Current Appointments & Affiliations
Gilhuly Family Presidential Distinguished Professor
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2021 - Present
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Pratt School of Engineering
Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2021 - Present
Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Pratt School of Engineering
Director of the Duke Quantum Center
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2024 - Present
Duke Quantum Center,
Pratt School of Engineering
Professor of Physics
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2021 - Present
Physics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Recent Publications
Floquet control of interactions and edge states in a programmable quantum simulator.
Journal Article Nature communications · October 2025 Quantum simulators based on trapped ions enable the study of spin systems and models with rich dynamical phenomena. The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model for fermions in one dimension is a canonical example that can support a topological insulator phase whe ... Full text CiteNon-equilibrium critical scaling and universality in a quantum simulator.
Journal Article Nature communications · August 2025 Universality and scaling laws are hallmarks of equilibrium phase transitions and critical phenomena. However, extending these concepts to non-equilibrium systems is an outstanding challenge. Despite recent progress in the study of dynamical phases, the uni ... Full text CiteObservation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator
Journal Article Nature Physics · March 1, 2025 Equilibrium phase transitions in many-body systems have been predicted and observed in two and three spatial dimensions but have long been thought not to exist in one-dimensional systems. It was suggested that a phase transition in one dimension can occur ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
PIF: Software-Tailored Architecture for Quantum Co-Design (STAQ II)
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Science Foundation · 2023 - 2028The Geometry and Flow of Quantum information: From Quantum Gravity to Quantum Technology
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by University of California - Berkeley · 2020 - 2027Heterogeneous Quantum Networking
ResearchCo-Principal Investigator · Awarded by Rochester Institute of Technology · 2024 - 2027View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
University of Colorado, Boulder ·
1992
Ph.D.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology ·
1987
B.Sc.