Complex Quantum Systems and The Quantum Universe

Personnel

FACULTY
Nishant Agarwal

Nishant Agarwal

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Agarwal is interested in problems at the interface of theoretical cosmology, high energy physics, and quantum information physics, including out-of-equilibrium and open quantum systems, entanglement in quantum field theory, and imprints of new physics in cosmology.

Vijay Balasubramanian

Vijay Balasubramanian

University of Pennsylvania

Balasubramanian is interested problems in the quantum theory of gravity, including holographic duality, the quantum resolution of spacetime singularities and the black hole information paradox.
Adam Bouland

Adam Bouland

Stanford University

Adam Bouland studies quantum computational complexity theory and its connections to experimental and theoretical physics.
Oliver DeWolfe

Oliver DeWolfe

University of Colorado, Boulder

Oliver DeWolfe works on quantum gravity, quantum field theory and string theory, and is interested in how holography and the AdS/CFT correspondence relate them to quantum information.
Netta Engelhardt

Netta Engelhardt

MIT

Netta Engelhardt works on quantum gravity, with a focus on the black hole information paradox and the emergence of spacetime from more fundamental degrees of freedom; she leverages connections between gravitational physics, quantum information, and complexity theory.

Bill Fefferman

Bill Fefferman

University of Chicago

Fefferman studies quantum computation and quantum complexity theory.  He is interested in connections between quantum information theory and other areas of theoretical physics, and seeks to understand the power of near-term quantum computational experiments.
Paul Ginsparg

Paul Ginsparg

Cornell University

Ginsparg is interested in problems in quantum computation and algorithms.
Daniel Harlow

Daniel Harlow

MIT

Harlow works on problems in quantum gravity and quantum information.
Aram Harrow

Aram Harrow

MIT

Harrow studies theoretical aspects of quantum computing and quantum information, as well as their connections to physics and computer science.
Tom Hartman

Tom Hartman

Cornell University

Hartman works on quantum field theory, quantum gravity, and black hole information. He studies the emergence of spacetime through holographic duality, nonperturbative effects in gravity and field theory, and applications of quantum gravity to real-world phenomena
Matt Headrick

Matt Headrick

Brandeis University

Headrick studies classical and quantum gravity, quantum field theory, and dualities connecting them. He is interested in holographic relations between spacetime geometry and quantum information.

Veronika Hubeny

Veronika Hubeny

University of California, Davis

Hubeny is interested in quantum gravity, particularly in understanding the emergence of spacetime and the role entanglement plays therein. She has worked on holograhy, black hole physics, and quantum information.
Archana Kamal

Archana Kamal

University of Massachusetts, Lowell

Kamal is interested in proposing and investigating engineered quantum systems that harness delicate quantum effects at macroscopic scales. Her research spans themes in theory of quantum information processing, open quantum systems, and nonlinear quantum optics.
Albion Lawrence

Albion Lawrence

Brandeis University

Albion Lawrence seeks to understand the emergence of classical spacetime from string theory and holographic duality, and to understand its fate near dynamical singularities.

Hong Liu

Hong Liu

MIT

Dynamics of entanglement in general quantum many-body systems and quantum field theory, quantum informational properties of black holes and gravity systems.
Peter McMahon

Peter McMahon

Cornell University

McMahon is a quantum-information experimentalist specializing in photonics and superconducting circuits. He is interested in developing analog quantum simulators and in applications of noisy intermediate-scale quantum computers to quantum simulation, including of models from quantum gravity.
Mukund Rangamani

Mukund Rangamani

University of California, Davis

Rangamani explores topics in quantum field theory, quantum gravity and string theory and is interested in the real-time dynamics of quantum information in these frameworks.
Sarah Shandera

Sarah Shandera

Pennsylvania State University

Shandera is interested in using an open quantum systems approach to study questions posed by early universe cosmology.

Graeme Smith

Graeme Smith

JILA & University of Colorado at Boulder

Smith works on the theory of quantum information, quantum computing, and the physics of information.