Hadiseh Alaeian

Abstract Large-scale quantum technologies require coherence across distant nodes, necessitating indistinguishable quantum states. However, environmental disorder, including dephasing, spectral diffusion, and spin-bath interactions, undermines coherence. Using statistical methods, we uncover correlations in decoherence channels induced by slowly varying environments.

In this study, we present an exploration of spontaneous symmetry breaking and pattern formation in the driven-dissipative system of Rydberg exciton polaritons with long-range interactions. Our investigation unravels the pattern formations through modulational instability, characterized by scales in the micron range. We observe the dynamics of the polariton ensemble, studying the emergence of metastable patterns and their eventual collapse in the long-time limit.

Bio Professor Hadiseh Alaeian received her Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Stanford University in 2015. For her dissertation focused on the studies of non-Hermitian and active photonic systems, she received the silver medal from Materials Research Society in 2015. After her graduation, she moved to Germany first, as a Humboldt postdoctoral fellow at the University of Bonn and later as a junior group leader at the 5th institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart.