Harle
Nikhil Harle
Nikhil completed his undergraduate degree in intensive physics at Yale, where he worked with Peter Schiffer and Michel Devoret on projects studying emergent order in artificial spin ice systems and fundamental paradigms of quantum mechanics (in addition to a brief foray into COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic). After working on projects implementing digital quantum simulations at IBM, Nikhil started his PhD at UChicago under Hannes Bernien, where he worked on a second generation dual-species tweezer array before transferring to JILA. Nikhil is thrilled to join the Yb team and build a second-second-gen experiment.
The Physics Frontiers Centers (PFC) program supports university-based centers and institutes where the collective efforts of a larger group of individuals can enable transformational advances in the most promising research areas. The program is designed to foster major breakthroughs at the intellectual frontiers of physics by providing needed resources such as combinations of talents, skills, disciplines, and/or specialized infrastructure, not usually available to individual investigators or small groups, in an environment in which the collective efforts of the larger group can be shown to be seminal to promoting significant progress in the science and the education of students. PFCs also include creative, substantive activities aimed at enhancing education, broadening participation of traditionally underrepresented groups, and outreach to the scientific community and general public.