People

Associated Faculty

Anton Andreev   Physics

Theory of electron transport in low-dimensional systems and topological materials. more

Arthur Barnard   Physics; Materials Science & Engineering

Experiments probing electronic correlations and nanoscale vibrations in low-dimensional materials using novel scanned probes. more

Boris Blinov   Physics

Trapped ion quantum computing. more

Ting Cao   Materials Science & Engineering

Theoretical and computational condensed matter physics, excited states, light-matter interactions. more

Jiun-Haw Chu    Physics

Quantum materials, high temperature superconductors, topological materials. more

David Cobden    Physics;  Institute Director

Experiments probing correlations, topology and phases in low-dimensional materials. more

Marcel den Nijs   Physics

Statistical mechanics of low dimensional equilibrium and non equilibrium driven systems, neural science,  topological quantum phases. more

Lukasz Fidkowski   Physics

Theory of topological phases of matter, quantum field theory, quantum information theory. more

Kai-Mei Fu   Physics; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Quantum point defects for quantum network and sensing applications. more

Subhadeep Gupta   Physics

Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases: Bose and Fermi superfluids, few-body physics and molecules, many-body quantum dynamics, atom interferometry. more

Juan Carlos Idrobo   Materials Science & Engineering

Scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging and spectroscopy of low dimensional materials. more

Mo Li   Physics; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Cavity optomechanics, integrated photonics, quantum photonics. more

Arka Majumdar   Physics; Electrical and Computer Engineering

Nanophotonics and Quantum Optics. more

Charles Marcus   Physics; Materials Science & Engineering; Institute Co-director

Quantum coherent electronic devices, superconductor-semiconductor hybrids, quantum dots and spin qubits, quantum chaos and mesoscopic physics, topological materials and systems, quantum simulation in condensed matter. more

Mark Rudner   Physics; Institute Co-director

Quantum many-body dynamics, periodically-driven (“Floquet”) systems, interactions and collective phenomena in topological and hybrid materials, quantum information. more

Boris Spivak   Physics

Theoretical condensed matter physics. more

Di Xiao   Physics; Materials Science & Engineering

Low-dimensional semiconductor optics, correlations, magnetism, and topology.

Xiaodong Xu   Physics; Materials Science & Engineering

Low-dimensional semiconductor optics, correlations, magnetism, and topology. more

Matthew Yankowitz   Physics; Materials Science & Engineering

Quantum transport and scanning tunneling microscopy characterization of strong correlations, topology, and superconductivity in low-dimensional materials. more

Graduate Fellows

2024
Christiano Wang Beach
2022-3
Claire Kvande 

Dhan Bautista
Michael Kovtun
Anna Grigorieva
Wenqin Chen
Mark D'Souza
Ethan Hansen
Ryan Lanzetta
Tony Liu
Chris Matsumura
Tommy Nguyen
Carson Patterson
Hannah Rarick
Lingnan Shen

Graduated
Michael Smith

Affiliates

Arkady Levanyuk
Oscar Vilches
Michael Schick
John Rehr

Visitors

Erez Berg
Alex Levchenko
Qian Niu
Dima Pesin
Amir Yacoby
Andrey Chubukov
Vasily Artemov

Advisory Board

Steve Girvin
David B Kaplan
Steve Kivelson
Allan MacDonald
Andy Millis
Matthias Troyer

David at the pub
Cambridge, February 2019

Photo: Margaret Thouless