Mohammad Hafezi
University of Maryland
RQS Senior Investigator
Contact Information
- hafezi@umd.edu
- Office:
2307 Atlantic Building
Additional Information
- CV:
- Mohammad-Hafezi_CV-website.pdf
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Bio
Mohammad Hafezi is a Minta Martin Professor with a joint appointment in physics and electrical and computer engineering at the University of Maryland. He is also a Fellow in the Joint Quantum Institute. Hafezi leads a research group that aims to theoretically and experimentally investigate various quantum properties of light-matter interaction for applications in future optoelectronic devices, quantum information processing, and sensing. He received his doctorate in physics from Harvard University in 2009.
Recent Publications
Fault-tolerant fermionic quantum computing
, , arXiv, (2025)Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum simulator
, , Nature Physics, 21, (2025)Schuckert et al_2023_Observation of a finite-energy phase transition in a one-dimensional quantum.pdfRandom Pulse Sequences for Qubit Noise Spectroscopy
, , Phys. Rev. Applied, (2025)2303.00909v1.pdf
Research Group
Hafezi Research Group
Affiliated Research Centers
QuICS
JQI
Recent News
![The head and shoulders of a man with a beard standing in front of an out of focus green wall.]()
Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award
June 16, 2025![Collage of quantum researchers.]()
![In this superconducting circuit studied in Alicia Kollár’s lab, the middle of the three rectangles along the bottom are junctions that hold quantum states that may each be used as a qubit.]()
New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction
October 21, 2024
