Dr. Charles Brown

Biography

Charles D. Brown II is an Assistant Professor of Physics at Yale University. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota and his Ph.D. from Yale. While a graduate student in Jack Harris' group, he conducted experiments involving superfluid-helium-filled optical cavities and characterized new experiments studying magnetically levitated drops of superfluid helium in vacuum. Following his doctoral work, Charles was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, under Dan Stamper-Kurn, where he focused on experiments with ultracold atomic gases trapped in optical lattices. Since joining the Yale Department of Physics in 2023, his research aims to explore single, few, and many-body quantum physics through quantum simulation experiments. His group traps ultracold atoms in optical lattice potentials, which act as an ultracold atom quantum simulator, and investigates exotic order phases of ultracold bosons and fermions. His scholarly contributions have been recognized with awards such as the Quantum Creators Prize in 2021 and several fellowships from the National Academies.

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