Dominik Schneble

Stony Brook University

“Quantum Simulations of Light-Matter Interactions with Ultracold Atoms”

Dominik Schneble is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Stony Brook University. His group focuses on experimental studies of ultracold quantum gases to address questions in physics through quantum simulations, in fields ranging from condensed-matter physics to quantum optics. Schneble received his doctorate from the University of Konstanz, Germany in 2002 for work in the field of atom optics. He joined Stony Brook in 2005 after conducting postdoctoral research at the MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms at MIT. In 2020, he was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society.

“Quantum Simulations of Light-Matter Interactions with Ultracold Atoms”

Understanding and harnessing light-matter interactions is central to the development of applications in quantum-information science. This includes the field of waveguide electrodynamics, in which recent experiments have observed modified spontaneous emission, bound-state mediated interactions, and superradiance. However, full access to some of the predicted phenomena can be challenging. Using ultracold atoms in an optical lattice as a platform to mimic these systems, we have recently implemented artificial quantum emitters that radiate matter waves, rather than photons, into what is a tunable analogue of a photonic crystal waveguide. After introducing this platform in the broader context of analogue quantum simulation, I will describe some of our recent work on atom-light interactions in novel regimes and scenarios.