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, and 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.
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
Dec 22, 2022
Check our latest manuscript on arXiv: Quasi-Floquet prethermalization in a disordered dipolar spin ensemble in diamond!
Oct 24, 2022
Check the first paper from Zu Lab: Coherent Dynamics of Strongly Interacting Electronic Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride!
Jun 20, 2022
Chong gave a seminar at Tsinghua-TAU joint seminar in quantum computation.
Jun 1, 2022
Selina Wang, an undergraduate at WashU, joins the group for summer research. Welcome!
May 30 – Jun 3, 2022
Our group is presenting our latest research on quantum dynamics at APS DAMOP meeting in Orlando, Florida.
Mar 7, 2022
Chong gave a seminar at UIUC quantum center.
Jan 24, 2022
Chong gave a colloquium at Physics Department, UNC.
Jan 14, 2022
Zhongyuan Liu joins the group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
Sep 1, 2021
Our paper “Emergent hydrodynamics in a strongly interacting dipolar spin ensemble” is published on Nature!
See also the highlight by Phillip Ball on Physics World.
Sep 1, 2021
Reginald Gong joins the group as a Ph.D. student. Welcome!
Aug 13, 2021
Our paper ”Optically Enhanced Electric Field Sensing Using Nitrogen-Vacancy Ensembles” is published on Phys. Rev. Applied, and selected as Editors’ suggestion!
Jul 1, 2021
Guanghui He joins the group as the first Ph.D. student. Welcome!
Dec 24, 2020
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