Quantum Science  & Technologies Group Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics Louisiana State University Department of Physics & Astronomy 202 Nicholson Hall, Tower Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803-4001 Tel: (225) 578-2163 Fax: (225) 578-0824 quantum@phys.lsu.edu	"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." — Arthur C. Clark (1917-2008)   Jonathan P. Dowling Hearne Professor & Co-Director Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics Hwang Lee Assistant Professor & Deputy Co-Director Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics
Associated  Faculty: Lai-Him Chan Theda Daniels-Race Mette Gaarde Gerard Milburn (Adjunct) Robert O'Connell A. R. P. Rau Kenneth Schafer Marlan Scully (Adjunct) Stephen Shipman	Research: Atomic, Molecular, & Optical Physics Photonic Band Gap Materials  Quantum Field Theory Quantum Information Theory Quantum Optics Quantum Computing Concept Maturation Program: Optical Quantum Computing   Quantum Sensors Program Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative: Quantum Imaging
Postdocs: Petr Anisimov Hugo Cable M. Ali Can Gabriel Durkin Lucia Florescu Marian Florescu Kurt Jacobs Kishore Kapale Pavel Lougovski Sulakshana Thanvanthri Dmitry Uskov Christoph Wildfeuer Grads: Past, Present, & Future Aravind Chiruvelli Argenis DaSilva Ryan Glasser  Muxin Han  Sean Huver Blane McCracken S. Jay Olson William Plick Ganesh Selvaraj Sai Vinjanampathy Zhanghan Wu Undergrads: Christopher Granier Daniel Lum Gretchen Raterman Nickolas VanMeter	Activities: Quantum Conference Server Publications QST in the News! Workshop on Linear Optical Quantum Information Processing (LoQUIP) NSF QMHP Workshop Seminars: Physics & Astronomy Department Seminars QST & Quantum Krispy Kreme Seminars ®
Recent & Future Visitors: Girish Agarwal (University of Oklahoma) Hans Bachor (Australian National University) Robert Boyd (University of Rochester) Sanka Das Sarma (University of Maryland) Francesco DeMartini (University of Rome) Julio Gea-Banacloche (University of Arkansas) Joseph Eberly (University of Rochester) Charles Elachi (Director, NASA JPL) Claude Fabre (Ecole Normal) Larry Gould (University of Hartford) Marian Florescu (JPL) Konrad Kieling (Imperial College) Yoon-Ho Kim (POSTECH) Patrick Leung (University of Queensland) Austin Lund (University of Queensland) Kishore Kapale (JPL) Kevin Parkin (NASA Ames) Luca Pezze (LANL) Tim Ralph (University of Queensland) Barry Sanders (University of Calgary) Surendra Singh (University of Arkansas) John Sipe (University of Toronto) Augusto Smerzi (LANL) Malvin Teich (Boston University) S. Pete Worden (Director, NASA Ames) Reeta Yyas (University of Arkansas) Ted Wyder (CalTech) Ulvi Yurtsever (MathSense)	Links: LSU Home LSU Physics LSU Relativity (Pullin Group) Photonic Band-Gap Bibliography Photonic Band-Gap Materials Links Quantum Information Links Quantum Optics Links
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