Distinguished and Regents’ Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Director, Center for Quantum Information and Control
The University of New Mexico
Issued U.S. Patent (UNM-Affiliated)
- 9,934,469, Method and Apparatus for Quantum Information Processing Using Entangled Neutral- Atom Qubits, issued April 3, 2018
Pending U.S. Patent Application (UNM-Affiliated)
- Fault tolerant quantum computation in spin systems using cat codes
Research areas include:
- Quantum information science
- Atomic, molecular, and optical physics
- Quantum optics
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