Dmitry Pushin

Dmitry Pushin
Associate Professor
Location: RA2 1116
Phone: 519-888-4567 x31193

Biography

Dmitry Pushin uses his broad background to apply quantum information processing methods to improve neutron interferometry, with the goal of making it accessible to the general scientific community as a resource for studying fundamental questions of physics, dark energy, phase transitions in condensed matter, magnetic materials in functional devices and materials science.

Research Interests

  • Experimental Neutron Physics

  • Interferometry Quantum Information

  • Condensed Matter Physics

  • Condensed Matter

  • Quantum Science

  • Quantum Information Processing

Scholarly Research

Education

  • 2006 PhD Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

  • 1997 MSc Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russian Federation

  • 1995 BSc Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Moscow Region, Russian Federation

Affiliations and Volunteer Work

  • Faculty member, Institute for Quantum Computing

Teaching*

  • MNS 321 - Electrical and Optical Properties of Materials
    • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • MNS 410 - Special Topics in Solid-State Materials
    • Taught in 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025
  • PHYS 704 - Statistical Physics 1
    • Taught in 2020, 2021
  • PHYS 768 - Special Topics in Quantum Information Processing
    • Taught in 2020
  • QIC 890 - Topics in Quantum Information
    • Taught in 2020

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Selected/Recent Publications

  • Controlling neutron orbital angular momentum CW Clark, R Barankov, MG Huber, M Arif, DG Cory, DA Pushin Nature 525 (7570), 504-506

  • Spin-Orbit States of Neutron Wavepackets J Nsofini, D Sarenac, CJ Wood, DG Cory, M Arif, CW Clark, MG Huber, Dmitry A Pushin ​Phys. Rev. A 94, 013605 – Published 13 July 2016

  • Neutron Limit on the Strongly-Coupled Chameleon Field K Li, M Arif, DG Cory, R Haun, B Heacock, MG Huber, J Nsofini, ...Phys. Rev. D 93, 062001 – Published 11 March 2016

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