Rice University
Guido Pagano is currently an Assistant Professor at Rice University. He earned his PhD from Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa and European Laboratory for Non-Linear Spectroscopy (LENS) in Florence (Italy) and was a postdoc at the Joint Quantum Institute at the University of Maryland in the group of Christopher Monroe. His research activity is in Atomic Molecular Optical (AMO) experimental physics and Quantum Information Science (QIS), with a focus on quantum simulation of many-body systems. He received the NSF Early Career Award, the ONR Young Investigator Award, and the DOE Early Career Award.
His group uses trapped ions in electromagnetic traps to assemble pristine atom-by-atom quantum systems whose parameters can be tailored microscopically to simulate other phenomena of interest, such as spin systems, electrons in molecules, and high-energy physics models. Pagano Lab’s research goal is to extend the reach and flexibility of atom-based quantum devices, studying the interplay between unitary evolution and non-unitary operations and bridging the gap between atomic physics and other fields of science, such as quantum chemistry, high energy physics, quantum optimization, and condensed matter.