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Guido Pagano

Guido Pagano

Assistant Professor

Physics & Astronomy

CONTACT

pagano@rice.edu

WEBSITE(S)| http://paganolab.rice.edu

SURF Mentoring

Potential projects/topics:

The work in AMO labs can be really diverse in terms of tasks, so it is difficult to define precisely day-to-day work, especially for a starting lab. The possible projects will be about:

  • Ultra-High Vacuum (UHV) systems assembly.
  • Working with lasers: optical path design and construction, fiber coupling
  • Circuits design (using Eagle) and assembly: RF, optoelectronics (photodiodes assembly).
  • 3D modeling using Onshape and 3D printing.
  • Electromagnetic simulation with COMSOL.
  • FPGA programming for the control system and coding in python.

Potential skills gained: Learning new concepts (atomic physics), hands-on lab skills (machining, electronics), new software and programming skills

Required qualifications: It would be better to have E&M, but it is not required

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I., Graduate Student

Student Project Titles List

Developing a Red Pitaya digital PID controller for trapped ion applications

Efficient and Temperature-Compensating Rectifier for the RF Feedback Stabilization System

Research Areas

Both laser-cooled atomic ions and neutral atoms in electromagnetic traps provide pristine quantum systems that can be engineered from the ground up to an unprecedented level of control. Atoms interacting with lasers offer unmatched coherence properties, deterministic entanglement generation and nearly perfect detection of individual quantum systems. In our lab we will use trapped ions and neutral atoms to assemble atom-by-atom quantum systems whose parameters can be tailored microscopically to investigate unexplored quantum many-body phenomena and tackle new ways of processing quantum information.