A new experiment provides a unique platform for creating and controlling highly excited states of quantum matter by combining topological pumping of 1D dysprosium gases and cavity photon-mediated interactions. 

Learn More

We create and study quantum spin glasses—and the quantum neural networks they enable—using photon-mediated interactions provided by our new technique, confocal cavity QED.

Learn More

We are building a new experiment for driving quantum materials into new phases via cavity photons. The CavMat project aims to enhance critical temperatures of correlated phases in a continuous manner.

Learn More

Home

By supadmin, 30 May, 2013

About the lab

LevLab is a joint AMO & CM experimental group that explores the question:  Can new classes of states and phases of quantum matter be created far away from equilibrium, and if so, what do we learn?  We use our new technique, confocal cavity QED, to both engineer out-of-equilibrium quantum gases and 2D materials and to image and control their new properties.  

Specifically, we aim to:

  • Create and control new forms of highly excited quantum matter using cavity photons coupled to 1D gases of the most magnetic atom, dysprosium;
  • `Wire together' nodes of atomic spins with photons to create novel spin glasses and the quantum neural networks they realize;
  • Use our novel `CavMat' instrument to control electronic excitations of twisted 2D quantum materials with the goal to shape control their phase diagrams.

We welcome all curious experiment and theory grad students and postdocs to contact Prof. Lev

News & Events

A summer STEM academic bootcamp for veterans helps pave a
We observe a novel quantum many-body phenominon in quench
We have created the first spin glass made of atoms and
Our paper has appeared in Nature regarding the creation of 
New theory paper in PRX explores the relationship between
LevLab has created a quantum Archimedes' screw. See paper
Published in Phys. Rev X. New work on thermalization in
We made a spinor polariton condensate.  Published in PRL.

Contact Us

Administrative assistance:   
Nyein Su Mon   
650-725-4942  
nyeinmon@stanford.edu

Spilker Building, Room 335   
348 Via Pueblo Mall   
Stanford University   
Stanford, CA 94305-4088  Parking directions

Mail letters for Prof. Lev to:   
Ginzton Laboratory