Group Leader
I theoretically study the behavior of ultracold atomic systems. I am
interested in
"emergent" properties of
many-body systems, and spend most of my time thinking about this phenomenon
in ultracold gases. The vision is that fundamental advances in controlling, measuring, and understanding these many-body
quantum systems will impact our knowledge of other fields through "quantum simulation", broadly construed, and enable applications in quantum metrology,
precision measurement, and quantum computation.
More about what I am thinking about - and
why - can be
found on this webpage in the research interests and publications pages.
I grew up in Ohio and attended the Ohio State University for my bachelor's
degree. I received my PhD from Cornell University, working with
Erich Mueller
in 2010. I spent 2010-14 as a
postdoc at
JILA working with
Ana Maria Rey
and collaborating with lots of other JILAns. Since July 2014, I have been faculty in the
Rice University
department of physics and astronomy.
Professional info
Full CV
Publications
Presentations
Google Scholar profile
Contact
Twitter:
@QuantumHazzard
LinkedIn:
Profile
Office: 306
Brockman Hall
Phone: (607) 220-8211
Email:
kaden.hazzard@gmail.com
Group:
Graduate students:
Zewen Zhang
Sohail Dasgupta
Haotian Wei
Jonathan Stepp
Undergraduate students:
Tian Xue (Rice)
Charles Dyall (Rice)
Hong-Ye Wang (Rice)
Visitor:
Henning Schloemer (graduate student with Prof. Fabian Grusdt, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; October 2022 and February-April, 2023)
Group alumni & post-Rice trajectories
Immediate post-Rice positions. (If you'd like me to update with new positions, email!)
postdocs
Hung Pham: data scientist in industy
Bhuvanesh Sundar: IQOQI, postdoc with P. Zoller → JILA, postdoc with A. M. Rey
Rick Mukherjee: Harvard → IISER Bopal → Imperial College London, postdoc w/ F. Mintert → Hamburg University, Senior Postdoc with P. Schmelcher
graduate students
Zhiyuan Wang (LMU, Muenich postdoc with Ignacio Cirac)
Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla(UC Davis/San Jose State joint postdoc with Richard Scalettar and Ehsan Khatami)
Ian White (TAMU postdoc with Marlan Scully)
Rice undergraduates
Kevin Zheng (Yale graduate student)
Chase Cartwright (Ohio University graduate student)
Matheus Barbosa
Johann Gan (software engineer)
Kelly Yao (Caltech grad student)
Matt Thibodeau (UIUC grad student)
Tony Mirasola (UIUC grad student)
Ridge Liu (Yale grad student)
Erin Ewart (Indiana grad student)
long-term (> 1 month) visitors: postdoc, grad, and undergrad
Miroslav Hopjan (postdoc, Goettingen University)
Wen Yu Kon (National University of Singapore, then NUS grad student)
Putian Li (Beijing undergrad)
Ming Yuan (USTC undergrad, then Chicago grad student)
Yuxin Wang (USTC undergrad, then Northwestern grad student)
Rafael Poliseli-Teles (U. of Sao Paolo, then self-employed software developer)
Yanhua Hou (Texas Medical Center)
Jacob Hollingsworth (Ursinus College, then UC Riverside grad student)
high school students
Kenneth Wang (Stanford undergrad)
Dhruva Kharkada (UT Austin undergrad)