Lin Tian

Assistant Professor in Physics School of Natural Sciences University of California, Merced, CA 95344 Office: S&E 226 Tel 209 228 4209 Fax 209 228 4060 Email: ltian@ucmerced.edu WWW: http://faculty.ucmerced.edu/ltian

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Education and Research Experiences

2008 -, 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 Research Assistant, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in Physics, 2002)

My Curriculum Vitae - to be updated in PDF file

Research Interests

We study quantum phenomena, quantum information processing, and quantum simulation in nano-scale condensed matter systems and AMO systems with quantum optics theory. Research in this area has been driven both by the urge to understand smaller, better, and more coherent quantum mechanical systems and by the rapid progress in nanotechnology. Recent research efforts include cavity QED for quantum many-body system, quantum engineering with Kerr nonlinearity, hybrid quantum system, optomechanical light-matter interface and entanglement.

Current projects include:

Quantum engineering of electro-mechanical and opto-mechanical systems
Two-level system (TLS) defects in solids and their "quantum" effects
Cavity QED and quantum optics for solid-state quantum many-body systems
Scalable quantum computing, decoherence, and hybrid quantum system
Quantum simulation of quantum many body effects

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Publications

List of recent publication

Research Fundings

NSF COINS program on integrated nanomechanical systems, 2010 - 2011
DARPA ORCHID program on mechanical systems, 2010 - 2014
NSF Faculty Early CAREER Award, 2010 - 2015
NSF CISE program, 2009 -2012
GRC funds, UC Merced, 2009

Selected Seminar and Conference Talks

List of recent conference and seminar talks

Teaching

Phys 137: Quantum Mechanics, Fall 2008
Phys 137: Quantum Mechanics, Fall 2009
Phys 238: Graduate Quantum Mechanics II , Spring 2010
Phys 10: Modern Physics, Fall 2010
Phys 144: Atomic Physics, Spring 2011
Phys 10: Modern Physics, Fall 2011

Service

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