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Mikhail Lukin and team discover new approach may help clear hurdle to large-scale quantum computing

April 29, 2022

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 MPHQ postdoc Fellow Giulia Semeghini discover new state of matter

December 02, 2021

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 awarded 2022 Norman F. Ramsey Prize in Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, and in Precision Tests of Fundamental Laws and Symmetries

October 20, 2021

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, wins a 2021 Simons Investigator award

July 12, 2021

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...

MPHQ researchers Markus Greiner and Mikhail Lukin lead team to develop 256 bit quantum simulator

July 08, 2021

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...

MPHQ PI Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni Granted Tenure

June 03, 2021

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 Eugene Demler part of first team to experimentally document quantum melting of Wigner crystals

June 30, 2021

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.

Invitation for MPHQ Summer school

May 27, 2021

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. Kang Kuen Ni and her lab extent the life of a dipolar molecule

April 07, 2021

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...

HQI Co-Director Mikhail Lukin named recipient of 2021OSA Awards

February 16, 2021

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...

MPHQ PI John Doyle awarded APS Broida Prize

October 08, 2020

John Doyle, Henry B. Silsbee Professor of Physics, is the recipient of the 2021 Herbert P. Broida Prize of the American Physical Society . The prize recognizes Prof. Doyle “For pioneering work in the field of cold molecules, and for wide-ranging studies...

MPHQ researchers part of newly awarded NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute Q-SEnSE

July 21, 2020

MPHQ researcher John Doyle and MPHQ Vice Director, Susanne Yelin will serve as co-PIs in the newly launched NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Enhanced Sensing and Distribution Using Correlated Quantum States (QSEnSE). This institute, led by the...