Lindsay J LeBlanc

Brief CV:

• Professor, 2025 - present, Department of Physics, University of Alberta

• Associate Professor, 2020-2025, Department of Physics, University of Alberta

• Assistant Professor, 2013-2020, Department of Physics, University of Alberta

• Fellow, Canada Institute for Advanced Research (Quantum Materials Program) 2015-2019

• AITF Strategic Chair in Hybrid Quantum Systems 2014-2017

• Postdoctoral fellow, 2010-2013, Joint Quantum Institute, NIST and University of Maryland (Spielman group)

• Ph.D. 2011, Physics, University of Toronto (Thywissen group)

• M.Sc. 2005, Physics, University of Toronto (Thywissen group)

• B.Sc. 2003, Engineering Physics, University of Alberta

Full Publications List

UAlberta publications (2014 - )

• Microwave-optical double-resonance vector magnetometry with warm Rb atoms
  Bahar Babaei, Benjamin D. Smith, Andrei Tretiakov, Andal Narayanan, Lindsay J. LeBlanc
  [arxiv.org:2507.08791]

• Manipulating optical absorption and polarization using microwave control in an atomic vapour
  A. Tretiakov, C. A. Potts, Y. Y. Lu, J. P Davis, L. J. LeBlanc
  J. Phys. Photonics 6, 035007 (2024).
  [Journal Link][arxiv.org:2110.10673]

• Investigation of Floquet engineered non-Abelian geometric phase for holonomic quantum computing
  Logan W. Cooke, Arina Tashchilina, Mason Protter, Joseph Lindon, Tian Ooi, Frank Marsiglio, Joseph Maciejko, Lindsay J. LeBlanc
  Phys. Rev. Research  6, 013057 (2024).
  [Journal Link][arxiv.org:2307.12957]

• High-dimensional reinforcement learning for optimization and control of ultracold quantum gases
  Nicholas Milson, Arina Tashchilina, Tian Ooi, Anna Czarnecka, Zaheen F. Ahmad, Lindsay J. LeBlanc
  Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 4, 045057 (2023)
  [Journal link][arxiv.org:2308.05216]

• Microwave-to-optical conversion in a room-temperature 87Rb vapor with frequency-division multiplexing control
  Benjamin D. Smith, Bahar Babaei, Andal Narayanan, Lindsay J. LeBlanc
  Comm. Phys. 6, 338 (2023)
  [Journal link][arxiv.org:2305.19221]

• Complete unitary qutrit control in ultracold atoms

• Superradiance-mediated photon storage for broadband quantum memory

• Topical White Paper: A Case for Quantum Memories in Space

• Polymer-loaded three dimensional microwave cavities for hybrid quantum systems 

• Storing short single-photon-level optical pulses in Bose-Einstein condensates for high-performance quantum memory

• GPU-accelerated solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

• Liquid infiltration of monolithic open-access Fabry–Perot microcavities

• Atomic microwave-to-optical signal transduction via magnetic-field coupling in a resonant microwave cavity

• Single-photon-level light storage in cold atoms using the Autler-Townes splitting protocol. 

• Discerning quantum memories based on electromagnetically-induced-transparency and Autler-Townes-splitting protocols

• Microwave Rabi resonances beyond the small-signal regime

• Viewpoint: The Quest to Make a Ferromagnet with Cold Atoms

• Coherent storage and manipulation of broadband photons via dynamically controlled Autler-Townes splitting

• Quantum Physics: Interactions propel a magnetic dance (News and Views)

• Magnetic-field-mediated coupling and control in hybrid atomic-nanomechanical systems

• Tunable open-access microcavities for on-chip cQED

• Quantum Physics: Two-atom bunching (News and Views)

• Atomic Physics: Polar Exploration (News and Views)

JQI / NIST publications (2011 - 2015)

• Gauge Matters: Observing the vortex-nucleation transition in a Bose-Einstein condensate 

• Tunable Spin-Orbit Coupling via Strong Driving in Ultracold Atom Systems

• A Raman-induced Feshbach resonance in an effectively single-component Fermi gas

• Direct observation of zitterbewegung in a Bose-Einstein condensate

• The spin Hall effect in a quantum gas

• Controlling Atomic Interactions with Light

• Observation of a superfluid Hall effect

• Peierls Substitution in an Engineered Lattice Potential

• Synthetic Partial Waves in Ultracold Atomic Collisions

Toronto publications (2005 - 2011)

• Exploring many-body physics with ultracold atoms

• Dynamics of a tunable superfluid junction

• Fermions on atom chips.

• Repulsive Fermi gas in a harmonic trap: Ferromagnetism and spin textures.

• Species-specific optical lattices.

• Dual-species quantum degeneracy of 40K and 87Rb on an atom chip.

• Rapid sympathetic cooling to Fermi degeneracy on a chip.

• Trapping Fermionic 40K and Bosonic 87Rb on a Chip.

Non-academic

• Physics is beauty