Research Opportunities

The Gong Group

The research in Dr. Gong's group covers broadly 2D magnetic, electronic and photonic materials, heterostructures and devices. A postdoc and multiple Ph.D. student positions are available. For both postdoc and Ph.D. candidates, please email Dr. Gong (gongc@umd.edu). Visiting scholars and undergraduate researchers are welcome as well.

The Linke Lab

The Linke Lab is an experimental group working with trapped atomic ions on different applications in quantum physics. These include quantum information processing, in particular the implementation of quantum algorithms and enhancing the power of quantum computers with machine learning techniques, the simulation of interesting quantum phenomena, and quantum networking with entangled near-telecom ion-photons.

If you are interested in working with the Linke Lab as a post-doc, graduate student or for an undergraduate project, please get in touch.

The Kollár Group

The field of circuit QED has emerged as a rich platform for both quantum computation and quantum simulation. Lattices of coplanar waveguide (CPW) resonators realize artificial photonic materials in the tight-binding limit. Combined with strong qubit-photon interactions, these systems can be used to study dynamical phase transitions, many-body phenomena, and spin models in driven-dissipative systems. These waveguide cavities are uniquely deformable and can produce lattices and networks which cannot readily be obtained in other systems, including periodic lattices in a hyperbolic space of constant negative curvature, and the one-dimensional nature of CPW resonators leads to degenerate flat bands. In the Kollár lab, they build experimental implementations of these systems using superconducting circuits.

Postdoc and graduate student positions available!