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Principal Investigator
Founded research group in 1999.
msaffman@wisc.edu
Scientist
AQuA experiment. Joined in 2016.
tgraham3@wisc.com
Scientist
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2021
asafari@wisc.edu
Postdoc
AQuA experiment. Joined in 2021.
chinnarasu@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2018.
huft@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2020.
eunji.oh@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
AQuA and Rb-Cs experiment. Joined in 2021
snorrell@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
AQuA experiment. Joined in 2017.
cpoole2@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
CLOC/AQuA experiment. Joined in 2020.
jacob.scott@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
AQuA experiment. Joined in 2021.
phuttitarn@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
CLOC experiment. Joined in 2021.
hm.lim@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2023.
onagib@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2023.
gmchase@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
AQUA experiment. Joined in 2024.
uday.singla@wisc.edu
Ph.D. Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
moon59@wisc.edu
Masters Student
SNAQ experiment. Joined in 2024.
jeuribe@wisc.edu
Undergraduate student
CLOC experiment. Joined in 2021.
qmeece@wisc.edu
Undergraduate Student
AQUA experiment. Joined in 2023.
zyan229@wisc.edu
Research Assistant
Joined in 2023.
isaac.scott@wisc.edu
| Name | Years in Lab | Present position |
|---|---|---|
| Yunheung Song | 2021 - 2022 | Senior Researcher - Ultracold Atom Quantum Research Team, Quantum Technology Institute, Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science |
| 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 |
| Names | Degree Awarded | Thesis Title | Most Recent Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juan Bohorquez | 2023 | Rydberg Physics in a Cryogenic System for Hybrid Quantum Interfaces | Senior Physicist, R&D at IonQ, Bothell, WA |
| 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 |
| 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 γ (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 |
| Names | Experiment/Project | Years | Most Recent Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| Louis Farenci | Network experiment | 2023 | ?? |
| Manish Chowdary | Network experiment, AQUA | 2022-2023 | ?? |
| Name | Years in Lab |
|---|---|
| Kais Jooya | 2020-2023 |
| Sam Cieszynski | 2019-2020 |
| Laura Fleming | 2014-2019 |
| Name | School | Years in Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Abraham Scott | CU - Boulder (Undergrad) | Summer 2022 |
| Danny Wendt | Caltech (Undergrad) | Summer 2021, Summer 2022 |
| Peiyu Yang | PhD student (Rb experiment) | 2019-2020 |
| Name | Years in Lab | Present Position |
|---|---|---|
| Arian Noori | 2021 - 2023 | ECE Masters program UW-Madison ->Quantum Hardware Engineer, IBM |
| Patrick Eichler | 2020 - 2023 | unknown |
| Max Freeman | Summer 2023 | PhD student, Caltech |
| Michael Bergdolt | 2019-2022 | ColdQuanta, Madison |
| Brandon Cortez | 2020 - 2021 | UW - Madison ECE PhD Program |
| Genevieve (Kearns) Augelli | 2018 - 2019 | DRS Daylight Solutions |
| Morgan Turville-Heitz | 2017 - 2019 | UW - Madison ECE PhD Program |
| Huaxia Zhou | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Alphonse Marra | 2017 - 2019 | University of Central Flordia |
| Sebastian Malewicz | 2017 - 2019 | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Jack Gage | 2017 - 2018 | |
| Brandon Radzom | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Lexie Wang | 2017 - 2019 | |
| Jacob Fronberry | 2016 - 2017 | |
| Sydney Lybert | 2015 - 2017 | Arizona |
| Jost Cherek | 2015 - 2016 | |
| William Milner | 2014 - 2017 | JILA, UC Boulder, Ye group |
| Kelly Hope | 2014 - 2015 | |
| Eric Myers | 2014 - 2015 | |
| Ayah Almousa | 2012 - 2013 | |
| Jake Skebba | 2012 | |
| Colton Marti | 2012 | |
| Joe Kowalski | 2010-2012 | Hearndon HEP group, Madison |
| Antoine Martin | 2009-2012 | Physics grad student, Purdue |
| Jacob Brian Swan | 2009 | Heeger group, Madison |
| Benjamin Broerman | 2009-2011 | Ice Cube, Madison |
| Thomas Noel | 2008 - 2009 | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Adam Beardsley | 2008 - 2009 | University of Washington, Seattle |
| Jon Sedlacek | 2008 - 2009 | University of Oklahoma |
| Jake Covey | 2008 - 2011 | Jun Ye group, JILA, UC Boulder -> Professor, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign |
| Kevin Christie | 2007 - 2008 | University of Minnesota |
| Stephan Neal | 2006 - 2008 | Epix Systems, History of Science UW Madison |
| Benjamin Spike | 2006 - 2008 | University of Colorado, Boulder |
| Nicholas Proite | 2004 - 2005 | UW-Madison, Alfalight |
| Andy Ruland | 2002 - 2003 | University of Texas, Austin |
| Name | Years in Lab | College |
|---|---|---|
| Nathan Wagner | 2021 - 2023 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Benjamin Kufel | 2017 - 2019 | University of Wisconsin - Madison |