Open positions

There are often opportunities for postdocs, graduate students, and undergraduates to join the group. Our work centers around the theory of ultracold AMO systems, emergent quantum many-body behavior, and quantum information and computation. This ranges from strongly correlated phases of matter, to novel nonequilibrium dynamics, to utilizing correlations for precision measurements and quantum computation, and more.

We collaborate with Rice's AMO experimental groups -- Randy Hulet, Tom Killian, Barry Dunning, Gyu-Boong Jo, and Guido Pagano -- as well as with the other AMO and condensed matter theorists, others at Rice, especially in the Rice Quantum Initiative, and with collaborators elsewhere. Our research interests and publications pages have more information.

I welcome applications from potential postdocs with diverse physics backgrounds. For example, whether your expertise is numerical (including, for example, DMRG, MPS, or QMC methods) or analytic, and whether your background is AMO, quantum optics, quantum information, or condensed matter, there are possibilities for exciting work. Postdocs with external funding and visitors are also welcome. We can help you develop proposals for external funding.

For undergraduate students, projects are possible at all levels -- from beginners to those writing a senior thesis. It is helpful to have undergraduate quantum or statistical physics and some basic knowledge with programming, for example in Mathematica, C++, Python, or Matlab, but exceptions are possible.

If you're interested in these opportunities, would like to apply, or have questions of any sort, please email me at kaden.hazzard@gmail.com.