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Dr. Rajibul Islam's research interests are in quantum information processing, in particular quantum simulation and computation. His research team is building a quantum simulator with laser-cooled trapped ions to simulate models of interacting quantum many-particle systems. Dr. Islam is also involved in building 'QuantumIon', a multi-user, open-access trapped-ion quantum computer at À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ.

• Experimental quantum many-body physics with ultra-cold atomic ions

• Quantum Computing

• Entanglement in strongly correlated matter, experimental schemes to measure entanglement

• Frustrated spin systems, and their experimental realization with synthetic cold matter

• Fully connected spin networks using trapped ions

• Quantum Materials

• Quantum Science

• Photonics

• Quantum Information Processing

• Quantum Simulation

• 2012 Ph.D. in Physics, University of Maryland, College Park

• 2007 M.Sc. in Physics, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai

• 2005 B.Sc. in Physics, Jadavpur University, Kolkata

• Early Researcher Award, Ontario Government (2019)

• Distinguished PhD Dissertation Award, University of Maryland (2012-13)

• Faculty, Institute for Quantum Computing

• PHYS 234 - Quantum Physics 1
  • Taught in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024, 2025
• PHYS 256 - Geometrical and Physical Optics
  • Taught in 2022
• PHYS 393 - Physical Optics
  • Taught in 2020, 2022, 2024
• PHYS 701 - Quantum Mechanics 1
  • Taught in 2022

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

• Machine learning design of a trapped-ion quantum spin simulator Y. H. Teoh, M. Drygala, R. G. Melko, and R. Islam. Quantum Sci. Technol. 5, 024001, (2020); arXiv:1910.02496

• Dynamical Hamiltonian engineering of 2D rectangular lattices in a one-dimensional ion chain F. Rajabi, S. Motlakunta, C. Shih, N. Kotibhaskar, Q. Quraishi, A. Ajoy, and R. Islam. npj Quantum Inf 5, 32, (2019); arXiv:1808.06124

• Measuring entanglement entropy in a quantum many-body system Rajibul Islam, Ruichao Ma, Philipp M. Preiss, M. Eric Tai, Alexander Lukin, Matthew Rispoli, and Markus Greiner. Nature 528, 77 (2015), Nature News and Views

• Strongly Correlated Quantum Walks in Optical Lattices 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), Science Perspective, arXiv:1409.3100

• Emergence and Frustration of Magnetic Order with Variable-Range Interactions in a Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator 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

• Onset of a Quantum Phase Transition with a Trapped Ion Quantum Simulator 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, JQI press release