News

The group's research and members often appear in the media. This includes articles on our research, but also we enjoy having discussions with journalists on others' research, and in participating in outreach and increasing engagement.

If you're interested in talking to us about our work, or want someone's opinion on topics in physics -- especially quantum mechanics, quantum computing, and ultracold matter -- please contact us.

Various media coverage is collated here.

Coverage of our group's published research

• linked to on the Publications page next to the article discussed,

Press on some of our awarded grants:

• linked at the bottom of the home page after our funding acknowledgements.

Other: on workshops organized, awards won, and quoted or appeared in. Partial list:

• Unlocking Potential: Beyond Bosons and Fermions. Rice Research Review, Fall 2025.
• Kaden Hazzard on the exotic nature of paraparticles, The Knowmads Podcast. Podcast guest on episode about paraparticles and quite a bit more, 2025. (youtube, spotify, apple)
• Rice Quantum Initiative director on collaboration, cutting-edge research, Rice Natural Sciences, 2025. (profile on research and RQI)
• Google's Willow Chip: Quantum Sampling and Error correction, Fortune, 2024. (KH quoted)
• pi day, KHOU, 2024 (Houston CBS television station, KH interviewed)
• Rice Quantum Initiative film, APS TV/WebsEdge, 2024 (KH appears)
• A Bose–Einstein condensate of dipolar molecules, Physics Today, 2024. (KH quoted)
• Rice hosts International Workshop on Quantum Vacuum in Matter, Rice News, 2023. (KH mentioned)
• Rice hosts Quantum Information Processing Systems workshop, Rice CS News, 2023. (KH mentioned)
• Three from Rice elected fellows of the American Physical Society, Rice News, 2023
• Quantum state of matter made with 'dipolar' molecules for first time, New Scientist 2023 (KH quoted)
• Quantum computer can simulate infinitely many chaotic particles, New Scientist, 2022 (KH quoted)
• A Quantum Molecular Assembler, Physics, 2019 (KH quoted)
• A circuit platform made of strongly interacting microwave photons, phys.org, 2019 (KH quoted)
• Why Do Physicists Keep Finding New States of Matter?, Gizmodo, 2020 (KH quoted)
• This Wild New Supersolid Is Three States of Matter at Once, Gizmodo, 2017 (KH quoted)
• Scientists create the first supersolid, Cosmos, and related articles in several other publications, 2017 (KH quoted)