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Marianna Safronova
Marianna Safronova
Our research group specializes in the high precision theoretical treatment of atomic systems. These
studies are required to make advances in our understanding of parity nonconservation in heavy atoms. Parity
nonconservation is a critical test of the standard model of the elementary particle physics
and led to a first measurement of the nuclear anapole moment.
Another project the group works on is quantum computation. Quantum computation is a new field
of research that is aimed at using quantum nature of matter to produce fundamentally new
methods of computation and simulation of physical systems. We are currently investigating the
quantum computation scheme with neutral atoms, where the qubits are realized as internal states
of neutral atoms trapped in optical lattices or microtraps. This approach to quantum computation
has many advantages, such as scalability, possible massive parallelism, long decoherence
times of the internal states of the atoms, flexibility in controlling atomic interactions,
and well-developed experimental techniques.
EDUCATION
| 2001 | Ph.D, Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame |
| 1994 | M.S. Moscow State University, Department of Physics |
| 1994 | B.S. Moscow State University, Department of Physics |
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
| 2008-present | Associate Professor
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Delaware |
| 2003-2008 | Assistant Professor
Dept. Physics & Astronomy, Univ. of Delaware |
| 2001-2003 | Postdoctoral Research Associate
Dept. of Physics, University of Notre Dame |
| 2001-2003 | Guest Researcher
National Institute of Standards and Technology |
GRANTS
| 2008-2011 | National Science Foundation ($255k)
New Directions in Atomic PNC |
| 2008-2011 | National Institute of Standards and Technology ($165k)
Modeling of optically trapped atoms for quantum information and atomic clocks
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| 2005-2008 | National Science Foundation ($180k)
Collaborative research: New Directions in Atomic PNC |
| 2004-2007 | National Institute of Standards and Technology ($147k)
Modeling of quantum logic operations with trapped neutral atoms |
| 2005 | University of Delaware Research Foundation ($25,000)
Optical atomic clock with trapped ytterbium atoms |
HONORS AND AWARDS
| 2000 | SGI Award for Excellence in Computational Sciences and Visualization |
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Contact Information
Marianna Safronova
University of Delaware
Physics & Astronomy
214 Sharp Laboratory
Newark, DE 19716
msafrono@physics.udel.edu
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office: 302-831-8767
fax: 302-831-1637
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