Professor at Princeton University Ph.D., Harvard University, 2005 B.S.E., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, 2000
Quantum mechanics has played an ever-increasing role in electronics over the past several decades. At first, materials and devices were introduced that...
Ph.D. 2019, Physics, Harvard B.S. 2013, Physics and Applied Math, MIT
Christie is a Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellow exploring novel lattice geometries to study condensed matter systems with superconducting... Read more about Christie Chiu
Xanthe is a Dicke Fellow originally from Australia. Her current research is focussed on protected superconducting qubits. She completed her PhD at the... Read more about Xanthe Croot
A.B Physics, University of California, Berkeley (2018)
Jake is a fourth year graduate student from Wilmington NC and completed his bachelors at the University of California, Berkeley majoring in physics....
B.S. Engineering Physics & B.A. Economics, Stanford University (2021)
Jeremiah is a first year graduate student working on fabricating novel junctions, such as quantum phase slip wires, for new protected qubits. He is from Los... Read more about Jeremiah Coleman
B.S. Physics, University of California, San Diego (2016)
Kevin is a fourth year graduate student from San Rafael, CA. He received his B.S. in Physics from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently... Read more about Kevin D Crowley
Charlie is a third year grad student from Fort Wayne, Indiana and got his bachelors in applied physics at Purdue University. He works on engineering novel... Read more about Charlie Guinn
B.Tech in Engineering Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2020) M.Tech in Engineering Physics with specialization in Nanoscience, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (2020)
Parth is a second year graduate student originating from Mumbai, India. He is currently working on developing architectures that protect qubit from... Read more about Parth Jatakia
BS & MS, Physics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (2021)
Shashwat is a first-year graduate student in ECE from Bijnor, India. He completed his bachelor's and master's degrees in Physics from the Indian Institute of... Read more about Shashwat Kumar
Jeronimo is a second year graduate student on the quantum simulation side of the group working on ultrastrong coupling to photonic crystals as well as... Read more about Jeronimo Martinez
Alex is a fifth year graduate student in the Houck Lab. He builds and studies qubits which are intrinsically insensitive to noise. Alex grew up in Arlington VA... Read more about Alex Place
Anjali is a fifth year graduate student in the Houck Lab. She is from Pittsburgh, PA and she did her undergraduate studies in Applied Physics at Caltech. She... Read more about Anjali Premkumar
Basil joined the Houck Lab in 2017. He works on the quantum simulation side of the group, researching nonlinear physics in high kinetic inductance resonator... Read more about Basil Smitham
Cosmin is a senior majoring in Physics with certificates in Applied Mathematics and Applications of Computing. His research is about quasiparticle-induced... Read more about Cosmin Andrei
Inci is a second year undergraduate student at Princeton University from Istanbul, Turkey. She works on characterizing qubits with embedded qubit control... Read more about Inci Karaaslan
Hoang is a senior in Electrical Engineering at Princeton with a certificate in Engineering Physics. He explores novel qubit species with better encoding scheme... Read more about Hoang Le
Youqi is a senior majoring in Electrical Engineering with certificates in Engineering Physics and Applications of Computing. She explores ways to tune... Read more about Youqi Gang
Alicia Kollár was a Princeton Materials Science Postdoctoral Fellowship with Andrew Houck from 2017-2019, working on quantum simulation of solid-state physics... Read more about Alicia Kollár
Princeton University, Ph.D. 2016 Budapest University of Technology and Economics, M.Sc., B.Sc. 2010.
Andras has a Ph.D. in Physics from Princeton where he worked in the Yazdani lab working on strongly correlated and topological electronic systems. Currently,... Read more about Andras Gyenis
PhD 2015, Physics, Ecole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne
Berthold received his PhD in physics from the Ecole Fédérale Polytechnique de Lausanne in 2015. He joined the Physics Department at Princeton University as a... Read more about Berthold Jaeck
Darius Sadri was postdoc in our group. He has a PhD from Stanford in string theory, did a postdoc in condensed matter theory, and is now learning to be a... Read more about Darius Sadri
Will E. "Coyote" Shanks was a post-doc in our lab. He earned his PhD at Yale measuring persistent currents in normal metal rings, and is now built a scanning... Read more about Will Shanks
Zhaoqi Leng joined the lab in 2015. He worked on creating and stabilizing entanglement in circuit QED systems. He is researching new optimization/machine... Read more about Zhaoqi Leng
Andrei joined the HouckLab in 2015 after finishing his undergraduate studies at University College London. His work has been focused on engineering photon... Read more about Andrei Vrajitoarea
Master of Science in Physics from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [2016] Bachelor of Science (Research) in Physics with Distinction from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) [2015]
Pranav hails from Nasik, the wine capital of India, but he does not know his wines. On finding a problem interesting and impactful enough, he does not hesitate... Read more about Pranav Mundada
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2018) M.S Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University (2011) B.S Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University (2008)
Gengyan became a member of the Houck Lab in 2011 after receiving his bachelor's and master's degree from Tsinghua University. Known in the group as the fab... Read more about Gengyan Zhang
Neereja became a member of the lab in the spring of 2013. She studied the ultra-low frequency regime in circuit QED and explored the interactions that arise... Read more about Neereja Sundaresan
Ph.D Electrical Engineering, Princeton University (2019) B.A Physics Middlebury College (2013)
Mattias hails from the great state of Oregon and is a graduate of Middlebury College. He became a member of the lab in 2013 and worked on nonequilibrium phase... Read more about Mattias Fitzpatrick
Ph.D. Princeton University B.S Physics and Mathematics University of Wisconsin- River Falls
Devin Underwood works on arrays of cQED elements for purposes of studying condensed matter physics with photons. He hales from frosty Alaska, and is known for... Read more about Devin Underwood
Srikanth Srinivasan was brave enough to be the first graduate student in the Houck Lab. While he was a graduate student, he worked on both the tunable coupling... Read more about Srikanth Srinivasan
Connie studied Physics with a a certificate in Applications of Computing. For her thesis, she is working on designing a more fault-tolerant zero-pi qubit.... Read more about Connie Miao
MASt Applied Mathematics ("Part III"), Cambridge University (2020) B.S.H Engineering Physics, Stanford University (2019)
Katherine worked with the Houck group through the QURIP program (joint quantum research program between Princeton and IBM). Her work in the lab included (1)... Read more about Katherine Van Kirk
Ph.D Physics, MIT (2018) B.A Physics, Princeton University (2012)
Cody completed his senior thesis in our group, looking at tunable coupling in 3D cavities. He often sports a snazzy briefcase. He currently works as an AMO... Read more about William Cody Burton
Alexander Pease was a senior in our research group. His senior thesis involved fabricating extremely low frequency cavities to look at strong coupling in a... Read more about Zander Pease
Ph.D Physics, Harvard University (2018) M.A Computer Science, Harvard University (2015) B.S Physics, Princeton University (2012)
Arthur Safira was a senior in his second year in our group, and worked on very large arrays of transmon qubits. He currently works as a hardware and software... Read more about Arthur Safira
The origin of many quantum-material phenomena is intimately related to the presence of flat electronic bands. In quantum simulation, such bands have been realized through line-graph lattices, a class of lattices known to exhibit flat bands. Based on that work, we conduct a high-throughput screening for line-graph lattices among the crystalline structures of the Materials Flatband Database and report on new candidates for line-graph materials and lattice models. In particular, we find materials with line-graph-lattice structures beyond the two most commonly known examples, the kagomé and pyrochlore lattices. We also identify materials which may exhibit flat topological bands. Finally, we examine the various line-graph lattices detected and highlight those with gapped flat bands and those most frequently represented among this set of materials. With the identification of real stoichiometric materials and theoretical lattice geometries, the results of this work may inform future studies of flat-band many-body physics in both condensed matter experiment and theory.
The geometric properties of a lattice can have profound consequences on its band spectrum. For example, symmetry constraints and geometric frustration can give rise to topologicially nontrivial and dispersionless bands, respectively. Line-graph lattices are a perfect example of both of these features: Their lowest energy bands are perfectly flat, and here we develop a formalism to connect some of their geometric properties with the presence or absence of fragile topology in their flat bands. This theoretical work will enable experimental studies of fragile topology in several types of line-graph lattices, most naturally suited to superconducting circuits.
