Avik Dutt

Thanks to @NSF and @northropgrumman for supporting this research.

This scheme should be realizable in current state-of-the-art nanophotonic platforms, as established by our theory and numerical simulations.

Here we show how synthetic dimensions can be extended to non-square lattice geometries, including hexagonal and Haldane-like lattices, which have been a cornerstone for hosting exotic phases of light and matter, e.g. anomalous quantum Hall effects.

Our recent paper by @smrthsrrm and Sashank @twomodesqueezed was highlighted as an Editor's Pick by Optical Materials Express -- a part of the special issue on "Floquet engineered materials and systems"! opg.optica.org/ome/fulltext.c… @OpticaPubsGroup @UMDResearch @ClarkSchool @umdme

Pleased to share our paper in the @ACSPhotonics special issue “Rising Stars in Photonics” by Nate @Nateblah0! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… In short, we see ~100X improvement in accuracy for nm-scale perturbations in multimode silicon nanophotonics! @umdme @UMD_IPST @UMDResearch @UMDBioChemPhys @NSF!

@AlbanSauret @UofMaryland @umdme @ClarkSchool Welcome to UMD, Alban! Excited to have you as a colleague in the department, and looking forward to your continued excellent work.

I am thrilled to share that starting in January 2025, I’ll be joining the @UofMaryland as an Associate Professor and Clark Faculty Fellow in the Department of Mechanical Engineering @umdme, relocating our research group from UCSB to College Park! @ClarkSchool

Reposting as the best consideration date (Nov 1) approaches: our group at @UofMaryland has an opening for a postdoctoral fellow at the intersection of #Math and #Quantum Information Science. Please help spread the word! mathjobs.org/jobs/list/25094 mathquantum.umd.edu

@Sangha26Dutta @FaisalHamman @pas4n @BarprodaH Congratulations!

Humbled to receive the George Corcoran Memorial Award for educational contributions in ECE. Thanks to all students who took my courses and all the amazing TA’s I have had @FaisalHamman @pas4n @BarprodaH Rustu Sahan

New work, cool stuff nature.com/articles/s4156…

Feynman is right. The goal of physics isn't to find theories that are philosophically or psychologically pleasing to humans. The goal is to find theories that describe nature as accurately as possible

Our FloQuET lab has been awarded the @NSF CAREER. Stay tuned for exciting results on #nanophotonic synthetic dimensions for #quantum simulation & sensing by students supported on this grant! Popular summary: enme.umd.edu/news/story/dut… Technical details: nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

This is so cool!

@AnilZenginoglu @VergaraLautaro @the_happyproton I agree. I'm in disagreement with the usual definition of quantum being things on the microscopic scale. The size of a *single* photon can be macroscopic, e.g. a photon in a collimated cm-wide Gaussian beam. Pauli's exclusion pushes it to neutron-star scales like you mentioned.

No definition is perfect, but I think the emphasis on environmental coupling is more helpful to students. More thoughts on this below. Comments are welcome, especially @VergaraLautaro, @the_happyproton, @DuttAvik anilzen.github.io/post/2024/quan…

More thoughts on defining QM: QM is often defined as the physics of the very small. But this is wrong. Macroscopic quantum behavior is observed in large systems like superconductors, superfluids, and even black holes. There’s no limit to the scale for quantum behavior.

@suhas_prameela @UUtah Congratulations Suhas! Wish you the best, and excited to see the cool work that will come out of your new group!

I am excited to share that I have joined the University of Utah (@UUtah) as a TT assistant professor in the Materials Science & Eng. dept! Grateful for my advisors, collaborators, mentors, friends and family for their steadfast support! Hiring PhD students, please DM/email me.

"We discuss [...approaches towards...] realizing the major goals of integrated nonlinear photonics such as broadband frequency conversion, frequency-comb generation, quantum light sources and nonlinear optical quantum logic gates."

Our review on Nonlinear and Quantum Photonics based on high-confinement platforms is out in @NatRevMater, with @mohanty_aseema @gaetalab @Michallipson. Hope this is useful both to early-career scientists and experienced researchers! Thanks @Giulia_Pacc nature.com/articles/s4157…

Congratulations, Antoine, on the publication of the final paper from your PhD!

Committee members include @greg_moille @polyquantique @Burghoff @PiccardoM @KaiWang2011, yours truly, and others beyond twitter.

Abstracts for @SPIEtweets @PhotonicsWest and #QuantumWest due tmr, July 17! Please consider submitting your latest work, especially to Laser Resonators, Microresonators, and Beam Control section, Chairs include @ProfArmani: #_=_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">spie.org/PWL/conference…