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K. Rajibul Islam joined the Institute for Quantum Computing in November 2016 as Assistant Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy in the Faculty of Science.

Islam completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s physics degrees in India, focusing on the theory of statistical physics, quantum magnetism and the interaction of spins in frustrated systems. Motivated by the possibility of studying physical systems in a lab, Islam shifted to experimental research with laser-cooled trapped ions and moved to the University of Maryland, College Park to earn his PhD under the supervision of Christopher Monroe. His thesis  was recognized by the University of Maryland’s Distinguished Dissertation Award in 2013.

In his first three years as a postdoctoral fellow with Harvard University at the Center for Ultracold Atoms (CUA), Islam studied entanglement in ultra-cold neutral bosonic atoms in optical potentials with Markus Greiner’s group. Returning his research focus to ions, this time in optical potentials created in a high quality optical resonator, Islam joined MIT as a postdoctoral researcher in Vladan Vuletic’s group at CUA.

At IQC, Islam’s experimental research will address fundamental physics questions, concentrating on encoding and manipulating quantum information in a quantum many-body system using trapped ions.

Research expertise

• Experimental quantum many-body physics, especially quantum simulation of frustrated spin models with trapped ions
• Quantum computation with trapped ions
• Use of holography and high resolution microscopy to manipulate many-body systems

Selected publications

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  Chung-You Shih, Sainath Motlakunta, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Manas Sajjan, Roland Hablützel & Rajibul Islam.
  npj Quantum Information 7, 57 (2021)
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  C. Monroe, W. C. Campbell, L.-M. Duan, Z.-X. Gong, A. V. Gorshkov, P. W. Hess, R. Islam, K. Kim, N. M. Linke, G. Pagano, P. Richerme, C. Senko, and N. Y. Yao
  Rev. Mod. Phys. 93, 025001 (2021)
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  Yi hong Teah, Marina Drygala, Roger G. Melko, Rajibul Islam.
  Quantum Sci. Technol. 5, 024001, (2020)
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  Fereshteh Rajabi, Sainath Motlakunta, Chung-You Shih, Nikhil Kotibhaskar, Qudsia Quraishi, Ashok Ajoy, Rajibul Islam.
  npj Quantum Information 5, 32, (2019)
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  Rajibul Islam, Ruichao Ma, Philipp M. Preiss, M. Eric Tai, Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, and Markus Greiner.
  Nature 528, 77 (2015)
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  Philipp M. Preiss, Ruichao Ma, M. Eric Tai, Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, Philip Zupancic, Yoav Lahini, Rajibul Islam, and Markus Greiner
  Science 347, 6225 (2015), arXiv:1409.3100
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  R. Islam, C. Senko, W. C. Campbell, S. Korenblit, J. Smith, A. Lee, E. E. Edwards, C.-C. J. Wang, J. K. Freericks, and C. Monroe
  Science 340, 583 (2013), arXiv1210.0142
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  R. Islam, E. E. Edwards, K. Kim, S. Korenblit, C. Noh, H. Carmichael, G.-D.Lin, L.-M. Duan, C.-C. Wang, J. K. Freericks and C. Monroe
  Nature Communications 2:377 (2011) arXiv:1103.2400
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  K. Kim, M.-S. Chang, S. Korenblit, R. Islam, E. E. Edwards, J. K. Freericks, G.-D. Lin, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe
  Nature 465, 590 (2010)
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  K. Kim, M.-S. Chang, R. Islam, S. Korenblit, L.-M. Duan, and C. Monroe
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 120502 (2009)

Degrees

• PhD, Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
• MSc, Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai
• BSc, Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

Awards & Honours

• Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Maryland, 2013
• Best paper award, DARPA Optical Lattice Emulator project, 2011
• Early Researcher Award, Government of Ontario (2019)
• Honourable mention – Ralph D. Myers 2007/2008 Teaching Assistant Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Maryland, 2007

Major positions