In a joint collaboration, the recent ITAMP fellow Nicole Yunger-Halprin, and the Innsbruck trapped ion group, have demonstrated that an array of quantum spins (ions) thermalize even in the presence of non-commuting spin components.
You read more about this impressive work here: https://journals.aps.org/prxquantum/abstract/10.1103/PRXQuantum.4.020318
It's with great pleasure that we announce that Misha Lukin has been named a University Professor at Harvard. Congratulations Misha.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/03/mikhail-lukin-named-unive...
Our congratulations to Pei-Gen and Wei on the arrival of baby Alexander!
Prof. Hannes Pichler, the former ITAMP postdoc who left in 2019 has won the prestigious New Horizons Prize in Physics "For the development of optical tweezer arrays to realize control of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science, metrology, and molecular physics."
More can be found here: https://breakthroughprize.org/Laureates/1/L3943
Hannes is now on the faculty at the University of Innsbruck.
Here is a nice read that was written by Nicole Yunger Halpern. (https://quantumfrontiers.com/2022/06/26/quantum-connections/)
It's fantastic news that Misha Lukin has won the 2022 Ramsey Prize (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Lu...) for "For contributions to quantum information science, sensing, and physics, including the development of Rydberg atom-based quantum simulators."
Misha will give a DAMOP plenary talk at the Orlando meeting.
Congratulations Misha.
It's always great news that one of our own is nominated for a major prize: in this case, Annabelle Bohrdt is a finalist for the 2022 APS Debbie Jin Prize. She will give an invited talk at the special DAMOP Thesis Prize session in Orlando, FL. We're ecstatic.
She has also won the Friedrich Hirzebruch Doctoral Prize 2022 for her dissertation "Probing strongly correlated many-body systems with quantum simulation". The prize announcement is here: https://www.studienstiftung.de/auszeichnungen/promotionspreise/preistrae....
Recent ITAMP Fellow Nicole Yunger Halpern is publishing a book for the general public about her research: Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow, coming out in March 2022. Steampunk is an artistic and literary genre that features futuristic technologies in Victorian settings. This genre is coming to life in a growing field that combines quantum information science, which underlies cutting-edge technologies, with thermodynamics, the Victorian science of energy. Quantum Steampunk explores this intersection’s background, landscape, and opportunities.
You can learn more at https://quantumsteampunk.umiacs.io/book/.
Zoom link:
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"We're delighted to learn that one of our own (Swati Singh) has won the NSF CAREER award (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2047707). Many congratulations Swati and many happy returns"
ITAMP is supported by the National Science Foundation
