Professor, Department of Physics, University of Alberta
Canada Research Chair (Tier I) in Atomic Quantum Science and Technology
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
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]
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)
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
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.
Physics is beauty