News
2026
KITP Program
October 2026
Invited long-term participant in the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics program “Ultracold Molecules for Fundamental Physics, Controlled Chemistry, and Quantum Information” at UC Santa Barbara, including the KITP conference “Quantum Science and Technology with Ultracold Molecules” in November.
New Preprint
October 2026
New preprint “Gap-Protected Heisenberg-Limited Squeezing with Locally Interacting Multi-Level Spins” (arXiv:2610.02314).
NSF CAREER Award
September 2026
Awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER Award for “Quantum Many-Body Dynamics and Entanglement Generation in Spatially and Temporally Controlled Spin Systems.” The five-year, $504,481 award supports our work on controlling entanglement generation in engineered spin systems, and funds a new Quantum Master Class at OSU that brings Oklahoma high school students and teachers to campus every year for hands-on quantum science. NSF award page.
PRA Publication
September 2026
Our work on “Universal spin-squeezing dynamical phase transitions across lattice geometries, dimensions, and microscopic couplings” was published in Physical Review A.
AIQIS NRT Symposium
September 2026
Co-organized the inaugural AIQIS NRT Symposium at Oklahoma State University, with 17 invited speakers and 70 registered participants. Arman Duha, Sagar Chaudhary, Lucas Cartwright and Sakshi Bahamnia presented four posters from our group.
Cambridge Working Group
September 2026
Invited participant in the Advanced Working Group on Kinetic Magnetism 2026 at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
DOE Genesis Mission Award
August 2026
Our collaborative project, “AI-Driven Control and Optimization of QuDit Platforms in Rydberg Arrays,” led by Grant Biedermann (OU) alongside Michael Martin (LANL) and myself (OSU), has been selected for Stage I funding under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Genesis Mission. Our group will lead the theoretical modeling and AI-driven control sequence design for quDit Rydberg platforms. Read the OU announcement.
PRA Publication
August 2026
Our work on “Time-resolved detection of spin-spatial-coupling-induced dynamical phase transitions” in collaboration with the group of Dr. Yingmei Liu was published in Physical Review A.
REU Poster
July 2026
Lara Valcarcel, our NSF REU student, presented her poster “Scalable spin squeezing in long-range interacting spin-1 systems” at the OSU Summer Research Expo.
Talks by Arman Duha
June 2026
Arman Duha gave an invited seminar, “Metrologically useful entanglement generation and dynamical phase transitions in long-range interacting spin systems,” at the Center for Quantum Phenomena, New York University, and a contributed talk, “Role of lattice geometry and Hamiltonian engineering in the universality of spin squeezing dynamical phase transitions,” at DAMOP 2026.
PRA Publication
June 2026
Our work on “Control of dynamical phase transitions and nonergodic relaxation via spinor phases” in collaboration with the group of Dr. Yingmei Liu was published in Physical Review A.
New Preprint
May 2026
New preprint “Universal Spin Squeezing Dynamical Phase Transitions across Lattice Geometries, Dimensions, and Microscopic Couplings” (arXiv:2605.13969).
New Preprint
May 2026
New preprint “Scalable spin-nematic squeezing in multi-level dipole-interacting Rydberg atom arrays” (arXiv:2605.00096).
International Physicists' Tournament
May 2026
From May 26 to 31, Oklahoma State University hosted the 18th International Physicists' Tournament (IPT), the first held in North America. About 200 participants, including 20 teams of undergraduate and first-year graduate students from 18 countries, came to Stillwater for five days of research-based “physics fights.” I served on the Local Organizing Committee.
PRA Publication
April 2026
Our work on “Lattice-enabled detection of spin-dependent three-body interactions” in collaboration with the group of Dr. Yingmei Liu was published in Physical Review A.
New Preprint
April 2026
New preprint: “Detection of Spin-Spatial-Coupling-Induced Dynamical Phase Transitions in Real Time” (arXiv:2604.03521).
2025
New Preprints
November 2025
Three new preprints from our group and collaborators this fall: “Observation of phase memory and dynamical phase transitions in spinor gases” (arXiv:2511.03720), “Lattice-enabled detection of spin-dependent three-body interactions” (arXiv:2510.01158), and “Polarization-dependent chiral transport and chiral solitons in spin Kitaev models” (arXiv:2508.17084).
Arman Duha Thesis Defense
November 2025
Congratulations to Arman on successfully defending his thesis on “Non-Equilibrium Entanglement Dynamics and Transport in Engineered Quantum Systems”.
PRL Publication
October 2025
Our work on “Nonequilibrium Critical Scaling of a Squeezing Phase Transition” was published in Physical Review Letters.
$600k AFOSR Grant
October 2025
Awarded $600k AFOSR Grant on “Spatio-temporal Control in long-range interacting Quantum Systems”.
$3M NSF NRT Grant
August 2025
Awarded $3M NSF NRT Grant “Accelerating Transdisciplinary Training of an Oklahoma Workforce for the Artificial Intelligence and Quantum Revolution”.
PRL Publication
April 2025
Our work on “Quantum Many-Body Scars” in Spinor BECs in collaboration with the group of Dr. Yingmei Liu was published in Physical Review Letters.