Quantum Materials, Devices and Sensing at 蘑菇tv
蘑菇tv is hiring six tenure-track faculty in quantum information science and engineering. The searches span five departments across the Colleges of Science and Engineering. The six hires are planned to work as one team with existing 蘑菇tv faculty.
Superconducting quantum computers are limited by their materials. Defects in thin oxides, substrates and interfaces are a leading limit on how long a qubit holds its state. A similar problem held back early transistors, until a grown oxide fixed the semiconductor surface.
蘑菇tv is hiring people to grow and control these films and interfaces, compute their defects, and build and measure devices from them. A synchrotron on campus lets us look at them. Simulation and AI on 蘑菇tv's supercomputers then help design the next material.
蘑菇tv is a partner in the Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center at Fermilab, with collaborations at Argonne and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The same superconducting devices make sensitive detectors, which connects the work to sensing for energy systems.
The six hires, together with existing 蘑菇tv faculty, cover this whole loop and can compete
for center-scale funding that no single group could win alone.
The Positions
We seek an experimentalist whose work advances the synthesis, interface control and characterization of quantum materials. Areas of interest include bulk crystals, superconducting thin films and heterostructures for quantum technologies, low-dimensional and two-dimensional materials, topological and correlated-electron systems, magnetic, spintronic and twistronic materials, and materials for quantum computing or quantum sensing. We also welcome research that develops or applies advanced characterization, including spectroscopy, microscopy and imaging, ultrafast and nonlinear techniques, and local probes.
Application deadline: November 30, 2026, or until a candidate is selected.
Questions? Contact the search co-chairs, Prof. Phil Sprunger (phils@lsu.edu) and Prof. Jim Sauls (sauls@lsu.edu).
We invite applicants with a strong record in experimental solid-state device physics, including superconducting, semiconducting and magnetic devices and hybrids of these, with potential applications in quantum computing and sensing. The research will complement the experimental and theoretical quantum science and technology groups in the Colleges of Science and Engineering. Same posting and contacts as Experimental Quantum Materials.
Application deadline: November 30, 2026, or until a candidate is selected.
Questions? Contact the search co-chairs, Prof. Phil Sprunger (phils@lsu.edu) and Prof. Jim Sauls (sauls@lsu.edu).
Posted as Computational Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. A computational or theoretical research program in quantum materials, quantum many-body phenomena, or the physics underlying quantum information processing, with a focus on quantum information science. The position offers close collaboration with experimental colleagues, connecting theory and computation with materials synthesis, characterization and devices, and with Chemical Engineering鈥檚 work in materials, catalysis, energy and advanced computation.
Questions? Contact the search chair, Prof. William Shelton, wshelton@lsu.edu.
A research program in computational chemistry with particular emphasis on excited states, electron correlation in molecular and solid-state systems, and simulating quantum algorithms and applying them to electronic structure problems.
Review of applications begins November 15, 2026.
Questions? Contact the search chair, Prof. Kenneth Lopata, klopata@lsu.edu.
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Questions? Contact the search chair, Prof. Tasnuva Farheen, tfarheen@lsu.edu.
Louisiana Light Source
The Louisiana Light Source, formerly CAMD, is one of two university-owned and operated synchrotrons in the United States. Its on-campus facility offers advanced X-ray spectroscopy, diffraction, scattering and tomography. The Light Source also operates a 2,500-square-foot ISO-5 clean room with tools for nanoscale fabrication, thin-film deposition, etching, imaging and materials characterization.
A $20 million NSF award will support the adjacent Laboratory for Next-Generation X-ray Science and Technology (LaNeXT). Its laser-driven X-rays will track atomic and electronic changes down to about 30 femtoseconds, enabling research in quantum materials and other fields.
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