We are relocating to Duke University in Fall 2024. Our lab will be located at the Duke Quantum Center. We are looking for talented and motivated students to join us at Duke.
Controlling single atoms
in scalable and programmable arrays
Loh Lab is moving to Duke in Fall 2024!
Our lab is interested in using arrays of tweezer-trapped atoms as quantum "lego" blocks to simulate advanced materials and to process quantum information.
Understanding our research focus
Quantum simulation is the modeling of nature with quantum building blocks like atoms and molecules.
Quantum simulation allows us to study interesting quantum materials while working towards building powerful computers.
Arrays of optical tweezers provide a powerful platform for controlling individual quantum building blocks in a scalable manner.
Atoms, molecules, lasers, microwaves, electric fields, magnetic fields, some epic code, and a huge dose of fun!
Our research highlights
Our team develops new methods to scale up and program atom arrays, a promising platform for quantum computation and simulation. Our latest results include: (1) demonstrating a new parallel atom-rearrangement algorithm, with which we achieved large defect-free arrays with hundreds of singly-trapped atoms in arbitrary geometries; (2) realizing Rydberg-blockade entanglement beyond the blockade radius for atom arrays with improved qubit connectivity.
Meet the team
News Updates
We are moving to Duke!
Mar 2024
Put a quantum system in a far-from-equilibrium state, and it should either thermalize or retain memory of its initial state – at least that’s what scientists have always thought. Can thermalization and memory occur simultaneously? Read our arXiv paper to find out what surprises we have uncovered with our Rydberg-atom quantum simulator!
Feb 2024
Congratulations to Weikun for a fantastic PhD thesis defense! Weikun, best wishes for your postdoctoral fellowship at MPQ, and beyond!
Nov 2023
Happy to be featured in the “Women of Quantum Technology” series in Inside Quantum Technology!
Nov 2023
Our work on “Floquet-tailored Rydberg interactions” is published in Nature Communications and featured as a CQT highlight! Congratulations to Luheng, Michael, and Mujahid for their hard work!
Sep 2023
Our lab takes part in the Institute of Physics Singapore annual meeting. Luheng gives an invited talk on Floquet frequency modulation with Rydberg atoms and Weikun gives a poster on Rb tweezer arrays.
Aug 2023
Our collaborative paper with the group of Ching Hua Lee, on probing non-unitary phase transitions with Floquet-engineered Rydberg atom arrays, is published in Physical Review Letters! Congrats to Mujahid and all the co-authors!
Jul 2023
Congratulations to Mujahid on his successful PhD thesis defense. What an exciting journey it has been for the past 5 years!
Jun 2023
Huanqian gives an invited talk at the ICMAT conference at the end of this month, while Weikun gives a poster at ICOLS in Colorado the same week.
Jun 2023
Honored to have Deputy Prime Minister Heng and Senior Minister Teo visit our lab. Happy to show them the atom-array setups that are the culmination of several years of hard work from my team, with valuable help from the CQT support staff.
Jun 2023
Our Floquet frequency modulation manuscript is up on the arXiv! We report using Floquet frequency modulation to advance atom arrays on three fronts: 1. achieve Rydberg-blockade entanglement beyond the traditional blockade radius; 2. extend the coherence of entangled states; 3. realize new ways to initialize strongly-interacting states.
Jun 2023
Time for our group to travel to the US for conferences again! At the annual APS DAMOP meeting, Michael and Fan give talks and posters, while Huanqian delivers an invited talk. Luheng presents at the Gordon Research Conference (Atomic Physics). Thanks to everyone in the community for their positive comments and helpful feedback!
Mar 2023
Our work on achieving large (225-atom) defect-free arrays with a high success probability is now published in Physical Review Applied and featured in the APS Physics magazine! Very satisfying to see the Singapore lion head symbol appear in a Physical Review journal. Congrats to Weikun, Wen Jun, An, Billy, Raj, and Vanessa for their hard work! See also these highlights of Wen Jun and of our work on NUS news, Phys.org, and the CQT homepage.
Feb 2023
Our lab is featured in a video that is sponsored by the Singapore Quantum Engineering Programme office and will be screened on the American Physical Society (APS) TV during March Meeting. (1:00) See Luheng, An, Weikun, and I checking out our homemade laser stabilization cavity housed in a vacuum chamber. Thanks to Alex, Jenny, and Xin Yi for spotlighting our research!
Jan 2023
Huanqian delivers several invited talks this month: at the Majulab seminar (thanks to Gabriel, Alexia, Nelly, and Christian), at the Workshop on Quantum Information Science with Cold Atoms (thanks to Jae-yoon, Jongchul, Eunmi, Jee Woo, and Gil Young), and at the Global Young Scientists Summit organized by NRF Singapore.