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HQI Co-director, Mikhail Lukin, along with research team, which includes collaborators from QuEra Computing, MIT, and the University of Innsbruck, have developed a new approach for processing quantum information that allows them to dynamically change the...

HQI Co-director, Mikhail Lukin and lead researcher, MPHQ Postdoctoral Fellow, Giulia Semeghini, discover a new, never-before-seen state of matter - the quantum spin liquid. To find out more about the research and the discovery visit here. The research was...

HQI Co-director Mikhail Lukin is the receipient of the 2022 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries. The American Physical Society (APS) Fellow received this prize "for...

MPHQ Member, Prof. Eugene Demler, has won a 2021 Simons Investigator award. "The intent of the Simons Investigators in Mathematics, Physics, Astrophysics and Computer Science programs is to support outstanding theoretical scientists in their most...

A team of physicists, led by MPHQ Co-director Prof. Markus Greiner and MPHQ PI Mikhail Lukin, from the Harvard-MIT Center for Ultracold Atoms and other universities has developed a special type of quantum computer known as a programmable quantum simulator...

Harvard President Lawrence Bacow has approved Kang-Kuen Ni, Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology and of Physics, to the role of full professor with tenure at the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS), effective July 1, 2021. Learn more about...

MPHQ PI Prof. Eugene Demler part of team of researchers to study quantum phase transitions using Wigner crystals. To learn more about the study and its implications, visit here.

The registration for the Summer School 2021 is now open! This year, the school will take place online on July 12-16 and is being jointly organized with the Harvard Physics Department , as part of the MPHQ collaboration, as well as together with the...

Prof. Ni and her team, including MPHQ postdoc, Will Cairncross, report an extended lifetime of a sodium cesium molecule created in their lab by controlling all the degrees of freedom (including its motion) of an individual dipolar molecule for the first...

The Optical Society has named 17 recipients of the 2021 OSA awards and medals. Prof. Lukin received the award "for his pioneering theoretical and experimental contributions to quantum nonlinear optics and quantum information science and technology, and...