02/25/2020 Hong Qiao won the NSF QISE-NET fellowship. Congratulations!
01/30/2020 Prof. Tian Zhong receives prestigious NSF CAREER award aimed at making quantum internet a reality /news/tian-zhong-receives-prestigious-nsf-career-award
07/25/2019 We are awarded Joint Task Force Initiative QIS grant with Argonne. See UChicago News: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/uchicago-jumpstarts-collaborations-national-labs-ai-quantum
04/22/2019 We move into our brand new lab space in ERC LL2!
04/09/2019 Christina won the NSF GRFP fellowship. Congratulations!
03/29/2019 Noah won the DoD NDSEG fellowship. Congratulations!
03/20/2019 Congratulations to Christina for passing the IME PhD candidacy exam!
02/15/2019 Congratulations to Manish for passing the IME PhD candidacy exam!
11/15/2018 Zhong lab welcomes Noah Johnson (IME UChicago) to join the group!
11/1/2018 Tian's paper on optical addressing of single rare-earth ions is published in PRL.
10/15/2018 Our first dilution refrigerator is commissioned!
09/25/2018 The Argonne-Fermilab quantum network testbed funded by DOE will start construction. Zhong lab will collaborate and contribute to the next generation, all solid-state quantum entanglement network based on telecom rare-earth qubits.
08/30/2018 Zhong lab is awarded grant by NSF to develop cutting-edge technology for wafer-scale manufacturing of rare-earth qubits.
07/20/2018 Zhong lab ERC new lab is coming soon! A time-lapse video of the lab construction is provided below.
06/30/2018 Zhong lab welcomes Shobhit Gupta (Physics UChicago) to join the group!
06/26/2018 Zhong lab first summer kick-off meeting held. We warmly welcome all new members of the group!
05/17/2018 Tian gave a special symposium talk on his recent work on single rare-earth ions
05/09/2018 Tian gave an invited talk at Argonne APS 2018 meeting
01/31/2018 Tian gave an invited talk at SPIE Photonics West
12/01/2017 Zhong lab warmly welcomes Christina Wicker and Haozhi Zhang to join the group!
10/16/2017 Tian gave the IME graduate research seminar.
10/05/2017 Tian spoke at IQulSE seminar at MIT
10/02/2017 Tian gave a talk at IEEE Photonics Conference at Orlando, FL
08/31/2017 Tian's paper "Nanophotonic rare-earth quantum memory with optically controlled retrieval" is published in Science.
08/06/2017 Tian gave an invited talk at SPIE Optics + Photonics, San Diego, CA
06/08/2017 Tian gave a seminar in IQST at University of Calgary (thanks Prof. Christoph Simon, Neil Sinclair for hosting!)