Quantum Seminars

Quantum Seminar Series

Next Seminar:

Past Seminars:

2021-2024

Andrea Ferrari
University of Cambridge, UK
"Layered Materials As A Platform For Quantum Technologies"
December, 2024

Sudipto Chakraborty
IBM
"Low-power Cryo-CMOS Design for Quantum Computing Applications"
November, 2024

Mukund Vengalatore
DARPA
"Taking the Quantum out of the laboratory: A bottom-up synthesis of scalable quantum technologies"
September, 2024

Annabelle Bohrdt
Harvard University
"Interplay of spin and charge: stripes, pairing, and frustration"
December 7, 2022, 11:00 AM, SST 300

Hong Tang
Yale Quantum Institute
Hybrid Quantum Photonic Circuits and Quantum Frequency Conversion
December 6, 2022, 2 PM, Online
Event info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/330692
Webinar link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98884363964?pwd=a2ZtWVJ2amUwOVQyaktWU1c1RHlYUT09
Recording: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/rec/share/JnkG6RRNvt_L7huGMP0F_bWJ89OSZFdi3XY6zMz4m_ZOWF4xM1jVEtvinQgoQjzv.LaiGFD2m92h2222L

Marius Andrei Vrajitoarea
University of Chicago
Assembling Quantum Materials from Microwave Photons
November 21, 2:30 PM, Brookman Hall 200
Event info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/327940
Recording: https://rice.box.com/s/e02ohe4ax4eymrzm481unrh1juv7fofh

Atsushi Noguchi
Komaba Institute for Science (KIS), The University of Tokyo, RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC) and Inamori Research Institute for Science (InaRIS)
Quantum manipulation with hybrid quantum systems
November 18, 11:00 AM, SST300

Christos Panagopoulos
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Order Parameter Engineering in Quantum Architectures
November 15, 4:00 PM, SST 300

Johannes Flick, Ph.D.
CUNY and Flatiron Institute
First-principle approaches to strong light-matter coupling in molecular and extended systems
November 15, 3:00 PM, Online
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/95877688349?pwd=ZzZ4UTRZKzNzbnVONjlkY3RRZU4vdz09#success

Zheshen Zhang
University of Michigan
Quantum Information Science and Engineering: Beating the Classical Limits with Entanglement
November 7, 1:00 PM, Hermann Brown Hall 223

Nicolo Defenu
ETH Zurich
Quantum criticality and out-of-equilibrium scaling long-range systems and beyond
February 22, 2022 4:00 PM Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultanously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20220222/event_id/264078
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/95177687433?pwd=NXE0S0I3WlFWWGJ5VmNJaGFqVTFWQT09
Recording

Mohammad Maghrebi
Michigan State University
Driven-dissipative systems: From quantum many-body dynamics to quantum information
February 14, 2022 4:00 PM Duncan Hall McMurtury Auditorium (DH 1055) (also conducted simultanously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20220214/event_id/266476
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/96036404659?pwd=bDkxYVl4VVJDRENGVnJWMUkvZkJRZz09
Recording

James Whitfield
Dartmouth College
Non-interacting electron theories and quantum computing
February 11, 2022 2:00 PM Duncan Hall 1070 (also conducted simultanously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20220211/event_id/265902
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/99866143951?pwd=THFiNXQ2enE0ajZBN2Y0aVNmMXIrUT09
Recording

Serena Eley
Colorado School of Mines
Resistance is Not Futile: Pinning Down Elusive Vortices in Superconductors
January 6, 2022 4:00 PM Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultanously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20220106/event_id/257565
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98940608113?pwd=OFBrUXJhcnhldWZVa0lDdzYvK3lUQT09
Recording

Sarang Gopalakrishnan
The Pennsylvania State University
Surprises in high-temperature transport
December 13, 2021 4:00 PM Space Science Technology Bldg. 300 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211213/event_id/253387
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/91058463763?pwd=eVpEZ3ptbDQ5aFlnQzZQQXdsY2RDZz09
Recording

Mengzhen Zhang
University of Chicago
Quantum Transduction: Bridging Disparate Bosonic Platforms in Quantum Networks
December 8, 2021 12:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211208/event_id/251647
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94691173925?pwd=TmNGS2tyMXZqcFlhQ1VNSUJoOUwzUT09
Recording

Joonhee Choi
California Institute of Technology
Quantum Device Benchmarking from Many-Body Quantum Chaos
December 6, 2021 4:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211206/event_id/251646
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94999402843?pwd=S0VDc1lqVld4TTdaT1FtZmhtT2VBUT09

Aavishkar Patel
University of California, Berkeley
Many-body quantum mechanics without quasiparticles
December 1, 2021 4:00 PM, Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211201/event_id/249739
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92888871682?pwd=K0p4aG15d0VkUVIvZ0l4MzRLN3VUUT09
Recording

Kevin Slagle
California Institute of Technology
Testing Quantum Mechanics using Noisy Quantum Computers
November 29, 2021 4:00 PM, Duncan Hall 3092 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211129/event_id/248361
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98891944407?pwd=M2hjVmdrZmxHU1JVMlBSL2ZDK2kyQT09
Recording

Xun Gao
Harvard University
Limitations of Linear Cross-Entropy as a Measure for Quantum Advantage
November 22, 2021 12:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211122/event_id/248539
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92390850059?pwd=NWQyUEdYUlB4dmxtYnI2bk9ydkQzdz09

Trevor David Rhone
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Data-driven studies of magnetic van der Waals materials
November 17, 2021 4:00 PM, Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211117/event_id/244053
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94768211635?pwd=UDZscXppKzZzTVBYWitvWlplTEEvQT09

Matteo Ippoliti
Stanford University
Quantum many-body physics in the NISQ era
November 15, 2021 4:00 PM, Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211115/event_id/245202
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98583552408?pwd=ZWRpTTFkbllvMmprQTFESGwrUk0wUT09
Recording

Charles Brown
University of California, Berkeley
Probe of Band Structure Singularities with a Lattice-Trapped Quantum Gas
November 12, 2021 4:00 PM, Duncan Hall 1064 (also conducted simultaenously by Zoom Webinar)
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211112/event_id/243835
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92065563637?pwd=UHJOelVwNS9wbFBDa1NJdXBTcDhZUT09
Recording

Shuo Sun
University of Colorado Boulder
Quantum nanophotonics: engineering atom-photon interactions on-a-chip
November 11, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Information
Seminar Recording

Federica Maria Surace
International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA)
Quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories with ultracold atoms
October 25, 2021 12:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20211025/event_id/242207
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/96550926002?pwd=clB5MGhWb1lWbCtlLzVMa0U2WTY2Zz09
Recording

Nathan Wiebe
University of Toronto
Towards Practical Algorithms for Chemistry Simulation
September 15, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210915/event_id/231836
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692
Recording

James Daniel Whitfield
Dartmouth College
Indistinigishablity and computational complexity of fermions
September 8, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210908/event_id/231725
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692

Nicoló Riva
MIT
Superconductivity: A not so resistant but very resilient Superhero
September 2, 2021 3:00 PM
Event Info:
Webinar Link:

Vaneet Aggarwal
Purdue University
Quantum Causal Inference
August 18, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/221625
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692

Chao-Ming Jian
Cornell University
Entanglement Criticality in Random Quantum Circuits
August 4, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/222058
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692

Zubin Jacob
Purdue University
New directions in quantum sensing: Photonic spin density and atomistic topological electrodynamics
July 21, 2021 11:00 AM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210721/event_id/217923
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692
Recording

Darius Torchinsky
Assistant Professor, Temple University
The Nonlinear Electrodynamics of Weyl Semimetals
June 30, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210630/event_id/214320
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/s/94250093692
Recording

Ajit Srivastava
Associate Professor, Emory University
2D Materials: A New Platform to Realize “Quantum Light-Matter”
June 22, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210622/event_id/212745
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94250093692?pwd=dkM1MDltNTl5Yk5qNlk4VEtibDJTZz09
Recording

Stephen Jordan
Principal Researcher, Microsoft Quantum
Quantum information science for combinatorial optimization
June 2, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210602/event_id/207954
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94250093692?pwd=dkM1MDltNTl5Yk5qNlk4VEtibDJTZz09

Sergey Frolov
University of Pittsburgh
How do we discover Majorana particles in nanowires?
May 19, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/205536
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/93971776216?pwd=dkdLeTZsYTZ5ZFA3UVMxaVR0L0xjUT09

Alexander A. Balandin
University of California, Riverside
Two-Dimensional Charge-Density-Wave Quantum Materials
May 12, 2021 1:00 PM and 3:00 PM
Event Info: https://rice.lwcal.com/livewhale/?events_edit&id=198408
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/93792120662?pwd=Q0xPUGwvNFVXZExERjdJbEMyenNIUT09

Francesco Evangelista
Emory University
Quantum Algorithms for Quantum Chemistry
May 5, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/201173
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98334581781?pwd=L3NXa2dJbTcrMTBtbVhBa29Tc09LZz09

Chris Monroe
Duke University and IonQ Inc.
Quantum Computing with Atoms
April 28, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://rice.lwcal.com/livewhale/?events_edit&id=200878
Webinar Info: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92049249332?pwd=RHMvc2hCM0k0Wmx6c2hqYkw5am1MZz09

András P. Gilyen
California Institute of Technology
Quantum gradient computation and convex optimization
April 14, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/event_id/196411
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92420699279?pwd=b1RkT25nK0lFLzRWTHYxZnRhL2wxZz09

Pramey Upadhyaya
Purdue University
Quantum Spintronics in Spin-Magnon Hybrids
April 7, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210407/event_id/191232
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92746701795?pwd=QmRHQWZvcWZJK040eTBYUjUrVUJyQT09

Mack Kira
University of Michigan
Quantum-information optoelectronics
March 24, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210324/event_id/187657
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94761349946?pwd=VnJUUkV0M0N6aVIxTnRacUQ2dXpiUT09

Nathan Gabor
University of California, Riverside
Electronic Fluids in Atom-Thin Solids
March 11, 2021 3:40 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210311/event_id/178689
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/97790261379?pwd=YTNYOGFNL0RGWkNqZ2kxOXZMZ1lQdz09

Aram Harrow
MIT
Hybrid Classical-Quantum Algorithms
March 10, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210310/event_id/184264
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98423951539?pwd=amhXalJnRkFrUUpCMEF3ZGJSOXBrQT09#success

Songtao Chen
Princeton University
Multiplexed Telecom Quantum Network Nodes Based on Single Er3+ Ions
March 3, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/172971
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98683623876?pwd=UGprU2V3bUNDZGV1cnZBOEMyTVlvUT09
Recording

Wenchao Xu
MIT
Quantum Information Science with Photons and Neutral Atoms
March 1, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/date/20210301/event_id/172602
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94480926343?pwd=dVVEYldCZGR0QlRDL2hNVmdNQ2lLUT09
Recording

Linran Fan
University of Arizona
Quantum State Engineering with Integrated Nonlinear Photonics
February 24, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/178090
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/94535696389?pwd=TkF3Qk5XT2g4ZkpwVUhjRFg1OCtGUT09
Recording

Yi Li
Argonne National Laboratory
Coherent Information Processing with On-Chip Hybrid Magnonics
February 22, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/173194
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/96003232850?pwd=eHdRWGxlWXQ4cDFmdHAyZkNSS2gyZz09
Recording

Shengxi Huang
Pennsylvania State University
Designer Quantum Materials for New Sensing Paradigms
February 10, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/167660
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98336303339?pwd=WXhERnpkT25YN01mQlhSM3JuMTMvUT09
Recording

Avik Dutt
Stanford University
Synthetic Dimensions: Harnessing Internal Degrees of Freedom of Light for Quantum and Topological Photonics
February 8, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/169866
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/98929245069?pwd=VUtzOXVJK0F2ZC9uejNGNDZwVXJSZz09
Recording

Karan Mehta
ETH Zurich
Integrated Photonic and Atomic Quantum Systems
February 3, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/168024
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/96721402234?pwd=eUp1TW1PY3VXZU9GT3BrSFpVZ1RrQT09
Recording

Uri Vool
Harvard University
Imaging Phonon-Mediated Hydrodynamic Flow in WTe2 with Cryogenic Quantum Magnetometry
February 1, 2021 1:00 PM
Event Info: https://events.rice.edu/#!view/event/event_id/167600
Webinar Link: https://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/92329144009?pwd=UkloYURWaWR1YjI5YTJDZUhkaWtxdz09
Recording

Quantum Group Meetings

Next Seminar:

Sayak Guha Roy
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
Repulsively Bound Hadrons in a Z₂ Lattice Gauge Theory
September 12th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300

Past Seminars:

2024 - 2025 Quantum Group Meetings

Leon Otis
Research Group: Prof. James Shee
Targeting Excited States with Auxiliary Field Quantum Monte Carlo
May 30th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - May 30, 2025 - Leon Otis.pdf

Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi
Research Group: Prof. Guido Pagano
Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulation with Ground, Optical, and Metastable Qubits
May 16th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - May 16, 2025 - Midhuna Duraisamy Suganthi.pdf

Tao Li
Research Group: Prof. Yuji Zhao
III-N Wide Bandgap Semiconductor-based Topological Photonic Devices in Visible Spectrum
April 18th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - April 18, 2025 - Tao Li.pdf

Adam Johnston
Research Group: Prof. Songtao Chen
Nanophotonic devices for the Purcell enhancement of single T centers
April 4th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - April 4, 2025 - Adam Johnston.pdf

Chuanyu Wang
Research Group: Prof. Thomas Killian
Ultra Long-range Rydberg Molecule Spectroscopy and Non-local Spatial Correlation Functions in Interacting Gas
March 21st, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - March 21, 2025 - Chuanyu Wang .pdf

Mingjian Zhu
Research Group: Prof. Han Pu
Dissipation-Assisted Steady-State Entanglement Engineering based on Electron Transfer Models
March 7th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - March 7, 2025 - Mingjian Zhu.pdf

Jonathan Minoff
Research Group: Prof. Han Pu
Generative Models as Representations of Quantum Spin States
February 7th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - February 7, 2025 - Jonathan Minoff.pdf

Vaibhav Sharma
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
Multipartite Entanglement Structures in Quantum Stabilizer States
January 24th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - January 24, 2025 - Vaibhav Sharma.pdf

Visal So
Research Group: Prof. Guido Pagano
Trapped-ion quantum simulation of electron transfer models with tunable dissipation
January 10th, 2025, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - January 10, 2025 - Visal So.pdf

Siddharth Jindal
Research Group: Prof. Pavan Hosur
Universal Features of Entanglement From Eigenstate Randomness
December 13, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - December 13, 2024 - Siddharth Jindal.pdf

Chong Sun
Research Group: Prof. Gustavo Scuseria
Designing Computational Methods for Strongly Correlated Electrons
November 15, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - November 15, 2024 - Chong Sun.pdf

Wentian Zheng
Research Group: Prof. Yonglong Xie
The development and application of scanning quantum sensing microscope
November 1, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - November 1st, 2024 - Wentian Zheng.pdf

David Quiroga
Research Group: Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis
Non-convex optimization in Quantum Process Tomography
October 18, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - October 18th, 2024 - David Quiroga.pdf

Hao Zhang
Research Group: Prof. Aditya Mohite
Engineering of single-photon emission from buried perovskite quantum dots in solid matrix
October 4, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - October 4th 2024 - Hao Zhang.pdf

Jonathan Stepp
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
Ultracold Molecules and the Attractive SU(N) Fermi-Hubbard Mode
September 20, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - Sept 20th 2024 - Jonathan Stepp.pdf

Jiaming Luo
Research Group: Prof. Hanyu Zhu
Large effective magnetic fields from chiral phonons in rare-earth halides
September 6, 2024, Friday at noon
SST 300
RQI Quantum Group Meeting - Sept 6th 2024 - Jiaming Luo.pdf

2023 - 2024 Quantum Group Meetings

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Yi Xu
Research Group: Prof. Andriy Nevidomskyy
Simulating Spin Dynamics of Frustrated Magnets using Projected Entangled Pair States
July 26, 2024, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - July - 26-2024 - Yi Xu .pdf

Bin Gao
Research Group: Prof. Pengcheng Dai group
Shedding light on emergent quantum electrodynamics in the quantum spin liquid candidate Ce2Zr2O7
May 31, 2024, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - May-31-2024 - Bin Gao.pdf

Sayak Guha Roy
Research Group: Prof. Kevin Slagle group
Interpolating Between the Gauge and Schrödinger Pictures of Quantum Dynamics
April 26, 2024, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - April - 26-2024 - Sayak Guha Roy.pdf

Lei Chen
Research Group: Prof. Qimiao Si group
Quantum criticality and correlated topology in flat band systems
March 29, 2024, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - March-29-2024 - Lei Chen.pdf

Fuyang Tay
Research Group: Prof. Junichiro Kono group
Ultrastrong multimode light-matter coupling in a three-dimensional photonic-crystal cavity
January 26, 2024, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - January-26-2023 - Fuyang Tay.pdf

Guo P. Chen
Research Group: Prof. Gustavo E. Scuseria group
Robust and Efficient Quantum Chemistry Methods for Dynamic and Static Electron Correlations
December 15, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - December-15-2023 - Guo Chen.pdf

Daniel Liang
Research Group: Prof. Nai-Hui Chia’s group
Learning Beyond Stabilizer States
November 17, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - November-17-2023 - Daniel Liang.pdf

Haotian Wei
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard’s group
Parameters and Algorithms for Programmable Fermi-Hubbard Tweezer Arrays for Quantum Simulations
November 3, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - November-3-2023 - Haotian Wei.pdf

Aleksandra Nelson
Research Group: Prof. Evelyn Tang’s group
Stochastic topological states require non-Hermiticity for strong edge localization
September 29, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - September-29-2023 - Aleksandra Nelson.pdf

Sagarika Basak
Research Group: Prof. Han Pu’s group
A Generalized Effective Spin-Chain Formalism
September 1, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - September-01-2023 - Sagarika Basak.pdf

2022 - 2023 Quantum Group Meetings

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Diego Fallas Padilla
Research Group: Prof. Han Pu’s group
The tricritical Dicke model with and without dissipation
June 30, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 301A
Rice Quantum Initiative - June-30-2023 - Diego Fallas Padilla .pdf

Zewen Zhang
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard’s group
Counting all ground states of classical systems on a quantum computer
May 26, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - May-26-2023 - Zewen Zhang.pdf

Aashish Kafle
Research Group: Prof. Randy Hulet
Spin-charge separation in a 1D Fermi Gas with tunable interactions
April 28, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - April-28-2023 - Aashish Kafle.pdf

Sohail Dasgupta
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
Dipolar Interacting Quantum Matter in Synthetic Dimensions
March 31, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - March-31-2023 - Sohail Dasgupta.pdf

Jiaming Luo
Research Group: Prof. Hanyu Zhu
Topological magnon-phonon hybridization in monolayer antiferromagnets
March 3, 2023, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - March-03-2023 - Jiaming Luo.pdf

Xinghai Zhang
Research Group: Prof. Matthew Foster
Enhanced Amplitude for Superconductivity due to Spectrum-wide Quantum Critical Wave Function
January 27, 2022, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - January-27-2023 - Xinghai Zhang.pdf

Andrey Baydin
Research Group: Prof. Junichiro Kono
Magnetic Manipulation of Electronic Topology with Chiral Phonons
December 9, 2022, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - December-09-2022 - Andrey Baydin.pdf

Shah Saad Alam
Research Group: Prof. Han Pu
Seeing the Forest for the Trees: How Convolutional Neural Networks Approximate Quantum Spin Systems
October 28, 2022, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - October-28-2022 - Shah Saad Alam.pdf

Yichen Zhang
Research Group: Prof. Ming Yi
Kramers Nodal Lines and Weyl Fermions in SmAlSi
September 30, 2022, Friday at 4PM
SST 300
Rice Quantum Initiative - September-30-2022 - Yichen Zhang.pdf

2021 - 2022 Quantum Group Meetings

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Chandan Setty (CANCELED!)
Research Group: Prof. Qimiao Si
Topological semimetal driven by strong correlations and crystalline symmetry
August 26, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300

Chunruo Duan
Research Group: Prof. Pengcheng Dai
Resonance from antiferromagnetic spin fluctuations for spin-triplet superconductor candidate UTe2
July 29, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300 July-29-2022-Poster-Chunruo Duan.pdf

Han Yan
Research Group: Prof. Andriy Nevidomskyy
Fracton States of Matter and Routes toward its Realization
June 24, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300 June-24-2022-Poster-Han Yan.pdf

Soumya Kanungo
Research Group: Prof. Thomas. C. Killian
Rydberg-atom synthetic dimensions
May 27, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300 May-27-2022-Poster-Soumya-Kanungo.pdf

Armin Khamoshi (CANCELED!)
Research Group: Prof. Gustavo. E. Scuseria
Geminal methods for the strong correlation problem: Applications to the near-term quantum computers
April 29, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300

Jianwei Huang
Research Group: Prof. Ming Yi
Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy and Its Revealing of a Topological Phase Transition in Bi4I4
March 25, 2022, Friday at 3:00 PM
SST 300 FLYER

Zhiyuan Wang
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
An exactly solvable one-dimensional lattice spin model with parastatistical quasiparticles
February 25, 2022 at 3:00 PM
SST 300 Flyer

J. Lyle Kim
Research Group: Prof. Anastasios Kyrillidis
Fast quantum state reconstruction via accelerated non-convex programming
January 28, 2022 at 3:00 PM
SST 300 Flyer

Nicolas Marquez Peraca
Research Group: Prof. Junichiro Kono
THz Magneto-spectroscopy of Er_xY_{1-x}FeO_3 at Low-Temperatures: How Can Quantum Optics Help Us Understand Magnetic Phase Transitions and Viceversa?November 26, 2921 at 3:00 pm
SST 300 Flyer

Lebing Chen
Research Group: Prof. Pengcheng Dai
Magnetic excitations in van der Waals honeycomb ferromagnets
October 29, 2021 at 3:00 PM
SST 300
Flyer

Eduardo Ibarra Garcia Padilla
Research Group: Prof. Kaden Hazzard
Universality and Quantum Magnetism in the SU(N) Symmetric Fermi Hubbard Model
September 24, 2021 at 3:00 PM
SST 300
Flyer

Quantum Lunches

Next Lunch:

Past Lunches:

2024-2025 Lunches

Yonglong Xie (PHYA)
Programmable Stacks of 2D Materials
April 25th, 2025 at 12pm.
Faculty Club Esther Room

Vir Bulchandani (PHYA)
Quantum Combinatorial Optimization Problems
April 11th, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Andriy Nevidomskyy (PHYA)
Realizing Exotic Fracton Matter: From Theory to Experimental Platforms
March 28th, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Xuedan Ma (MSNE)
Quantum Photon Sources and Spin Qubits Based on Low-Dimensional Materials
March 14th, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Hanyu Zhu (MSNE)
Quantum Coupling among Lattices and Spins
February 14th, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Matt Foster (PHYA)
Unified Theory of Monitored, Interacting Fermion Dynamics with Charge Conservation
January 31st, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Pavan Hosur (University of Houston)
Digital Logic Based on High-Efficiency Superconducting Diodes
January 17th, 2025 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

James Shee (CHEM)
Strong Correlation in Electronic Structure Theory with Classical and Quantum Algorithms
December 6th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Han Pu (PHYA)
Having Fun in 1D and Elsewhere
November 8th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Tirthak Patel (CS)
Quantum Computing Beyond the Gate Model by Leveraging Hardware-Native Programmability of Near-Term Devices
October 25th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Doug Natelson (PHYA)
October 11th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Srujan Meesala (ECE)
Quantum Transduction: Interconnecting Circuits, Light, Sound, and Defects for Next-Generation Quantum Information Systems
September 13th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

2023-2024 Lunches

Guido Pagano (PHYA)
Trapped-Ion Simulation of Open Quantum Systems
April 19th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Gus Scuseria (CHEM)
Dualities for Strong Electron Correlation
April 5th, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Anastasios Kyrillidis (CS)
Classical, Quantum, or Both? -- A Full Stack Perspective toward Quantum Utility in MaxCUT-Type Problems
March 22nd, 2024 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Randy Hulet (PHYA)
Fermions on a Wire: a Quantitative Measure of Spin-Charge Separation
October 20th, 2023 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Jun Kono (ECE)
Cavity QED in the Ultrastrong Coupling Regime
October 6th, 2023 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Matthew Foster (PHYA)
(1) All strong bulk topological superconductors are fragile, and (2) Interference-mediated pairing in dirty strange metals.
September 22nd, 2023 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

Ramesh (PHYA/MSNE)
Manipulating Spins with Electric Fields
September 8th, 2023 at 12pm
Faculty Club Esther Room (2nd floor)

2022-2023 Lunches

Emilia Morosan (PHYA)
Spin Textures, Real and Reciprocal Space Topology, Very Large Magnetoresistance - Stories and Puzzles from My Lab
April 21st, 2023 at 12pm
SST 300

Pengcheng Dai (PHYA)
Quantum Materials and Neutron Scattering @ Rice
April 7th, 2023 at 12pm
SST 300

Evelyn Tang (PHYA)
Topological States in New Settings: Non-equilibrium and Stochastic Systems
March 24th, 2023 at 12pm
SST 300

Kaden Hazzard (PHYA)
Programmable Quantum Matter
February 24th, 2023 at 12pm
BRK 300

Nai-Hui Chia (CS)
Cryptography Meets Quantum Computing
February 10th, 2023 at 12pm
BRK 300