Mohammad Hafezi

Fellow

Associate Professor

First Name:

Mohammad

Last Name:

Hafezi

Phone:

(301) 405-2630

UMD Email:

hafezi@umd.edu

UMD Office:

University of Maryland

2107 Atlantic Bldg. #224

College Park, MD 20742

NIST Office:

Home Institution:

United States

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Research Topics:

Topological physics with light, Many-body non-equilibrium physics, Quantum hybrid systems

GROUP MEMBERS

Iman Ahmadabadi

Graduate Student

Sabyasachi Barik

Graduate Student

Bin Cao

Graduate Student

Ze-Pei Cian

Graduate Student

Hossein Dehghani

Postdoctoral Researcher

Christopher Flower

Graduate Student

Kaixin Huang

Graduate Student

Hwanmun Kim

Graduate Student

Eric Kuo

Graduate Student

Sunil Mittal

Postdoctoral Researcher

Venkata Vikram Orre

Graduate Student

Seyed Alireza Seif Tabrizi

Graduate Student

Julia Sell

Graduate Student

Deric Session

Graduate Student

Hadi Vafaei

Graduate Student

Jonathan Vannucci

Graduate Student

GROUP ALUMNI

Wade DeGottardi

Postdoc

Guanyu Zhu

Postdoctoral Researcher

People Profiles

Paul Hess

Paul Hess is a postdoctoral fellow at JQI. He received his undergraduate degree in astrophysics at Williams College and went on to get his PhD in physics at Harvard University. There, he worked on precision measurement experiments that searched for the electric dipole moment of electrons bound to thorium oxide molecules. At JQI, as part of Chris Monroe’s trapped ion team, his work revolves around examining complex many body systems. He has studied many-body localization and is currently working on an experiment that would simulate quantum solids with an increased number of trapped ions.
Xiaopeng Li

Xiapeng Li is a JQI Postdoctoral Fellow working in CMTC. His research interest is primarily in quantum condensed matter. His work covers novel states of matter in both well-controlled ultracold atomic systems and in complex electronic materials. He has been have been studying a broad range of systems, such as atomic p-orbital systems in optical lattices, dipolar quantum gases, and complex oxides. Some of his current efforts focus on (1) emergent spin orbital couplings and gauge fields in spinor Bose gases and Bose-Fermi mixtures as well as (2) band crossing and multi-orbital superconductivity, spin spirals and skyrmions in oxides and heterostructures. Li received his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh and was an undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, China.
Aftaab Dewan

Aftaab Dewan, a graduate fellow at JQI, received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics at Amherst College. There, he was a recipient of the Bassett Prize and the Stifler Prize, and conducted research on studying dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates. His senior thesis examined how neutrinos scatter off of materials such as lead or glass. He now works with Steve Rolston to understand the transport, coherence, and delocalization properties of BECs. Analyzing the interactions within and between regions of a BEC adds to the ultimate goal of building a quantum simulator.
Mary Lyon

Mary Lyon is originally from Princeton, New Jersey. She attended Bryn Mawr College, where she earned both her undergraduate degree in physics and a high school teaching certificate. Lyon originally planned to be a high school physics teacher, but discovered a love for research during a summer program at MIT the summer after her junior year. She briefly taught high school in Columbus, GA before going to graduate school at Brigham Young University, where she worked with Scott Bergeson on strongly coupled ultracold neutral plasmas. She is currently a JQI postdoctoral researcher in the group of Trey Porto and Steve Rolston where she is building a new quantum information experiment that will use an ensemble of cold Rydberg atoms.
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.
Crystal Senko

Crystal Senko was a graduate student in Chris Monroe's ion trapping group. While in the group she focused on ultrafast spin manipulation as well as quantum simulation of magnetism. She is now a postdoctoral researcher with Mikhail Lukin at Harvard. Senko is an undergraduate alumni of Duke University, where she worked with Dan Gauthier on magneto-optical trapping using distributed feedback lasers.

Mohammad Hafezi

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Paul Hess

Xiaopeng Li

Aftaab Dewan

Mary Lyon

Mohammad Maghrebi

Crystal Senko

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