Alex receives College of Science teaching award

Alex received the “College of Science Faculty Award for Outstanding Contributions to Undergraduate Teaching by an Assistant Professor.” This award was created in 1996 to recognize an assistant professor who has combined outstanding teaching with research excellence.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/purdue-department-of-physics-and-astronomy_boilerup-activity-7453512815237025792-YSEI/

U of I Quantum Circuit Conference (UIQC 2026)

The team attended the U of I Quantum Circuit Conference (UIQC 2026) hosted at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign during May 19-22, 2026.

Qihao gave a contributed talk on our recent programmable superradiance experiments.

Alex is a member of the organizing committee for UIQC 2026.

Conference link: https://iquist.illinois.edu/events/uiqc
UIQC 2026 focuses on recent developments in the field of superconducting quantum circuits. The program highlights fundamental questions and emerging trends across a few focus areas.


Qihao talks at MCAW 2025

The group travels to UIUC to attend the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop (MCAW 2025) on Nov 7-8, 2025. Qihao gives a contributed talk on our recent superradiance experiments.

We are at APS Global Summit 2025

Quantum Open House 2024

New coverage and photo gallery

Alex organizes the third iteration of the annual outreach event, and gives the opening talk. Hebah, Qihao, and Santi led the lab tours!

Tunneling spectroscopy paper on arXiv!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.07997

Tunneling Spectroscopy in Superconducting Circuit Lattices
Botao Du, Qihao Guo, Santiago López, Ruichao Ma

We demonstrate tunneling spectroscopy of synthetic quantum matter in superconducting circuit lattices. We measure site-resolved excitation spectra by coupling the lattice to engineered driven-dissipative particle baths that serve as local tunneling probes. Using incoherent particle source and drain, we independently extract quasi-particle and quasi-hole spectra and reconstruct the spatial structure of collective excitations. We perform spectroscopy of a strongly interacting Bose-Hubbard lattice at different densities, observing changes in energy gaps across the superfluid to Mott-insulator transition and the effects of three-body interactions. Our results provide a new toolset for characterizing many-body states in analog quantum simulators.

Group attends MCAW 2024

The group travels to the Midwest Cold Atom Workshop 2024, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and celebrates Wendy’s birthday!