Jared Hertzberg
PhD Student
Jared is a fifth-year PhD student at the University of Maryland, College Park. He joined the research group in 2003, and moved to Ithaca in 2007 after the group relocated to Cornell. He is currently working on coupling nanomechanical resonators to a superconducting qubit and to a superconducting microwave resonator.
Jared earned a B.A. in physics from Amherst College in 1998. While at Amherst, he worked for Dr Larry Hunter on atomic physics measurements of fundamental symmetries, as well as an unusual tabletop measurement of relativistic field transformations. After college, Jared worked for five years as a research engineer at United Technologies Research Center in East Hartford CT, where he undertook product development and testing of gas turbine engines, HVAC systems and hydrogen fuel cells. Jared also earned an M.S. in applied physics from Yale University in 2002. He entered UMD in 2003 and immediately began working with Dr Schwab.
Jared says, “What I want to do in this research group is to help demonstrate center-of-mass motion of a large mechanical structure as a quantum observable. This would be a really new and exciting type of measurement.” To this end, he has worked on the nanofabrication of mechanical resonators, RF circuits and Josephson-junction devices, he has helped demonstrate a new and efficient method for capacitive detection of nanomechanical motion, he has installed and operated many of the group’s cryogenic systems, and he has made extensive measurements of nanomechanical resonators at millikelvin temperatures. He has also been active in a collaboration involving the group of Anton Zeilinger and Markus Asplemeyer at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Vienna, Austria. Jared has helped to design and build the opto-mechanical resonators used in their experiments.
