Thompson Research Group
Group Lead
All Group Members
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Daohong Xu
Student
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Chenyuan Li
Student
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Xiaoyang Liu
Student
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Judd William Staples
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Alumni
Recent Publications
Extended Rydberg Lifetimes in a Cryogenic Atom Array
, , arXiv, (2026)Fast single-atom preparation in optical tweezers via Rydberg blockade
, , arXiv, (2026)High-fidelity neutral atom gates leveraging low-rank Hessian optimization
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