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)
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
Quantum Advantage in Sensing and Simulation
Dissertation Committee Chair: Steven Rolston
Committee:
Alexey Gorshkov (co-chair)
Andrew Childs (Dean’s Representative)
Nathan Schine
Michael Gullans
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
High Performance Nanophotonic Cavities and Interconnects for Optical Parametric Oscillators and Quantum Emitters
Dissertation Committee Chair: Mohammad Hafezi and Kartik Srinivasan
Committee:
Yanne Chemo
Efrain Rodriguez
Edo Waks
Xiyuan Lu
Quantum Simulation of High-Energy Physics with Trapped Ions
Dissertation Committee Chair: Professor Alicia Kollár
Committee:
Professor Norbert Linke, Advisor and Co-Chair
Professor Zohreh Davoudi
Professor Ian Spielman
Professor Xiaodi Wu