Lin Tian

Professor of Physics School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced, CA 95343 Office: S&E 226 Phone: 209 386 3196 Fax: 209 228 4060 Email: ltian@ucmerced.edu ResearcherID: I-3314-2013 ORCID: 0000-0001-6281-1034 Maps and directions for visitors

Openings!

We have openings for postdocs, graduate students, and visiting scholars. Please contact me at my email for more information

Education and Research Experiences

2018 -, Professor, University of California, Merced
2013 - 2018, Associate Professor, University of California, Merced
2008 - 2013, Assistant Professor, University of California, Merced
2007 - 2008, Karel Urbanek Postdoc Fellow, Stanford University
2005 - 2006, Postdoc Researcher, NIST
2004 - 2004, Visiting Researcher, University of Karlsruhe
2002 - 2004, Postdoc Researcher, University of Innsbruck
1997 - 2002, Graduate Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in Physics, 2002)

Research Interests

We study theoretical questions in superconducting quantum computing, hybrid quantum systems, optomechanics, quantum simulation, and decoherence. Our recent projects include:

Analog quantum simulation with superconducting quantum devices
Strongly-correlated polaritons in Jaynes-Cummings lattices
Certification of quantum simulators
CQED for adiabatic quantum processes
Optomechanical light-matter interface: transducer and entanglement
Hybrid quantum systems
Open system dynamics of strongly-coupled quantum systems

Publications

List of recent publications

Selected Seminar and Conference Talks

List of recent conference and seminar talks - to be updated

Honors and Awards

American Physical Society Outstanding Referee, 2017
National Science Foundation Faculty CAREER Award, 2010

Editorial Activities

Editorial Board, Quantum Science and Technology
Associate Editor, Science China: Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy

Teaching

PHYS 292: Advanced Quantum Computing (Graduate and undergraduate conjoined), Spring 2019
PHYS 172: Quantum Information Science (Graduate and undergraduate conjoined), Fall 2017
PHYS 126/124/138: Special Relativity/Atomic Structures/Quantum Mechanics II (2-Unit Minicourse), Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
PHYS 144/244: Atomic Physics (Graduate and undergraduate conjoined), Spring 2011, Spring 2014, 2015, 2017, 2019
PHYS 10: Introductory Physics III - Modern Physics, Fall 2010, Fall 2011, Fall 2012
PHYS 238: Graduate Quantum Mechanics II, Spring 2010
PHYS 137: Quantum Mechanics, Fall 2008, Fall 2009

Outreach Activities

Frontier Lecture Series in Science and Technology , Spring 2009 - Fall 2012
California Professoriate for access to physics careers , 2010 -