Department of Physics<\/a> was the recipient of the top research paper award at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory\u2019s 2026 Molecular Foundry Annual User Meeting on Aug. 20-21 in Berkeley, California. Pan delivered an invited talk during the plenary session about his research on how sculpted light interacts with materials at the nanoscale.<\/p>\n\u201cLight is relatively inexpensive and operates at room temperature,\u201d Pan said. \u201cBy learning how to use light to interconnect quantum processor units via optoelectronic materials, we aim to make a quantum supercomputer reachable.\u201d<\/p>\n
Among his research interests are creating bright, controllable sources of quantum light, and using this light to study quantum materials.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur computational design could enable the creation of a variety of nanophotonic platforms for these applications,\u201d said Pan, who is currently teaching Physics Lab 3870 \u2014 Intermediate Physics Laboratory.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have to invent some of our own tools,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m recruiting undergraduates and graduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering, and other disciplines to join my team as we build our lab from the ground up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Through his association with Molecular Foundry, Pan has garnered contacts with researchers at multiple national labs and plans to help students pursue internships and fellowships funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, NASA, the National Science Foundation, and other entities.<\/p>\n
\u201cNanophotonics, quantum computing, and computational design are fascinating research fields with exciting career opportunities,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m excited to work with USU students and introduce them to top-level, national learning opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Quantum computing promises computational advantages that would smoke classical computing, but the rapidly advancing technology still faces formidable…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":852642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[191,10815,3,1026,16992,13546,74,7349,3324,57973],"class_list":["post-852641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-computing","tag-computing","tag-media","tag-news","tag-press-releases","tag-stories","tag-story","tag-technology","tag-today","tag-utah","tag-utah-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/852642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}