Sankar Das Sarma

Fellow

Richard E. Prange Chair in Physics

Distinguished Professor

First Name:

Sankar

Last Name:

Das Sarma

Phone:

(301) 405-6145

UMD Email:

dassarma@umd.edu

UMD Office:

NIST Office:

Home Institution:

United States

CMTC Website

Research Topics:

Condensed Matter Theory

GROUP MEMBERS

Euyheon Hwang

Research Scientist

Yi-Hua Lai

Graduate Student

Ruixing Zhang

Postdoctoral Fellow

GROUP ALUMNI

David Abergel

Postdoctoral Researcher

Edwin Barnes

Postdoctoral Researcher

Ryan Barnett

Postdoctoral Fellow

Dong-Ling Deng

Postdoctoral Fellow

Sriram Ganeshan

Postdoctoral Researcher

Pallab Goswami

Postdoc

Hoi-Yin Hui

Graduate Student

Thomas Iadecola

Postdoctoral Fellow

Jason Kestner

Postdoctoral Researcher

Qiuzi Li

Graduate Student

Xiaopeng Li

Postdoctoral Fellow

Chien-Hung Lin

Graduate Student

Xiongjun Liu

Postdoctoral Researcher

Alejandro Lobos

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stefan Natu

Postdoctoral Fellow

Stephen Powell

Postdoctoral Researcher

Rajdeep Sensarma

Postdoctoral Researcher

FNU Setiawan

Shuo Yang

Postdoctoral Researcher

Vladimir Zyuzin

Postdoctoral Researcher

People Profiles

Aftaab Dewan

Aftaab Dewan, a graduate fellow at JQI, received undergraduate degrees in physics and mathematics at Amherst College. There, he was a recipient of the Bassett Prize and the Stifler Prize, and conducted research on studying dynamics of Bose-Einstein Condensates. His senior thesis examined how neutrinos scatter off of materials such as lead or glass. He now works with Steve Rolston to understand the transport, coherence, and delocalization properties of BECs. Analyzing the interactions within and between regions of a BEC adds to the ultimate goal of building a quantum simulator.
Paul Hess

Paul Hess is a postdoctoral fellow at JQI. He received his undergraduate degree in astrophysics at Williams College and went on to get his PhD in physics at Harvard University. There, he worked on precision measurement experiments that searched for the electric dipole moment of electrons bound to thorium oxide molecules. At JQI, as part of Chris Monroe’s trapped ion team, his work revolves around examining complex many body systems. He has studied many-body localization and is currently working on an experiment that would simulate quantum solids with an increased number of trapped ions.
Stephen Powell

Stephen Powell, a former JQI postdoctoral fellow at CMTC, now works at the Nordic Institute of Theoretical Physics or Nordita in Stockholm, Sweden. His research in the group of Sankar Das Sarma centered around strongly correlated systems with a specific focus on frustrated magnetism and ultracold gases. At Nordita, he will continue this line of research, which is at the meeting point of condensed matter and atomic physics. In talking of his postdoctoral experience he says, “Something I've particularly enjoyed about being at JQI is having close contact with various experimental groups here.”
Alexander Craddock

Alexander Craddock is a PhD student at JQI who earned a Bachelor and Master degree in physics at University College London. As an undergraduate student, he studied whether a commercial device from D-Wave behaved like a quantum computer. After doing master’s work in high-energy physics, his focus shifted back to quantum information. Now he works in Steve Rolston and Trey Porto’s interacting photons group which hopes to one day develop a quantum repeater, a device to allow long distance quantum communication, using Rydberg atoms.
Michael Foss-Feig

Michael Foss-Feig is a JQI postdoctoral scientist. As an undergraduate at Amherst College, Michael performed some experimental work in solid-state physics with professor Jonathan Friedman. He, then, went to University of Colorado where he received a physics PhD in October 2012. His thesis, prepared under the supervision of Ana Maria Rey, was entitled “Quantum simulation of many-body physics with neutral atoms, molecules and ions.” This work earned him the DAMOP Thesis Prize in June 2013. Now a NRC postdoctoral fellow at NIST working under Charles Clark, Michael’s interests are centered around many-body physics with ultracold atomic, molecular, and optical systems. He also studies long-range interacting systems, such as trapped ions, ultracold dipolar molecules, and Rydberg atoms.
James R. Williams

James R. Williams is a JQI Fellow and assistant professor of physics, and his chief area of research is experimental condensed matter physics. Specifically, he specializes in understanding why certain one and two-dimensional materials (e.g. topological insulators, graphene) depart from normal conductivity provided by free electrons. Dr. Williams received his bachelors in engineering physics at Santa Clara University. He then went on to get his MS and PhD from Harvard University in 2009 on the subject of grapheme, while studying under Charles M. Marcus. He was then a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford before coming to Maryland.

Sankar Das Sarma

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Aftaab Dewan

Paul Hess

Stephen Powell

Alexander Craddock

Michael Foss-Feig

James R. Williams

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