Kollár, Alicia
Biography
Alicia Kollár received her B.A. in Physics from Princeton University in 2010 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016. In her doctoral studies with Benjamin Lev, she worked on the design and construction of a multimode cavity-BEC apparatus to study superradiant self-organization. She was awarded a Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017 to work with Andrew Houck on quantum simulation of solid-state physics using circuit QED lattices. Her research will focus on using novel coplanar waveguide lattice techniques and graph theory to design and realize microwave photonic crystals with unusual structures such as gapped flat bands and spatial curvature. She will combine these structures with multimode/waveguide circuit QED to engineer quantum simulators of lattice and spin models.
Research
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Notable Publications:
- A. J. Kollár, M. Fitzpatrick, A. A. Houck, Hyperbolic Lattices in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, arXiv:1802.09549.
- V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, K. E. Ballantine, A. J. Kollár, J. Keeling, B. L. Lev, Tunable- range, photon-mediated atomic interactions in multimode cavity QED, Physical Review X, 8, 011002 (2018), arXiv:1708.08933.
- A. J. Kollár, A. T. Papageorge, K. Baumann, V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, J. Keeling, B. L. Lev, Supermode-Density-Wave-Polariton Condensation, Nature Communications, 8, 14386 (2017), arXiv:1606.04127.
Centers & Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute, Quantum Technology Center
News
- Alicia Kollár Bridges Abstract Math with Realities of the Lab
- Kollár Receives CAREER Award
- Kollár Receives Air Force Young Investigator Grant
- Mind and Space Bending Physics on a Convenient Chip
- Enhancing Simulations of Curved Space with Qubits
- UMD Leads New $25M NSF Quantum Leap Challenge Institute for Robust Quantum Simulation
- Alicia Kollár Joins UMD Physics
- University of Maryland Launches Quantum Technology Center
- QTC, NRL Announce New Partnership
Walsworth, Ronald
Biography
Ronald Walsworth earned his B.S. in Physics from Duke University and his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University. His research interests are in developing precision measurement tools and applying them to diverse problems across the physical and life sciences. Walsworth is the recipient of the Francis Pipkin Award in Precision Measurements from the American Physical Society; the Smithsonian Institution Exceptional Service Award; and the Duke University Faculty Scholar Award. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and serves as a Distinguished Traveling Lecturer for the Division of Laser Science of the American Physical Society. Walsworth is also a Minta Martin Professor in the UMD Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Founding Director of the Quantum Technology Center.