Category Archives: Academic Life

Hanyu and collaborators received $2.5M support from the Keck foundation and Rice University to search for exotic quantum states formed by all the spins in a visible piece of material. The phenomenon, called “quantum squeezing”, describes the entanglement of spins that allows their quantum fluctuation to cancel each other, resulting in higher precision in certain measurements than what is expected from Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Usually in materials with many atoms, such entanglement should diminish very quickly, but theoretical predictions and experimental results indicating the strong interaction among spins may actually stabilize the quantum state and automatically reestablish the squeezing at very low temperatures. The Rice team plans to push the limit of their tools in this unexplored territory. More details of the project can be found in the news report here.

Nice job Xiaotong, in presenting your excellent research vision and plan in quantum optics. Welcome to the prestigious and multidisciplinary research community!

Figure courtesy of Rice Academy

Excellent shot Lissa, with your beautifully articulated research agenda in light-driven robots! We know you deserve it! Use it well to serve our local community! Read more at Rice News.

Figure courtesy of National Science Foundation

Congratulations to Yuxuan, Xiangyi and Liu for obtaining the master’s degree! We witnessed your growth in science, skills and maturity in the past year. Wish you all a bright future in career and life!

It is vitally important to connect nano research to our great Houston community! At East Bernard High School where Lissa graduate, the colorful quantum dots and the exciting research experience about light-matter interaction encourage students to be enthusiastic about STEM. Everyone is EQUAL in science!