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Principal Investigator

Mark Saffman

 

Research Assistant

Kais Jooya 2020 -

 

Scientists

Trent Graham (AQuA experiment) 2020 -

 

Postdocs

Ravikumar Chinnarasu (AQuA/Rb-Cs/Hybrid experiments) 2021 -

Akbar Safari (Quantum Network experiment) 2021 -

 

Ph.D. students

Rb Quantum Network experiment:

Ethan Lu 2022 -

Eunji Oh 2020 -

Preston Huft 2018 -

Rb-Cs experiment:

Sam Norrell 2021 -

Cs Atom Qubit Array (AQuA) experiment:

Linipun Phuttitarn 2021 -

Jacob Scott 2020-

Cody Poole 2017-

Hybrid Quantum Gate experiment:

Joshua Doucette 2022-

Juan Bohorquez 2017-

 

Undergraduates

Max Freeman 2022-

Arian Noori 2021-

Patrick Eichler 2020-

 

High school student

Nathan Wagner 2021-

Former postdocs

Present position
Yunheung Song 2021 - 2022 Senior Researcher - Ultracold Atom Quantum Research Team, Quantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science
Trent Graham 2015 - 2020 Scientist in QPAL group
Garrett Hickman 2017 - 2020 ColdQuanta, Madison, Wisconsin
Minho Kwon 2019 Senior Quantum Engineer - QuEra Computing, Boston, Massachusetts
Matt Ebert 2017 - 2019 IonQ, College Park, Maryland
Donald Booth 2015 - 2018 Senior Scientist, Quantum Valley Ideas Lab, Waterloo
Tian Xia 2010-2015 USTC, Hefei
Jonathan Pritchard 2013-2015 EPSRC Research Fellow Strathclyde, Scotland
Larry Isenhower 2010-2014 Assistant Professor, Abilene Christian University
Michal Piotrowicz 2011-2014 Naval Research Laboratory, Univ. Michigan
Michael Gibbons 2011-2013 ?
Xianli L. Zhang 2010-2013 Microsemi
Vladyslav Ivanov 2011-2013 Teradiode
Gang Li 2010-2012 Shanxi University
Marie Delaney 2005-2006 Precision Photonics, Boulder, Colorado
Deniz Yavuz 2004-2006 Professor, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Pasad Kulatunga 2003-2005 International Horizons College, Dubai
     

Former graduate students

 

degree awarded

Thesis Title most recent position
Xiaoyu Jiang 2022 Progress Towards Quantum Computing with Neutral Atom Arrays Huawei
Chris Young 2022 Progress towards Building a Quantum Network Node using Near-Concentric Resonant Cavities
Chris Yip 2021 Optical Dipole Trapping, Narrow-Line Cooling, and Single Atom Observation of Holmium Atoms  
Minho Kwon 2019 Rydberg-mediated Atomic Ensemble Entanglement and Hyperfine Qubit Detection QuEra Computing
Joshua Isaacs 2017 Hybrid Quantum Information with Atoms and Superconductors postdoc UC Berkeley
James Hostetter 2016 Laser cooling, trapping and Rydberg spectroscopy of neutral holmium atoms Honeywell
Martin Lichtman 2015 Coherent Operations, Entanglement, and Progress Toward Quantum Search in a Large 2D Array of Neutral Atom Qubits postdoc, Monroe group, JQI
Kara Maller 2015 Single- and two-qubit operations on an atomic qubit array Research Scientist, Georgia Tech Research Institute
Alex Carr 2014 Improving quantum computation with neutral Cesium: radout and cooling on a quadrupole line, conditions for double magic traps and a novel dissipative entanglement scheme High finance
Alex Gill 2014 Progress towards deterministic generation of entangled W-states of neutral atoms using Rydberg blockade Draper Labs
Jinlu Miao 2013 Laser cooling and magneto-optical trapping of Holmium atoms KLA Tencor

Siyuan Zhang

2012

Trapping and Rydberg excitation of a single atom qubit in a blue detuned bottle beam

Linked In

Larry Isenhower 2010 Demonstration of Rydberg blockade, a neutral atom CNOT gate, and entanglement generation Lecturer, Abilene Christian University
Thomas Henage, M.Sc. 2009 Real Time Data Collection and Management for an Atomic Quantum Computing Experiment (T.G. Walker lead advisor) Private industry
Erich Urban 2009

Coherent manipulation of single atom qubits using Rydberg states (T. G. Walker lead advisor)

Medical Physics, UW Madison
Will Williams 2009

Cold atom dynamics in linear and nonlinear optical potentials

Assistant Profressor, Smith College
Todd Johnson 2008

Rabi oscillations and excitation blockade between ground and Rydberg states of single optically trapped Rubidium atoms

Assistant Professor, Saint John's University
Oo-Kaw Lim 2006

Nonclassical correlations and entanglement in intracavity second harmonic generation

Lightwaves 2020
Yingxue Wang 2005

Nonlinear self-focusing in cold cesium atoms

Shell Oil, Houston, Texas

Nils P. Basse

2002 Turbulence in Wendelstein 7-AS plasmas measured by collective light scattering Siemens, Denmark

Morten Bache

2002 Quantum noise and spatio-temporal pattern formation in nonlinear optics Associate Professor, Technical University of Denmark

Peter Lodahl

2000 Spatio-temporal structures in cavity enhanced c(2) frequency conversion processes Professor, Niels Bohr Institute

Nicholas P. Heinemeier, (M. Sc.)

1998 Flow speed measurement using two-point collective light scattering NNIT, Zurich, Switzerland

Former research assistant

Sam Cieszynski 2019 - 2020

Laura Fleming 2014 - 2019

Former visiting researchers

Abraham Scott (CU - Boulder undergrad), Summer 2022

Danny Wendt (Caltech undergrad), Summer 2021, Summer 2022

Peiyu Yang (PhD student, Rb experiment) 2019 - 2020

Former Undergraduates

2020 - 2021 Brandon Cortez -> UW - Madison ECE PhD program

2019 - 2022 Michael Bergdolt -> ColdQuanta, Madison

2018 - 2019 Genevieve (Kearns) Augelli -> DRS Daylight Solutions

2017 - 2019 Morgan Turville-Heitz -> UW - Madison ECE PhD program

2017-2019 Huaxia Zhou ->

2017-2019 Alphonse Marra -> University of Central Florida

2017-2019 Sebastian Malewicz -> University of Queensland, Australia

2017-2018 Jack Gage

2017-2019 Brandon Radzom

2017-2019 Lexie Wang

2016-2017 Jacob Fronberry

2015-2017 Sydney Lybert, -> Arizona

2015-2016 Josh Cherek

2014-2017 William Milner -> JILA, UC Boulder, Ye group

2014-2015 Kelly Hoppe

2014-2015 Erik Myers

2012-2012 Jake Skebba

2012-2013 Ayah Almousa

2012-2012 Colton Marti

2010-2012 Joe Kowalski -> Hearndon HEP group, Madison

2009-2012 Antoine Martin -> Physics grad student, Purdue

2009 Jacob Brian Swan -> Heeger group, Madison

2009-11 Benjamin Broerman -> Ice Cube, Madison

2008-09 Thomas Noel -> University of Washington, Seattle

2008-09 Adam Beardsley -> University of Washington, Seattle

2008-09 Jon Sedlacek -> University of Oklahoma

2008-11 Jake Covey -> Jun Ye group, JILA, UC Boulder

2007-08 Kevin Christie -> University of Minnesota

2006-2008 Stephen Neal -> Epix Systems, History of Science UW Madison

2006-08 Benjamin Spike -> University of Colorado, Boulder

2004-05 Nicholas Proite -> University of Wisconsin, Madison -> Alfalight

2002-03 Andy Ruland -> University of Texas, Austin


Former high school students

Benjamin Kufel 2017 - 2019 -> UW - Madison