Group
Kaden Hazzard
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.
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. Since July 2014, I have been faculty in the Rice University Department of Physics and Astronomy.
Professional info
Contact
- @QuantumHazzard
- Profile
- Office
- 306 Brockman Hall
- Phone
- (607) 220-8211
Current group
Postdoc
- Vaibhav Sharma
Graduate students
- Sohail Dasgupta
- Haotian Wei
- Jonathan Stepp
- Sayak Guha Roy
- Tony Deng
- Joseph DesRoches
Undergraduate students
- Mike Zhang (Rice)
- Hong-Ye Wang (Rice)
- Douglass Liu (Rice)
Group alumni & post-Rice trajectories
Immediate post-Rice positions, or current if known. (If you'd like me to update with new positions, email!)postdocs
Hung Pham (joint with Krishna Palem): data scientist in industyBhuvanesh Sundar: Research Engineer, Rigetti (quantum computing)
Rick Mukherjee: Professor & Director of Quantum Center, University of Tennessee-Chattanooga
graduate students
Zewen Zhang (Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, postdoc with Luming Duan)Zhiyuan Wang (Perimeter Institute Postdoctoral Fellow)
Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla (professor, Harvey Mudd)
Ian White (TAMU postdoc with Marlan Scully)
Rice undergraduates
Arielle Sanford (Technical University of Munich, research intern)Tian Xue (UIUC graduate student)
Charles Dyall (Houston medical center)
Kevin Zheng (Yale graduate student)
Chase Cartwright (Ohio University graduate student)
Matheus Barbosa (Rice graduate student)
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
Henning Schlömer (grad student, LMU Munich)
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)