Excursion in the Quantum Loss Landscape: Learning, Generating and Simulating in the Quantum World
Dissertation Committee Chair: Mohammad Hafezi
Committee:
Michael Gullans
Zohreh Davoudi
Victor Albert
Christopher Jarzynski
Abstract: Statistical learning is emerging as a new paradigm in science.
Chiral light-matter interaction in fermionic quantum Hall systems
Dissertation Committee Chair: Mohammad Hafezi
Committee:
Glenn Solomon
Jay Sau
Nathan Schine
You Zhou
Ichiro Takeuchi (Dean’s representative)
Ultracold Gases in a Two-Frequency Breathing Lattice
Dissertation Committee Chair: Prof. Steve Rolston
Committee:
Prof. Gretchen Campbell
Prof. Nathan Schine
Prof. Ron Walsworth
Prof. Ki-yong Kim
Exploring Quantum Many-body Systems in Programmable Trapped Ion Quantum Simulators
Dissertation Committee Chair: Professor Christopher R. Monroe
Committee:
Professor Alexey V. Gorshkov
Professor Zohreh Davoudi
Professor Norbert M. Linke
Professor Christopher Jarzynski
Engineering optical lattices for ultracold atoms with spatial features and periodicity below the diffraction limit & Dual-species optical tweezer arrays for Rubidium and Ytterbium for Rydberg-interaction-mediated quantum simulations
Dissertation Committee Chair: Prof. Steven Rolston (co-advisor)
Committee:
Prof. Trey Porto (co-chair/co-advisor)
Prof. Ian Spielman
Prof. Nathan Schine
Prof. Ronald Walsworth
Abstract: This dissertation is based on two independent projects.
Quantum Circuits for Chiral Topological Order
Dissertation Committee Chair: Mohammad Hafezi
Committee:
Alexey Gorshkov
Maissam Barkeshli
Ian Spielman
Andrew Childs
Constructing an ergodic theory of quantum information dynamics
Dissertation Committee Chair: Victor Galitski
Committee:
Paulo Bedaque
Alexey Gorshkov
Christopher Jarzynski
Nicole Yunger Halpern
Spectral Statistics, Hydrodynamics, and Quantum Chaos
Dissertation Committee Chair: Brian Swingle, Victor Galitski
Committee:
Maissam Barkeshli
Jay Sau
Jonathan Rosenberg (Dean’s representative)
Controlling quantum ergodicity in molecules large and small: From C60 to ultracold alkali dimers
Abstract: Quantum ergodicity refers to the remarkable ability of quantum systems to explore their entire state space allowed by symmetry. Mechanisms for violating ergodicity are of fundamental interest in statistical and molecular physics and can offer novel insights into decoherence phenomena in complex molecular qubits. I will discuss the recent experimental observation of ergodicity breaking in rapidly rotating C60 fullerene molecules as a function of rotational angular momentum [1].
Harnessing Quantum Systems for Sensing, Simulation, and Optimization
Dissertation Committee Chair: Zohreh Davoudi
Committee:
Alexey Gorshkov
Andrew Childs (Dean’s Representative)
Yi-Kai Liu
Ronald Walsworth