Edo Waks

Fellow

Professor

First Name:

Edo

Last Name:

Waks

Phone:

(301) 405-5022

UMD Email:

edowaks@umd.edu

UMD Office:

NIST Office:

Home Institution:

United States

Nanophotonics Group Website

Research Topics:

Photonic Crystals in Quantum Information Processing, Photonic Crystals in Optical Telecommunication and Sensing

GROUP MEMBERS

Sabyasachi Barik

Graduate Student

Kangmook Lim

Graduate Student

Zhouchen Luo

Graduate Student

GROUP ALUMNI

Tao Cai

Shilpi Gupta

Graduate Student

Je-Hyung Kim

Chad Ropp

Graduate Student

Deepak Sridharan

Graduate Student

People Profiles

Alexander Craddock

Alexander Craddock is a PhD student at JQI who earned a Bachelor and Master degree in physics at University College London. As an undergraduate student, he studied whether a commercial device from D-Wave behaved like a quantum computer. After doing master’s work in high-energy physics, his focus shifted back to quantum information. Now he works in Steve Rolston and Trey Porto’s interacting photons group which hopes to one day develop a quantum repeater, a device to allow long distance quantum communication, using Rydberg atoms.
Nicholas Grabon

Nicholas Grabon is a JQI graduate fellow who received an undergraduate degree in physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. There, he helped design silicon chips with embedded quantum logic. At JQI, he previously worked on the theory of topological states on a lattice containing individual sites. Now, he is working with Vladimir Manucharyan to build smaller resonators with higher quality, design (fluxonium) qubits with decreased noise and better understand many-body physics.
Mohammad Maghrebi

Mohammad Maghrebi earned his PhD in physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he received the Sergio Vazquez Prize for his research on quantum fluctuations. For his postdoctoral research at JQI, he is working towards understanding non-equilibrium phases of matter in hopes of creating states of matter that do not occur outside the lab. He is also working on quantifying entanglement of many-body systems in equilibrium as well as finding patterns of entanglement generation outside of equilibrium.
James R. Williams

James R. Williams is a JQI Fellow and assistant professor of physics, and his chief area of research is experimental condensed matter physics. Specifically, he specializes in understanding why certain one and two-dimensional materials (e.g. topological insulators, graphene) depart from normal conductivity provided by free electrons. Dr. Williams received his bachelors in engineering physics at Santa Clara University. He then went on to get his MS and PhD from Harvard University in 2009 on the subject of grapheme, while studying under Charles M. Marcus. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford before coming to Maryland.
Aaron Lee

Aaron Lee, a JQI graduate student, received his undergraduate degree in physics at UMD. He worked with Chris Monroe’s trapped ion group, using ytterbium ions to simulate other quantum systems. As a graduate student, he has continued to study quantum information with the Monroe group and hopes his work can contribute to eventually building a quantum computer.
Ryan Barnett

Ryan Barnett, a former JQI postdoctoral fellow at the Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC), is now a ‘Lecturer in Condensed Matter Theory’ (UK equivalent of assistant professor) at Imperial College in London. Ryan is a theoretical physicist interested in collective effects in ultracold atomic gases. While at the JQI his research focused on spinor condensates, non-equilibrium dynamics, and synthetic gauge fields. Much of his recent work at CMTC was motivated by ongoing experimental activities at the JQI.

Edo Waks

Nanophotonics Group Website

GROUP MEMBERS

GROUP ALUMNI

Alexander Craddock

Nicholas Grabon

Mohammad Maghrebi

James R. Williams

Aaron Lee

Ryan Barnett

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Edo Waks

Nanophotonics Group Website

GROUP MEMBERS

GROUP ALUMNI

Alexander Craddock

Nicholas Grabon

Mohammad Maghrebi

James R. Williams

Aaron Lee

Ryan Barnett

About JQI

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