Graduate Student

I am going to be developing a method of squeezed light induced two-photon absorption for the purpose of imaging biological samples.

Eric grew up in Shanghai, China and received his B.S. in Physics and Computer Science at University of California, Los Angeles, during which he developed a generalized model for spin transport in magnetic materials. After joining the group of Dr. Henry Kapteyn and Dr. Margaret Murnane at JILA in CU Boulder, he began to study approaches to probing various magnetic structures and dynamics using tabletop high harmonic generation (HHG) and synchrotron laser systems. In his spare time, Eric likes playing badminton, video games, and spends loads of time in skiing during winter seasons.

I am a graduate student working on the direct laser cooling of Yttrium Oxide (YO). This project has pioneered many feats for diatomic molecules such as magneto-optical trapping, sub-Doppler cooling, and conservative trapping. Ongoing work seeks to further achieve higher densities and lower temperatures towards quantum degeneracy, expanding the frontiers of quantum control. I was previously an undergraduate at the University of Chicago where I studied physics and math.

Eric joined the lab in Spring 2022 after graduating from New York University Shanghai. At NYU, he worked on entangling BECs with Prof. Tim Byrnes, as well as phase transitions in the Vicsek model and Ising model with Prof. Paul Chaikin, Charles Newman and Daniel Stein. Currently he is working on simulating many-body physics with strontium atoms.

Zhijing joined the group in fall 2021 after graduating from Xi’an Jiaotong University. In the past, she worked on condensed matter experiments with Prof. Mengkun Liu at Stony Brook University as an exchange student. After that, she switched her interest to AMO physics and did a gap year in Prof. John Doyle’s group at Harvard University where she worked on laser cooling ytterbium hydroxide. She did her first year of graduate school remotely in China and worked in Prof. ‪Matthias Weidemüller’s group on Rydberg atoms at USTC.