Paglione, Johnpierre

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Johnpierre Paglione has seeded a world-class effort on quantum materials research at UMD, leading the collaborations of several faculty that have brought Maryland to the forefront of research on superconductivity, topological materials and strongly correlated systems. Having contributed to several fields of experimental condensed matter research through both single-crystal synthesis and ultra-low temperature transport, thermodynamic and spectroscopic exploration of novel phenomena, Paglione’s research is a blend of materials exploration and elucidation of quantum phenomena. As Director of the Maryland Quantum Materials Center, with a membership of over 100 personnel, a state-of-the-art materials synthesis facility and an extensive measurement suite, Paglione commits QMC resources to hosting the annual Fundamentals of Quantum Materials Winter School, a successful hands-on training program and basis for this work. Paglione is the recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an Early Career Award from the Department of Energy, is a Materials Synthesis Fellow in the EPiQS program of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and a Fellow of the Quantum Materials Program of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Dr. Paglione earned his PhD from the University of Toronto in Canada.

 

Ouyang, Min

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Min Ouyang has a broad interest in areas that intersect emerging nanoscale condensed matter physics, materials chemistry, instrumentation development and technology applications at the nanoscale, which has led to significant scientific impacts as recognized by numerous high profile publications. He has received a number of professional awards, including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (2006), NSF CAREER award (2006), Ralph E. Powe award (2006), ONR Young Investigator award (2007), Beckman Young Investigator award (2007), University of Maryland Discovery award (2010), and Scialog Fellow of the Research Corporation (2013)

 

Monroe, Christopher

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Christopher Monroe specializes in the isolation of individual atoms for applications in quantum information science. He earned his Ph.D. in 1992, working with Carl Wieman and Eric Cornell at the University of Colorado, helping plot the path to cooling a cloud of atoms to the Bose-Einstein condensation transition.  (Wieman and Cornell succeeded in their quest for BEC in 1995, and were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work in 2001.) 

From 1992-2000, Monroe worked in the NIST group of David Wineland, leading the team that demonstrated the first quantum logic gate and exploited the use of trapped atoms for the first controllable qubit demonstrations. He was awarded the I. I. Rabi Prize of the American Physical Society in 2001 for his work with trapped ions, and Wineland won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2012.

In 2000, Monroe became Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he pioneered the use of single photons to couple quantum information between atoms, and also demonstrated the first electromagnetic atom trap integrated on a semiconductor chip. From 2006-2007 was the Director of the National Science Foundation Ultrafast Optics Center at the University of Michigan. In 2007 he became the Bice Zorn Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland and a Fellow of the Joint Quantum Institute. In 2008, Monroe's group succeeded in producing quantum entanglement between two widely separated atoms and for the first time teleported quantum information between matter separated by a large distance. Since 2009 his group has investigated the use of ultrafast laser pulses for speedy quantum entanglement operations, pioneered the use of trapped ions for quantum simulations of many-body models related to quantum magnetism, and has proposed and made the first steps toward a scalable, reconfigurable, and modular quantum computer.

Monroe is a UMD Distinguished University Professor, and has received the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics, a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and the American Physical Society Arthur Schawlow Prize for Laser Science. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Institute of Physics. In 2016, he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.

 

Milchberg, Howard

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Howard Milchberg is jointly appointed to the departments of Physics and Electrical and Computer Engineering, and is affiliated with the Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics. He received his B. Eng. in engineering physics from McMaster University and a Ph.D. in astrophysical sciences from Princeton University. Professor Milchberg is the recipient of an NSERC Postgraduate Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada; NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award; and both the APS John Dawson Award for Excellence in Plasma Physics Research and its Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America. He is a UMD Distinguished Scholar-Teacher and Distinguished University Professor, and was awarded the Senior Faculty Outstanding Research Award in UMD’s Clark School of Engineering. Four of his graduate students have been recipients of APS-DPP’s  Marshall N. Rosenbluth Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.

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