News

September 2025: 

• Ceren is visiting Institute for International Centre for Theoretical Physics - South American Institute for Fundamental Reseach (ICTP-SAIFR) to give a talk on "Quantum scarring in many-body quantum systems" in the workshop Quantum Many-Body Dynamics: Thermalization and its Violations.

• Zhongling's paper on anti-scarring in spinor condensates got accepted to Physical Review A. Congrats Zhongling!

August 2025: 

• Ceren was conference crawling this month: three talks on three different topics in three weeks! First talk was on "Quantum simulations with neutral atoms" in University of Tokyo Institute for Solid State Physics (ISSP) workshop Physics of Open Systems: Resonance, Symmetry and Topology, where she presented the recent insights regarding the role of atom motion in quantum many-body dynamics simulated with Rydberg atom arrays and the crystalline symmetry protected topological order measured in Hubbard Quantum simulator. The second talk was on "Engineering topology in materials with chiral cavities" in Oka Group at ISSP, where she discussed the unpublished results of Kono Lab photonic crystal chiral cavity. Final talk was on "Quantum scarring in many-body quantum systems" in the International Conference on Quantum Chaos 2025 in Puebla City, Mexico. 

• Ceren is now also teaching: grad level solid state physics where she will be lecturing on lattice structures and symmetries, quantization of lattice vibrations, electronic band theory and topology, magnetism. 

July 2025: Genuine quantum scars in many-body spin systems, next chapter of our research program on quantum scarring has been now published in Nature Communications!

June 2025: 

• Ceren was chosen to be a Research Corporation for Science Advancement (RCSA) Fellow for the upcoming Quantum Matter and Information program. 

• Ceren gave talks on "Quantum simulations with neutral atoms" in University of Tennessee's Quantum Center at Chattanooga during its first Quantum Technology Workshop, and in University of Rochester during Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Science. 

• Terahertz chiral photonic-crystal cavities for Dirac gap engineering in graphene, our collaboration work with Jun Kono Lab at Rice University has been now published in Nature Communications!

May 2025: 

• Topological Phase Transitions and Mixed State Order in a Hubbard Quantum Simulator, our collaboration work with Markus Greiner Lab at Harvard University is out on ArXiV!

• Lauren Li is visiting us from Princeton for five weeks, welcome Lauren!

• Cole Brzezinski is the first summer undergraduate researcher of the group, welcome Cole!

• Upcoming: Ceren will speak in Quantum Thermodynamics Symposium at UMD Baltimore. Register here!

April 2025: 

• Ceren wrote about the intersection between many-body quantum thermalization and quantum thermodynamics on the new Roadmap preprint, a huge collaboration in the field of Q. Thermo. Check it out!

• Ceren co-organized a workshop on Controlled Quantum Magnetism at IU Physics, where she also presented a talk on cavity-QED engineering of quantum materials. 

February 2025: Dr. Hanzhen Ma joins the group. Welcome Hanzhen!

February 2025: Ceren gave the IU Physics Colloquium on Quantum simulations with atoms and cavity QED engineering of materials.

February 2025: Ceren gave an invited talk at the KITP Conference on Harnessing Quantum-optical Techniques in Solid-state Materials on chiral cavity-induced Chern insulators in graphene-based materials.

January 2025: New preprint out! Anti-scarring from eigenstate stacking in a chaotic spinor condensate, Z Lu, AM Graf, EJ Heller, J Keski-Rahkonen, CB Dag. arXiv:2501.17856. Congrats Zhongling! 

January 2025: Dag Group has been established!