Bo Zhen, Ph.D.

Jin K. Lee Presidential Professor, Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania

 

2026 Experimental Physics Investigator

Bo Zhen, Ph.D.
Credit: Penn Arts & Sciences
 

Research Description

Bo Zhen’s research aims to develop superconducting metamaterials that can better control microwave signals used to control and measure quantum devices. His team plans to build tunable superconducting ring structures and combine them into larger arrays whose collective responses can give rise to properties not available in individual elements. By shaping how these structures confine, mediate, and amplify electromagnetic fields, the research will explore whether collective modes can produce exceptionally strong nonlinearities, improve the readout of electron spins, and accelerate interactions between quantum bits.

Research Impact

Professor Zhen’s work may enable faster and more efficient quantum measurements, improved low-noise amplification, and new strategies for linking quantum bits. It could also deepen our understanding of how collective material properties and quantum coherence can be used together in engineered systems.

 
 

related links

Experimental Physics Investigators Initiative Science University of Pennsylvania, Department of Physics and Astronomy Back

Education

Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 

B.S., Tsinghua University

Affiliated Investigators