{"id":81,"date":"2025-09-08T22:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T22:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2025-09-26T20:13:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T20:13:40","slug":"parsons-lab","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/","title":{"rendered":"Parsons Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"702\"><em><span style=\"font-size: 24pt\">We will recruit a new PhD student for the 2026-2027 academic year.\u00a0 If you are interested, apply to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ece.uw.edu\/academics\/grad\/\">UW ECE PhD program<\/a>.<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"702\"><strong data-start=\"144\" data-end=\"290\">Our lab builds quantum hardware for computing, sensing, and communication by combining atomic physics with optical and electrical engineering.<\/strong> We mostly shine lasers and microwaves at atoms\u2014or atom-like systems\u2014to control their quantum states. Right now, we\u2019re focused on developing the two <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uw.edu\/qt3-lab\/home\">QT3 lab<\/a> testbeds: (1) a neutral atom quantum processor using rubidium, where we will develop new ways to scale up optical control, and (2) a diamond-based platform using single nitrogen-vacancy centers and nearby nuclear spins for exploring quantum networks and precision sensing.\u00a0 We collaborate closely with <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/uw.edu\/optospintronics-lab\/home\">Kai-Mei Fu&#8217;s Quantum Defect Lab<\/a> on the diamond testbed.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"873\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-84\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2261\" height=\"1273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1.jpg 2261w, https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2025\/09\/group_photo_202411-1-2048x1153.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2261px) 100vw, 2261px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"782\" data-end=\"873\">\ud83d\udccd Located in the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/N86AXFkCLXxA3Yu98\">Paul Allen Center at the University of Washington.<\/a><br data-start=\"1352\" data-end=\"1355\" \/>\ud83d\udce9 Interested in working with us? Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/join-us\/\">Join Us.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We will recruit a new PhD student for the 2026-2027 academic year.\u00a0 If you are interested, apply to the UW ECE PhD program. Our lab builds quantum hardware for computing, sensing, and communication by combining atomic physics with optical and electrical engineering. We mostly shine lasers and microwaves at atoms\u2014or atom-like systems\u2014to control their quantum [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ece.uw.edu\/parsons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}