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Kollár, Alicia

Kollár, Alicia

Assistant Professor
Physics
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Joint Quantum Institute
Quantum Technology Center
2112 Physical Sciences Complex
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Alicia Kollár received her B.A. in Physics from Princeton University in 2010 and her Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2016. In her doctoral studies with Benjamin Lev, she worked on the design and construction of a multimode cavity-BEC apparatus to study superradiant self-organization. She was awarded a Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellowship in 2017 to work with Andrew Houck on quantum simulation of solid-state physics using circuit QED lattices. Her research will focus on using novel coplanar waveguide lattice techniques and graph theory to design and realize microwave photonic crystals with unusual structures such as gapped flat bands and spatial curvature. She will combine these structures with multimode/waveguide circuit QED to engineer quantum simulators of lattice and spin models.

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Notable Publications:

  • A. J. Kollár, M. Fitzpatrick, A. A. Houck, Hyperbolic Lattices in Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics, arXiv:1802.09549. 
  • V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, R. M. Kroeze, K. E. Ballantine, A. J. Kollár, J. Keeling, B. L. Lev, Tunable- range, photon-mediated atomic interactions in multimode cavity QED, Physical Review X, 8, 011002 (2018), arXiv:1708.08933. 
  • A. J. Kollár, A. T. Papageorge, K. Baumann, V. D. Vaidya, Y. Guo, J. Keeling, B. L. Lev, Supermode-Density-Wave-Polariton Condensation, Nature Communications, 8, 14386 (2017), arXiv:1606.04127. 

Centers & Institutes: Joint Quantum Institute


JQI Fellow Alicia Kollár Awarded Sloan Research Fellowship

Award is given to early career researchers by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to recognize distinguished performance.

Kollár Receives NSF MRI Grant to Enhance Micro/Nanofabrication Initiatives

The MLA150 instrument supports various research projects in materials science, nanoscience, energy science, and quantum science.

Kollár Receives National Science Foundation CAREER Award

Kollár has received the award for a proposal aimed at developing a new window into the physics of particles interacting inside of materials and performing educational outreach.