News from The Simon Lab at The University of Chicago
Congratulations 7/9/2017
Congratulations to Clai Owens, Aman LaChapelle, Brendan Saxberg and Ruichao Ma on their paper "Quarter-Flux Hofstadter Lattice in Qubit-Compatible Microwave Cavity Array", submitted to the arXiv.
Ph.D. 6/23/2017
Congratulations to Dr. Albert Ryou on successfully defending his thesis.
Congratulations 5/23/2017
Congratulations to Jia Ningyuan, Nathan Schine, Alex, Albert Ryou and Ariel Sommer for their new paper "A Strongly Interacting Polaritonic Quantum Dot" submitted to the arXiv.
Paper Published 3/17/2017
Congratulations to Ruichao Ma and Clai Owens for their paper "An Autonomous Stabilizer for Incompressible Photon Fluids and Solids" published in PRA.
Fellowship 3/17/2017
Congratulations to Mark Stone for receiving the NSF Graduate Research fellowship.
Welcome 3/3/2017
Welcome to all of the visitors to the SimonLab during the Physics and IME prospective graduate student open houses
2/8/2017
The Simonlab Mannequin Challenge Video is now available for your consumption! Experience a day in the life of a quantum optometrist: Simonlab Mannequin Challenge
Congratulations 1/20/2017
Congratulations to Ruichao Ma and Clai Owens for their paper "An Autonomous Stabilizer for Incompressible Photon Fluids and Solids" submitted to the arXiv.
Paper Published 1/7/2017
Congratulations to Albert Ryou for his paper "Active cancellation of acoustical resonances with an FPGA FIR filter" published in Review of Scientific Instruments.
Paper Published 12/1/2016
Congratulations to Ruichao Ma, and Clai Owens for the paper "Engineering Topological Many-Body Materials in Microwave Cavity Arrays" published in Physical Review X .
Welcome 11/29/2016
Welcome to Evan Mata, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 10/4/2016
Welcome to Joshua Wakefield, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 9/30/2016
Welcome to Yuehui Lu (Leon), who has joined the group an exchange student from Peking University.
Welcome 9/1/2016
Welcome to Brendan Saxberg, who has joined the group as a graduate researcher.
Paper Published 7/18/2016
Congratulations to Ruichao Ma, Clai Owens, and Aman LaChapelle for the paper "Hamiltonian tomography of photonic lattices" published on the arXiv.
Press Coverage 7/18/2016
The paper by Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou, and Ariel Sommer about synthetic Landau Levels for photons was covered in Physics today.
Paper Published 6/30/2016
Congratulations to Nathan Schine, Albert Ryou and Ariel Sommer for their paper "Synthetic Landau levels for photons" published in Nature.
Congratulations 6/2/2016
Congratulations to Albert Ryou for receiving the Winstein Prize in Instrumentation.
PECASE Award 5/5/2016
Jonathan Simon was honored at the White House PECASE Award Ceremony.
Paper Published 4/13/2016
Congratulations to Jia Ningyuan, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Albert Ryou, and Ariel Sommer for their paper "Observation and characterization of cavity Rydberg polaritons" which was just published in Physical Review A.
Paper Published 3/7/2016
Congratulations to Ariel Sommer for the paper "Engineering photonic Floquet Hamiltonians through Fabry-Perot resonators" which was just published in the New Journal of Physics
Welcome 11/1/2015
Welcome to Scott Eustice, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 9/1/2015
Welcome to Mark Stone, who has joined the group as a graduate researcher.
Welcome 8/27/2015
Welcome to Michelle Chalupnik, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 8/1/2015
Welcome to Dr. Ruichao Ma, who will work jointly between our group and the Schuster Lab as a Postdoctoral Research.
Welcome 7/1/2015
Welcome to Freddy Cisneros, who has joined us as a summer researcher.
Paper Published 6/22/2015
Congratulations to Ningyuan Jia, Clai Owens, and Ariel Sommer for the paper "Time- and site-resolved dynamics in a topological circuit" published in Physical Review X .
Paper Published 5/1/2015
Congratulations to Ariel Sommer for the paper "Quantum Crystals and Laughlin Droplets of Cavity Rydberg Polaritons" published on the arXiv.
Welcome 3/30/2015
Welcome to Jeremy Estes, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 2/20/2015
Welcome to Aman LaChapelle, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 10/22/2014
Welcome to Michael Cervia, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 10/1/2014
Welcome to Tahoe Schrader, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 9/1/2014
Welcome to Aziza Suleymanzade and Nathan Schine who have joined the group as graduate researchers.
Fellowship 4/10/2014
Congratulations to Clai Owens for receiving the NSF Graduate Research fellowship.
NDSEG Fellowship 4/10/2014
Congratulations to Albert Ryou for receiving the NDSEG fellowship.
Welcome 2/5/2014
Welcome to Sohini Upadhyay, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 11/19/2013
Welcome to JinWoo Sung, who has joined the group as an undergraduate researcher.
Welcome 10/1/2013
Welcome to Clai Owens, who has joined the group as a graduate researcher.
Welcome 9/1/2013
Welcome to Jia Ningyuan, who has joined the group as a graduate researcher -- Jia was a visiting researcher with us last year!
Welcome 4/1/2013
Welcome to Dr. Ariel Sommer, who has joined the group as a Grainger Postdoctoral Fellow.
Welcome 4/1/2013
Welcome to Dr. Ariel Sommer, who has joined the group as a Grainger Postdoctoral Fellow.
Welcome 12/1/2012
Welcome to Lindsay Bassman, who has joined the group as a master's researcher.
Welcome 12/1/2012
Welcome to Graham Greve, Aaron Krahn and Jeremy Seeman, who have joined the group as undergraduate researchers.
Welcome 9/1/2012
Welcome to Alexandros Georgakopoulos and Albert Ryou, the first two graduate students to join the group!