New Funding
- October 1, 2026
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin received the 2026 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator Award, with $1.35M in research funding over 5 years, to develop a new platform for quantum networking.
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Personnel Change
- September 21, 2026
- Team
Braden Carroll started his PhD studies in Quantum Engineering at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (PME) at the University of Chicago. Wish you all the best, Braden!
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New Team Member
- September 1, 2026
- Team
Prof. Fan Nan joined the EQSL as a Humboldt Research Fellow from the University of Humboldt and Guest Assistant Professor at Notre Dame. Welcome aboard, Fan!
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New Funding
- August 15, 2026
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin and Prof. Yutian Wen received a $1.5M research grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Laboratory for Physical Sciences (LPS) to develop the electron-on-solid-neon (eNe) charge qubits for fault-tolerant quantum computing (FTQC), in collaboration with Prof. Xuedong Hu's group at SUNY Buffalo and Prof. Amir Yacoby’s group at Harvard University.
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New Event
- August 8, 2026
- Symposium
Profs. Dafei Jin, Xiaolong Liu, and Petr Stepanov successfully organized the 2026 International Symposium on Quantum Fluids and Solids (QFS2026) at Notre Dame, which attracted nearly 200 attendees from 4 continents and 13 countries, including leading experts in the field.
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New Team Member
- May 15, 2026
- Team
Jackson Lennon joined the EQSL as a graduate student. Welcome aboard, Jackson!
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New Team Member
- May 15, 2026
- Team
John Treusch joined the EQSL as a graduate student. Welcome aboard, John!
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New Funding
- September 1, 2025
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin and Prof. Edwin Huang received a 3-year $0.75M research grant from NSF to develop heterogeneous rare-gas quantum solids - a new class of condensed matter.
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New Team Member
- May 1, 2025
- Team
Julianna Palotas joined the EQSL as a Postdoc Researcher. Welcome aboard, Julianna!
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New Team Member
- April 16, 2025
- Team
Charles Peretti joined the EQSL as a Visiting Postdoc Researcher from Florida State University. Welcome aboard, Charles!
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New Funding
- April 8, 2025
- Funding
Prof. Yutian Wen and Prof. Dafei Jin received a seed fund from an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center.
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New Funding
- January 16, 2025
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin received a sub-grant in a DOE QuantISED 2.0 project.
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- January 1, 2025
- Team
Dr. Yutian Wen was promoted to Assistant Research Professor and Lab Manager of EQSL. Congratulations, Yutian!
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New Funding
- October 1, 2024
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin received a Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) award from DOD to purchase a Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition (PEALD) system that will significantly expand our capabilities in superconducting thin-film growth.
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New Team Member
- September 16, 2024
- Team
Lauren Catalano joined the EQSL as an undergraduate student. Welcome aboard, Lauren!
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Personnel Change
- August 31, 2024
- Team
Prof. Sergei Sheludiakov joined PsiQuantum as a Senior Cryogenic Engineer. Wish you all the best, Sergei!
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New Funding
- August 28, 2024
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin received a sub-grant in an NSF ExpandQISE Track 2 project, led by Florida A & M University (FAMU) with a total of $5M funding for 5 years, to support FAMU developing quantum research infrastructure and quantum education program.
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New Equipment
- July 24, 2024
- Equipment
Our FourNineDesign 3.5K Optical Cryostat was successfully installed.
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- April 4, 2024
- Funding
Prof. Sergei Sheludiakov and Prof. Dafei Jin received a seed fund from an NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center - Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT) between Notre Dame, Purdue, IU, and IUPUI - to seek a viable approach to scaling up the solid-neon-based qubit platform.
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New Team Member
- February 1, 2024
- Team
Benjamine Hayers joined the EQSL as an undergraduate student. Welcome aboard, Ben!
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- February 1, 2024
- Team
Braden Carroll joined the EQSL as an undergraduate student. Welcome aboard, Braden!
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New Team Member
- February 1, 2024
- Team
Elena Ding joined the EQSL as an undergraduate student. Welcome aboard, Elena!
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New Team Member
- January 16, 2024
- Team
Dr. Yutian Wen joined the EQSL as a Postdoc Researcher. Welcome aboard, Yutian!
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Lab Update
- December 15, 2023
- Lab
Our second BlueFors LD400 Dilution Refrigerator was successfully installed.
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New Team Member
- November 1, 2023
- Team
Dr. Shan Zou joined the EQSL as a Postdoc Researcher. Welcome aboard, Shan!
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New Team Member
- September 1, 2023
- Team
Evgenii Zaitsev joined the EQSL as a graduate student. Welcome aboard, Evgenii!
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New Funding
- August 24, 2023
- Funding
Prof. Dafei Jin received $3.2M research grant from Air Force.
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Lab Update
- July 31, 2023
- Lab
Our first BlueFors LD400 Dilution Refrigerator was successfully installed.
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- June 1, 2023
- Team
Dr. Sergei Sheludiakov joined Notre Dame as a Research Assistant Professor and the EQSL as the Lab Manager. Welcome aboard, Sergei!
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New Team Member
- September 1, 2022
- Team
Alec Dinerstein joined the EQSL as a graduate student. Welcome aboard, Alec!
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New Team Member
- September 1, 2022
- Team
Dr. Dafei Jin joined Notre Dame as an Associate Professor of Physics and established the Emergent Quantum Systems Lab (EQSL).
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