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Department of Physics ● University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
329 Loomis Laboratory of Physics
1110 West Green Street
Urbana, IL 61801-3080 USA
217.244.9848 (phone) ● 217.244.7559 (fax) ● bdemarco@uiuc.edu
Dr. Brian DeMarco received his B.A. degree in Physics from the State University of New York at Geneseo in 1996 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 2001. For his graduate work at the University of Colorado, DeMarco assembled one of the first experiments to cool 40K atoms into the ultra-cold regime and subsequently produced the first Fermi gas of atoms. DeMarco and his thesis advisor Deborah Jin were able to create this novel state of matter two years in advance of competing efforts despite starting several years behind other experiments. Their achievement was selected as one of the top ten scientific breakthroughs of 1999 by Science magazine. For his work with Fermi gases, including several foundational experimental and theoretical papers, DeMarco was awarded the first JILA Scientific Achievement Award in 2002 and the American Physical Society’s Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP) Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in 2002.
From 2001–2003 DeMarco held a National Research Council Fellowship at NIST, where he worked on quantum information experiments using trapped atomic ions with David Wineland. DeMarco’s work with the NIST Ion Storage Group resulted in some of the first experiments demonstrating that scalable quantum computing is possible in the trapped ion system. For his graduate and post-doctoral work with neutral and charged ultra-cold trapped atoms, DeMarco was awarded the Michelson Post-doctoral Lectureship Prize from Case Western Reserve University in 2003.
In 2003 DeMarco joined the Physics Department at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) as an assistant professor. Combining his expertise in ultra-cold atom gas experiments and quantum state control of trapped ions, DeMarco has started a new effort at UIUC aimed at realizing quantum simulation using atoms trapped in an optical lattice. Since joining UIUC, DeMarco has been awarded the Office of Naval Research Outstanding Young Investigator Award, an NSF CAREER award, and a Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship for his research plans. DeMarco also won a $20,000 cash first prize at the Amazing Light Symposium worldwide Young Scholars Competition for young physicists working on “big problems.”
Awards and Honors
State University of New York at Geneseo Outstanding Young Alumnus Award, 2006.
Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, 2006.
UIUC Center for Advanced Study Beckman Fellow, 2006-2007.
1st prize in Quantum Physics session at the Amazing Light Young Scholars Competition, 2005.
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2005.
Office of Naval Research Outstanding Young Investigator Award, 2004.
Michelson Post-doctoral Lectureship Prize, Case Western Reserve University, 2003.
Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (DAMOP thesis prize), American Physical Society, 2002.
National Research Council (NRC) post-doctoral fellowship, 2001–2003.
JILA Scientific Achievement Award, 2000.
Science Magazine listed the article Onset of Fermi degeneracy in a trapped atomic gas among the Top Ten Scientific Breakthroughs of 1999.
University of Colorado Physics Fellowship 1996–1998.
Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, 1995–1996.
Invited talks
Experiments on transport and disorder in the Bose-Hubbard model
University of Maryland / JQI seminar, 2008
UT Austin Complex Quantum Systems seminar, 2008
Caltech condensed matter seminar, 2008
ICAM Conductor-Insulator Quantum Phase Transitions Workshop, OSU, 2008
Summer School on Novel Quantum Phases and Non-equilibrium Phenomena in Cold Atomic Gases, Trieste, 2007
Disorder in Condensed Matter and Cold Atoms, Leiden, 2007
University of New Mexico Physics Colloquium, 2007
Observation of Metallic Behavior in an Atomic Bose-Hubbard System
KITP Program: Strongly Correlated Phases in Condensed Matter and Degenerate Atomic Systems, 2007
Simulating quantum magnetism (and other Hubbard physics) using optical lattices
MIT CUA seminar, 2007.
Simulating quantum magnetism using optical lattices
SQUINT, 2007.
APS March Meeting, 2007.
Progress toward Quantum Simulation using Ultra-cold atoms
CIAR Ultra-cold matter workshop, Banff Centre, 2006
What is Absolute Zero?
Saturday Honors Physics program talk, 2004
Quantum simulation using Ultra-cold atoms
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, CM/AMO seminar, 2005.
Amazing Light Symposium, 2005.
Aspen Center for Physics, 2005.
Optical Society of America, New Laser Scientist Workshop, 2004.
Progress Toward Scalable Trapped Ion Quantum Computing
Northwestern University quantum optics seminar, 2004.
Argonne National Labs Physics Division seminar, 2004.
University of Toronto physics seminar, 2003.
Washington State University physics colloquium, 2003.
Laser Science XIX meeting, 2003.
March APS meeting symposium on “Scalable AMO Approaches to Quantum Computing,” 2003.
An Atomic Abacus: Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Experiments at NIST
Berkeley University physics colloquium, 2003.
New York University physics colloquium, 2003.
Penn State University Condensed matter and Atomic and Molecular Physics Symposium, 2003.
University of Oregon physics colloquium, 2003.
University of Chicago physics colloquium, 2003.
JILA colloquium, 2003.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign quantum information symposium, 2002.
Colorado State University physics colloquium, 2002.
Quantum Behavior of an Atomic Fermi Gas
University of Connecticut physics colloquium, 2002.
Recent Developments in the NIST Quantum Computing Group
QUEST meeting, 2002.
Quantum Behavior of an Atomic Fermi Gas
DAMOP thesis prize session, 2002.
Trapped-ion Quantum-state Processing Experiments at NIST
SQuInT Meeting, 2002.
Probing a Quantum Degenerate Gas of Fermionic 40K atoms
CNRS workshop “Quantum Degeneracy in Trapped Gases,” 2000.
Quantum Degeneracy in a Fermionic Atom Gas
CLEO/QELS, 2000.
Exploring a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Atom Gas
Four Corners meeting of the American Physical Society, 2000.
Probing a Quantum Degenerate Gas of Fermionic 40K Atoms
Workshop on Multi-Component and Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensates of Trapped Dilute Vapors, ITAMP/Rochester Theory Center, 1999.
Publications
M. Pasienski and B. DeMarco, A high-accuracy algorithm for designing arbitrary holographic atom traps, Optics Express 16, 2176 (2008).
D. McKay, M. White, M. Pasienski, and B. DeMarco, Phase-slip induced dissipation in an atomic Bose-Hubbard system, arxiv:0708.3074, accepted for publication in Nature (2008).
M. White, H. Gao, M. Pasienski, B. DeMarco, Bose-Einstein condensates in RF-dressed adiabatic potentials, Phys. Rev. A 74, 023616 (2006).
C. Langer,R. Ozeri, J. D. Jost, J. Chiaverini, B. DeMarco,A. Ben-Kish,R. B. Blakestad, J. Britton, D. B. Hume, W. M. Itano, D. Leibfried, R. Reichle, T. Rosenband, T. Schaetz,P. O. Schmidt,and D. J. Wineland, Long-lived qubit memory using atomic ions, Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 060502 (2005).
M. D. Barrett, B. DeMarco, T. Schaetz, D. Leibfried, J. Britton, J. Chiaverini, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, J. D. Jost, C. Langer, T. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland, Sympathetic Cooling of 9Be+ and 24Mg+ for Quantum Logic, Phys. Rev. A 68, 042302 (2003).
D. Leibfried, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, A. Ben-Kish, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, C. Langer, T. Rosenband and D. J. Wineland, Experimental Demonstration of a Geometric Phase Gate, Nature 422, 412 (2003).
A. Ben-Kish, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B.M. Jelenković, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, T. Rosenband, D.J. Wineland, Experimental Demonstration of a Technique to Generate Arbitrary Quantum Superposition States of a Harmonically Bound Spin-1/2 Particle, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 037902 (2003).
D. Leibfried, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, A. Ben-Kish, M. Barrett, J. Hughes, W.M. Itano, B.M. Jelenković, C. Langer, D. Lucas, R. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland, Towards Quantum Information with Trapped Ions at NIST, J. Phys. B 36, 599 (2003).
D. Leibfried, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, A. Ben-Kish, M. Barrett, J. Hughes, W.M. Itano, B.M. Jelenković, C. Langer, D. Lucas, R. Rosenband, and D. J. Wineland, Quantum Information with Trapped Ions at NIST, J. Mod. Opt. 50, 1115 (2003).
D.J. Wineland, M. Barrett, J. Britton, J. Chiaverini, B. DeMarco, W.M. Itano, B. Jelenković, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, V. Meyer, T. Rosenband, and T. Schatz, Quantum Information Processing with Trapped Ions, Philos. T. Roy. Soc. A 361, 1349 (2003).
B. DeMarco, A. Ben-Kish, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, J. Britton, W.M. Itano, B.M. Jelenković, C. Langer, D. Leibfried, T. Rosenband and D.J. Wineland, Experimental Demonstration of a Controlled-NOT Wave-packet Gate, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 267901 (2002).
D. Leibfried, B. DeMarco, V. Meyer, M. Rowe, A. Ben-Kish, J. Britton, W. M. Itano, B. Jelenković, C. Langer, T. Rosenband and D. J. Wineland, Trapped-Ion Quantum Simulator: Experimental Application to Nonlinear Interferometers, Phys. Rev. Lett. 89, 247901 (2002).
M.A. Rowe, A. Ben-Kish, B. DeMarco, D. Leibfried, V. Meyer, J. Britton, W.M. Itano, B. Jelenković, C.Langer, T. Rosenband, and D.J. Wineland, Transport of Quantum States and Separation of Ions in a Dual RF Ion Trap, Quant. Info. Compt. 4, 257 (2002).
B. DeMarco and D.S. Jin, Spin Excitations in a Fermi Gas of Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 88, 040405 (2002).
J. Goldwin, S.B. Papp, B. DeMarco, and D.S. Jin, A Two-species Magneto-Optical Trap with 40K and 87Rb, Phys. Rev. A 65, 021402R (2002).
B. DeMarco, S.B. Papp, and D.S. Jin, Pauli Blocking of Collisions in a Quantum Degenerate Atomic Fermi Gas, Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5409 (2001).
D.S. Jin, B. DeMarco, and S. Papp, Exploring a Quantum Degenerate Fermi gas, At. Phys. 551, 414 (2000).
M.J. Holland, B. DeMarco, and D.S. Jin, Evaporative Cooling of a Two Component Fermi Gas, Phys. Rev. A 61, 053610 (2000).
B. DeMarco and D.S. Jin, Onset of Fermi Degeneracy in a Trapped Atomic Gas, Science 285, 1703 (1999).
B. DeMarco, J. L. Bohn, J. P. Burke, Jr., M. Holland, and D. S. Jin, Measurement of p-Wave Threshold Law Using Evaporatively Cooled Fermionic Atoms, Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 4208 (1999).
B. DeMarco and D.S. Jin, Exploring a Quantum Degenerate Gas of Fermionic Atoms, Phys. Rev. A 58, R4276 (1999).
B. DeMarco, H. Rohner, and D.S. Jin, An Enriched 40K Source for Fermionic Atom Studies, Rev. Sci. Instrum. 70, 1967 (1998).
