Group Members
Group Leader
Wenchao Xu, Prof. Dr.
I received my Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2018, with the thesis title as “Dynamics in a Fermi lattice gas”. Afterwards, I worked as a postdoctoral associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 2018 and 2022. My research interests center on quantum simulation, quantum computation, and quantum nonlinear optics with experimental platforms based on neutral atoms.
email: tel: +41 44 633 60 83
Postdoc
Franklin Vivanco
Some years after completing my undergraduate degree in Physics from the UNMSM in Peru, I moved to Sao Carlos Brazil, at the IFSC/USP where I worked with cold collisions and Bose-Einstein condensates out-of-equilibrium under the supervision of Prof. Bagnato for my Master and PhD. As I enjoyed working with neutral atoms, afterward I moved to Yale University, where I was a post-doc under Prof. Navon's mentoring and supervision. There, I worked with few body collisions, RF spectroscopy, and probing the limits of impurity physics with Fermi gases in box potentials. Since May 2023 I am a postdoc at PSI/ETHZ working on the Hybrid Tweezer array project.
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Tao (Alex) Zheng
In June 2022, I completed my doctoral dissertation and received my PhD from the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). My research focused on searching for the permanent electric dipole moment (EDM) of Yb-171 atoms in an optical dipole trap, which aims to answer why there is a matter-antimatter asymmetry in our universe. Following completion of my studies, I took a gap period at USTC. In November 2023, I began my postdoctoral work at PSI/ETHZ, where I am currently engaged in the dual-type dual-element atom arrays experiment. In my leisure time, I enjoy playing table tennis, hiking, and running.
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PhD Students
Majid Zahedian
I did my bachelor's with dual degrees in Physics and Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University in Iran. Afterwards, I pursued a master's degree at the Max Planck School of Photonics to learn more about quantum applications. Color centers as a versatile platform to implement quantum sensors, repeaters, or even possibly computers motivated me to do my master's thesis in the group of Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup at the University of Stuttgart. Since September 2023, I have joined the EQE lab to explore quantum computing with hybrid arrays of neutral atoms. Besides my working time in the lab, you can find me in the sports hall.
email: tel: +41 44 633 84 99
Luis Fernandez Martinez
I spend my undergrad at the University of Santiago de Compostela in the northwest of Spain. There, I graduated with Bachelor's degrees in Physics and Mathematics. During my Master's at ETH I delved into various experimental topics such as quantum dots at Kovalenko Lab and laser interferometry at HyQu. Attracted by Prof. Xu's lecture on Neutral Atoms as well as her novel and promising proposal for this platform, I decided to join her group: first for my Master thesis (where I worked with an SLM to generate optical tweezers and helped in the design of MOTs) and now as a PhD student since 2024.
email: tel: +41 44 633 48 36
Zhanchuan Zhang
I did my undergraduate studies in physics at Peking University in China. After that, I moved to ETH Zurich for master’s degree. During my studies, I became interested in quantum information processing and was impressed with the rapid progress of quantum science with neutral atom arrays. So I decided to join EQE group for my semester project and master thesis. After these projects, I realized that I wanted to continue to work on experimental quantum science, and I got the opportunity to stay at EQE group as a PhD student.
email: tel: +41 44 633 69 31