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

atomic, molecular, and optical physics

quantum information science

arey@jilau1.colorado.edu

Phone

303-492-8089 (office)

Website

https://jila.colorado.edu/arey

Radzihovsky

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:21:14 +0000

Leo Radzihovsky

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

My research interests are:

Degenerate Atomic Gases
Liquid Crystals and Other 'Soft' Condensed Matter
Disordered Systems
Nonequilibrium Phenomena
Quantum Hall Effect
Superconductivity

For more details, please see my Physics Department homepage.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

condensed matter physics

radzihov@colorado.edu

Phone

303-492-5436 (office)

303-492-2998 (fax)

Website

http://spot.colorado.edu/~radzihov/

Pflaum

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:18:57 +0000

Markus Pflaum

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Colorado Boulder

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

mathematical physics

markus.pflaum@colorado.edu

Phone

303-492-7717

Website

http://euclid.colorado.edu/~pflaum/

Neil

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:04:15 +0000

Ethan Neil

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

My research interests are in physics beyond the standard model, particularly its signatures in collider and dark matter experiments, and more generally in the physics of strongly-coupled elementary particles, which I study numerically using large-scale computing. In closer
connection to the CTQM, I am interested in renormalization and the emergence of conformal symmetry in quantum field theory, and in searches for light dark matter using high-precision tabletop experiments.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

high energy physics

ethan.neil@colorado.edu

Phone

(303) 492-0513

Nandkishore

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:51:06 +0000

Rahul Nandkishore

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Director of CTQM
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

Complex many-body systems can display qualitatively new physics. The search for such emergent phenomena is a central goal of condensed matter physics. My research is focused on the search for new emergent phenomena in quantum many body systems with strong interactions and/or strong randomness. I work on systems both in and out of equilbrium. Particular topics of interest include (but are not limited to): non-equilibrium quantum statistical mechanics, many body localization and thermalization, field theory of correlated systems, Dirac fermions, unconventional superconductors, and the interplay of disorder and interactions.

Selected Publications

1. Non-local Adiabatic Response of a Localized System to Local Manipulations, V. Khemani, R. Nandkishore and S.L. Sondhi, Nature Physics 11, 560-565 (2015)

2. Rare region effects dominate weakly disordered 3D Dirac points, R. Nandkishore, D.A. Huse and S.L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 89, 245110 (2014)

3. Localization Protected Quantum Order, D.A. Huse, R. Nandkishore, A. Pal, V. Oganesyan and S.L. Sondhi, Phys. Rev. B 88, 014206 (2013)

3. Chiral superconductivity from repulsive interactions in doped graphene. R. Nandkishore, L.S. Levitov and A.V. Chubukov, Nature Physics. 8, 158-163 (2012)

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

condensed matter physics

Rahul.Nandkishore@Colorado.EDU

Phone

303-492-5404

Website

https://sites.google.com/a/colorado.edu/rahul-nandkishore-webpage/

Lucas

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:47:59 +0000

Andrew Lucas

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Associate Professor, Department of Physics, University of Colorado Boulder

Bio

I have worked on a variety of topics at the interface of condensed matter, high energy and mathematical physics. Recent interests include: bounds and constraints on transport and quantum information scrambling, the emergence of hydrodynamics in closed quantum systems (especially fluids of electrons in metals), and the AdS/CFT correspondence.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

condensed matter physics

high energy physics

Andrew.J.Lucas@Colorado.EDU

Website

https://sites.google.com/colorado.edu/andrew-lucas/

Knill

kdcadmin — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 17:46:28 +0000

Emanuel Knill

Affiliations

Fellow of CTQM
Scientist/Fellow, National Institute of Standards and Technology

Bio

My research includes developing and applying mathematical and physical tools to better understand the limitations and utilize the capabilities of information processing resources. I use ideas and results from discrete mathematics, linear and multilinear algebra, information theory, probability theory, the theory of computation, and mathematical/theoretical physics. Current areas of interest include high-significance tests of quantum mechanics, characterization and benchmarks for digital and analog quantum devices, quantum measurement theory, emergence of subsystems in quantum matter and fields, and algebraic quantum information. Most of my work is available at arXiv.org.

CTQM Role

CTQM Fellow

Research Category

quantum information science

knill@boulder.nist.gov

Website

http://www.eskimo.com/~knill/