Awards
Galitski to Receive a Simons Foundation Award
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JQI fellow and University of Maryland physics professor Victor Galitski, has been awarded a Simons Foundation Investigator grant, entailing a million-dollar unrestricted research fund to be used over a ten-year period. The university and its physics department will also receive funds for overhead maintenance. Prof Galitski’s area of research is theoretical condensed matter physics. One example of his recent work is to show how one can take a conventional semiconductor and endow it with topological properties without subjecting the material to extreme environmental conditions or fundamentally changing its solid state structure (the work appearing online in Nature Physics March 13, 2011). |
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Research
The Future of Ion Traps
Recently Science magazine invited JQI fellow Chris Monroe and Duke Professor Jungsang Kim to speculate on ion trap technology as a scalable option for quantum information processing. The article is highlighted on the cover of the March 8, 2013 issue, which is dedicated to quantum information. The cover portrays a photograph of a surface trap that was fabricated by Sandia National Labs and used to trap ions at JQI and Duke, among other laboratories.
Trapped atomic ions are a promising architecture that satisfies many of the critical requirements for constructing a quantum computer. At the heart of quantum computers are qubits, systems maintained in two or more quantum states simultaneously. Here, the qubits are manifested in the internal energy levels of the ions, and are manipulated through laser and microwave radiation. These technologies are a key factor in the success of atomic ions: scientists can set the frequency of the radiation to match that of the ion’s energy level spacings with extreme precision.
News
Das Sarma and Goodman Selected for CMNS Board of Visitors Awards
Sankar Das Sarma (left) and Jordan Goodman (right) have been selected to receive CMNS Board of Visitors Awards, established and funded by the Board to acknowledge the accomplishments of our faculty and students.
The 2013 CMNS Board of Visitors Awards will be presented at this year's Academic Festival. At that event, other CMNS Awards will be given, including the 2013 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award to Rashmish Mishra, a graduate student in the Maryland Center for Theoretical Physics.
Please attend the Academic Festival on May 10, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in the G. Forrest Woods Atrium of the Chemistry Building.
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Awards
Physics Students Earn Goldwater Scholarships
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Stephen Randall and Noah Roth Mandell have been awarded scholarships by the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation, which encourages students to pursue advanced study and careers in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. Randall is a double major in physics and mathematics and plans to pursue a doctorate in theoretical physics. Mandell plans to pursue a Ph.D. in physics. The Goldwater Scholarship program was created in 1986 to identify students of outstanding ability and promise in science, engineering and mathematics, and to engage their pursuit of advanced study and research careers. The University of Maryland had three Goldwater winners this year and 44 total since its inception 27 years ago. Read more
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