Posting Description

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATE, Materials Science and Engineering (DMSE) and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS)-Yet-Ming Chiang Group and Quantum Energy Science Group, to join an interdisciplinary research team investigating low-energy nuclear reactions in an ARPA-E research program. This research effort investigates reports of purported nuclear binding energy release in metal hydrogen systems from low-energy stimuli (e.g., laser pulses and induced phase transitions). Will lead replication efforts of experimental reports in the literature; work collaboratively to design novel experimental setups and protocols guided by recent theoretical insights and simulation results; and work at the intersection of quantum dynamics, nuclear physics, radiation diagnostics, and materials science and characterization. Accompanying theoretical efforts focus on the acceleration of hydrogen isotope fusion rates in metal hydrides as a result of collective superradiant effects (i.e., Dicke enhancement), which have been demonstrated to accelerate chemical reactions and nuclear decay.