Lab Members
Principal Investigator
Ana Maria Rey
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Phone:
303-492-8089
Location:
S324 (office)
Short Bio:
My research interests are in the scientific interface between atomic, molecular and optical physics, condensed matter physics and quantum information science. Specifically, on ways of developing new techniques for controlling quantum systems and then using them in various applications ranging from quantum simulations/information to time and frequency standards. My group wants to engineer fully controllable quantum systems capable to mimic desired real materials as well as to develop advanced and novel measurement techniques capable of probing atomic quantum systems at the fundamental level.
Research Associates
Dr. Robert Lewis-Swan
Short Bio:
I obtained my BSc at the University of Queensland in 2011 and subsequently my PhD in 2015 from the same institution. My PhD research was focused on the proposal of fundamental tests of quantum mechanics in ultracold atomic gases, in particular how we can generate, characterise and exploit entanglement and non-classical correlations in these systems. My work emphasized experimentally realistic protocols and I studied these systems using a range of analytic and numerical methods, including stochastic phase-space methods.
My current research is focused on non-equilibrium quench dynamics and many-body physics in quantum spin models. In particular, I am interested in how correlations and entanglement develop in lattice models, and how novel physical phenomena can arise due to disorder and dissipation. I use advanced and emerging numerical techniques, such as discrete phase-space methods, to study these systems in experimentally realistic scenarios.
Chunlei Qu
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Short Bio:
I obtained my PhD degree at the University of Texas at Dallas in 2015. In 2017, after two years research at the BEC Center at the University of Trento in Italy, I joined the Rey group at JILA as a research associate. My past research has been devoted to topics of quantum physics that are conceptually novel and experimentally relevant in atomic gases and solid-state materials: synthetic gauge field and SOC, topological superfluids/superconductors, periodic driven systems, FFLO state, vector solitons, etc. At JILA, I will continue exploring exotic quantum phenomena in strongly correlated many body quantum systems.
Graduate Students
Diego Barberena
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Short Bio:
I received my B.Sc. in physics at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in 2013 and received a M.Sc. degree in quantum optics at the same place in 2016. I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017 and joined Professor’s Rey group at the end of the same year.
My interests encompass quantum technologies and their implementations in AMO and condensed matter systems, as well as the more theoretical aspects of these subjects. I am generally excited both by the possibilities offered by systems of cold atoms to simulate various complex phenomena and by the theoretical understanding of these phenomena themselves. I am currently studying collective coherent interactions of many atoms with a cavity.
Kevin Gilmore
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Short Bio:
I graduated from Auburn University in 2013 with degrees in physics & philosophy, and subsequently started my graduate studies at CU Boulder. I joined Ana Maria Rey’s group in the fall of 2015 as an experimentalist working in the Ion Storage Group at NIST. I work on the Penning Trap quantum simulation experiment with John Bollinger (NIST). Our work is focused on engineering interactions between hundreds of ions in a 2D crystalline array to study quantum many-body dynamics and produce metrologically useful entangled states. We're also interested in exploiting this platform for sensing extremely weak electric fields and forces, such as those produced by some dark matter candidates.
Peiru He
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Short Bio:
I received my B.S. degree at the University of Science and Technology of China in 2013, and then I enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado Boulder. I joined Professor Rey’s theory group at the beginning of 2014. My interests include cold atom systems and the super-radiance laser. I am currently working on exploring the synchronization phenomenon with three-level atoms coupled to a large decay cavity.
Mikhail Mamaev
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Short Bio:
I received my B.Sc. in mathematics & physics from McGill University in 2015. I stayed for two more years to complete an M.Sc. in physics. I moved to CU Boulder for a Ph.D. program in the fall of 2017, and work on theoretical AMO physics for Prof. Rey's group.
My interests include strongly interacting many-body systems, dissipative dynamics and entanglement generation. My current project combines several of these aspects by working on exchange dynamics of strontium in a 3D optical lattice. I investigate the effects of strong repulsive interactions in tandem with spin-orbit coupling and single-particle physics to realize useful, highly entangled states.
Sean Muleady
Short Bio:
I completed my A.B. in physics at Princeton University in 2017, and subsequently enrolled in the Ph.D. program at the University of Colorado, Boulder and joined Professor Rey’s theory group.
I am interested in using AMO platforms to realize complex many-body phenomena and exotic phases of matter and to understand the growth of quantum entanglement in these systems. My current work focuses on the application and development of techniques based on phase space methods and matrix product states in order to study many-body localization and quantum thermalization in optical lattice systems with dipolar interactions.
Michael Perlin
Website: http://linkedin.com/in/perlinm
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Location:
JILA S305
Short Bio:
I received my B.Sc. in physics at Oregon State University in 2015, spent a year in the Controlled Quantum Dynamics Group at Ulm University, and am currently a Ph.D. student in the Rey Theory Group at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
My research interests are primarily in quantum simulation, quantum computation, and quantum information theory in the context of AMO and condensed matter systems. I am particularly excited by the use of highly controllable cold atomic systems as a versatile playground for studying exotic quantum phenomena and developing novel quantum technologies. I currently study spin-orbit coupling and effective three-body physics of cold atoms in optical lattices.
