Research Areas - (4) Distributed Quantum Sensor Networks

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Department(s)/lab(s): Electrical Engineering | Choi Lab @ Stanford
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Choi builds large-scale, individually addressable arrays of solid-state spin qubits (NV centers and related defects) and entangles ancilla nuclear/electronic spins to demonstrate high-precision, entanglement-enhanced quantum sensing, extending the ensemble NV magnetometry regime (DEER/T1 protocols at pT/√Hz) toward single- and few-spin sensors with quantum-error-corrected readout.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Kasevich Lab @ Stanford
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Kasevich is a pioneer of light-pulse atom interferometry, building cold-atom sensors of rotation, acceleration, and gravity that rival or exceed classical inertial instruments, and precision tests of general relativity and searches for dark matter and gravitational waves via large-scale atom interferometers (including MAGIS-100). His 2022 Nature paper demonstrated distributed quantum sensing with mode-entangled, spin-squeezed atomic states, extending entanglement-enhanced metrology to networks of separated sensors.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Schleier-Smith Lab @ Stanford
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Schleier-Smith's group uses optical-cavity-mediated interactions to entangle and spin-squeeze ensembles of trapped neutral atoms, generating metrologically useful entangled states for quantum-enhanced sensing, and is developing modular, networked atom-cavity systems as building blocks for distributed quantum sensor arrays and simulators.

Department(s)/lab(s): Physics | Sinclair Lab (IMAQ Lab) @ UWMadison
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Builds neutral-atom-array platforms coupled to optical cavities to explore nonlocal entanglement for modular fault-tolerant quantum computing and distributed quantum sensor networks; also works on quantum error correction and quantum foundations.