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Norbert Linke

Adjunct Assistant Professor

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Contact Information

UMD

Email:
linke@umd.edu
Office:

University of Maryland 2251 Atlantic Bldg. #224 College Park, MD 20742 United States

Office Phone:
(301) 405-1666

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Recent News

  • A man in a collared shirt stands in front of lab equipment and many hanging cables.

    Returning JQI Fellow Named New Director of National Quantum Laboratory

    December 2, 2025

    Norbert Linke has returned to JQI after a stint as an associate professor at Duke University. Before moving to Duke, Linke was a researcher at JQI from 2015 to 2022. Now, he is once again leading his own research group at JQI and has also taken a new role as the director of the National Quantum Laboratory at UMD.

  • a woman smiling at the camera and wearing a red turtleneck

    New JQI Fellow Wants to Build an Error-Creating Quantum Computer

    March 4, 2025

    In her new lab, Alaina Green is making a quantum computer that is better at intentionally creating quantum errors that can be systematically studied.

  • an AI-generated artistic image showing swirling quantum particles on a circular stage lit by lights from above

    Putting On a Particle Play

    August 18, 2023

    Back in the 1950s, theoretical physicists postulated that the kinds of particles we actually see in nature are just the tip of the iceberg. Many other types of particles with weird properties, which they termed paraparticles, were popping out of the math as theoretical possibilities. But as physicists discovered more about the fundamental particles seen in nature, they found no evidence for paraparticles. In 2016 Cinthia Alderete, then a graduate student in theoretical physics, discovered a way to simulate paraparticles in which ions and light come together to put on a paraparticle play. To direct this dramatic reenactment, Alderete made the switch from theory to experiment and moved from Mexico to the United States, collaborating with the group of Norbert Linke, a member of the NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation and a former Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. Together, they brought to life an obscure theoretical curiosity from the past.