Khatami, Ehsan

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Education

Doctor of Philosophy, Physics, University of Cincinnati, 2009
Master of Science, Physics, Sharif University of Technology, 2004
Bachelor of Science, Physics, Isfahan University of Technology, 2001

Research Interests

Strongly correlated electronic systems
Machine learning applications in quantum physics
Ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Numerical methods in condensed matter physics
Quantum information science

Recent Awards

Dean's Scholar (2025)

2025 Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) Fellow

Exceptional Levels of Service to Students, 2021 & 2023

2021-2023 KITP Scholar

SJSU Early Career Investigator Award

Selected Publications

"Observation of Nagaoka polarons in a Fermi–Hubbard quantum simulator"
M. Lebrat, M. Xu, L. H. Kendrick, A. Kale, Y. Gang, P. Seetharaman, I. Morera, E. Khatami, E. Demler, M. Greiner
Nature 629, 317 (2024); arXiv:2308.12269
News article: ETH News
"Experimental Realization of an Extended Fermi-Hubbard Model Using a 2D Lattice of Dopant-based Quantum Dots"
X. Wang, E. Khatami, F. Fei, J. Wyrick, P. Namboodiri, R. Kashid, A. F. Rigosi, G. Bryant and R. M. Silver
Nature Communications 13, 6824 (2022); arXiv:2110.08982
News brief: NIST News
"Machine learning in electronic quantum matter imaging experiments"
Yi Zhang, A. Mesaros, K. Fujita, S. D. Edkins, M. H. Hamidian, K. Ch'ng, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, J. C. Séamus Davis, E. Khatami, Eun-Ah Kim
Nature 570, 484–490 (2019); arXiv:1808.00479
News articles: SJSU Newsroom, Cornell News, Nature News
"Spin transport in a Mott insulator of ultracold fermions"
M. A. Nichols, L. W. Cheuk, M. Okan, T. R. Hartke, E. Mendez, T. Senthil, E. Khatami, H. Zhang, M. W. Zwierlein
Science 363 383 (2019); arXiv:1802.10018
News article: MIT News
"Spin-imbalance in a 2D Fermi-Hubbard system"
P. T Brown, D. Mitra, E. Guardado-Sanchez, P. Schauß, S. S. Kondov, E. Khatami, T. Paiva, N. Trivedi, D. A. Huse, W. S. Bakr
Science 357 1385-1388 (2017); arXiv:1612.07746
News posts: Academic Spotlight blog, Research Matters, Princeton Press Release
"Machine learning phases of strongly correlated fermions"
K. Ch'ng, J. Carrasquilla, R. G. Melko, E. Khatami
Phys. Rev. X 7, 031038 (2017); arXiv:1609.02552
APS News: Condensed Matter Physics Gets an AI Assist;
"Observation of antiferromagnetic correlations in the Hubbard model with ultracold atoms"
R. A. Hart, P. M. Duarte, T.-L. Yang, X. Liu, T. Paiva, E. Khatami, R. T. Scalettar, N. Trivedi, D. A. Huse, and R. G. Hulet
Nature 519, 211-214 (2015); arXiv:1407.5932
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