The Arizona Quantum Initiative (AQuI) team is made up of leading faculty spanning Engineering, Physics, Optical Sciences, Mathematics, Chemistry, Management, Data Science, and Law, including their respective research groups. Click on the names below to see more detailed information for each PI.
Brian P. Anderson
Dilute-gas Bose-Einstein Condensates; studies of superfluid vortices and quantum turbulence
Amit Ashok
Computational sensing, reconfigurable-unconventional optics and sophisticated image processing algorithms
Jennifer Barton
Miniature endoscopes using OCT and fluorescence spectroscopy. Applications to tissue optics, colon and ovarian cancer.
Boulat Bash
Covert communications and sensing, quantum security in optical systems, quantum signal processing
David Brady
Computational imaging, aperture synthesis, interferometric super-resolution at physical limits of optical sensing
Ewan Douglas
Space instrumentation, wavefront sensing, control, and high-contrast imaging of extrasolar planets and debris
Matthew Eichenfield
Fabrication and testing of optomechanical crystals, superconducting quantum systems, quantum transduction
Christos Gagatsos
Quantum optics, continuous variable quantum information, and open quantum systems
Saikat Guha
Quantum-enhanced optical communications and sensing, photonic quantum computing, network theory
Poul Jessen
Physics of cold atoms, study of spin squeezing, quantum feedback control, quantum simulation, and tomography
Nirav Merchant
Developing scalable computational platforms for supporting open science and open innovation
Oliver Monti
Transport, electronic structure and ultrafast dynamics in quantum materials, 2D materials, hybrid systems.
Narayanan Rengaswamy
Classical and quantum error correction, quantum computing, quantum networking, and quantum communications
John Schaibley
Electronic and optical physics of nanoscale solid-state systems, physics of 2D materials and spin systems
Robert Sims
Mathematical systems, harmonic and aharmonic quantum lattice systems, quantum statistical mechanics
Ravi Tandon
Information theory in wireless networks, communications privacy, machine learning, and data mining
Bane Vasić
Designing and analyzing classical and quantum codes and decoders for both communications and computing systems
Dalziel Wilson
Quantum opto-mechanics, coupling nano-mechanical resonators and optical cavities for sensor applications
Kanu Sinha
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