Professor Le Luo holds a Ph.D. in Physics and serves as Professor in the School of Physics and Astronomy at Sun Yat-sen University (Zhuhai, China), where he directs the Trapped Atoms and Ion Laboratory. He is concurrently appointed as Director of the Guangdong Province Key Laboratory for Quantum Metrology and Sensing and leads the Quantum Information Center at Sun Yat-sen University's Shenzhen Research Institute.

 

Professor Luo earned his BSc in Physics from Sun Yat-sen University (Guangzhou, China) in 1999 and his MSc in Optics from Peking University (Beijing, China) in 2002. He subsequently completed his MS and PhD in Physics at Duke University (Durham, NC, USA) in 2005 and 2008. During his doctoral studies, he was among the pioneering researchers who experimentally demonstrated Fermi condensation and Fermi superfluidity—recognized as the sixth state of matter. From 2008 to 2011, as a Joint Quantum Institute Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Maryland and NIST (MD, USA), he made significant contributions to national trapped-ion quantum computing initiatives, playing a pivotal role in developing the first-generation ion-trap quantum computing chip. Between 2011 and 2017, he served as Assistant Professor at IUPUI, establishing his Trapped Atoms and Ion Laboratory.

 

His research encompasses diverse topics in atomic, molecular, and optical physics—including cold atom physics, laser cooling/trapping, trapped-ion quantum information processing, quantum networks, and ultrafast nonlinear optics. Professor Luo's current work focuses on fundamental research using trapped quantum systems (ultracold atoms, ions, and confined photons) to explore quantum mechanics foundations, many-body phenomena, and applications in quantum simulation, information processing, and precision metrology.