Lawrence Cheuk

Lawrence Cheuk is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Princeton University. He leads the Cheuk Lab, part of the Princeton Quantum Initiative, focusing on quantum science with ultracold and laser-cooled molecules. His research develops platforms for quantum simulation and information processing using optical tweezer arrays and molecules.

• Education: Ph.D. in Physics from MIT (2017), Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University (2017).
• Affiliations: Committee member of the American Physical Society (APS) DAMOP Program Committee.

His research interests include laser cooling techniques, optical trapping, and molecular quantum systems. Key focuses are long-range interactions in ultracold molecules and applications in quantum metrology and quantum information processing. Recent work demonstrates entanglement of molecules in reconfigurable optical traps and imaging techniques for single molecules.

Awards include the 2023 Air Force Office of Scientific Research YIP Award, 2023 Outstanding Young Researcher Award (IOPCA), and 2022 Sloan Fellowship. His lab actively recruits students and postdocs via programs like the Dicke Fellowship.

Grants and advising: Advises Connor Holland and Callum Welsh. Research grants include funding from the AFOSR and NSF. The lab’s future work emphasizes scalable quantum computing platforms and molecular qubit systems.

Labs/Teams: Cheuk Lab (Princeton Quantum Initiative) explores ultracold AMO systems for quantum technologies, with a focus on molecule-by-molecule quantum simulation and quantum-enhanced metrology.