Hutzler Lab @ Caltech

Welcome!

We are a new lab at Caltech that uses lasers to control atoms and molecules for table-top experiments in fundamental nuclear and particle physics, by using and developing techniques that also have applications to quantum information, computation, and many-body systems.  There are openings for research positions and internships at all levels - undergraduate, masters, graduate, and post-doc.

If you want to know about (or already know about!) any of the following, then we definitely have something for you to work on, and you should get in touch
  • Lasers and optics
  • Cryogenics
  • Vacuum
  • Mechanical design and fabrication
  • Laser cooling and trapping
  • Gas kinetics and dynamics
  • Electronics
  • Quantum manipulation of atoms and molecules
  • Automation and control
  • Creation of exotic atoms and molecules in the gas-phase 
  • Coffee
  • Atomic and molecular structure
  • Spectroscopy
  • Electromagnetic fields
  • Calculations and modeling

We are extremely grateful to receive support from the following sources:
News

27 February 2019

We put a pre-print on the arXiv describing how molecules with multiple metal centers (hypermetallic molecules) might be interesting for precision measurements... and more!

22 February 2019


The Caltech Quantum Information Association (CQIA) is a new club at Caltech that we are happy to welcome!  From the website:

The association serves as a platform for members working on theory, experiment, and engineering in fields relevant to Quantum Information to exchange novel ideas and share expertise with resources. The goal is to foster strong ties and promote campus-wide multidisciplinary collaborations that lead to innovative research topics.

Check out the website for a list of events, and some recent blog posts about topological quantum computing, quantum computing in the near term, and of course our research

15 February 2019

Thank you to the National Science Foundation for supporting our research through a CAREER Award for Nick Hutzler.



29 November 2018




13 November 2018

Our lab will be participating in the inaugural QuantumSURF program.  Click here for details, including information about how to apply.

http://quantumsurf.caltech.edu/


8 November 2018

We are honored to have won a Precision Measurement Grant from NIST to support our work on precision measurements in polyatomic molecules!

https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/precision-measurement-grants-program

20 October 2018

SURF Seminar Day!

2018 SURFers @ Caltech - Camilla, Emily, Claire, and David.  Alicia was at Yale with the DeMille Group.




Full disclosure: some of these photos were taken back in August for summer seminar day.

31 July 2018
Summer 2018 Group Photo
Left to right: Priscilla, Gabby, David, Claire, Camilla, Arian, Nick H, Emily, Nick P
Not pictured: Jacob, Toros

17 July 2018
Nick lying to children at the Chandler School about how big that fish was.





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