Quantum Optics & Quantum Information

The department is making pioneering contributions at the frontiers of the most fundamental description of nature known to science: quantum physics.

We unpack the implications of this elegant and surprising description with both experimental and theoretical research on quantum communication, quantum computing, quantum imaging, quantum control, quantum measurement, and quantum thermodynamics.

Our core expertise is in linear optical quantum elements, quantum entanglement, nonlocal interferometry, nanophotonics, nonequilibrium open quantum dynamics, spin-qubit quantum computing, and fundamentals of quantum information. The department currently holds several fully equipped quantum optics laboratories with numerous laser systems, single-photon counters, high-speed electronics, and computerized data acquisition systems.

Faculty with Research Interests in Quantum Optics and Quantum Information: