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Chapman IQS Joins NASA JPL’s Quantum Hub

Chapman University’s Institute for Quantum Studies (IQS) is excited to announce its membership in the NASA/JPL Quantum Hub, a new collaborative network uniting leading universities, NASA centers, and industry partners to advance quantum technologies for space.

As part of the Hub, Chapman will participate in joint research, educational initiatives, seminars, and workforce-development programs focused on quantum sensing, communication, and next-generation space applications.

This partnership places Chapman IQS at the forefront of cutting-edge quantum innovation and opens new opportunities for our students, researchers, and collaborators.

 

100 Years of Quantum: Perspectives on its Past, Present, and Future

As part of the 100 Years of Quantum celebration hosted by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, our faculty member Dr. Matt Leifer delivered a thought-provoking talk exploring the evolution of quantum theory over the past century. His presentation highlighted the deep conceptual challenges that have shaped quantum mechanics since its inception, as well as emerging ideas that could define its next hundred years.

We’re proud to see Dr. Leifer representing our institution at such a landmark event in the global physics community.

 

We’re Honored to be AIAOC Design Awards Winners!

Chapman University’s Killefer Institute for Quantum Studies has been honored by the AIA Orange County Design Awards in the Commercial > Built category! This LEED Gold–certified project celebrates the adaptive reuse of the historic 1931 Killefer School, transforming it into a state‑of‑the‑art research institute

 

 

The Institute for Quantum Studies is pleased to announce that Dr. Daniele Struppa has been appointed as an honorary director of the Institute. Dr. Struppa is a member of the newly formed steering committee for the Institute and will advise on topics in mathematics and its applications to quantum physics.

 

 

On August 6th, 2025, the Killefer Campus, where the Institute of Quantum Studies finds its home, was opened. During the opening, a new portrait of Daniele Struppa was unvieled honoring him as a pioneer of the Chapman Univeristy Institute.

 

 

 

 

 

After nearly a decade as Chapman University’s thirteenth president, Italian mathematician Daniele C. Struppa, Ph.D., will retire from the presidency effective September 1, 2025, and return to the mathematics faculty, see what the IQS Faculty has to say about the transition!

 

 

 

• Congratulations to Dr. Andrew Jordan for receiving the Medal of Honor from the Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Themodynamics conference in Prague, Czech Republic 2024!
• Andrew Jordan's work was featured in "A Quantum Leap in Power Generation" by Zeeya Merali by the John Templeton Foundation

 

• Quantum Measurement, Theory & Practice by Andrew N. Jordan and Irfan A. Siddiqi
• $3 Million Surprise Gift Endows Chairs in Math, Philosophy and Physics | Chapman Newsroom
•  Schmid College of Science and Technology and the MPP program will organize a conference on the utility of philosophy for the sciences. Info on this conference can be found here. 

 

Chapman Newsroom Article - Super Radar featuring Andrew N. Jordan and John C. Howell. University’s Institute for Quantum Studies has achieved a major breakthrough in radar research: for the first time, they’ve overcome the century‑old trade‑off between wavelength and distance resolution. Working with collaborators at Hebrew University, University of Rochester, the Perimeter Institute, and University of Waterloo, they used specially designed interference waveforms to sharpen distance measurements by 100× beyond what was thought possible

 

• Killefer building renovations to open new opportunities for research, engagement for Chapman University
• Renovations Begin on Historic Killefer School 
• John C. Howell, Andrew N. Jordan, Barbara Soda, and Achim Kempf's article was published in the Physical Review Letters, "Super Interferometirc Range Resolution." Physics commentary about the article can be found here.
• Super Radar: Breakthrough radar research overcomes a nearly century-old trade-off between wavelength and distance resolution by Dr. John Howell 
• The members of the Institute of Quantum Studies congratulate our Director, Yakir Aharonov, for winning the 2023 Pomeranchuk prize in physics, together with Arcady Tseytlin.The Pomeranchuk Prize is an international award for theoretical physics, awarded annually since 1998 by the Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP) from Moscow. It is named after the Russian physicist Isaak Yakovlevich Pomeranchuk, who together with Landau established the Theoretical Physics department of the Institute. 
  
• Andrew N. Jordan, Bibek Bhandari, Robert Czuprynaik, and Paolo Andrea Erdman's article in the Entropy Journal "Measurment-Based Quantum Thermal Machines with Feedback Control."
• Andrew N. Jordan and Alexia Auffeves  work on quantum measurement was published in Physical Review Letters, "Energetic Cost of Measurements Using Quantum, Coherent, and Thermal Light."
  
• Andrew N. Jordan, Irfan Siddiqi, and Justin Dressel's work on quantum error correction was published in Nature Communications, "Experimental demonstration of continuous quantum error correction."
  
• Read more about Andrew Jordan, the new Co-Director of the Institute for Quantum Studies, "Exploring Quantum Mysteries Drives Chapman Institute Toward Breakthroughs."
• IQS members Mordecai Waegell and Kelvin McQueen's work on Bell's theorem and the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics was featured in the New Scientist magazine article, "A classic quantum theorem may prove there are many parallel universes". The scientific article that this was based on, "Reformulating Bell's theorem: The search for a truly local quantum theory", was published in Studies in the History and Philosophy of Modern Physics in May 2020.
• IQS member Matt Leifer was interviewed on The Bus Driver Experience podcast by Brandon Reese. Listen to the episode now