News

05/13/2025 Spearheaded by Allen and colleagues at UIUC and Microsoft, our new paper published in Physics Review Letter today revealed an important aspect of quantum entanglement purification and sheds light on how to design useful protocols in future quantum networks. Check out here for more news.

04/20/2024 In an inspiring collaboration with Dr. Shuolong Yang and Dr. Peter B. Littlewood, we recieved a new transformative grant from the Betty Moore Foundation to build a new hybrid quantum matter - a superconductor out of vaccum! See the news 

04/03/2024 Tian delivers an invited talk at the international conference on rare-earth quantum information technology organized by USTC. Thanks Dr. Zongquan Zou for the invitation and organizing the conference!

06/30/2023 Tian delivers an invited talk at the Annual National Korea quantum week on our work on building quantum network using rare-earth qubits and memory. Thanks Dr. Kiwon Moon for the invitation and collaboration.

09/01/2023 Welcome Matt Shmukler join the group! 

03/01/2022 Welcome Alex Kolar, Nolan Bitner join the group!

09/06/2021 Welcome  Xuntao join the PME!

08/30/2021 Welcome Dr. Noah Mendelson joins us as a IBM-CQE postdoc fellow!

03/15/2021 Our second dilution fridge is commissioned.

10/01/2020 Shobhit is named MRSEC quantum fellow! He is working between Zhong and Schuster labs on hybrid quantum systems based on rare-earth ions.

09/15/2020 Tian receives DoD ARO young investigator award.

02/27/2020 Hong is awarded NSF QISE-NET fellowship! Congratulations Hong.

01/25/2020 Tian receives NSF CAREER award.

07/25/2019 We are awarded Joint Task Force Initiative QIS grant with Argonne. See UChicago News: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-jumpstarts-collaborations-national-labs-ai-quantum

04/22/2019 We move into our brand new lab space in ERC LL2!

04/09/2019 Christina won the NSF GRFP fellowship. Congratulations!

03/29/2019 Noah won the DoD NDSEG fellowship. Congratulations!

03/20/2019 Congratulations to Christina for passing the IME PhD candidacy exam!

02/15/2019 Congratulations to Manish for passing the IME PhD candidacy exam!