ITAMP News

December 1, 2023
ITAMP Publication on many-body quantum chaos made it to the cover!

The cover art for an ITAMP publication in an online-only journal Nature Communications Physics has
been chosen as the front cover for the journal: https://www.nature.com/commsphys/

The description of the art cover for Ceren B. Dağ, Simeon I. Mistakidis, Amos Chan & H. R. Sadeghpour,
Communications Physics volume 6, Article number: 136 (2023):

A binary mixture of atoms trapped and driven in an optical lattice giving rise to many-body quantum
chaos, depicted in Picasso style and rendered by Deep Dream Generator. The spectral form factor of this
experimentally feasible model is found to deviate from random matrix theory prediction before the
many-body Thouless time, revealing a universal scaling function in cold atom models beyond random
matrix theory.

October 20, 2023
Is Quantum Error Correction Within Reach?

Learn more here https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2023/10/self-correcting-quantum-c...,

Also see the presentations from the recent ITAMP workshop on Rydberg physics (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCoSh1h28ieLfot4LODwDmRjtDO7_Kpff&si=...)

July 7, 2023
In a joint theory/experiment collaboration, Rydberg blockade with polar molecules has been demonstrated for the first time.


You can read more in this Physics Focus article: "Atom and Molecule FormQuantum “Blockade”.

Article:https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.131.013401

May 24, 2023
Newest ITAMP member

Our congratulations to Tijs Karman and Nina on the arrival of baby Lily!

May 8, 2023
Congratulations Ana for being elected to the National Academy.

It's with great pleasure that we announce that Ana Maria Rey, former fellow (2005-2008), was elected to the US
National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations Ana.

More on the list of the 2023 can be found here: https://www.nasonline.org/news-and-multimedia/news/2023-nas-election.html.

May 1, 2023
Nicole Yunger-Halpern and experimentalists demonstrate thermalization in a non-commuting spin array

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

March 24, 2023
Misha Lukin, University Professor at Harvard

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...

February 8, 2023
Newest ITAMP member

Our congratulations to Pei-Gen and Wei on the arrival of baby Alexander!

September 28, 2022
Hannes Pichler a former ITAMP postdoc has won the 2023 New Horizons Physics prize.

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.

June 27, 2022
A nice read by Nicole Yunger Halpern

Here is a nice read that was written by Nicole Yunger Halpern. (https://quantumfrontiers.com/2022/06/26/quantum-connections/)

May 6, 2022
Misha Lukin has won the 2022 Ramsey Prize

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.

March 30, 2022
Annabelle is a finalist for the Debbie Jin Prize

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....

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