The group in Fall 2023
Highlights
| June 2024 It’s with deep sorrow that we share the news that a truly shining star of our group, Minh-Thi, passed away in a tragic accident. Please consider donating to support her family. Minh-Thi’s contributions to physics (in display at the recent DAMOP conference) and to our group will be remembered forever. |  |
| April 2024 Congratulations to Pearl for winning an "RLE Appreciation Award"!! |  |
| April 2024 Andrew presents his work at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences review workshop. |  |
| April 2024 Congratulations to Minh-Thi for winning an NSF fellowship!! |  |
| April 2024 We collaborate with Prof. Ju Li to define a new neutronic quantum dot, allowing for a weakly bound state of neutron in small nanoparticles. Our paper is highlighted by MIT news. |  |
| March 2024 Sam delivers a nice talk on his work on quantum mixer imaging at MIT.Nano. Spiral pictures to come soon!! |  |
| February 2024 Our recent results from Alex U. et al. on extending electronic spin register size for improved sensing are highlighted in this MIT News article | |
| January 2024 A mini QEG reunion at Photonics West 2024!! So proud to see the success of all of QEG's alumni!! |  |
| January 2024 QEG helps organize and attends Quarc! |  |
| December 2023 QEG Alum Masashi Hirose is spotlighted by the NSE department for his new startup NanoQT working on a novel cavity-qed platform quantum computation. |  |
| October 2023 Congratulations to Paola for being elected APS fellow in the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, for “groundbreaking contributions to quantum control and quantum sensing with spin systems.” |  |
| September 2023 We welcome Dr. Jungbae Yoon who joins us from Korea University as a visiting postdoctoral fellow. |  |
| September 2023 Andrew's paper on prethermal U(1) time crystals has been accepted by PRX! | |
| August 2023 Congratulations to Haowei: his research on creating a nuclear laser with a two-photon pumping scheme is published as a letter in PRA |  |
| July 2023 Congratulations to Alex U., Calvin and Alex C. for submitting a nice contribution to expanding quantum registers formed by electronic spins! |  |
| July 2023 Guoqing might have left the group, but the papers keep coming! Congratulations to all collaborators for their new published papers in Advanced Quantum Technologies , PRL and PNAS. |  |
| June 2023 We organize a workshop on quantum thermodynamics with collaborators from SISSA (Italy) supported by the MISTi program. It was a great success! (including a lab tours and a site visit to QuERA) |  |
| June 2023 Congratulations to Abtin: his work on finding an efficient quantum algorithm for the Vlasov equation appears in Phys. Rev. A. |  |
| May 2023 Congratulations to Andrew for winning the Manson Benedict Award and to Garrett Heller and Kevin Cheng ’26 for the Outstanding UROP Award. |  |
| May 2023 Congratulations to all graduated from QEG! |  |
| April 2023 Congratulations to Hao from Prof. Ju Li's group for publishing his work on ab-initio calculations of temperature shifts of spin defects Hamiltonian parameters! It has been a nice collaboration and validates our experimental finding. |  |
| April 2023 Congratulations to Guoqing for defending his Ph.D. thesis!! Luckily for us, Dr. Wang is not going far, he will be a postdoc at MIT in Vladan Vuletic's group. |  - P Cap.jpg) |
| April 2023 Pai's paper on observing emergent hydrodynamics by exploiting disorder appears in Nature Physics. See also the nice overview by Jianming Cai. It was also nice to see Pai in Princeton while presenting his results (and Andrew's) at a local workshop |  |
| March 2023 Congratulations to Andrew for posting his results on observing a prethermal time crystal. |  |
| March 2023 QEG goes to the March meeting ... in Vegas! |  |
| February 2023 QEG members present quantum demos at the Museum of Science for Quantamazing!! Leonardo was very happy! |  |
| February 2023 Congratulations to Haowei for publishing two papers (in PRX and PRL) on optical control and cooling of nuclear spins, via their quadrupolar interaction. It's a great collaboration with Prof. Ju Li's group! The results are highlighted by the MIT News. |  |
| February 2023 We welcome Minh-Thi and Zhiyao to the group! Minh-Thi is pursuing her Ph.D. in physics and Zhiyao is visiting us from Xi'an Jiaotong University |  |
| February 2023 Our recent results from Guoqing et al. on manipulating spin concentration with charge transport, characterized by an updated wide-field imaging setup, are now posted (arXiv:2302.12742 and arXiv:2302.12743)! |  |
| January 2023 QEG members attend the annual QuARC conference and present their work. |  |
| January 2023 Happy new year! To celebrate, QEG members attend the CUA retreat and QuARC conference. Congratulations to Guoqing, Alex and Santiago who were among the organizers of QuARC! And good job everyone in presenting posters. | |
| December 2022 We celebrate Changhao's new job with a group dinner! |  |
| November 2022 QEG greeted Prof. Junko Hayase who is visiting MIT from Keio University (Takuya's former group) |  |
| November 2022 Congratulations to Changhao who defended his Ph.D. thesis!! Dr. Li is heading to NYC to develop novel quantum algorithms. |  |
| October 2022 Guoqing made a Halloween pumpkin with our group logo! |  |
| October 2022 Congratulations to Calvin, whose work on characterizing a complex quantum environment via self-consistent noise spectroscopy appears in Physical review B. Good job Dr. Sun! |  |
| October 2022 We say goodbye to Dr. Sun who is going to UIUC for a postdoc with Prof. Covey. Good luck! |  |
| September 2022 Hao and Boning present their nice results on speeding up a distributed algorithm for machine learning exploiting quantum communication and the quantum counting algorithm. |  |
| September 2022 The latest results from Pai, exploiting disorder to characterize transport with single-spin resolution, are out on the arXiv. |  |
| September 2022 Dr. Hirose visits us from Japan! It's great to hear from Masashi that he just founded a startup in Japan, the first hardware quantum information startup in Japan, NanoQT. We also celebrate 3 "generations" of Japanese students! |  |
| September 2022 With the new academic year we welcome three new members to QEG: Dr. Santiago Hernández-Gómez joins us from LENS (Florence) as a postdoc. Sam Karlson from USAFA will work within our Lincoln Lab collaboration. Takuya Isogawa joins us from Keio University. Welcome! |  |
| August 2022 Congratulations to Guoqing for winning a Mathworks fellowship! |  |
| July 2022 Congratulations to Changhao for winning the 2022 Peake Prize!! Changhao's work had also recently been highlighted by the NSE department. |  |
| July 2022 We say goodbye to Francesca and Tema with a nice QEG dinner! |  |
| June 2022 Quantum sensor integrated with a quantum mixer can now sense electromagnetic fields at arbitrary frequency! See our recent work on PRX, which was also highlighted by MIT News! Congratulations to Guoqing, Yixiang and our Lincoln Lab collaborators! |  |
| June 2022 We welcome Tema Zulu for the Summer MSRP program! Tema worked on various projects and got to present her results with a nice poster. |  |
| June 2022 Congratulations to Scott and the whole Lincoln Lab-MIT team for submitting a paper reporting a record-breaking AC magnetometer that reaches picoTesla sensitivity. |  |
| May 2022 We celebrate the end of the classes with a BBQ! It's also great to see Akira -- who will start as an assistant professor at UMass Boston -- and Yixiang, who is working as postdoc at Harvard! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) |
| May 2022 Congratulations to all of this year graduates!! Calvin, Pai, Yuan and Scott: you accomplished so much, it's going to be a tough act to follow. |  |
| May 2022 Congratulations to Yuan for finishing up her master thesis! Good luck in your future job!! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) |
| May 2022 Congratulations to Scott for defending his thesis! Dr. Alsid will be a faculty at the United States Air Force Academy | -2 - qeg group.jpg) |
| May 2022 We submit two back-to-back papers about the variations of NV and spin defects parameters with temperature and strain. A nice collaboration with Prof. Ju Li group! |  |
| April 2022 Congratulations to Changhao for submitting a paper illustrating intriguing links between quantum geometry and metrology (it's also great to still collaborate with Dr. Mo!) |  |
| March 2022 QEG tries out some spins at the ice rink! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) |
| March 2022 Congratulations to Pai for successfully defending his thesis! Dr. Peng will head to Princeton very soon to work on atomic systems. |  |
| March 2022 Congratulations to Changhao and Mo! Our paper in collaboration with Nathan Goldman group has been published by Science. In there, we present the engineering and characterization of a tensor magnetic monopole. |  |
| March 2022 Welcome Francesca! Francesca Madonna is visiting us from Politecnico di Milano for a few months to work on improving our photon detection with novel SPADS, thanks to a Rocca fellowship (congrats!) |  |
| February 2022 A snow-spin / snow-bit to celebrate the snowstorm!! (thanks Alex!) |  |
| January 2022 IquISE hosts the 3rd iQuHACK Hackaton! |  |
| January 2022 We welcome a new group member! Alex Ungar joins us from U. Berkeley. |  |
| December 2021 In a new collaborative work with Italy (Sissa and LENS) we devise better controls for quantum sensor by mapping the problem to a spin-glass system. |  |
| December 2021 We develop a quantum sensor to detect viral RNA - yes, Covid19 as well! Congrats to Changhao and collaborators from U. Waterloo. The paper is now published in Nano Letters. See also the News story from MIT. |  |
| December 2021 Congratulations to Yixiang for winning the DelFavero thesis award! |  |
| October 2021 Congratulations to Andrew for winning a Doc Bedard Fellowship! Thanks to the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering for the support. |  |
| September 2021 Congratulations to Changhao and Guoqing: their paper characterizing time symmetries has been published in PRL as an editors suggestion!. See also the nice accompanying news article on the NSE website. | |
| September 2021 Andrew, Changhao, and Guoqing went to ANS Atomic Retreat at the top of Mount Washington, and at the end of a winding dirt road! |  |
| September 2021 We welcome Andrew and Boning to the group! (also, welcome back Yuan!) |  |
| August 2021 Congratulations to Calvin for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! |  |
| July 2021 Congratulations to Pai Peng awarded the prestigious MathWorks PhD Fellowship AY21-22! |  |
| March 2021 Vector magnetic fields cannot hide anymore! A new protocol by Guoqing and Yixiang can robustly reveal AC fields vector components. See our results in arXiv. |  |
| March 2021 Congratulations to Guoqing for winning the best poster award at NSE 2021 Research Expo! |  |
| March 2021 Congrats to Guoqing, Yixiang, Calvin, Pai, and Changhao for presenting our work at the 2021 remote March meeting. |  |
| February 2021 We use reinforcement learning to teach spins how to best cancel out their interactions! New results posted in arXiv. |  |
| February 2021 Prof. Cappellaro teaches a new course on Quantum Technology and Devices |  |
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| February 2021 Pai and Chao's paper demonstrating Floquet prethermalization in NMR system appears in Nature Physics. The companion theory paper is published in PRB. The paper is also highlighted by an accompanying News&Views piece. |  |
| February 2021 Pai and Chao's paper demonstrating Floquet prethermalization in NMR system appears in Nature Physics. The companion theory paper is published in PRB. The paper is also highlighted by an accompanying News&Views piece. |  |
| February 2021 Guoqing's paper on high-order Mollow triplet (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in Physical Review A: congrats! |  |
| January 2021 Changhao's paper on quantum network routing (in collaboration with Tianyi and Yixiang ) appears in NPJ Quantum Information: congrats! |  |
| December 2020 Guoqing's paper on coherence protection in qubit ensembles (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in New Journal of Physics: congrats! |  |
| December 2020 We are happy to start a new collaboration with Danielle Braje at Lincoln Lab to improve diamond-based magnetometry |  |
| October 2020 Congratulation to Yixiang for remotely defending her Ph.D. thesis! Dr. Liu is headed for a postdoc in far away Harvard! Best of luck! |  |
| September 2020 Our work on quantum thermodynamics is highlighted in the NSE department news. Congrats to Yixiang and Akira! |  |
| September 2020 We welcome a new member to the Quantum Engineering Group: Abtin Ameri joined us to work on a collaborative project with Prof. Nuno Loureiro, aiming at finding quantum algorithm to solve plasma physics problems. Welcome Abtin! |  |
| August 2020 Mo and Changhao explore tensor monopoles in exotic gauge fields using our humble NV centers. Congrats on posting the results on the arxiv! |  |
| August 2020 Congratulations to Akira and Yixiang, their work on quantum thermodynamics has been published in Physics Review Letters. | |
| July 2020 Congratulations to Paola who has been promoted to full Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and of Physics. | |
| July 2020 Paola virtually attend the 2020 Munich Conference on Quantum Science and Technology |  |
| June 10, 2020 QEG stands against all forms of racism, racial injustice, and racially-targeted violence. On June 10, 2020, we stopped are usual activities for a day of reflection, learning and discussion. We will keep up our committment to educate ourselves and take action in our community. |  |
| June 2020 Congratulations to the 2020 QEG graduates! Dr. Mo Chen, Dr. David Layden and Pai Peng. |  |
| May 2020 Quantum Computing and QEG’s work are highlighted in the Spring 2020 edition of Spectrum. QEG is spotlighted on MIT front page. |  |
| May 2020 David and Louisa paper on robust QEC appears in Quantum Science and Technology |  |
| May 2020 Paola honored as “Committed to Caring.” |  |
| May 2020 Pai & Yin post a new work on the arXiv as a companion paper to our previous results on prethermalization. |  |
| May 2020 Congratulations to David for defending his thesis — remotely via Zoom! the added challenge did not stop him, congratulatios Dr. Layden! Good luck in joining IBM quantum! |  |
| April 2020 Quantum Engineering Group's contribution to advancing quantum science and technology is highlighted in the Spring issue of MIT's Spectrum |  |
| March 2020 Genyue paper appears in the first number of Machine Learning: Science and Technology. Congratulations! |  |
| March 2020 The paper by Alex and Calvin recently published in PRL is highlighted in the MIT news. They found a way to “recruit” defects that usually cause disruptions, using them to instead carry out quantum operations. |  |
| March 2020 The Quantum Engineering Group does NOT go the March Meeting. We are sad about the cancellation, but kudos to Akira for posting a video of his talk. See also https://virtualmarchmeeting.com/. |  |
| February 2020 MIT news highlights David and Mo's recent result on efficient quantum error correction, that has appeared in PRL. Congrats! |  |
| February 2020 Congratulations to Guoqing and Pai for passing their quals (in NSE and EECS)!! | |
| January 2020 Guoqing's paper on coherence protection in qubit ensembles (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in New Journal of Physics: congrats! | |
| January 2020 Calvin publishes new results on how to improve entanglement detection by using novel subspace witnesses in PRA as an Editor suggestion. Congrats! |  |
| January 2020 A collaborative paper with the NMR group in Cordoba (Argentina) is published in PRL. Congratulations to all for explaining the dynamics of Loschmidt Echoes in many-body systems. |  |
| January 2020 David and Mo's paper on hardware-efficient quantum error correction appears in PRL. |  |
| December 2019 Pai's work on a novel way to find local integrals of motion is published in PRB as an editor's suggestion. Congratulations to Pai and coauthors Zeyang, Haoxiong, and Ken! |  |
| November 2019 Congratulations to Mo for defending his Ph.D. thesis! |  |
| October 2019 An article in Physics Today highlights our work on out-of-time order correlators in spin chains. |  |
| September 2019 Congratulations to Changhao, Mo, and Dominika: their paper on detecting Rotational Brownian Motion has now appeared in Nanoletters. |  |
| September 2019 Changhao's paper on telecom photon interface of solid-state quantum nodes appears in Journal of Physics Communications. |  |
| September 2019 David and Louisa post a paper on the arXiv on robust QEC. | |
| September 2019 Prof. Cappellaro delivers lectures on quantum control at KIAS. |  |
| September 2019 Yuan Zhu joins the group. Welcome! | |
| September 2019 We welcome (back!) Scott Alsid to the group. |  |
| August 2019 Prof. Cappellaro is awarded a grant from the NSF to work on Quantum Simulation of Out-of-Equilibrium Spin Models. |  |
| August 2019 Congratulation to Pai and Ken: their work on prethermalization observed via OTOCs is now published in PRL. |  |
| July 2019 Before saying goodbye to Genyue, we post his work on arXiv on ML-enhanced readout of NV centers. |  |
| July 2019 With collaborators at Harvard we post a manuscript on quantum metrology with interacting spins. |  |
| July 2019 With collaborators at LENS and SISSA we post a new article on arXiv describing the verification of Jarzynski's relation with NV centers |  |
| July 2019 Changhao's latest work on detecting rotational brownian motion is posted on the arXiv. | |
| July 2019 We welcome Guoqing to the group! | |
| June 2019 Prof. Cappellaro describes quantum sensing at the 16th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensors. |  |
| June 2019 Prof. Cappellaro presents work on QEC for sensing at the NISQ 2019 conference. |  |
| May 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Akira for defending his Ph.D. thesis. Good luck for your future postdoc research! |  |
| May 2019 Congratulations to David for receiving the Manson Benedict award from the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. |  |
| May 2019 JC and Kasturi gyroscope paper is published in Phys. Rev. Applied: Congratulations! |  |
| April 2019 Prof. Ruffo, SISSA's director visit together with Dr. Andrea Trombettoni, Dr. Stefano Gherardini, as well as Dr. Nicolo Defenu from Heidelberg. |  |
| March 2019 Yixiang and Ashok's work is highlighted by the MIT news |  |
| March 2019 QEG goes to the March Meeting: Zeyang (for Pai), Jordan, Xiaoyang, Roberto, Mo, Yixiang, Akira, Haoxiong, Changhao, David, Dominika, Calvin and Paola present their work! |  |
| March 2019 Dr. Karina Chattah from the University of Cordoba visit us to work on the dynamics of spin systems |  |
| March 2019 David and Akira present their work at the NSE Expo |  |
| February 2019 Congratulations to Changhao for passing the Quals! |  |
| February 2019 2019 CUA retreat & ski trip! (with presentation from David) |  |
| January 2019 And it's 3! Yixiang and Ashok paper is accepted in PRL. Their work describe a novel way to perform vector magnetometry with a single spin defect. |  |
| January 2019 David's paper on efficient QEC, in collaboration with Prof. L. Jiang at Yale and Sissi Zhou, appears in PRL. |  |
| January 2019 Ashok and Ulf paper, in collaboration with Prof. Dario Poletti from USTD appears in PRL, describing how to manipulate spin systems via the NV center: the capstone to a nice collaboration! | |
| December 2018 Prof. Cappellaro receives a MISTI award to collaborate with SISSA in Trieste, Italy | |
| November 2018 We welcome many visiting students and UROPs: Haoxiong Yan, Xiaoyang Huang, Chao Yin, Genyue Liu, Louisa Huang, Jordan Hines and Roberto Gauna. |  |
| November 2018 Prof. Cappellaro & Englund organize a MISTI Workshop on diamond metrology @ MIT, in collaboration with the University of Stuttgart |  |
| September 2018 David's work on Quantum Error Correction for sensing is highlighted by the MIT News |  |
| August 2018 Congratulations to Akira on being selected for the Thomas G. Stockham Jr. Fellowship |  |
| August 2018 QEG goes to the Quantum Science GRC! Paola, David and Mo present their work in talks and posters |  |
| July 2018 David's paper on Quantum Error Correction for quantum sensing appears in NJP Quantum Information: congrats! |  |
| July 2018 Alex and Calvin paper on quantum system identification of electron-nuclear spin defects in diamond is posted on the arxiv |  |
| July 2018 Prof. Cappellaro is granted an award from DARPA to work with Prof. Bhave and Fuchs on mechanical driving of spin ensembles |  |
| July 2018 A collaboration between Akira Sone and Quntao Zhuang explores the role of quantum correlations in thermometry. The paper is out in Phys. Rev. A | |
| June 2018 Congratulations to Mo and collaborators: their paper on protecting the nuclear spins from a random telegraph noise appears in New J. Physics. Be sure to also check out his video abstract! |  |
| June 2018 In collaboration with Nicole Fabbri and Francesco Poggiali at LENS we design new protocols for optimal control for quantum sensing |  |
| June 2018 Prof. Cappellaro presents recent results at the Quantum Science and Technology in Ascona, Switzerland |  |
| May 2018 QEG goes to the DAMOP conference! Calvin and Akira present our research at the th DAMOP conference in Florida |  |
| May 2018 Many congratulations to Ken for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis. Dr. Wei will be moving to IBM Yorktown. |  |
| May 2018 Hats off to Ashok Ajoy, who won the department’s 2017 Del Favero Thesis Prize. His work has been also highlighted on the MIT news. |  |
| April 2018 Thanks to all QEG members! Prof. Cappellaro is awarded the Committed to Care award |  |
| April 2018 Prof. Cappellaro receives a grant from Skoltech in collaboration with Prof. Biamonte |  |
| April 2018 Congratulations to JC! |  |
| March 2018 Annual skating outing at MIT |  |
| March 2018 Akira, Calvin and Yixiang present their work at the 2018 NSE Expo |  |
| February 2018 JC and Yixiang present a poster at the MIT Intelligence Quest (IQ) launch |  |
| February 2018 The work by Ken, in collaboration with Sekhar Ramanathan, is highlighted in the MIT news. |  |
| February 2018 Ken's paper on many-body localization is published in Phys. Rev. Lett.: congratulations! | |
| February 2018 Congratulations to David for passing the Quals! |  |
| January 2018 We start the new year with a new publication in Optics Express, detailing our results on fabrications of SiV in nanopillars, in collaboration with Sandia Lab. |  |
| December 2017 Congratulations to Akira, his work on dimension estimation has just been published in Phys. Rev. A. | |
| December 2017 The youngest members of QEG meet at our annual Dim Sum. |  |
| December 2017 QEG members explain how time crystal work at the Science on Saturday event. |  |
| October 2017 NV centers can mediate quantum control at the nanoscale: new results from Ashok, in collaboration with Ulf and Prof. Poletti. | |
| September 2017 Prof. Cappellaro presents recent results on quantum error correction for sensing at the 4th International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC17). |  |
| September 2017 Welcome to Li Changhao and Pai Peng that join us for their Ph.D.! |  |
| August 2017 Quantum error correction can exploit spatial correlations to improve practical quantum sensing tasks: congratulations to David for sharing his new results on the arXiv! | |
| June 2017 Prof. Cappellaro is granted an award from NSF to work on quantum digital spectroscopy. |  |
| April 2017 David reacts to articles in the Economist on emerging quantum technologies. |  |
| March 2017 Congratulations to Yi-Xiang for winning the best poster award at the annual NSE Graduate Research Expo! The Expo also featured posters by Akira and Calvin. See also the MIT News |  |
| March 2017 Skating outing at the MIT rink! |  |
| February 2017 Paola attends a panel on Quantum Computers and Philosophy of Science at the MIT Museum, as a part of a Soap Box Series on Quantum Quandaries and other Heavy Matters. |  |
| February 2017 Akira's results on Hamiltonian identification are published in Physical Review A. |  |
| February 2017 QEG's labs are featured in the latest video on Mashable, describing how Einstein was wrong (or maybe right?) about quantum mechanics. Also starring: CUA researchers, Lisa Barsotti from Ligo and colleagues David Kaiser and Seth Lloyd. |  |
| February 2017 Our recent results on quantum interpolation are published in PNAS. See also the accompanying MIT News story. |  |
| February 2017 Akira posts on the ArXiv some new results on how to exactly determine the dimension of a quantum system, by probing it with a single quantum sensor. | |
| January 2017 Akira and Ken present their recent results at the annual CUA retreat. | |
| January 2017 Prof. Cappellaro and Bar-Gill receive a MISTI grant to collaborate on control of NV center and noise spectroscopy. | |
| December 2016 Ken's results on many-body localization in nuclear spin systems are posted on the arXiv. | |
| November 2016 Yixiang and Ashok share results from a new method for measuring static magnetic fields: using the nuclear spin as a frequency upconverter, the sensitivity is limited only by T2! | |
| November 2016 Paola presents at a KITP conference the latest results from the NMR setup, showing signatures of Many-Body localization. Wait for the forthcoming preprint! |  |
| November 2016 We say goodbye to Kasturi (and Sid) who left for IIT Bombay. Good luck, Prof. Saha! |  |
| October 2016 Akira posts new results on how to identify an unknown Hamiltonian using only a single quantum probe and the least amount of measurements. | |
| September 2016 Welcome to David Layden that joins us from U Waterloo to start his Ph.D.! | |
| September 2016 We say goodbye to Luca, who's moving to sunny California to work at CliniComp. |  |
| August 2016 Congratulations to Ashok for successfully defending his thesis! Best wishes for his postdoc at Berkeley. |  |
| July 2016 Congratulations to Alex for successfully defending his thesis! Best wishes for his postdoc at Caltech. |  |
| June 2016 Congratulations to Masashi who received his hood and diploma today! |  |
| May 2016 Congratulations to Akira for winning the Outstanding TA Award for exceptional contributions as a teaching assistant in Nuclear Science & Engineering! | |
| May 2016 To many more years of successful QEG research!! |  |
| May 2016 We welcome Dr. Karina Chattah, from the University of Cordoba in Argentina. Karina is collaborating on our NMR experiments |  |
| April 2016 The Center for Ultracold Atoms opens its doors for MIT's Open House. Thanks to Yi-Xiang and Kasturi for showing kids magic tricks with liquid nitrogen, and thanks to Calvin and Scott for demonstrating the awesome properties of color centers in diamond. |  |
| April 2016 We presents a novel method for "quantum interpolation" that could achieve order of magnitudes better spatial resolution in nanoMRI, overcoming current hardware limitations. |  |
| April 2016 Masashi's work on quantum feedback is published in Nature. Read also the related MIT News article. | |
| March 2016 Akira and Yixiang present their research at the Nuclear Science and Engineering Graduate Research Expo. |  |
| March 2016 A new generation of faculty is highlighted on the NSE webpage. |  |
| March 2016 Congratulations to Alex for getting a postdoctoral scholar position at the Institute for Quantum Information and Matter (IQIM) in Caltech. |  |
| February 2016 Congratulations to Calvin and YiXiang for passing the Quals! |  |
| January 2016 Prof. Englund and Cappellaro win a MISTI grant to collaborate with Prof. Wrachtrup (Stuttgart University). | |
| January 2016 QEG members present their work at the second Center for Ultracold Atoms Retreat in New Hampshire (and have fun at the fourth, annual QEG Ski Trip!) |  |
| January 2016 Our work in collaboration with Harvard, describing how to determine the depth of NV centers in diamond, is published in Phys. Rev. B | |
| December 2015 Scott, Yixiang and Calvin explain to kids how NV centers are created with a live-action demonstration at Science on Saturday. Calvin was a powerful green laser, Scott our favorite defect and Yixiang a very good detector! | |
| December 2015 We welcome Nicolo', the youngest addition to QEG! Congratulations to proud dad Luca! |  |
| October 2015 We describe an innovative control method to go beyond the rotating wave approximation and achieve time-optimal driving of qubits. |  . |
| September 2015 A new work in collaboration with Harvard describes how to determine the depth of NV centers in diamond | |
| August 2015 Nano-MRI can be sped up using gradients to implement a reciprocal space encoding (see new article in Nature Nanotechnology). |  |
| August 2015 Welcome to Scott, QEG's newest member! | |
| July 2015 QEG members attend and present posters at the NanoMRI conference in Waterloo. |  |
| July 2015 We say farewell to Dr. Hirose who is leaving the group for Japan. |  |
| July 2015 Our results on time-optimal control with constraint rotation axes appear in Quantum Information Processing. |  |
| July 2015 Congratulations to Masashi, who successfully defended his Ph.D. Thesis |  |
| July 2015 Our results on fast control and precise characterization of the Nitrogen nuclear spin associated with the NV center appear in Physics Review B as a Rapid Communication. |  |
| June 2015 Prof. Cappellaro and colleagues at MIT and Harvard are awarded a MURI grant from ARO to work on "Imaging and Control of Biological Transduction using NV – Diamond" |  |
| June 2015 We say goodbye to Agnethe and Joe who is headed to Bristol for a Ph.D. Thanks for being a great QEG team member! |  |
| May 2015 Congratulations to Mo, who passed his qualifying exam with flying colors! |  |
| April 2015 Clarice's paper on time-optimal control by a quantum actuator (with applications to controlling nuclear spins with NV centers) is published in PRA. |  |
| April 2015 Congratulations to Alex who received an award in the NSE Department for his efforts organizing the IQUISE activities. |  |
| April 2015 Ken heads to California to present his work at the 56th Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Conference (ENC). |  |
| April 2015 Kasturi presents her work at the Rising Stars in Nuclear Science and Engineering Symposium |  |
| April 2015 Nuclear spins at the speed limit give us hidden information about their Hamiltonian: for more, read the recent paper by Mo and Masashi. |  |
| March 2015 Alex presents his research at the Nuclear Science and Engineering Graduate Research Expo. |  |
| March 2015 Prof. Cappellaro is elected Mercator-Fellow of the recently funded DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) Research Group “Diamond Materials for Quantum Application”. |  |
| February 2015 Our recent work on nano-MRI is in the news on Chemistry World and MIT news. |  |
| February 2015 We welcome Dr. Claudia Sanchez, from the University of Cordoba in Argentina. During her visit, spondored by Conicet, she will collaborate on our NMR experiments | |
| January 2015 The Center for Ultracold Atoms hosts the first CUA Retreat in New Hampshire: it's time for the third QEG Ski Trip! | |
| January 2015 A new year and a new paper out: our work on quantum-assisted nuclear spin imaging is published in PRX |  |
| December 2014 Congratulations to Ken who passed the final part of his quals! | |
| November 2014 The Quantum Engineering Group is spotlighted in the Nuclear Science and Engineering Department website | |
| October 2014 Dr. Boulant gives a seminar on Quantum Control Problems in Magnetic Resonance Imaging. |  |
| October 2014 Time optimal control results posted on the arXiv. | |
| October 2014 Come to the QuISM Muri review on October 16-17! |  |
| September 2014 We start the new academic year by welcoming new students: Mo is joining from MIT MechE. Calvin and Yixiang just entered the NSE doctoral program. Joe is visiting from England. |  |
| September 2014 Prof. Cappellaro receives a grant from NSF to work on the polarization and control of electronic spin baths in diamond | |
| September 2014 We say goodbye to Ulf, who is moving to Singapore's SUTD |  |
| August 2014 Prof. Cappellaro is awarded a grant by ONR to work on the realization of a diamond-based gyroscope |  |
| August 2014 Prof. Cappellaro presents QEG work at ICAP 2014 |  |
| August 2014 Dr. Marcus Doherty gives a seminar on NV properties |  |
| July 2014 Clarice successfully defends her Ph.D. thesis. Clarice is the first Ph.D. graduate of the Quantum Engineering Group: Congratulations! |  |
| July 2014 Prof. Michael Biercuk visits us from Sidney University. |  |
| July 2014 We post new results on the ArXives about a novel method for high spatial resolution nuclear spin imaging. | |
| July 2014 Prof. Maze with his students visits us from Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile . His visit and seminar are supported by MISTI. |  |
| July 2014 Prof. Cappellaro is on the panel "Italian Women in Science" organized by GWAMIT and MITALY |  |
| July 2014 We welcome visitors from Shinshu University. A double seminar by Prof. Teshima and Prof. Zettsu |  |
| June 2014 Congratulations to Clarice, who received the School of Engineering Graduate Student Award for Extraordinary Teaching and Mentoring The award recognizes an engineering graduate student who has demonstrated extraordinary teaching and mentoring as a teaching or research assistant |  |
| June 2014 The Quantum Engineering Group is featured in the Spring 2014 issue of MIT magazine Spectrum. |  |
| May 2014 Congratulations to Ashok who received the Manson Benedict Award. The award is presented to a graduate student for excellence in academic performance and professional promise in Nuclear Science & Engineering. |  |
| May 2014 Laura VonBosau receives the Infinite Mile Award. Congratulations Laura! |  |
| April 2014 The new lab is read to acquire data! |  |
| March 2014 The group heads to the ENC conference in Boston | |
| March 2014 Second annual ski trip! |  |
| February 2014 Ken represents our group at RLE Immersion on Quantum Computation and Communication. Good job! (also posters by Clarice, Ulf, Masashi and Luca). |  |
| January 2014 Our work on Walsh-based quantum magnetometry is highlighted on the MIT News |  |
| November 2013 Congratulations to Alex, Easwar and Honam, whose paper on Walsh-based quantum waveform reconstruction is accepted in Nature Communication |  |
| November 2013 The group keeps growing! We welcome Dr. Kasturi Saha, who joins us from Cornell, with a nice Dim Sum in Chinatown. |  |
| November 2013 Prof. Dario Poletti visits us from Singapore's SUTD |  |
| November 2013 We host the second review of the QuISM MURI program. Thanks to everybody who contributed and presented posters. |  |
| October 2013 We welcome Nicole Fabbri who visits us from LENS in Florence. |  |
| October 2013 Prof. Cappellaro is part of an interdisciplinary panel on women in academia, hosted by Undergraduate Women in Physics. The panel was held in honor of Pressor Dresselhaus’s contributions to women and junior faculty. |  |
| October 2013 A warm welcome to Dr. Luca Marseglia, the last addition to the group! |  |
| September 2013 Our results on a novel and efficient method to reconstruct time-dependent fields with quantum sensors appear in Phys. Rev. A. |  |
| September 2013 Prof. Elica Kyoseva and Dr. Ulf Bissbort join the group from SUTD |  |
| August 2013 Easwar result's on efficient methods for estimating the performance of quantum measurements are published in Phys. Rev. A. Congratulations to Easwar that has moved on to a fellowship at IBM. |  |
| August 2013 Compressive sensing methods can help speeding up quantum metrology: results posted on the ArXiv. |  |
| July 2013 Prof. Cappellaro is appointed Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Career Development Associate Professor |  |
| June 2013 New results from the NMR setup: decoherence of multi-spin states |  |
| May 2013 We post on the arxiv a series of two papers showing a method to reconstruct arbitrary time-dependent magnetic fields and its experimental implementation | |
| May 2013 We introduce a novel method for Hamiltonian engineering in Phys. Rev. Lett.. Congratulations to Ashok! |  |
| April 2013 Results from our collaboration with Walsworth group are published in Phys. Rev. Lett. |  |
| March 2013 First annual QEG Ski Trip! |  |
| March 2013 Prof. Cappellaro co-organize the Rising Stars in Nuclear Science and Engineering Symposium |  |
| February 2013 New results on quantum information transport appear in Phys. Rev. B. | |
| February 7-8, 2013 Review meeting for the MURI QuISM program at MIT/Harvard | |
| January 2013 Congratulations to Clarice and Masashi : their article on composite-pulse magnetometry appears in Nature Communications. |  |
| January 2013 Prof. Cappellaro wins a MISTI grant to collaborate with Prof. Jero Maze at PUC. | |
| December 2012 Congratulations to Masashi and Clarice: their article on continuous dynamical decoupling magnetometry appears in Phys. Rev. A. | |
| December 2012 Our article describing a novel gyroscope in diamond appear in Phys. Rev. A | |
| October 2012 Meet us and learn about our work at the RLE Fair on 10.19.12 |  |
| September 2012 Dr. Easwar Magesan and Ken Wei join the group. Welcome! |  |
| August 2012 Gurneet's paper on initialization and readout of spin chains appears in New Journal of Physics. |  |
| July 2012 A flurry of new results are posted on the arXives: papers by Clarice, Masashi and Ashok. | |
| July 2012 Prof. Teshima and his group from Shinshu University visit MIT. |  |
| May 2012 Our paper on dynamical decoupling in complex spin baths has been published in Nature Communications. |  |
| April 2012 Clarice is spotlighted on the NSE Department webpage. | |
| April 2012 Congratulations to Ashok for publishing in Physical Review A very nice results on mixed-state spin transport in complex networks. | |
| April 4, 2012 Prof. Cappellaro presents recent results of the Quantum Engineering Group to the NSE Department. | |
| March 2012 Our paper on "Environment Assisted Metrology with Spin Qubits" appears in Physical Review A. | |
| March 16, 2012 Clarice presents her work at the NSE Doctoral Research Expo. |  |
| March 2012 Prof. Cappellaro's paper on "Spin narrowing with adaptive parameter estimation" is published as a rapid communication in Phys. Rev A. | |
| March 2012 QEG members present their work on magnetometry, transport in spin networks and in spin chains at the APS March meeting. | |
| February 2012 Congratulations to Alex and Ashok for passying their Quals! Here is a picture from the celebration. |  |
| January 2012 Prof. Cappellaro has been selected as a recipient of the 2012 AFOSR Young Investigator Award. More information on the MIT News website. |  |
| January 2012 Prof. Cappellaro wins a seed fund from MISTI for a collaborative project with Shinshu University. | |
| November 2011 The Kick-off meeting for the Quantum Enabled Imaging, Sensing and Metrology (QuISM) MURI Program will be on November 28-29 at MIT. More information on the QuISM website. | |
| October 2011 Dr. Kaur presents her recent work at Materials Day 2011. |  |
| October 2011 Our work on "Experimental characterization of coherent magnetization transport in a one-dimensional spin system" is published in New Journal of Physics. | |
| September 2011 We are now part of the Center for Ultracold Atoms, whose NSF grant has been renewed for 5 years. | |
| September 2011 Prof. Cappellaro will lead a Multidisciplinary University Reasearch Initiative (MURI) program aimed at developing novel Multi-Qubit Enhanced Sensing and Metrology techniques. This program is supported by a grant from ARO. | |
| August 2011 Prof. Cappellaro attends the Spintech6 summer school and conference. |  |
| June 2011 Congratulations to Clarice for receiving a fellowship from the Schlumberger Foundation: she will be part of the Faculty for the Future Program. Her award has also been highlighted in the MIT news website. |  |
| May 2011 Congratulations to Alex for receiving a fellowship from NSERC. |  |
| May 2011 The Quantum Engineering Group is spotlighted in the NSE Department and MIT news. | |
| May 2011 Prof. Cappellaro gives a talk at the 2011 xQIT Conference, "Difficult Problems in Quantum Information Theory". |  |
| April 2011 Our work on "Environment-Assisted Precision Measurement" is published in Physics Review Letters. | |
| April 2011 Magnetic field imaging with nitrogen-vacancy ensemble is published in New Journal of physics. | |
| March 2011 Our paper "Imaging mesoscopic nuclear spin noise with a diamond magnetometer", has been selected to be in the Journal of Chemical Physics Editors' Choice for 2010 list. |  |
| March 2011 Prof. Cappellaro and Dr. Kaur win a CSME award to support the growth of crystals used to study nuclear spin transport. | |
| March 2011 Dr. HoNam Yum joins the group as a postdoc. Gary Wolfowicz will be a visiting student in the group until the end of Summer. | |
| March 2011 Our paper on "Coherent-state transfer via highly mixed quantum spin chains" is published in Phys. Rev. A. | |
| February 2011 Congratulations to Masashi for passing the General Examination! |  |
| November 2010 Dr. Gurneet Kaur joins the group. | |
| October 2010 The article "Imaging mesoscopic nuclear spin noise with a diamond magnetometer", in press in the Journal of Chemical Physics, has been featured as a Research Highlight on JCP's home page. | |
| September 2010 Ashok Ajoy and Alexandre Cooper-Roy join the group. | |
| August 2010 Prof. Cappellaro is awarded an NSF grant: "Spin Bath of a Central Spin System in Diamond: Polarization and Coherent Control". | |
| July 2010 The first confocal setup is ready! |  |
| April 2010 Prof. Cappellaro and colleagues at Harvard are awarded a grant from NIST: Quantum control techniques for diamond-based magnetometers with applications to quantum information processing |  |
| February 2010 QEG's lab is ready! Visit us in Bld. 26-305 |  |
| September 2009 Clarice Aiello and Masashi Hirose are the first to join QEG. | |
