Overview
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Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Assistant Professor of Physics
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2022 - Present
Physics,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Member of the Duke Quantum Center
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2024 - Present
Duke Quantum Center,
Pratt School of Engineering
Recent Scholarly Works
Statistical localization of U(1) lattice gauge theory in a Rydberg simulator
Journal article Nature Physics · March 1, 2026 Lattice gauge theories provide a framework for describing dynamical systems ranging from nuclei to materials. When they host concatenated conservation laws, their Hilbert space can fragment into subspaces labelled by non-local quantities—a phenomenon known ... Full text CiteFinite Gaussian assistance protocols and a conic metric for extremizing spacelike vacuum entanglement
Journal article Physical Review A · January 20, 2026 Full text CiteNon-Abelian dynamics on a cube: Improving quantum compilation through qudit-based simulations
Journal article Physical Review D · October 22, 2025 Recent developments in mapping lattice gauge theories relevant to the Standard Model onto digital quantum computers identify scalable paths with well-defined quantum compilation challenges toward the continuum. As an entry point to these challenges, we add ... Full text CiteEducation
University of Washington ·
2020
Ph.D.
University of Washington ·
2016
M.S.
Ohio University ·
2015
B.S.