Simon's lab engineers strong, atom-mediated interactions between photons in optical cavities -- using Rydberg dressing of intracavity atoms -- to synthesize interacting quantum photonic matter and study fundamental nonclassical light phenomena, effectively building tunable many-body systems out of light itself.

Suleymanzade builds hybrid quantum systems that couple Rydberg atoms, superconducting circuits, and nanophotonics to create new quantum interfaces and entanglement resources for quantum networking, communication, and sensing, following earlier work on silicon-vacancy diamond quantum networks. The lab is actively recruiting postdocs.