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Awschalom Group

Benjamin Soloway

  • Graduate Student Alumni; IBM

  • Contact: bensoloway@uchicago.edu
  • Office Location:
    Eckhardt Research Center LL225
    5640 South Ellis Avenue
    Chicago, IL 60637

Pronouns: he/him

Optimizing spin qubit coherence through materials codesign

V. Somjit, G. Grant, S. Chattaraj, S. Guha, D. D. Awschalom, G. Galli, J. Zhang, F. J. Heremans. Optimizing spin qubit coherence through materials codesign. 2026. 10.1557/s43577-026-01069-z

Heterogeneously Integrated Diamond-on-Lithium Niobate Quantum Photonic Platform

S. W. Ding, C. Jin, Z. Li, N. Achuthan, K. Kuruma, X. Guo, B. Grinkemeyer, D. D. Awschalom, N. Delegan, F. J. Heremans, A. A. High, M. Loncar. Heterogeneously Integrated Diamond-on-Lithium Niobate Quantum Photonic Platform. 2026. 10.48550/arXiv.2603.08609

A Surface-Scaffolded Molecular Qubit

T. Zheng, M. I. B. Utama, X. Gao, M. Kar, X. Yu, S. Kang, H. Cai, T. Ruan, D. Ovetsky, U. Zvi, G. Lao, Y. Wang, O. Raz, S. Chitransh, G. T. Smith, L. R. Weiss, M. H. Czyz, S. Yang, A. J. Fairhall, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, D. D. Awschalom, A. P. Alivisatos, R. H. Goldsmith, G. C. Schatz, M. C. Hersam, P. C. Maurer. A Surface-Scaffolded Molecular Qubit. 2026. 10.48550/arXiv.2601.19976

Spin decoherence dynamics of Er3+ in CeO2 film

S. K. Seth, J. Nagura, V. Somjit, A. Bapat, X. Li, G. D. Grant, I. Masiulionis, X. Han, F. J. Heremans, G. Galli, D. D. Awschalom, S. Guha, J. Zhang. Spin decoherence dynamics of Er3+ in CeO2 film. 2025. Physical Review Letters. 10.1103/17xy-gns1

Valley splitting correlations across a silicon quantum well containing germanium

J. C. Marcks, E. Eagen, E. C. Brann, M. P. Losert, T. Oh, J. Reily, C. S. Wang, D. Keith, F. A. Mohiyaddin, F. Luthi, M. J. Curry, J. Zhang, F. J. Heremans, M. Friesen, M. A. Eriksson. Valley Splitting Correlations Across a Silicon Quantum Well. 2025. Nature Communications. 10.1038/s41467-025-67325-z

Challenges and opportunities for quantum information hardware

D. D. Awschalom, H. Bernien, R. Hanson, W. D. Oliver, J. Vučković. Challenges and opportunities for quantum information hardware. 2025. Science. 10.1126/science.adz8659

High-throughput spin-bath characterization of spin defects in semiconductors

A. N. Poteshman, M. Onizhuk, C. Egerstrom, D. P. Mark, D. D. Awschalom, F. J. Heremans, G. Galli. High-throughput spin-bath characterization of spin defects in semiconductors. 2025. Physical Review Applied. 10.1103/p57x-8kk7

Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO4 thin films

I. Masiulionis, B. Y.X. Lin, S. Kumar Seth, G. D. Grant, W. L. Lindquist, S. Kim, J. Kim, A. Yanguas-Gil, J. W. Elam, J. Zhang, J. M. LeBeau, D. D. Awschalom, S. Guha. Microstructural and preliminary optical and microwave characterization of erbium doped CaMoO4 thin films. 2025. APL Materials. 10.1063/5.0288887

A high-resolution molecular spin-photon interface at telecommunication wavelengths

L. R. Weiss, G. T. Smith, R. A. Murphy, B. Golesorkhi, J. A. Méndez Méndez, P. Patel, J. Niklas, O. G. Poluektov, J. R. Long, D. D. Awschalom. A high-resolution molecular spin-photon interface at telecommunication wavelengths. 2025. Science. 10.1126/science.ady8677

A fluorescent-protein spin qubit

J.S. Feder, B. S. Soloway, S. Verma, Z. Z. Geng, S. Wang, B. Kifle, E. G. Riendeau, Y. Tsaturyan, L. R. Weiss, M. Xie, J. Huang, A. Esser-Kahn, L. Gagliardi, D. D. Awschalom, P. C. Maurer. A fluorescent-protein spin qubit. 2025. Nature. 10.1038/s41586-025-09417-w

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