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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: We have multiple possible projects: 1) design and assembly of magnetic shielding of the experimental system 2) programming arbitrary waveform generators and integrating it with our control system 3) CAD design, 3d print and test of multiple parts

Potential skills gained: CAD design, COMSOL, 3D printing, python programming

Required qualifications: E&M is recommended for the magnetic shield project

Direct mentor: Faculty/P.I., Post-doctorate

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.