This program focuses on developing and applying analytical and numerical techniques to model electromagnetic interactions with material on the nanoscale and quantum level to enable higher-fidelity sensing and control of light in close collaboration with experimentalists realizing and measuring those systems. Utilizing techniques spanning field theory, semi-analytical approaches and full wave electromagnetic simulation on GPUs, this program will seek to capture the physics of a diverse array of devices and materials, including nanocrystals both in regular lattices and disordered aggregates, dynamically critical thin-film nonlinear resonators and sub-diffractional inverse designed optical elements. 

Zhang, Xin H. H., and Harold U. Baranger. “Driven-Dissipative Phase Transition in a Kerr Oscillator: From Semiclassical PT Symmetry to Quantum Fluctuations.” Physical Review A 103, no. 3 (March 24, 2021): 033711. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.103.033711.

 

Roberts, Gregory, Conner Ballew, Tianzhe Zheng, Juan C. Garcia, Sarah Camayd-Muñoz, Philip W. C. Hon, and Andrei Faraon. “3D-Patterned Inverse-Designed Mid-Infrared Metaoptics.” Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (May 13, 2023): 2768. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-38258-2.

key words

field theory; phase transitions; full wave E&M simulations; Quantum Optics; Metaoptics; numerical simulations; nonlinear optics; metamaterials; theory

Citizenship:  Open to U.S. citizens and permanent residents

Level:  Open to Postdoctoral applicants

Additional Benefits

Relocation

Awardees who reside more than 50 miles from their host laboratory and remain on tenure for at least six months are eligible for paid relocation to within the vicinity of their host laboratory.

Health insurance

A group health insurance program is available to awardees and their qualifying dependents in the United States.