Khatami, Ehsan
Professor of Physics
Preferred: ehsan.khatami@sjsu.edu
Telephone
Preferred: 408-924-5235
Education
- Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, University of Cincinnati, 2009
- Master of Science, Physics, Sharif University of Technology, 2004
- Bachelor of Science, Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, 2001
Research Interests
Strongly correlated electronic systems
Machine learning applications in quantum physics
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Numerical methods in condensed matter physics
Quantum information science
Recent Awards
Exceptional Levels of Service to Students
2021-2023 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics Scholar
SJSU Early Career Investigator Award
Selected Publications
- "Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator"
M. Lebrat, M. Xu, L. H. Kendrick, A. Kale, Y. Gang, P. Seetharaman, I. Morera, E. Khatami, E. Demler, M. Greiner
Nature 629, 317 (2024); arXiv:2308.12269
News article: ETH News - "Experimental Realization of an Extended Fermi-Hubbard Model Using a 2D Lattice of
Dopant-based Quantum Dots"
X. Wang, E. Khatami, F. Fei, J. Wyrick, P. Namboodiri, R. Kashid, A. F. Rigosi, G. Bryant and R. M. Silver
Nature Communications 13, 6824 (2022); arXiv:2110.08982
News brief: NIST News - "Machine learning in electronic quantum matter imaging experiments"
Yi Zhang, A. Mesaros, K. Fujita, S. D. Edkins, M. H. Hamidian, K. Ch'ng, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Séamus Davis, E. Khatami, Eun-Ah Kim
Nature 570, 484–490 (2019); arXiv:1808.00479
News articles: SJSU Newsroom, Cornell News, Nature News - "Spin transport in a Mott insulator of ultracold fermions"
M. A. Nichols, L. W. Cheuk, M. Okan, T. R. Hartke, E. Mendez, T. Senthil, E. Khatami, H. Zhang, M. W. Zwierlein
Science 363 383 (2019); arXiv:1802.10018
News article: MIT News - "Spin-imbalance in a 2D Fermi-Hubbard system"
P. T Brown, D. Mitra, E. Guardado-Sanchez, P. Schauß, S. S. Kondov, E. Khatami, T. Paiva, N. Trivedi, D. A. Huse, W. S. Bakr
Science 357 1385-1388 (2017); arXiv:1612.07746
News posts: Academic Spotlight blog, Research Matters, Princeton Press Release - "Machine learning phases of strongly correlated fermions"
K. Ch'ng, J. Carrasquilla, R. G. Melko, E. Khatami
Phys. Rev. X 7, 031038 (2017); arXiv:1609.02552
APS News: Condensed Matter Physics Gets an AI Assist; - "Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in the Hubbard model with ultracold
atoms"
R. A. Hart, P. M. Duarte, T.-L. Yang, X. Liu, T. Paiva, E. Khatami, R. T. Scalettar, N. Trivedi, D. A. Huse, and R. G. Hulet
Nature 519, 211-214 (2015); arXiv:1407.5932
Web stories: Science, Futurity, Physics Today
Check out my Google Scholar page for a complete list. Other preprints can be found in arXiv.
Funding
National Science Foundation (NSF): Condensed Matter and Materials Theory, AMO Theory/CMMT, and Major Research Instrumentation; CoS Blog and Department of Energy's Office of Science (AI for Strongly Correlated Materials)
Links
Spartan High-Performance Computing Facility (must be on campus network)
Teal High-Performance Computing Cluster (must be on campus network)