News

Xinchao received the College of Science Student Travel Grant
10/1/2024
Xinchao received the College of Science Student Travel Grant. He will attend the KITP workshop on "New Perspectives in Many-body Physics with Quantum Optical Systems."

Cheng-An was awarded the Ramdas Prize. Congratulations!
8/7/2024
Cheng-An was awarded the Ramdas Prize!

Purdue researchers trap atoms, forcing them to serve as photonic transistors
7/14/2024
Our work on trapping atoms on a microring circuit has been published in PRX.

"Quantum GR in the lab" workshop at Heidelberg University
6/28/2024
"Quantum GR in the lab" workshop at Heidelberg University

We attended DAMOP in Fort Worth, TX
6/7/2024
We attended DAMOP in Fort Worth, TX

Sambit received 2024 DAMOP Student Travel Award
6/1/2024
Sambit received the 2024 DAMOP Student Travel Award. Congratulations!

Dipanjan receives the Scharenberg Summer Fellowship
5/1/2024
Dipanjan received the Scharenberg Summer Fellowship and will work on the atom-nanophotonics project.

Xinchao receives Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship
4/26/2024
Xinchao received the Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship! Congratulations.

Workshop on Frontier of two-electron atoms and cavity QED
3/26/2024
Tzu-Han and Chen-Lung attended the workshop on "Frontier of two-electron atoms and cavity QED" at Waseda University.

International Summer School in Integrated Quantum Photonics
7/14/2023
Chen-Lung gave a lecture titled "Integrated Photonics with Neutral Atoms" at the International Summer School in Integrated Quantum Photonics, held at the University of Bristol, UK.

Talks at DAMOP at Spokane, WA
6/5/2023
Our group attended DAMOP 2023 at Spoken, Washington.

First PRL paper from the atom-nanophotonics project published!
3/7/2023
Our first PRL paper from the atom-nanophotonics project is published today!

Chen-Lung attended a workshop organized by ICFO in Spain
10/12/2022
Chen-Lung attended a workshop organized by ICFO in Spain

Paper of efficient waveguide-to-fiber coupler
8/15/2022
Our work on 3D tapered waveguide-to-fiber couplers has been published!

Congratulations, Dr. Chang (and Dr. Zhu)!
8/4/2022
We meet to celebrate Dr. Chang and Dr. Zhu's achievements. Both received their degrees during the summer.

Congratulations to Dr. Zhu!
8/4/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Zhu!

Cheng-An won the 2022 Springer Thesis Award!
4/29/2022
Cheng-An won the Springer Thesis Award. Publishing his PhD dissertation in the Springer thesis series reflects his outstanding achievement during his PhD study. This is well-deserve

Marrying single atoms and photons in a whispering gallery
12/9/2021
Marrying single atoms and photons in a whispering gallery!

Cheng-An thesis defense
11/29/2021
Cheng-An has successfully defended his thesis!

Midwest Cold Atom Workshop
10/16/2021
We will be hosting Midwest cold atom workshop at Purdue this year!

Three new papers published in PRL on the quench dynamics in attractive 2D Bose gases
8/17/2021
Three new papers published in PRL on the quench dynamics in attractive 2D Bose gases

Congratulations to Dr. Brian Fields!
4/30/2021
Brian defended in 12/14/2020 virtually (virtual kudos!), and submitted his thesis for final degree confirmation in April, 2021. Congradulations to Dr. Brian Fields!

Our paper "Efficiently coupled microring circuit for on-chip cavity QED with trapped atoms" appeared on the cover of the Applied Physics Letter
10/26/2020
Our paper "Efficiently coupled microring circuit for on-chip cavity QED with trapped atoms" appeared on the cover of the Applied Physics Letter.

Dr. Hikaru Tamura joins our lab!
9/1/2020
Dr. Hikaru Tamaru joins our lab to explore trapping and coupling cold atoms to microring resonators. Welcome!

Our microring paper published in PRA and marked with Editor's suggestions
8/31/2020
Our microring paper published in PRA and marked with Editor's suggestions

Cheng-An wins poster award for Purdue ISQST
4/23/2019
Cheng-An wins poster award for Purdue's international symposium on quantum science and technology.

Richard W King award
4/1/2019
Kehan won the department's Richard W King award for outstanding junior/senior undergrad for her academic standing and participation in research. Congratulations!

NSF CAREER 2019
4/1/2019
Chen-Lung wins the NSF CAREER award.

Keck Grant announcement
2/1/2019
Our quantum gas experiment receives grant support from the W. M. Keck Foundation.

DOE QuantISED award
10/5/2018
Our quantum gas research receives a DOE award for emerging field of Quantum Information Science.

Fun with some single atoms
12/30/2017
Fun with some single atoms

Molecule assembly with photonic crystals
12/14/2017
Our new paper on ultracold molecule assembly with photonic crystals has been published in NJP!

Atoms jumping over a chip
12/1/2017
Atoms jumping over a chip

Many-body cQED workshop at ITAMP
10/25/2017
Many-body cQED workshop at ITAMP

2017 Richard W. King Award
4/27/2017
Bruce Edelman wins the Richard W. King Award awarded to an outstanding senior in the physics department

2017 AFOSR Young Investigator Award
10/12/2016
AFOSR Young Investigator Award for the proposed experiment on long-range quantum magnetism in atom-nanophotonic hybrid lattices.

"Quantum spin dynamics with pairwise-tunable, long-range interactions" featured in Phys.org
8/31/2016
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-simulated-quantum-magnetism-interactions-arbitrary.html

Group outing
7/23/2016
Group outing

characterization lab in business
6/30/2016
characterization lab in business

Vacuum load lock in action
6/8/2016
Vacuum load lock in action

laser system
6/1/2016
laser system and homemade optical phase lock loop

Focus session at DAMOP 2016
5/26/2016
Chen-Lung gave an invited talk at DAMOP 2016

We moved (back) into our new and improved lab
4/22/2016
our move

Hybrid Systems for Quantum Optics
1/13/2016
Wilhelm and Else Heraeus-Seminar "Hybrid Systems for Quantum Optics"

Midwest cold atom workshop
11/14/2015
2015 Midwestern Cold Atom Workshop

Purdue Quantum Center Kickoff International Workshop
10/14/2015
Purdue Quantum Center Kickoff International Workshop

Our group receives Kirck Endowment Exploratory Research Recharge Grant.
8/24/2015
We will begin exploring nano-fabrication at Birck nano center for the atom-nanophotonics project.

Welcome new group members!
8/17/2015
Graduate students Eric Smith, Chang-An Chang and Tzu-Han Chang join our group! Welcome!

Visitor: Ms. May Kim from Northwestern University
8/11/2015
Ms. May Kim from Northwestern University visited our lab and gave a group talk on collective state atomic clock.

Physics Synopsis: Atoms in a Photonic Trap Exhibit Superradiance
8/6/2015
Physics Synopsis: Atoms in a Photonic Trap Exhibit Superradiance

NIM Conference on Resonator QED at Munich
8/6/2015
I gave an invited talk in the "Low-Dimensional QED Systems" session.

Farewell to Angela
7/30/2015
REU summer research program ends today. Farewell, Angela. I hope you enjoyed summer time at West Lafayette.

Visitor: Prof. Qi Zhou from The Chinese University of Hong Kong
7/27/2015
Visitor: Prof. Qi Zhou from The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Cold atoms and nanophotonics on the over of nature photonics!
4/30/2015
Cold atoms and photonic crystals on the cover of nature photonics: recent research highlight on ultracold matter and light.

Visit Institute of Atomic and molecular Sciences at Academia Sinica, Taiwan
4/2/2015
visited both Dr. Yu-Ju Lin's and Dr. Ming-Shien Chang's quantum gas labs in IAMS at Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

Visit Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics at Garching, Germany
3/16/2015
I visited MPQ again to meet with Dr. Alejandro González-Tudela and Prof. Ignacio Cirac together with Prof. Jeff Kimble from Caltech. We had wonderful week-long discussion on physics of photon induced atom-atom interactions.

Visitor: Dr. Michael Foss-Feig from JQI
3/9/2015
Following his seminar talk, we had some discussions on physics with long-range interactions.

APS March meeting
3/4/2015
I chaired a session "Optomechanics, Hybrid Systems and Macroscopic Systems at the Quantum Limit" at APS march meeting. It was great to meet with Prof. Nate Gemelke, and hear his wonderful progress on FQH experiments with quantum gas at Penn state.

Visitors: Dr. Zheng-Cheng Gu from Perimeter Institute and Dr. Rudro Biswas from Argonne national lab
2/26/2015
Visitors: Dr. Zheng-Cheng Gu from Perimeter Institute and Dr. Rudro Biswas from Argonne national lab

Visitors: Dr. Edwin Barnes from JQI and Dr. Tony Lee from Harvard
2/17/2015
Wade Hsu is taking PHYS 590 advanced physics research course with me. He brought in some ideas about digital circuits and we will be working together to build electronics for lasers and experimental controls that improves the stability and precision of some of the old analog circuit designs.

Visitor: Dr. Jeff Thompson from MIT/Harvard
2/13/2015
Dr. Jeff Thompson gave a talk for the quantum photonics program at the college of engineering. It is very nice to meet him again in the Midwest. We had long discussions on how to combine Harvard's single-atom/photonic crystal cavity design with Caltech's many-atoms/bandgap waveguide approach to develop a new quantum circuit.

Visitor: Dr. Andrew Essin from Caltech
2/12/2015
Today I met with Dr. Essin from Caltech, where we were both IQIM posdoctorl scholars. I learned his new work on strongly interacting topological insulators and composite Dirac liquids.

Visitor: Dr. Wang-Kong Tse from Los Alamos National Laboratory
2/10/2015
Dr. Wang-Kong Tse visited Purdue and gave a nice seminar talk on light-matter interaction in topological materials. We had some discussions about topological light.

Welcome new member
2/1/2015
Wade Hsu is taking PHYS 590 advanced physics research course with me. He brought in some ideas about digital circuits and we will be working together to build electronics for lasers and experimental controls that improves the stability and precision of some of the old analog circuit designs.

Visitor: Dr. Sarang Gopalakrishnan from Harvard
1/28/2015
I had interesting discussion with Dr. Sarang Gopalakrishnan about physics with quantum soft matter, following his seminar talk in the deparment.

Seminar talk in the chemistry department
1/21/2015
Chen-Lung gave a talk in the physical chemistry seminar at Purdue university

Group website is up and running
1/14/2015
We have a group website now. Feel free to contact us if you find our project interesting!

New quantum adventure in the Midwest!
1/5/2015
Chen-Lung heads back to the Midwest for his new quantum adventure!