Chris Ciccarino
Chris Ciccarino earned his B.S. in Physics and Chemistry from Seton Hall University in 2017 and his Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from Harvard University in 2022. His graduate research utilized first-principles methods to investigate the electronic and optical properties of point defects in solids, as well as key interactions in materials such as electron-phonon, spin-orbit and phonon-photon coupling. From 2022 to 2025, Chris was a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University, where he developed tools to model exciton-photon interactions from first principles and studied how materials respond to noisy periodic driving fields. At Santa Clara, Chris is interested in developing further our understanding of complicated quantum-mechanical interactions in materials. He is passionate about developing new theoretical frameworks, building physical intuition, and creating efficient computational tools to explore these phenomena.
- Yu., J., Ciccarino, C.J., Bianco, R., Errea, I., Narang, P., and Bernevig, B.A. “Non-trivial quantum geometry and the strength of electron-phonon coupling,” .
- Halbertal, D.*, Turkel, S.*, Ciccarino, C.J., Profe, J.B., Finney, H., Hsieh, V., Watanabe, K., Taniguchi, T., Hone, J., Dean, C., Narang, P., Pasupathy, A.N., Kennes, D.M., and Basov, D.N. “Unconventional non-local relaxation dynamics in a twisted trilayer graphene moiré superlattice,” .
- Moore, S., Ciccarino, C.J., Halbertal, D., McGilly, L., Finney, N., Yao, K., Shao, Y., Ni, G., Sternbach, A., Telford, E., Kim, B., Pasupathy, A., Dean, C., Hone, J., Schuck, P.J., Fogler, M., Narang, P., and Basov, D.N. “Local Lattice Dynamics in Hexagonal Boron Nitride Moiré Superlattices,” .
- Wang, D.S.*, Ciccarino, C.J.*, Flick, J., and Narang, P. “Hybridized defects in solid-state materials as artificial molecules,” .
- Head-Marsden, K.*, Flick, J.*, Ciccarino, C.J., and Narang, P. “Quantum information and algorithms for correlated quantum matter,” .
- Yin, Y., Coulter, J., Ciccarino, C.J., and Narang, P. “Theoretical investigation of charge density wave instability in CuS 2 ,” .
- Ciccarino, C.J.*, Flick, J.*, Harris, I., Trusheim, M., Englund, D.R., and Narang, P. “Strong spin-orbit quenching via the product Jahn-Teller effect in neutral group IV qubits in diamond,” .
- Harris, I.*, Ciccarino, C.J.*, Flick, J., Englund, D.R., and Narang, P. “Group III quantum defects in diamond are stable spin-1 color centers,” .
- Tian, X.*, Kim, D.S.*, Yang, S.*, Ciccarino, C.J., Gong, Y., Yang, Y., Yang, Y., Duschatko, B., Ajayan, P.M., Idrobo, J-.C., Narang, P. and Miao, J. “Correlating the three-dimensional atomic defects and electronic properties of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides,” .
- Hayee, F., Yu, L., Zhang, J.L, Ciccarino, C.J., Nguyen, M., Marshall, A.F., Aharonovich, I., Vuckovic, J., Narang, P., Heinz, T.F., and Dionne, J.A. “Revealing multiple classes of stable quantum emitters in hexagonal boron nitride with correlated optical and electron microscopy,” .
- Trusheim, M.E., Wan, N.H.*, Chen, K.C.*, Ciccarino, C.J., Flick, J., Sundararaman, R., Malladi, G., Bersin, E., Walsh, M., Leinhard, B., Bakhru, H., Narang, P., and Englund, D. “Lead-related quantum emitters in diamond,” .
- Ciccarino, C.J., Christensen, T., Sundararaman, R., and Narang, P. “Dynamics and Spin-Valley Locking Effects in Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides,” .