NON-PREFERRED (astronomy pivot, kept for review). Hewitt builds and operates low-frequency radio interferometers (HERA, MWA) to detect the redshifted 21-cm signal from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization; the sensors are large radio antenna arrays rather than quantum sensors, so this is a borderline astro-instrumentation inclusion.
Hibberd holds an EPSRC Ernest Rutherford Fellowship at Manchester's PSI. Research directions: (1) Ultrafast THz spectroscopy of magnetic materials — probing spin dynamics, magnon modes, and phase transitions in correlated magnetic materials with sub-ps time resolution using intense THz pulses; (2) THz-driven spintronics — using THz electric and magnetic fields to switch magnetization and induce spin currents; (3) THz generation from spintronic heterostructures — using ultrafast spin-charge conversion as a broadband THz emitter for materials characterization; (4) Quantum magnonics — studying collective spin excitations (magnons) as quantum sensors of materials order parameters. Bridges ultrafast optics and quantum sensing of magnetic phases.
Explores boundary between condensed-matter physics and quantum sensing using superconductor-semiconductor circuits. Directions: (1) gate-tunable superconductor-semiconductor parametric amplifier for quantum-limited readout (PRA 2023); (2) room-temperature capacitive strong coupling to mechanical motion for electromechanical sensing (Nano Letters 2025); (3) quantum criticality in Josephson junction arrays; (4) synthetic Hamiltonians in hybrid SC-semi devices probing hidden material behavior. IST Austria → Microsoft → JILA → UChicago Nov 2023.
Studies optical quantum science in solid-state systems with emphasis on photonic integration. Directions: (1) photonic integration of NV-center spin qubits in diamond nanophotonic circuits for scalable quantum sensing arrays; (2) 2D semiconductor (TMD) nanophotonic devices exploiting valley and spin-valley degrees of freedom; (3) engineering light-matter interactions for quantum information and sensing in nanoscale optical cavities. Key goal: scalable on-chip quantum sensing platforms.
Hilico develops high-resolution laser and two-photon spectroscopy of trapped, sympathetically-cooled molecular hydrogen ions (H2+, HD+) to test molecular QED and extract fundamental constants (proton/electron mass ratio), part of LKB's broader precision-metrology and fundamental-interaction-testing programme.
Hill builds and validates lifespan-compliant multi-channel OPM-MEG systems (helmet design, sensor geometry/gain calibration) and cross-site comparisons of commercial OPM arrays. The work complements NV-center diamond ensemble quantum sensing (DEER, NMR, T1 relaxometry) at pT/sqrt(Hz) sensitivity by pursuing the same field-sensing goals in a different physical platform.
Hobson co-leads the Ultracold Strontium Laboratory within the AION atom-interferometer collaboration, developing squeezed strontium atomic ensembles and quantum-non-demolition measurement techniques to beat the standard quantum limit in long-baseline atom-interferometric searches for dark matter and gravitational waves, alongside a parallel programme on ultra-precise, shock-resistant optical clocks. Actively recruiting postdocs as the group builds out its cold-atom laboratories.
Hoffman develops and applies electron-nuclear double resonance (ENDOR) spectroscopy -- a combination of EPR and NMR -- to resolve individual hyperfine-coupled nuclei at metalloenzyme active sites with atomic-scale precision, work that has revealed mechanisms of nitrogenase nitrogen fixation, radical-SAM enzyme catalysis, and copper/methane monooxygenase chemistry. The technique pushes magnetic-resonance spectroscopic resolution well past what conventional EPR can resolve, in a manner methodologically continuous with molecular spin-qubit sensing.
Hogan proposed that the holographic principle implies a fundamental, universal quantum uncertainty ('holographic noise') in the transverse position of spacetime at the Planck scale, and co-led the Fermilab Holometer -- twin co-located, power-recycled Michelson interferometers -- to search for it, ruling out the simplest models to high significance. This is a distinct fundamental-light-physics/quantum-sensing approach from squeezed-light-enhanced GW interferometers (e.g., LIGO), using precision laser interferometry to probe quantum properties of spacetime itself rather than squeezing quantum noise in a detector.
Hogan leads the Stanford effort on MAGIS-100, a 100-meter atom-interferometric gradiometer at Fermilab designed to search for mid-band gravitational waves and ultralight dark matter using laser-cooled strontium atoms in free fall. His group also develops compact cold-atom gravimeters and gradiometers and explores large-momentum-transfer atom optics to push interferometer sensitivity toward tests of general relativity.