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Mohammad Hafezi

Minta Martin Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics (Joint appointment), Simons Fellow

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Contact Information

UMD

Email:
hafezi@umd.edu
Office:

2307 Atlantic Building

Recent News

  • The head and shoulders of a man with a beard standing in front of an out of focus green wall.

    Hafezi Receives Humboldt Research Award

    June 13, 2025

    The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation has honored JQI Fellow Mohammad Hafezi for his impactful research and will support him visiting Germany to collaborate in person with colleagues there.

  • a schematic illustration of light carrying orbital angular momentum interacting with electrons in a sample of graphene

    Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick

    November 26, 2024

    Scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and matter demonstrated a novel way to use light to give electrons a spinning kick. In the journal Nature Photonics, they reported the results of an experiment, showing that a light beam can reliably transfer orbital angular momentum to itinerant electrons in graphene.

  • A dark reflective chip with gold lines on it and small wires coming from all sides. The chip is dominated by three squiggly lines that each lead down to rectangles that contain small bright dots in their center.

    New Design Packs Two Qubits into One Superconducting Junction

    October 21, 2024

    Quantum computers are the basis of a growing industry. However, their technology isn’t standardized yet, and researchers are still studying the physics that goes into quantum devices. Even the most basic building blocks of a quantum computer—qubits—are still an active research topic. In an article in the journal Physical Review A, JQI researchers proposed a way to use the physics of superconducting junctions to let each function as more than one qubit.