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A close-up photo of optics. Credit: Alex Sanchez, Duke University

Nature Physics: Robust frozen dynamics

Our result on observing robust frozen dynamics is published in Nature Physics! Congrats to Raj, Luheng, and our collaborators, Wen Wei and Natalie! News features: Pratt School of Engineering and ECE department at Duke, Phys.org, Quantum Insider

Schematic explaining mapping to constrained U(1) lattice gauge theory and statistical localization

To localize or not to localize?

Can you get localization behavior even when your disorder-free Hamiltonian obeys nonlocal conservation laws? Read our arXiv paper to find out what we have observed in our Rydberg quantum simulator of lattice gauge theory!

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Sloan Research Fellowship

Huanqian is honored to be named a 2025 Sloan Research Fellow!

Mixing a quantum cocktail

PRX: Scars and restricted thermalization

Our results on observing Z_{2k} quantum many-body scars and an exotic form of quantum thermalization are published in Physical Review X! Congrats to Luheng, Raj, Weikun, and Mujahid!

Defect-free atom arrays

Physical Review journal club

Our work on efficiently assembling large defect-free atom arrays will be presented in an upcoming Physical Review journal club on Dec 18 at 8.30am ET. Please register to join the discussion!

Campus Shot

Loh lab moves to Duke

We are relocating to Duke University in Fall 2024. Our lab will be located at the Duke Quantum Center. We are looking for talented and motivated students to join us at Duke.

Prithvi Raj

Raj wins the OURP award!

Congrats to Raj for winning the NUS Outstanding Undergraduate Research Prize!

Luheng's thesis defense

Luheng defends his PhD thesis

Congratulations to Luheng for an impressive PhD thesis defense!

Krylov-restricted thermalization

Exotic quantum thermalization

Put a quantum system in a far-from-equilibrium state, and it should either thermalize or retain memory of its initial state – at least that’s what scientists have always thought. Can thermalization and memory occur simultaneously? Read our arXiv paper to find out what surprises we have uncovered…

Weikun's defense

Weikun defends his PhD thesis

Congrats to Weikun for a fantastic PhD thesis defense!

Floquet-tailored Rydberg interactions

Nature Comms: Floquet-tailored Rydberg interactions

Our work on “Floquet-tailored Rydberg interactions” is published in Nature Communications and featured as a CQT highlight! Congratulations to Luheng, Michael, and Mujahid for their hard work!

IPS

IPS meeting

Our lab takes part in the Institute of Physics Singapore annual meeting. Luheng gives an invited talk on Floquet frequency modulation with Rydberg atoms and Weikun gives a poster on Rb tweezer arrays.

Yang Lee

PRL: Non-unitary phase transitions

Our collaborative paper with the group of Ching Hua Lee, on probing non-unitary phase transitions with Floquet-engineered Rydberg atom arrays, is published in Physical Review Letters! Congrats to Mujahid and all the co-authors!

Mujahid's defense

Mujahid's thesis defense

Congratulations to Mujahid on his successful PhD thesis defense. What an exciting journey it has been for the past 5 years!

CQT lab visit

CQT lab visit

Honored to have Singapore Deputy Prime Minister Heng and Senior Minister Teo visit our lab. Happy to show them the atom-array setups that are the culmination of several years of hard work from my team, with valuable help from the CQT support staff.