Hazzard group

ultracold atoms and condensed matter theory

Rice University
Department of Physics
Rice Center for Quantum Materials
Houston, TX
RF spectral density as a function of hopping and chemical potential
RF spectral density as a function of hopping and chemical potential

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Kaden Hazzard


I theoretically study the behavior of ultracold atomic systems. I am interested in "emergent" properties of many-body systems, and spend most of my time thinking about this phenomenon in ultracold gases. The vision is that fundamental advances in controlling, measuring, and understanding these many-body quantum systems will impact our knowledge of other fields through "quantum simulation", broadly construed, and enable applications in quantum metrology, precision measurement, and quantum computation. More about what I am thinking about - and why - can be found on this webpage in the research interests and publications pages.

I grew up in Ohio and attended the Ohio State University for my bachelor's degree. I received my PhD from Cornell University, working with Erich Mueller in 2010. I spent 2010-14 as a postdoc at JILA working with Ana Maria Rey and collaborating with lots of other JILAns. Since July 2014, I have been faculty in the Rice University department of physics and astronomy.

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Twitter: @QuantumHazzard
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Office: 306 Brockman Hall
Phone: (607) 220-8211
Email: kaden.hazzard@gmail.com

Group:

Graduate students:

Zewen Zhang
Sohail Dasgupta
Haotian Wei
Jonathan Stepp

Undergraduate students:

Tian Xue (Rice)
Charles Dyall (Rice)
Hong-Ye Wang (Rice)

Visitor:

Henning Schloemer (graduate student with Prof. Fabian Grusdt, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich; October 2022 and February-April, 2023)

Group alumni & post-Rice trajectories

Immediate post-Rice positions. (If you'd like me to update with new positions, email!)

postdocs

Hung Pham: data scientist in industy
Bhuvanesh Sundar: IQOQI, postdoc with P. Zoller → JILA, postdoc with A. M. Rey
Rick Mukherjee: Harvard → IISER Bopal → Imperial College London, postdoc w/ F. Mintert → Hamburg University, Senior Postdoc with P. Schmelcher

graduate students

Zhiyuan Wang (LMU, Muenich postdoc with Ignacio Cirac)
Eduardo Ibarra-García-Padilla(UC Davis/San Jose State joint postdoc with Richard Scalettar and Ehsan Khatami)
Ian White (TAMU postdoc with Marlan Scully)

Rice undergraduates

Kevin Zheng (Yale graduate student)
Chase Cartwright (Ohio University graduate student)
Matheus Barbosa
Johann Gan (software engineer)
Kelly Yao (Caltech grad student)
Matt Thibodeau (UIUC grad student)
Tony Mirasola (UIUC grad student)
Ridge Liu (Yale grad student)
Erin Ewart (Indiana grad student)

long-term (> 1 month) visitors: postdoc, grad, and undergrad

Miroslav Hopjan (postdoc, Goettingen University)
Wen Yu Kon (National University of Singapore, then NUS grad student)
Putian Li (Beijing undergrad)
Ming Yuan (USTC undergrad, then Chicago grad student)
Yuxin Wang (USTC undergrad, then Northwestern grad student)
Rafael Poliseli-Teles (U. of Sao Paolo, then self-employed software developer)
Yanhua Hou (Texas Medical Center)
Jacob Hollingsworth (Ursinus College, then UC Riverside grad student)

high school students

Kenneth Wang (Stanford undergrad)
Dhruva Kharkada (UT Austin undergrad)

Contact Kaden

Email: kaden.hazzard@gmail.com
Phone: (607) 220-8211
Address: MS-61, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77251