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Department Affiliations | ||||||||||||||
Websites | ||||||||||||||
Hazzard group website | ||||||||||||||
Research Areas | ||||||||||||||
Theoretical Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics. Ultracold atoms and molecules. Strongly correlated phases. Nonequilibrium dynamics. Quantum resources for metrology, communication, and computation. | ||||||||||||||
Teaching Areas | ||||||||||||||
Quantum optics, Cold atoms, and many-body systems (Phys 572, Sp 2015) | ||||||||||||||
Selected Publications | ||||||||||||||
Refereed articles | ||||||||||||||
Ultracold nonreactive molecules in an optical lattice: connecting chemistry to many-body physics Andris Doçaj, Michael L. Wall, Rick Mukherjee, and Kaden R. A. Hazzard Physical Review Letters 116, 135301 (2016) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.135301 | ||||||||||||||
Rydberg-Blockade Effects in Autler-Townes Spectra of Ultracold Strontium B. J. DeSalvo, J. A. Aman, C. Gaul, T. Pohl, S. Yoshida, J. Burgdoerfer, K. R. A. Hazzard, F. B. Dunning, and T. C. Killian Physical Review A 93, 022709 (2016) | ||||||||||||||
Synthetic-gauge-field stabilization of the chiral-spin-liquid phase Gang Chen, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Ana Maria Rey, and Michale Hermele Physical Review A 93, 061601 (2016) | ||||||||||||||
Effective many-body parameters for atoms in non-separable Gaussian optical potential Michael L. Wall, Kaden. R. A. Hazzard, and Ana Maria Rey Phys. Rev. A 92, 013610 (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.92.013610 | ||||||||||||||
Accessing Rydberg-dressed interactions using many-body Ramsey dynamics Rick Mukherjee, T. C. Killian, and K. R. A. Hazzard arXiv:1511.08856 http://arxiv.org/abs/1511.08856 | ||||||||||||||
Hong-Ou-Mandel atom interferometry in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers Adam M. Kaufman, Brian J. Lester, Collin M. Reynolds, Michael L. Wall, Michael Foss-Feig, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Ana Maria Rey, and Cindy A. Regal Science 345, 306 (2014) http://www.sciencemag.org/content/345/6194/306.abstract | ||||||||||||||
Quenching to unitarity: Quantum dynamics in a 3D Bose gas http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.89.021601 | ||||||||||||||
Suppressing the loss of ultracold molecules via the continuous quantum Zeno effect Bihui Zhu, Bryce Gadway, Michael Foss-Feig, Johannes Schachenmayer, Michael Wall, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Bo Yan, Steven A. Moses, Jacob P. Covey, Deborah S. Jin, Jun Ye, Murray Holland, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review Letters 112, 070404 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.112.070404 | ||||||||||||||
Many-body dynamics of dipolar molecules in an optical lattice Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Bryce Gadway, Michael Foss-Feig, Bo Yan, Steven A. Moses, Jacob P. Covey, Norman Y. Yao, Mikhail D. Lukin, Jun Ye, Deborah S. Jin, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review Letters 113 195302 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.113.195302 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum correlations and entanglement in far-from-equilibrium spin systems Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Mauritz van den Worm, Michael Foss-Feig, Salvatore R. Manmana, Emanuele Dalla Torre, Tilman Pfau, Michael Kastner, and Ana Maria Rey Phys. Rev. A 90, 063622 (2014) http://dx.doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063622 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism with ultracold molecules Michael L. Wall, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, and Ana Maria Rey Chapter in "From atomic to mesoscale: The Role of Quantum Coherence in Systems of Various Complexities" ed. S. Malinovskaya and I. Novikova World Scientific (2015) [Review article] http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/9613 | ||||||||||||||
Kitaev honeycomb and other exotic spin models with polar molecules Alexey V. Gorshkov, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, and Ana Maria Rey Molecular Physics 111, 1908 (2013) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00268976.2013.800604#.Ug6djJK1Gmo | ||||||||||||||
Observation of dipolar spin-exchange interactions with lattice-confined polar molecules Bo Yan, Steven A. Moses, Bryce Gadway, Jacob P. Covey, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Ana Maria Rey, Deborah S. Jin, and Jun Ye Nature 501, 521 (2013) http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v501/n7468/full/nature12483.html | ||||||||||||||
Universality class of quantum criticality in the two-dimensional Hubbard model at intermediate temperatures (t^2/U << T << t) Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Ana Maria Rey, and Richard T. Scalettar Physical Review B 87, 035110 (2013) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.035110 | ||||||||||||||
Far-from-Equilibrium Quantum Magnetism with Ultracold Polar Molecules Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Salvatore R. Manmana, Michael Foss-Feig, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review Letters 110, 075301 (2013) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.075301 | ||||||||||||||
Dynamical quantum correlations of Ising models on an arbitrary lattice and their resilience to decoherence Michael Foss-Feig, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, John J. Bollinger, Ana Maria Rey, and Charles W. Clark New J. Phys. 15, 113008 (2013) http://iopscience.iop.org/1367-2630/15/11/113008/article | ||||||||||||||
Nonequilibrium dynamics of arbitrary-range Ising models with decoherence: An exact analytic solution Michael Foss-Feig, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, John J. Bollinger, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review A 87, 042101 (2013) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.87.042101 | ||||||||||||||
Topological phases in ultracold polar-molecule quantum magnets Salvatore R. Manmana, E. M. Stoudenmire, Kaden R. A. Hazzard, Ana Maria Rey, and Alexey V. Gorshkov Physical Review B 87, 081106(R) (2013) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.87.081106 | ||||||||||||||
High-temperature properties of fermionic alkaline-earth-metal atoms in optical lattices Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Victor Gurarie, Michael Hermele, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review A 85, 041604(R) (2012) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.85.041604 | ||||||||||||||
Adiabatic Loading of One-Dimensional SU(N) Alkaline-Earth-Atom Fermions in Optical Lattices Lars Bonnes, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Salvatore R. Manmana, Ana Maria Rey, and Stefan Wessel Physical Review Letters 109, 205305 (2012) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.205305 | ||||||||||||||
Techniques to measure quantum criticality in cold atoms Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review A 84, 013604 (2011) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.013604 | ||||||||||||||
Spectroscopy of dipolar fermions in 2D pancakes and 3D lattices Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Alexey V. Gorshkov, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review A 84, 033608 (2011) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.033608 | ||||||||||||||
SU(N) magnetism in chains of ultracold alkaline earth atoms: Mott transitions and quantum correlations Salvatore R. Manmana, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Gang Chen, Adrian E. Feiguin, and Ana Maria Rey Physical Review A 84, 043601 (2011) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.84.043601 | ||||||||||||||
Local versus global equilibration near the bosonic Mott-superfluid transition Stefan S. Natu, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review Letters 106, 125301 (2011) http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v106/i12/e125301 | ||||||||||||||
Candidate theories to explain the anomalous spectroscopic signatures of atomic H in molecular H$_2$ crystals Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review B 82, 014303 (2010) http://prb.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v82/i1/e014303 | ||||||||||||||
On-site correlations in optical lattices: band mixing to coupled quantum Hall puddles Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review A 81, 031602(R) (2010) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.81.031602 | ||||||||||||||
Radio-frequency spectra of bosons in optical lattices: bimodality due to many body correlations Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review A 81, 033404 (2010) http://pra.aps.org/abstract/PRA/v81/i3/e033404 | ||||||||||||||
Influence of film-mediated interactions on the microwave and radio spectrum of spin-polarized hydrogen on helium films Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review Letters 101, 165301 (2008) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.165301 | ||||||||||||||
Stirring trapped atoms into Fractional Quantum Hall puddles Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Stefan K. Baur, and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review A 78, 061608(R) (2008) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.78.061608 | ||||||||||||||
Hyperfine spectra of trapped bosons in optical lattices Kaden R.A. Hazzard and Erich J. Mueller Physical Review A 76, 063612 (2007) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevA.76.063612 | ||||||||||||||
A Novel Dielectric Anomaly in Cuprates and Nickelates: Signature of an Electronic Glassy State Tuson Park, Z. Nussinov, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, V.A. Sidorov, A.V. Balatsky, J.L. Sarrao, S.-W. Cheong, M.F. Hundley, J.-S. Lee, Q. Jia, and J.D. Thompson Physical Review Letters 94, 017002 (2005) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.017002 | ||||||||||||||
Fast Diffusion Mechanism of Silicon Tri-interstitial Defects Yaojun A. Du, Stephen A. Barr, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Thomas J. Lenosky, Richard G. Hennig, and John W. Wilkins Physical Review B 72, 241306(R) (2005) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevB.72.241306 | ||||||||||||||
Complexity of Small Silicon Self-interstitial Clusters D.A. Richie, Jeongnim Kim, Stephen A. Barr, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Richard Hennig, and John W. Wilkins Physical Review Letters 92, 045501 (2004) http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.045501 | ||||||||||||||
Molecular dynamics as a bridge: fundamentals, methods, and current research http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~rur/issue2_files/hazzard.htm | ||||||||||||||
Books | ||||||||||||||
Quantum phase transitions in cold atoms and low temperature solids Kaden R. A. Hazzard Springer, 2011 (selected for "Springer Theses" book series, an edited version of Hazzard's thesis)
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-1-4419-8179-0 | ||||||||||||||
Refereed conference papers | ||||||||||||||
Detection and Visualization of Anomalous Structures in Molecular Dynamics Data Sameep Mehta, Raghu Machiraju, Srini Parthasarathy, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, and John Wilkins IEEE Visualization, Proceedings of the conference on Visualization '04, 465-472 (2004) http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1032664.1034481 | ||||||||||||||
Feature Mining Algorithms for Scientific Data M. Jiang, T.-S. Choy, S. Mehta, M. Coatney, S. Barr, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, D. Richie, S. Parthasarathy, R. Machiraju, David Thompson, J. Wilkins, and Boyd Gaytlin Proceedings of SIAM Data Mining Conference, edited by D. Barbara and C. Kamath, p 13-24, May 2003. http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm03/ | ||||||||||||||
Mining Temporally-Varying Phenomena in Scientific Datasets R. Machiraju, S. Parthasarathy, J. Wilkins, D. Thompson, B. Gatlin, D. Richie, T. Choy, M. Jiang, S. Mehta, M. Coatney, S. Barr, and Kaden R.A. Hazzard Advances in Knowledge Discovery, 2003, eds. H. Kargupta et al http://www.aaai.org/Press/Books/kargupta2.php | ||||||||||||||
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of interstitial defect diffusion in silicon David A. Richie, Jeongnim Kim, Richard Hennig, Kaden R.A. Hazzard, Steve Barr, and John W. Wilkins Materials Research Symposium Proceedings, 731, 2002 p. W9. 10-5 http://www.mrs.org/s_mrs/sec_subscribe.asp?CID=2548&DID=112497&action=detail | ||||||||||||||
Presentations | ||||||||||||||
Invited Talks | ||||||||||||||
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at Rice University U.S.-France Workshop on Nano, Extreme Measurements, and Theory (NEXT), an RCQM International Initiative Houston, Texas, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics at Rice University Joint ICQM Peking - RCQM meeting Houston, Texas, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Controlling and exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold molecules Louisiana State University physics colloquium Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Correlations and entanglement in open quantum systems National Institute for Theoretical Physics in Stellenbosch workshop on "Quantum Systems Far From Equilibrium" Stellenbosch, South Africa, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
No democracy for entanglement: not all entanglements are created equal Lousiana State University quantum science and technology seminar Baton Rouge, Louisiana, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Novel ultracold platforms for quantum science Trinity University Physics Seminar San Antonio, Texas, November 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism with ultracold molecules far-from-equilibrium Ohio State University Condensed Matter seminar Columbus, Ohio, March 2015 | ||||||||||||||
Spin-motion coupled dynamics in ultracold atoms and molecules DAMOP "Non-equilibrium dynamics in strongly interacting atomic systems" session Columbus, Ohio, June 2015 | ||||||||||||||
What I create, I understand: engineering ultracold matter to decipher real materials Ohio University Condensed Matter and Surface Science colloquium Athens, Ohio, February 2015. | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism far from equilibrium in ultracold molecules Rice Center for Quantum Materials inaugural symposium Houston, Texas, December 2014. | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism in ultracold molecules University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign AMO /quantum information seminar Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, October 2014. | ||||||||||||||
The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter Sam Houston State University physics colloquium, Huntsville, Texas. October 2014 | ||||||||||||||
The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter Heidelberg Center for Quantum Dynamics colloquium Heidelberg, Germany, November 2014. | ||||||||||||||
Many-body quantum magnetism of dipolar molecules in an optical lattice DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop Arlington, Virginia, February 2014 | ||||||||||||||
Observing quantum magnetism with ultracold polar molecules University of Goettingen condensed matter theory seminar Goettingen, Germany, May 2014 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism with ultracold molecules University of Colorado Condensed Matter Theory seminar Boulder, Colorado, February 2014. | ||||||||||||||
Quantum simulation with strongly-correlated ultracold polar molecules Rice University physics colloquium Houston, Texas, January 2014 | ||||||||||||||
Quench of a Bose gas to unitarity: dynamics and novel universal singularities ECT* workshop on "Hydrodynamics for Strongly Coupled Fluids" Trento, Italy, May 2014 | ||||||||||||||
The miracle of molecules: exploring quantum magnetism in ultracold matter Technical University Munich condensed matter and many-body physics seminar Munich, Germany, November 2014. | ||||||||||||||
The miracle of molecules: far-from-equilibrium quantum magnetism in ultracold matter Stuttgart University physics seminar Stuttgart, Germany, November 2014. | ||||||||||||||
Far-from equilibrium dynamics of frustrated spin models: polar molecules, ions, and beyond FINESS-2013 (Finite-temperature Non-Equilibrium Superfluid Systems) Queenstown, New Zealand, February 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Non-equilibrium many-body physics in current molecule experiments Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) workshop, UCSB Santa Barbara, California, February 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Novel systems in and out of equilibrium bring ultracold quantum magnetism closer to reality University of Queensland Quantum Science Seminar Brisbane, Australia, February 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism in ongoing ultracold molecule and ion experiments University of Maryland Condensed Matter Theory Center (CMTC) seminar College Park, Maryland, March 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism in ongoing ultracold molecule and ion experiments Georgetown University physics seminar Washington, D.C., March 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum magnetism in ultracold molecules: comparing theory and experiment University of Chicago James Franck Institute seminar Chicago, Illinois, November 2013 | ||||||||||||||
Non-equilibrium Ising quenches with decoherence: an exact solution DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop Miami, Florida, November 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Towards exotic physics using novel ultracold matter: polar molecules and alkaline earth atoms Harvard ITAMP AMO seminar Boston, Massachusetts. March 2012 | ||||||||||||||
Towards topological phases via new ultracold matter: molecules and alkaline earths Rice University AMO seminar Houston, Texas, September 2011 | ||||||||||||||
Spin liquids and non-quasiparticle matter in ultracold atoms Berkeley AMO seminar Berkeley, California, February 2011 | ||||||||||||||
Quantum criticality and antiferromagnetism in ultracold lattice fermions DARPA optical lattice emulator program workshop Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, December 2011 | ||||||||||||||
Spin liquids and non-quasiparticle matter in ultracold atoms University of California, Davis condensed matter seminar Davis, California, February 2011 | ||||||||||||||
Exploring the Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices Ludwig-Maximilians University/Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics seminar Munich, Germany, December 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Detecting many-body physics of quantum phase transitions in cold atoms Marlan Scully group seminar Princeton, New Jersey, February 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Exploring the Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices IQOQI Cold Atoms Seminar Innsbruck, Austria, November 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Exploring the Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices Stuttgart University seminar Stuttgart, Germany, November 2010. | ||||||||||||||
Exploring the Mott/metal crossover in ultracold alkali and alkaline earth atoms in optical lattices Freiburg University FRIAS seminar Freiburg, Germany, November 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Measuring universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon colloquium Lyon, France, April 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Measuring universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases Harvard ITAMP AMO seminar Boston, Massachusetts, March 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Measuring universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases JILA/University of Colorado AMO/condensed matter seminar Boulder, Colarado, March 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Measuring universal quantum critical behavior in ultracold gases Niels Bohr Institute Cold Atoms group meeting Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2010 | ||||||||||||||
RF spectra of lattice bosons: a probe of correlations, fluctuations, and quantum criticality DAMOP "Novel Probes of Ultra-Cold Atom Gases" session Houston, Texas, May 2010 | ||||||||||||||
Exploring many-body physics with cold atoms John Wilkins group seminar The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, July 2009 | ||||||||||||||
Probing quantum criticality in cold atoms DARPA optical lattice emulator workshop Miami, Florida, December 2009 | ||||||||||||||
Dopant structures and their electronic properties Semiconductor Research Corporation funding review Seattle, Washington, May 2003 | ||||||||||||||
Electrical Simulation of Quantum Algorithms Centre for Quantum Computer Technology seminar University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, November, 2003 | ||||||||||||||
New small silicon interstitial clusters Materials Computation Center seminar University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, July 2003. | ||||||||||||||