The group in Spring 2026
Highlights
| September 2026 Welcome back to Sam Karlson, who's starting his Ph.D. |  | |||
| August 2026 Congratulations to Abtin for defending his thesis! Dr. Ameri will continue his work on quantum algorithms at IBM |  | |||
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| May 2026 Trevor's first visit to the clean room with Alex! |  | |||
| May 2026 Congrats to Dr. Boning Li for successfully defending his PhD thesis! Boning is off to the west coast to join ASML developing computational lithography tools. |  | |||
| May 2026 Congratulations to Andrew for defending his PhD thesis! Luckily, Andrew is staying local and will be joining QuEra Computing to help develop a neutral atom quantum computer. |  | |||
| May 2026 Congratulations to Garret for "defending" his master thesis! Good luck for your Ph.D. at Princeton! |  | |||
| April 2026 Bo Xing and Mikel submitted a new work discussing the numerical optimization of Shortcuts to Adiabaticity (STA)! |  | |||
| March 2026 Andrew and Alex join the Mighty Atomic Strike to defeat the Superconducting Lightning at the annual APS hockey game. Go atoms! |  | |||
| March 2026 Alex presents his new hydrogen defect results at APS Global Physics Summit, Denver |  | |||
| January 2026 The fifth QSEC Annual Research Conference (QuARC) 2026! |  | |||
| January 2026 Outdoor ice hockey at the CUA retreat! |  | January 2026 Winter fun at the CUA retreat: skiing! |  |
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| December 2025 Harvard and MIT meet the Italian Quantum Alliance in Quantum Across the Atlantic |  | |||
| December 2025 Garret and Boning submit our newest results on how to use Pentacene for robust AC vector sensing |  | |||
| December 2025 Congratulation to Bo Xing for submitting an insightful new result describing an entanglement transition that emerges from system-bath correlations. This work is a nice collaboration with Singapore and Italy! |  | |||
| December 2025 Great job Ayumi! Her work on optimal control for quantum sensing is posted on the arXiv. Congratulations to all the authors. |  | |||
| November 2025 Paola present's the group work at the Princeton Quantum Colloquium |  | |||
| November 2025 Congratulations to Boning for presenting TWO papers on molecular qubits in copper phthalocyanine and how we can couple them to NV centers in diamond. These results were made possible by our collaboration with HRI-US, thanks Avetik and Xufan! (and congrats to Yifan who's soon leaving for UPenn) |  | |||
| October 2025 Welcome to Mason Bates who joins our group from Princeton! |  | |||
| October 2025 The CUA Halloween party cannot lack some liquid nitrogen ice cream! |  | |||
| October 2025 Alex gets to name a new defect in diamond! The feat involved developing new Hamiltonian learning tools at zero magnetic field and a nice collaboration with Prof. Ju Li group and with Dr. Alex Cooper. Congrats! |  | |||
| October 2025 We share the latest results from our NMR work: Andrew identified a new percolation regime in spin diffusion induced by disorder. Congratulations to all coauthors! |  | |||
| July 2025 Congratulations to Boning and Takuya for winning a Mathworks fellowship and to Alex who's receiving a fellowship from Draper Lab. |  | |||
| September 2025 We welcome new group members! Trevor is starting his Ph.D., Jason a master working at Lincoln Lab. Lizzie and Jack join Saiaiw as UROPs. |  | |||
| January 2025 Paola is on sabbatical at Politecnico di Milano. So many great QEG news will go unreported! Stay tuned for the Fall, and keep reading our publications! |
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| June 2024 It’s with deep sorrow that we share the news that a truly shining star of our group, Minh-Thi, passed away in a tragic accident. Please consider donating to support her family. Minh-Thi’s contributions to physics (in display at the recent DAMOP conference) and to our group will be remembered forever. |  | |||
| April 2024 Congratulations to Pearl for winning an "RLE Appreciation Award"!! |  | |||
| April 2024 Andrew presents his work at the Laboratory for Physical Sciences review workshop. |  | |||
| April 2024 Congratulations to Minh-Thi for winning an NSF fellowship!! |  | |||
| April 2024 We collaborate with Prof. Ju Li to define a new neutronic quantum dot, allowing for a weakly bound state of neutron in small nanoparticles. Our paper is highlighted by MIT news. |  | |||
| March 2024 Sam delivers a nice talk on his work on quantum mixer imaging at MIT.Nano. Spiral pictures to come soon!! |  | |||
| February 2024 Our recent results from Alex U. et al. on extending electronic spin register size for improved sensing are highlighted in this MIT News article |  | |||
| January 2024 A mini QEG reunion at Photonics West 2024!! So proud to see the success of all of QEG's alumni!! |  | |||
| January 2024 QEG helps organize and attends Quarc! |  | |||
| December 2023 QEG Alum Masashi Hirose is spotlighted by the NSE department for his new startup NanoQT working on a novel cavity-qed platform quantum computation. |  | |||
| October 2023 Congratulations to Paola for being elected APS fellow in the Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics, for “groundbreaking contributions to quantum control and quantum sensing with spin systems.” |  | |||
| September 2023 We welcome Dr. Jungbae Yoon who joins us from Korea University as a visiting postdoctoral fellow. |  | |||
| September 2023 Andrew's paper on prethermal U(1) time crystals has been accepted by PRX! | | |||
| August 2023 Congratulations to Haowei: his research on creating a nuclear laser with a two-photon pumping scheme is published as a letter in PRA |  | |||
| July 2023 Congratulations to Alex U., Calvin and Alex C. for submitting a nice contribution to expanding quantum registers formed by electronic spins! |  | |||
| July 2023 Guoqing might have left the group, but the papers keep coming! Congratulations to all collaborators for their new published papers in Advanced Quantum Technologies , PRL and PNAS. |  | |||
| June 2023 We organize a workshop on quantum thermodynamics with collaborators from SISSA (Italy) supported by the MISTi program. It was a great success! (including a lab tours and a site visit to QuERA) |  | |||
| June 2023 Congratulations to Abtin: his work on finding an efficient quantum algorithm for the Vlasov equation appears in Phys. Rev. A. |  | |||
| May 2023 Congratulations to Andrew for winning the Manson Benedict Award and to Garrett Heller and Kevin Cheng ’26 for the Outstanding UROP Award. |  | |||
| May 2023 Congratulations to all graduated from QEG! |  | |||
| April 2023 Congratulations to Hao from Prof. Ju Li's group for publishing his work on ab-initio calculations of temperature shifts of spin defects Hamiltonian parameters! It has been a nice collaboration and validates our experimental finding. |  | |||
| April 2023 Congratulations to Guoqing for defending his Ph.D. thesis!! Luckily for us, Dr. Wang is not going far, he will be a postdoc at MIT in Vladan Vuletic's group. |  - P Cap.jpg) | |||
| April 2023 Pai's paper on observing emergent hydrodynamics by exploiting disorder appears in Nature Physics. See also the nice overview by Jianming Cai. It was also nice to see Pai in Princeton while presenting his results (and Andrew's) at a local workshop |  | |||
| March 2023 Congratulations to Andrew for posting his results on observing a prethermal time crystal. |  | |||
| March 2023 QEG goes to the March meeting ... in Vegas! |  | |||
| February 2023 QEG members present quantum demos at the Museum of Science for Quantamazing!! Leonardo was very happy! |  | |||
| February 2023 Congratulations to Haowei for publishing two papers (in PRX and PRL) on optical control and cooling of nuclear spins, via their quadrupolar interaction. It's a great collaboration with Prof. Ju Li's group! The results are highlighted by the MIT News. |  | |||
| February 2023 We welcome Minh-Thi and Zhiyao to the group! Minh-Thi is pursuing her Ph.D. in physics and Zhiyao is visiting us from Xi'an Jiaotong University |  | |||
| February 2023 Our recent results from Guoqing et al. on manipulating spin concentration with charge transport, characterized by an updated wide-field imaging setup, are now posted (arXiv:2302.12742 and arXiv:2302.12743)! |  | |||
| January 2023 QEG members attend the annual QuARC conference and present their work. |  | |||
| January 2023 Happy new year! To celebrate, QEG members attend the CUA retreat and QuARC conference. Congratulations to Guoqing, Alex and Santiago who were among the organizers of QuARC! And good job everyone in presenting posters. | | |||
| December 2022 We celebrate Changhao's new job with a group dinner! |  | |||
| November 2022 QEG greeted Prof. Junko Hayase who is visiting MIT from Keio University (Takuya's former group) |  | |||
| November 2022 Congratulations to Changhao who defended his Ph.D. thesis!! Dr. Li is heading to NYC to develop novel quantum algorithms. |  | |||
| October 2022 Guoqing made a Halloween pumpkin with our group logo! |  | |||
| October 2022 Congratulations to Calvin, whose work on characterizing a complex quantum environment via self-consistent noise spectroscopy appears in Physical review B. Good job Dr. Sun! |  | |||
| October 2022 We say goodbye to Dr. Sun who is going to UIUC for a postdoc with Prof. Covey. Good luck! |  | |||
| September 2022 Hao and Boning present their nice results on speeding up a distributed algorithm for machine learning exploiting quantum communication and the quantum counting algorithm. |  | |||
| September 2022 The latest results from Pai, exploiting disorder to characterize transport with single-spin resolution, are out on the arXiv. |  | |||
| September 2022 Dr. Hirose visits us from Japan! It's great to hear from Masashi that he just founded a startup in Japan, the first hardware quantum information startup in Japan, NanoQT. We also celebrate 3 "generations" of Japanese students! |  | |||
| September 2022 With the new academic year we welcome three new members to QEG: Dr. Santiago Hernández-Gómez joins us from LENS (Florence) as a postdoc. Sam Karlson from USAFA will work within our Lincoln Lab collaboration. Takuya Isogawa joins us from Keio University. Welcome! |  | |||
| August 2022 Congratulations to Guoqing for winning a Mathworks fellowship! |  | |||
| July 2022 Congratulations to Changhao for winning the 2022 Peake Prize!! Changhao's work had also recently been highlighted by the NSE department. |  | |||
| July 2022 We say goodbye to Francesca and Tema with a nice QEG dinner! |  | |||
| June 2022 Quantum sensor integrated with a quantum mixer can now sense electromagnetic fields at arbitrary frequency! See our recent work on PRX, which was also highlighted by MIT News! Congratulations to Guoqing, Yixiang and our Lincoln Lab collaborators! |  | |||
| June 2022 We welcome Tema Zulu for the Summer MSRP program! Tema worked on various projects and got to present her results with a nice poster. |  | |||
| June 2022 Congratulations to Scott and the whole Lincoln Lab-MIT team for submitting a paper reporting a record-breaking AC magnetometer that reaches picoTesla sensitivity. |  | |||
| May 2022 We celebrate the end of the classes with a BBQ! It's also great to see Akira -- who will start as an assistant professor at UMass Boston -- and Yixiang, who is working as postdoc at Harvard! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) | |||
| May 2022 Congratulations to all of this year graduates!! Calvin, Pai, Yuan and Scott: you accomplished so much, it's going to be a tough act to follow. |  | |||
| May 2022 Congratulations to Yuan for finishing up her master thesis! Good luck in your future job!! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) | |||
| May 2022 Congratulations to Scott for defending his thesis! Dr. Alsid will be a faculty at the United States Air Force Academy | -2 - qeg group.jpg) | |||
| May 2022 We submit two back-to-back papers about the variations of NV and spin defects parameters with temperature and strain. A nice collaboration with Prof. Ju Li group! |  | |||
| April 2022 Congratulations to Changhao for submitting a paper illustrating intriguing links between quantum geometry and metrology (it's also great to still collaborate with Dr. Mo!) |  | |||
| March 2022 QEG tries out some spins at the ice rink! | -2 - qeg group.jpg) | |||
| March 2022 Congratulations to Pai for successfully defending his thesis! Dr. Peng will head to Princeton very soon to work on atomic systems. |  | |||
| March 2022 Congratulations to Changhao and Mo! Our paper in collaboration with Nathan Goldman group has been published by Science. In there, we present the engineering and characterization of a tensor magnetic monopole. |  | |||
| March 2022 Welcome Francesca! Francesca Madonna is visiting us from Politecnico di Milano for a few months to work on improving our photon detection with novel SPADS, thanks to a Rocca fellowship (congrats!) |  | |||
| February 2022 A snow-spin / snow-bit to celebrate the snowstorm!! (thanks Alex!) |  | |||
| January 2022 IquISE hosts the 3rd iQuHACK Hackaton! |  | |||
| January 2022 We welcome a new group member! Alex Ungar joins us from U. Berkeley. |  | |||
| December 2021 In a new collaborative work with Italy (Sissa and LENS) we devise better controls for quantum sensor by mapping the problem to a spin-glass system. |  | |||
| December 2021 We develop a quantum sensor to detect viral RNA - yes, Covid19 as well! Congrats to Changhao and collaborators from U. Waterloo. The paper is now published in Nano Letters. See also the News story from MIT. |  | |||
| December 2021 Congratulations to Yixiang for winning the DelFavero thesis award! |  | |||
| October 2021 Congratulations to Andrew for winning a Doc Bedard Fellowship! Thanks to the MIT Center for Quantum Engineering for the support. |  | |||
| September 2021 Congratulations to Changhao and Guoqing: their paper characterizing time symmetries has been published in PRL as an editors suggestion!. See also the nice accompanying news article on the NSE website. |  | |||
| September 2021 Andrew, Changhao, and Guoqing went to ANS Atomic Retreat at the top of Mount Washington, and at the end of a winding dirt road! |  | |||
| September 2021 We welcome Andrew and Boning to the group! (also, welcome back Yuan!) |  | |||
| August 2021 Congratulations to Calvin for successfully defending his Ph.D. thesis! |  | |||
| July 2021 Congratulations to Pai Peng awarded the prestigious MathWorks PhD Fellowship AY21-22! |  | |||
| March 2021 Vector magnetic fields cannot hide anymore! A new protocol by Guoqing and Yixiang can robustly reveal AC fields vector components. See our results in arXiv. |  | |||
| March 2021 Congratulations to Guoqing for winning the best poster award at NSE 2021 Research Expo! |  | |||
| March 2021 Congrats to Guoqing, Yixiang, Calvin, Pai, and Changhao for presenting our work at the 2021 remote March meeting. |  | |||
| February 2021 We use reinforcement learning to teach spins how to best cancel out their interactions! New results posted in arXiv. |  | |||
| February 2021 Prof. Cappellaro teaches a new course on Quantum Technology and Devices |  | |||
| February 2021 Pai and Chao's paper demonstrating Floquet prethermalization in NMR system appears in Nature Physics. The companion theory paper is published in PRB. The paper is also highlighted by an accompanying News&Views piece. |  | |||
| February 2021 Guoqing's paper on high-order Mollow triplet (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in Physical Review A: congrats! |  | |||
| January 2021 Changhao's paper on quantum network routing (in collaboration with Tianyi and Yixiang ) appears in NPJ Quantum Information: congrats! |  | |||
| December 2020 Guoqing's paper on coherence protection in qubit ensembles (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in New Journal of Physics: congrats! |  | |||
| December 2020 We are happy to start a new collaboration with Danielle Braje at Lincoln Lab to improve diamond-based magnetometry |  | |||
| October 2020 Congratulation to Yixiang for remotely defending her Ph.D. thesis! Dr. Liu is headed for a postdoc in far away Harvard! Best of luck! |  | |||
| September 2020 Our work on quantum thermodynamics is highlighted in the NSE department news. Congrats to Yixiang and Akira! |  | |||
| September 2020 We welcome a new member to the Quantum Engineering Group: Abtin Ameri joined us to work on a collaborative project with Prof. Nuno Loureiro, aiming at finding quantum algorithm to solve plasma physics problems. Welcome Abtin! |  | |||
| August 2020 Mo and Changhao explore tensor monopoles in exotic gauge fields using our humble NV centers. Congrats on posting the results on the arxiv! |  | |||
| August 2020 Congratulations to Akira and Yixiang, their work on quantum thermodynamics has been published in Physics Review Letters. | | |||
| July 2020 Congratulations to Paola who has been promoted to full Professor of Nuclear Science and Engineering, and of Physics. |  | |||
| July 2020 Paola virtually attend the 2020 Munich Conference on Quantum Science and Technology |  | |||
| June 10, 2020 QEG stands against all forms of racism, racial injustice, and racially-targeted violence. On June 10, 2020, we stopped are usual activities for a day of reflection, learning and discussion. We will keep up our committment to educate ourselves and take action in our community. |  | |||
| June 2020 Congratulations to the 2020 QEG graduates! Dr. Mo Chen, Dr. David Layden and Pai Peng. |  | |||
| May 2020 Quantum Computing and QEG’s work are highlighted in the Spring 2020 edition of Spectrum. QEG is spotlighted on MIT front page. |  | |||
| May 2020 David and Louisa paper on robust QEC appears in Quantum Science and Technology |  | |||
| May 2020 Paola honored as “Committed to Caring.” |  | |||
| May 2020 Pai & Yin post a new work on the arXiv as a companion paper to our previous results on prethermalization. |  | |||
| May 2020 Congratulations to David for defending his thesis — remotely via Zoom! the added challenge did not stop him, congratulatios Dr. Layden! Good luck in joining IBM quantum! |  | |||
| April 2020 Quantum Engineering Group's contribution to advancing quantum science and technology is highlighted in the Spring issue of MIT's Spectrum |  | |||
| March 2020 Genyue paper appears in the first number of Machine Learning: Science and Technology. Congratulations! |  | |||
| March 2020 The paper by Alex and Calvin recently published in PRL is highlighted in the MIT news. They found a way to “recruit” defects that usually cause disruptions, using them to instead carry out quantum operations. |  | |||
| March 2020 The Quantum Engineering Group does NOT go the March Meeting. We are sad about the cancellation, but kudos to Akira for posting a video of his talk. See also https://virtualmarchmeeting.com/. |  | |||
| February 2020 MIT news highlights David and Mo's recent result on efficient quantum error correction, that has appeared in PRL. Congrats! |  | |||
| February 2020 Congratulations to Guoqing and Pai for passing their quals (in NSE and EECS)!! | | |||
| January 2020 Guoqing's paper on coherence protection in qubit ensembles (in collaboration with Yixiang) appears in New Journal of Physics: congrats! | | |||
| January 2020 Calvin publishes new results on how to improve entanglement detection by using novel subspace witnesses in PRA as an Editor suggestion. Congrats! |  | |||
| January 2020 A collaborative paper with the NMR group in Cordoba (Argentina) is published in PRL. Congratulations to all for explaining the dynamics of Loschmidt Echoes in many-body systems. |  | |||
| January 2020 David and Mo's paper on hardware-efficient quantum error correction appears in PRL. |  |
... Older news ...
| September 2009 Prof. Cappellaro established the Quantum Engineering Group at MIT. Clarice Aiello and Masashi Hirose are the first to join QEG. |  |
