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August 1, 2025: Philip presented a poster on "Realization of a Magneto-Optical Trap for Neutral Atom Quantum Computing" at the Summer Research Symposium, WSU.

June 27, 2025: Dr. Mei delivered a talk on “Distributed neutral atom quantum network with atomic ensemble antenna” at the APS NWS annual meeting 2025 at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

May 27, 2025: Philip Conte joined the group as a REU student. Welcome!

May 1, 2025: Dr. Mei received the New Faculty Seed Grant. We thank the WSU Office of Research and the Office of the Provost for their generous support on our project to develop a next-generation distributed quantum network. [WSU News]

April 21, 2025: Dyson received Donaldson/Dickinson Undergraduate Summer Research Award. Congrats!

November 4, 2024: Dr. Mei delivered a talk on “Distributed Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms and Photons” at University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA.

November 1, 2024: Dr. Mei delivered a talk on “Distributed Quantum Computing with Neutral Atoms and Photons” at Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA.

October 2, 2024: Our work of "Dipole moment of a super-atom" was accepted by Physical Review Letters.

August 5, 2024: Sushil Adhikari joined the group as a PhD graduate student. Welcome!

August 2, 2024: Elinor presented a poster on "Degenerate Biphoton Generation in the Heisenberg-Langevin picture" at the Summer Research Symposium, WSU.

July 16, 2024: Our work of "Symmetry Protected Two-Photon Coherence Time" was published in Physical Review Letters.

July 1, 2024: Dr. Honghui Chen joined the group as a postdoctoral research associate. Welcome!

June 21, 2024: Dr. Mei delivered a talk on “Symmetry in Optical Four-Wave Mixing” and chaired the Session P01: Nuclear Physics/Biophysics/Particle Physics at the APS NWS annual meeting 2024 at the University of Washington, Bothell, WA, USA.

June 7, 2024: Dr. Mei delivered a talk on “Langevin Quantum theory for coupled phase-conjugated electromagnetic fields” at the 55th DAMOP 2024 in Fort Worth, TX, USA.

May 29, 2024: Elinor Kay joined the group as a REU student. Welcome!

April 15, 2024: Yuxiang accepted an offer from the University of Arizona. Congrats!

March 21, 2024: We hosted a talk on “Distributed Quantum Computing with Shared Quantum Gate Processing Unit” by Dr. Shengwang Du from the University of Texas at Dallas.

February 7, 2024: Dyson Whitney joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!

October 21, 2023: Dr. Mei delivered an invited talk on “Quantum Networking with Atomic and Photonic Qubits” at the Fall 2023 Meeting of the APS Northwest Section at the College of Western Idaho, USA.

October 17, 2023: Fangyu Shang joined the group as a PhD graduate student. Welcome!

October 16, 2023: Our work of "Interference bunching and antibunching of coherent and atomic radiation fields" was published in Phys. Rev. A 108, 043713 (2023).

October 8, 2023: Scott Hillen joined the group as a PhD graduate student. Welcome!

September 14, 2023: Jonathan Marion joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!

August 16, 2023: Rashard Hawkins joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!

August 16, 2023: Ian Kleditz joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!

August 16, 2023: Yuxiang Luo joined the group as an undergraduate student. Welcome!

August 16, 2023: Dr. Mei joined the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University.

May 25, 2023: Dr. Mei received and accepted the position of assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Washington State University.