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Professor Mikhail Lukin elected to National Academy of Sciences

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Professor Mikhail Lukin, MPHQ PI, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences. Congratulations to Prof. Lukin!

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

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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.

MPHQ COVID-19 Information

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Updates on campus-wide polices will be posted as the univeristy policies on campus operations continue to evolve amid COVID-19 outbreak. MPHQ has been working to adapt all operations in accordance to Harvard's guidelines in light of the recent COVID-19...

Professor Mikhail Lukin leads research group to propose new quantum metasurface

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Led by HQI co-director, Mikhail Lukin, researchers proposed a new quantum metasurface that can control multpile properties of light. The design strategy used by the researchers allow the quantum metasurfaces to be employed in most quantum applications...

MPHQ PI Prof. Kang-Kuen Ni Granted Tenure

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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...

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

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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...

MPHQ PI John Doyle awarded APS Broida Prize

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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...

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

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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...

HQI Co-Director, Mikhail Lukin and MPHQ postdoc Fellow Giulia Semeghini discover new state of matter

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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...

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

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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...

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

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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...

MPHQ Member, Prof. Eugene Demler, wins a 2021 Simons Investigator award

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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...