Vedika_Khemani

Vedika Khemani
Vedika Khemani (born 1988) is an Indian-American

physicist and Associate Professor of Physics at Vedika Khemani
Stanford University. Her research lies at the Alma mater Princeton University
intersection of many-body quantum condensed matter Harvey Mudd College
physics and quantum information theory. La Martiniere Calcutta
Scientific career
Thesis Quantum order, entanglement
Early life and education and localization in many body
systems. (http://www.worldcat.or
Khemani was born in India and was educated through g/oclc/974650484) (2016)
high-school at La Martiniere Calcutta. She moved to
Doctoral Shivaji Sondhi
the United States to study physics at Harvey Mudd
advisor
College, where she completed a senior thesis on
gravitational holography. Her undergraduate thesis was
awarded the Thomas Benjamin Brown Memorial Award. Alongside her physics courses, Khemani
completed courses in mathematics, computer science, economics, linguistics and creative writing.[1] She
also took part in robotics programs and competed at national robotics competitions. After completing her
undergraduate degree in 2010, she moved to Princeton University as a graduate student.[1] Following her
PhD studies, Khemani was a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows.[2][3]
Research and career

Khemani's research focuses on non-equilibrium many-body quantum dynamics. As part of her doctoral
research, Khemani identified a novel non-equilibrium phase of matter known as a Floquet time-crystal.[4]
Such crystals demonstrate spontaneous breaking of time translation symmetry.[5][6][7] In conventional
crystals, atoms are arranged in regular and ordered patterns, whereas in time crystals they are arranged in
both space and time.[6][7]
Awards and honours

2022 Breakthrough New Horizons in Physics Prize[8]
2020 Department of Physics at the University of Illinois McMillan Award[9]

2020 American Physical Society George E. Valley Jr. Prize[10]
2020 United States Department of Energy Early Career Award[11]
2020 Sloan Research Fellowship[12][13]
Select publications
Khemani, Vedika; Lazarides, Achilleas; Moessner, Roderich; Sondhi, S. L. (2016-06-21).
"Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems" (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhysRevLett.11
6.250401). Physical Review Letters. 116 (25): 250401. arXiv:1508.03344 (https://arxiv.org/a
bs/1508.03344). Bibcode:2016PhRvL.116y0401K (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016P
hRvL.116y0401K). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.250401 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhys
RevLett.116.250401). PMID 27391704 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27391704).
Mi, Xiao; Ippoliti, Matteo...; Khemani, Vedika; Roushan, Pedram (2022). "Time-crystalline
eigenstate order on a quantum processor" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8
791837). Nature. 601 (7894): 531–536. doi:10.1038/s41586-021-04257-w (https://doi.org/1
0.1038%2Fs41586-021-04257-w). PMC 8791837 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article
s/PMC8791837).
Choi, Jae-yoon; Hild, Sebastian; Zeiher, Johannes; Schauß, Peter; Rubio-Abadal, Antonio;
Yefsah, Tarik; Khemani, Vedika; Huse, David A.; Bloch, Immanuel; Gross, Christian (2016-
06-24). "Exploring the many-body localization transition in two dimensions" (https://www.scie
nce.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaf8834). Science. 352 (6293): 1547–1552. arXiv:1604.04178
(https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.04178). Bibcode:2016Sci...352.1547C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.
edu/abs/2016Sci...352.1547C). doi:10.1126/science.aaf8834 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fsci
ence.aaf8834). ISSN 0036-8075 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0036-8075).
PMID 27339981 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27339981). S2CID 35012132 (https://api.
semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:35012132).
Choi, Soonwon; Choi, Joonhee; Landig, Renate; Kucsko, Georg; Zhou, Hengyun; Isoya,
Junichi; Jelezko, Fedor; Onoda, Shinobu; Sumiya, Hitoshi; Khemani, Vedika; von
Keyserlingk, Curt (2017). "Observation of discrete time-crystalline order in a disordered
dipolar many-body system" (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5349499).
Nature. 543 (7644): 221–225. arXiv:1610.08057 (https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.08057).
Bibcode:2017Natur.543..221C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017Natur.543..221C).
doi:10.1038/nature21426 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature21426). ISSN 1476-4687 (http
s://search.worldcat.org/issn/1476-4687). PMC 5349499 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/a
rticles/PMC5349499). PMID 28277511 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28277511).
Personal life and education

In 2013 Khemani married David Coats, whom she met at Harvey Mudd College.[14]
References
1. Khemani, Vedika (2012-02-01). "Why a Liberal Arts Education Matters" (https://india.blogs.n
ytimes.com/2012/02/01/choice-on-india-ink-liberal/). India Ink. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
2. "LMG two blaze Harvard trail" (https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/lmg-two-blaze-h
arvard-trail/cid/1502591). www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
3. "Senior & Junior Fellows (current academic year)" (https://socfell.fas.harvard.edu/news-even
ts). socfell.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
4. Khemani, Vedika; Lazarides, Achilleas; Moessner, Roderich; Sondhi, S. L. (2016-06-21).
"Phase Structure of Driven Quantum Systems" (https://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevLet
t.116.250401). Physical Review Letters. 116 (25): 250401. arXiv:1508.03344 (https://arxiv.or
g/abs/1508.03344). doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.250401 (https://doi.org/10.1103%2FPhys
RevLett.116.250401). ISSN 0031-9007 (https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0031-9007).
5. "Creating time crystals: Physicists create new form of matter that may hold the key to
developing quantum machines" (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170417155
014.htm). ScienceDaily. Retrieved 2020-08-20. "Led by Professors of Physics Mikhail Lukin
and Eugene Demler, a team consisting of post-doctoral fellows Renate Landig and Georg
Kucsko, Junior Fellow Vedika Khemani, and Physics Department graduate students
Soonwon Choi, Joonhee Choi and Hengyun Zhou built a quantum system using a small
piece of diamond embedded with millions of atomic-scale impurities known as nitrogen-
vacancy (NV) centers. Other co-authors of the study are Junichi Isoya, Shinobu Onoda,and
Hitoshi Sumiya from University of Tsukuba, Takasaki Advanced Research Institute and
Sumitomo, Fedor Jelezko from University of Ulm, Curt von Keyserlingk from Princeton
University and Norman Y. Yao from UC Berkeley."
6. "Researchers create 'time crystals' envisioned by Princeton scientists" (https://phys.org/new
s/2017-03-crystals-envisioned-princeton-scientists.html). phys.org. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
"Princeton postdoctoral researcher Curt von Keyserlingk, who contributed additional
theoretical work with Khemani and Sondhi, said, "We explained how the time crystal
systems lock into the persistent oscillations that signify a spontaneous breaking of time
translation symmetry." Additional work by researchers at Microsoft's Station Q and the
University of California-Berkeley led to further understanding of time crystals. As a result of
these theoretical studies, two groups of experimenters began attempting to build time
crystals in the laboratory."
7. "Eternal Change for No Energy: A Time Crystal Finally Made Real" (https://www.quantamag
azine.org/first-time-crystal-built-using-googles-quantum-computer-20210730/). Quanta
Magazine. 2021-07-30.
8. "WINNERS OF THE 2022 BREAKTHROUGH PRIZES IN LIFE SCIENCES,
FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS AND MATHEMATICS ANNOUNCED" (https://breakthroughprize.
org/News/65). BreakthroughPrize.org. September 9, 2021. Retrieved September 10, 2021.
"Beyond the main prizes, six New Horizons Prizes, each of $100,000, were distributed
between 13 early-career scientists and mathematicians who have already made a
substantial impact on their fields....[including a 2022 New Horizons in Physics Prize to
Dominic Else, Vedika Khemani, Haruki Watanabe, and Norman Y. Yao for] pioneering
theoretical work formulating novel phases of non-equilibrium quantum matter, including time
crystals."
9. "McMillan Award | ILLINOIS PHYSICS" (https://physics.illinois.edu/people/honors-and-awar
ds/mcmillan-award). physics.illinois.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
10. "2021 George E. Valley Jr. Prize Recipient" (https://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/pri
zerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Khemani&first_nm=Vedika&year=2021). www.aps.org. Retrieved
2020-08-20.
11. "Five Indian Americans Receive US DoE Early Career Award" (https://www.theindianpanora
ma.news/frontpage-news/five-indian-americans-receive-us-doe-early-career-award/). The
Indian Panorama. 2020-07-18. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
12. Staff Writer. "Several Indian-Americans Among 2020 Sloan Research Fellows | News India
Times" (https://www.newsindiatimes.com/several-indian-americans-among-2020-sloan-rese
arch-fellows/). Retrieved 2020-08-20.
13. "2020 Fellows" (https://sloan.org/fellowships/2020-Fellows). sloan.org. Retrieved
2020-08-20.
14. "David Coats ('08) and Vedika Khemani ('10) Marry" (https://physics.hmc.edu/news/22/).
physics.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2020-08-20.
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Vedika Khemani (born 1988) is an Indian-American

Research and career

Awards and honours

2020 Department of Physics at the University of Illinois McMillan Award[9]

Personal life and education

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