Ahmed Khalifa

About Me

I am a physicist working on strongly correlated quantum systems, with a focus on two-dimensional materials such as graphene and moiré heterostructures, as well as programmable quantum simulators like Rydberg atom arrays. My research combines analytical theory and large-scale numerical methods to explore emergent quantum phases, their excitations, and their dynamics. I am broadly interested in understanding how collective behavior arises from simple microscopic interactions, with implications for quantum information science and novel quantum materials. I received my PhD from Univeristy of Kentucky in 2023 and am currently a postdoctoral scholar at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.