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Nathalie
de Leon

Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Co-Director, Princeton Quantum Initiative

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Research interests: Building quantum hardware with color centers in wide bandgap materials, such as NV centers in diamond. Optics and photonics, surface science and materials engineering, atomic and molecular spectroscopy, nanofabrication, and cryogenics.

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Experimental setup with green laser light and a small diamond sample between metal contacts.
Researchers led by Nathalie de Leon have developed a magnetic sensing technique using quantum entanglement to detect previously hidden fluctuations in advanced materials such as superconductors. The researchers implant point defects in lab-grown diamonds to reveal an unprecedented look at magnetic field structure and correlated noise, a quantity that is beyond the reach of existing instruments. Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

Diamond defects, now in pairs, reveal hidden fluctuations in the quantum world

Tweezers hold a quantum microchip.
Princeton Engineers have introduced a superconducting quantum computing chip with qubits that last more than 1 millisecond, three times longer than the best ever reported in a lab setting and nearly fifteen times longer than industry standard processors. Photos by Matthew Raspanti, Office of Communications

Princeton’s new quantum chip built for scale

A person (face not visible) wearing a white lab coat and blue disposable gloves holds a square lab plate in their left hand. Their right hand holds a pair of tweezers which they are using to pick up one of several small green plants on the plate.
Jonathan Conway, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering, received an innovation grant for the project “Engineering symbiotic plant-microbe interactions for sustainable agriculture.” Photo by Sameer A. Khan/Fotobuddy

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Researcher solders in lab.

Princeton introduces a Ph.D. program at intersection of quantum physics and information theory

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Andrew Houck, left, and Ali Yazdani, right, are co-directors of the Princeton Quantum Initiative. Nathalie de Leon, center, is director of graduate studies for the initiative’s newly launched Ph.D. program.

Princeton expands its commitment to research and education in quantum science and engineering

Flat synthetic diamond illuminated by green laser light
Using specially designed diamonds with nitrogen-vacancy centers, researchers at Princeton University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a technique to measure noise in a material by studying correlations, and they can use this information to learn the spatial structure and time-varying nature of the noise. In this image, a diamond with near-surface nitrogen-vacancy centers is illuminated by green laser light from a microscope objective lens. Photo by David Kelly Crow

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