October, 2026: Our lab is featured in Sooner Magazine.
October, 2026: New publication in AVS Quantum Science “Optical nanofiber testbeds for benchmarking membrane-waveguide photonic integrated circuit platforms toward on-chip quantum inertial sensing“, is featured by the editor.
July, 2026: Congratulations team on the awarding of two new research grants!
NSF “Entangling Gates for Atom Interferometers” leveraging our optical tweezer array and entangling interactions via Rydberg states to explore the creation and dynamics of entangled matter waves that are sensitive to gravity.
DOE Genesis grant in collaboration with OSU and LANL: “AI-Driven Control and Optimization of QuDit Platforms in Rydberg Arrays” which seeks to understand how intelligent optimization can be used to manifest specific, and difficult to reach, quantum states in complex d-dimensional quantum systems.
July, 2026: We have a single-atom strontium array!
June, 2026: New publication in Physical Review A “Tuning glassy dynamics using programmable disorder in tweezer arrays“
May, 2026: Biedermann group co-organizes the 2026 Teacher Quantum Days at OU. Read about it here!
May, 2026: Congratulations to Dr. Luke Kraft for completing his PhD!
January, 2026: Congratulations to team Strongtium for their new publication in Physical Review A on new MOT loading techniques!
January, 2026: Congratulations to team AIG for their new publication in Physical Review Applied on a new Sr atom interferometer gyroscope and detection techniques!
January, 2026: Congratulations to team AIG for the submission of a new US Patent application for Sr AIG detection technique!
December 17, 2025:
Picture of our new strontium optical dipole trap!
October, 2025: Grant receives a new US patent #12/449,256 “Compact grating magneto-optical trap sensor head for inertial navigation in dynamic environments.”
October, 2025: In collaboration with our friends at Physical Science Inc., we have won a new grant for “Collimated Array of Neutral Atoms by Lithography of Silicon.” Congratulations Team!!!!
October, 2025: In collaboration with our friends Sandia National Laboratories., we have won a new grant for “Matterwave Sensing with Cold Atoms.” Congratulations Team!!!!
September, 2025: In collaboration with our friends in the group of Professor Bilitewski, we have won a new grant from DEPSCoR for “Spatio-Temporal Control for Quantum Simulation, Entanglement Generation and State Preparation of Bosonic States.” Congratulations Team!!!!
September, 2025: Grant receives a new US patent #12/424,810 “Compact atom interferometry inertial navigation sensors with tailored diffractive optics.”
December 17, 2025:
Strontium 3D MOT
July 17, 2024:
Strontium Winching Wednesday;
The new cell and and coils are in place
July, 2024: Grant receives a new US patent #11,971,256 “Guided cold atom inertial sensors with membrane integrated photonics on atom trap integrated platforms”
May 02, 2024:
Sweet dreams Y’all! Enjoy a picture of our first strontium 3D MOT
April 22, 2024:
Series of images of Cs atoms loaded in a 2D array trap
February, 2024: Grant receives a new US patent #11,914,188 “Suspended waveguides on membrane and needle structures towards photonic atom trap integrated platforms”
March 27, 2023: Boosting of single atom loading. Image of 29 atoms created with 32 traps:
January 26, 2023: Time-lapse of our lab build from Spring 2020 to Spring 2022
January 3, 2023: Grant receives a new US patent 11,545,815 “COMPACT LASER SOURCE WITH FREQUENCY MODULATORS GENERATING MULTIPLE LINES.”
December, 2022: Congratulations to Nathan Marliere who successfully defended his MS thesis on the strontium gyroscope project!
November 1, 2022: We’ve developed our own atom rearrangement capability to produce defect-free arrays of single atoms (qubits) for quantum information studies. Below are before and after images of single cesium atoms held in optical tweezers.
October 18, 2022: Grant presents at the Experimental Quantum Gravity and Quantum Information workshop at the University of New Hampshire.
July 29, 2022: In collaboration with our friends in the groups of Professor Blume and Professor Marino, we have won a new grant from the Keck Foundation to explore Quantum Synchronization. See OU news release here. Congratulations Team!!!!!
June 20, 2022: In collaboration with our friends in the group of Professor Lewis-Swan, we have won a new grant from DEPSCoR for “Probing the influence of anisotropic and disordered interactions on the dynamics of quantum information in a Rydberg tweezer array.” Congratulations Team!!!!
May 22, 2022: Single atom yo-yo
May 5, 2022: Jamie Boyd receives Departmental Fowler Prize for top graduating senior. Congratulations Jamie!!!!!
October 1, 2021: Marius Gaudesius to join the group for postdoctoral research. Welcome Marius!!!!!
September 12, 2021: The beginning of single atoms
May, 2021: Welcome to our new post doc Akbar Jahangiri Jozani!!!!! \:D/
April 15, 2021: Grant was recognized by the Vice President for Research and Partnerships Annual Award for Excellence in Research Grants for obtaining extramural sponsored research awards of $1 million or more during the past year.
April 1, 2021: Apparently, the Easter Bunny likes cold atoms! Chocolates are everywhere…
March 5, 2021: Congratulations team! Two new proposals have been awarded for experimental investigations of electrometry with Rydberg states and Matterwave interferometry. Contact Dr. Biedermann to join the team!
January 29, 2021: In collaboration with our friends at Sandia National Laboratories, three new papers are posted online!
- “Characterization of Suspended Membrane Waveguides towards a Photonic Atom Trap Integrated Platform,” arXiv:2101.00386 (2021)
- “Passively pumped vacuum package sustaining cold atoms for more than 200 days,” arXiv:2101.01051 (2021)
- “Membrane MOT in a Sub-Millimeter Membrane Hole,” arXiv:2011.06692 (2020)
August 11, 2020: In collaboration with our friends at Sandia National Laboratories, our new paper, “Characterization of Errors in Interferometry with Entangled Atoms,” has been accepted for publication in PRX, Quantum!
July 14, 2020: Cautious development continues on our new Cs experiment.
July 8, 2020: Our newest paper characterizing errors in interferometry with entangled atoms is posted online.
May 4, 2020: Welcome to our new group members: Jacob, Angela, Luke, Kevin and Alec!
February 18, 2020: In collaboration with our friends in the Deutsch group at the University of New Mexico and Los Alamos National Laboratory, our recent paper exploring a “Robust Molmer-Sorensen gate for neutral atoms using rapid adiabatic Rydberg dressing” was accepted in PRA rapid.
February 5, 2020: Snowing in Norman. Here’s a striking view of Lin Hall in the snow.
February 3, 2020: Dr. Hoang-Van Do has joined the group! Welcome!
February 2, 2020: Grant gives invited talk in San Francisco (Photonics West)
January 2020: Optical tables delivered to new lab space in Lin Hall!
January 7, 2020: Grant gives invited talk at Snowbird, Utah (Physics of Quantum Electronics)
