Graduate Student Research Opening in Covey Lab in Department of Physics and IQUIST
4/15/2022 4:02:31 PM
The Covey Lab has openings for one or two graduate students with interest in atomic physics, quantum optics, and/or quantum information science. The Covey Lab focuses on arrays of neutral alkaline earth atoms in optical tweezers [1,2] for myriad quantum science applications including quantum computation, quantum simulation, and quantum networking. Entangling operations are performed via the use of highly excited “Rydberg” states [3]. We are now starting a second research effort, for which we are recruiting Ph.D. students, to put a Rydberg atom array in an optical cavity to open new possibilities for quantum error correction and quantum networking [4,5,6]. This new effort will collaborate closely with our first experimental system, which is based on arrays of the same atomic species. Further detail is available here: coveylab.com.
Students with interest in atomic physics, quantum optics, and/or quantum information science are encouraged to contact Prof. Covey directly (jcovey@illinois.edu)
[1] A. Cooper, J. P. Covey, I. S. Madjarov, S. G. Porsev, M. S. Safronova, and M. Endres, “Alkaline-earth atoms in optical tweezers”, Phys. Rev. X 8, 041055 (2018)
[2] J. P. Covey, I. S. Madjarov, A. Cooper, and M. Endres, “2000-times repeated imaging of strontium atoms in clock-magic tweezer arrays ”, Phys. Rev. Lett 122, 173201 (2019)
[3] I. S. Madjarov, J. P. Covey, A. L. Shaw, J. Choi, A. Kale, A. Cooper, H. Pichler, V. Schkolnik, J. R. Williams, and M. Endres, “High-fidelity entanglement and detection of alkaline-earth Rydberg atoms”, Nature Physics 16, 857-861 (2020)
[4] J. P. Covey, A. Sipahigil, S. Szoke, N. Sinclair, M. Endres, and O. J. Painter, “Telecom-band quantum interfaces with ytterbium atoms and silicon nanophotonics”, Phys. Rev. Applied 11, 034044 (2019)
[5] W. Huie, S. G. Menon, H. Bernien, and J. P. Covey, “Multiplexed telecommunication-band quantum networking with atom arrays in optical cavities”, Phys. Rev. Research 3, 043154 (2021)
[6] N. Chen, L. Li, W. Huie, M. Zhao, I. Vetter, C. H. Greene, and J. P. Covey, “Analyzing the Rydberg-based omg architecture for 171Yb nuclear spins”, arXiv:2201.04083 (2022)