Eve Bodnia

Biography

I got my B.S. degree from UC Berkeley where I worked on background signals at Particle Identification in Xenon at Yale (PIXeY) group led by Prof. Dan Mckinsey. After spending a gap year at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab working in particle physics, I started my PhD with Prof. Dirk Bouwmeester (Physics, UCSB) in collaboration with Yale University, and currently co-advised by Prof. Vojtech Vlcek (Chemistry UCSB), Prof. Peter Rakich (Applied Physics, Yale), Prof. Shruti Puri (Physics, Yale), and Prof. Daniel Blumenthal (Engineering science, UCSB)

Research

My research is focused on photon-phonon quantum interconnect via Brillouin-based optomechanics with the special task of identifying and investigating novel applications for superfluid optomechanics, inspired by superconducting quantum circuits. I love to explore the similarities between superconducting quantum circuits and the novel concept of superfluid quantum circuits, Josephson effects, light-matter interaction, the confinement problem in Cooper-based systems using the tools of relativistic quantum field theory. My current clean room work is focused on creating various phononic-photonic crystal membranes and investigate anharmonic phonon oscillations due to the superfluid Josephson effect. The theory work we do with Prof. Vlcek and Prof. Bouwmeester is focused on quantum field theories of light-matter interaction in phase-transitioning systems