Exploring the quantum advantages
Welcome to Zu Lab at Department of Physics, WUSTL. Our research focuses on employing solid-state spin defects for quantum sensing, simulation and computation.
We are looking for enthusiastic students and researchers! Please do not hesitate to contact us if you are interested in working together!
Email address: zu [at) wustl.edu
For postdoc positions, we encourage and support qualified applicant to apply for the prestigious Jaynes Fellowship in Physics at Washington University. Please contact the PI for more information.
Recent news:
Mar 26, 2024
Check our latest work “Experimental Realization of Discrete Time Quasi-Crystals” on arXiv!
Feb 28, 2024
Check our collaborative work “Imaging the Meissner effect in hydride superconductors using quantum sensors” on Nature.
Also see the accompanied news & views “Quantum sensor settles debate about superconductivity in hydrides“.
Jan 31, 2024
Check our latest work “Optically-Trapped Nanodiamond-Relaxometry Detection of Nanomolar Paramagnetic Spins in Aqueous Environments” on arXiv!
Jan 2, 2024
Congrats to Reginald and Shilling on their work “Isotope engineering for spin defects in van der Waals materials” published on Nature Communications!
Sep 27, 2023
Congrats to Guanghui, Reginald an Zhongyuan on their work “Quasi-Floquet Prethermalization in a Disordered Dipolar Spin Ensemble in Diamond” published on Physical Review Letters. The first PRL in our lab!
See also the hightlights on Phys.org.
Aug 15, 2023
Together with Dr. Jie Dong from SIUE, we receive the NSF ExpandQISE grant to study biomass pretreatment process with quantum sensors!
Jul 13, 2023
Check our latest work “Isotope engineering for spin defects in van der Waals materials” on arXiv! We demonstrate that by carefully selecting the nuclei isotopes in hexagonal boron nitride, one can substantially boost the quantum properties of the embedded spin defects!
Jun 7, 2023
Check our collaborative work “Imaging the Meissner effect and flux trapping in a hydride superconductor at megabar pressures using a nanoscale quantum sensor” on arXiv!
Jun 6, 2023
Congrats to Reginald, Guanghui and Zhongyuan on their work “Coherent Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Electronic Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride” published on Nature Communications. The first Zu Lab paper!
See also the highlight on Phys.org.
May 8, 2023
Congrats to Reginald on receiving the Franklin B. Shull Prize for his excellence in teaching, and Yinyao on receiving the Greg Delos Summer Fellowship for undergraduate summer research.
April 29, 2023
Chong and the WashU physics outreach team organized the St. Louis Area Physics Teacher (SLAPT) 36th Annual High School Physics Contest.
Mar 16, 2023
Our work on probing many-body noise in two-dimensional spin ensemble in diamond is published on Nature Physics.
See also the viewpoint by Marina Radulaski and Victoria Norman, Physics 16, 1 (2023)
March 5-10, 2023
Reginald and Bingtian presented our recent results at the APS March meeting, Las Vegas.
Jan 11th, 2023
Chong gave a talk on our recent observation of quasi-Floquet prethermalization at PQE-2023, Salt Lake City, UT