Current Research Projects

 Seed Funding Projects

Hybrid Silicon-Nitride Superfluid-Helium Optomechanics

PI: Dirk Bouwmeester

This project proposes to combine the best of two worlds by covering an on-chip ultra-low loss photonic waveguide with superfluid Helium, which is the ultimate dissipation-free phonon medium.

Quantum Acoustics in Diamond with SiV Center

PI: Ania Jayich

This project focuses on replacing NV centers with SiV centers so as to reach the high cooperativity regime.

Achieving High Fidelity Qubit Operations with Trapped Radium Ions

PI: Andrew Jayich

This grant will provide funding for a laser (468 nm) that is necessary for qubit state readout.

Quantum Interference in a Topological Insulator/Superconductor Platform

PIs: Susanne Stemmer and Leon Balents

This project aims to take this approach a major step further by employing a unique and substantially advanced materials platform.

Quantum Dynamics and Curved Spacetime

PI: David Weld

The goals of this project are to demonstrate the emergence of black-hole and white-hole event horizons in strongly-driven cavities and measure the dependence of fixpoint dynamics on drive parameters.

Using Charge Carriers to Perturb the Candidate Spin Liquid State of NaRuO2

PI: Stephen Wilson

This project looks to explore the hypothesis that charge-doping a Mott insulator with a quantum spin liquid ground state results in an unconventional (potentially high-temperature) superconducting phase.

 Graduate Student Fellowship Projects

Molecular Metamagnets

Graduate Fellow: Phoebe Hertler
PI: Trevor Hayton

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DFT Studies of Quantum Materials

Graduate Fellow: Farnaz Kaboudvand
PI: Ram Seshadri

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 Eddleman Undergraduate Fellows

Characterizing a Quantum Sensor for Fundamental Physics Discovery

Undergraduate Fellow: Asad Contractor
Graduate Student Advisor: Mingyu Fan

Improving Energy Resolution of Kinetic Inductance Detectors Using Principal Component Analysis

Undergraduate Fellow: Jacob Miller
Graduate Student Advisor: Nicholas Zobrist

Determining the Local Structure of GaNb4Se8 using RMC Profile

Undergraduate Fellow: Kailey Steenhausen
Graduate Student Advisor: Julia Zuo

Implementing a Mølmer-Sørenson gate in trapped Sr+

Undergraduate Fellow: Michael Straus
Graduate Student Advisor: Sean Buechele

Machine Learning-Based Automatic Flake Finding

Undergraduate Fellow: Ben Xie
Graduate Student Advisor: Haoxin Zhou