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Lida Xu

Graduate Student

Graduate Student
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Contact Information

Email:
lidaxu66@umd.edu

About

Research Areas: 

  • Topological physics with light
  • Many-body physics

Research Groups

Recent Publications

Recent News

  • Mohammad Hafezi sits in a laboratory setting, gesturing with his hands while speaking.

    JQI Researchers Win UMD's Quantum Technology Invention of the Year

    May 22, 2026

    The team helped develop specially engineered photonic structures to guide light in stable and resilient ways.

  • a graphic showing a chip with an array of rings that guides light and turns one color of light into many

    With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion

    November 14, 2025

    Researchers at JQI have designed and tested new chips that reliably convert one color of light into a trio of hues. Remarkably, the chips all work without any active inputs or painstaking optimization—a major improvement over previous methods.

  • close up of a grid of rings with light swirling inside and spikes jutting out representing the elements of a frequency comb

    New Photonic Chip Spawns Nested Topological Frequency Comb

    June 20, 2024

    In new work, researchers at JQI have combined two lines of research into a new method for generating frequency combs.