Herbert Fotso, Ph.D.

Herbert Fotso is an associate professor of Physics at the University at Buffalo SUNY. He received his Ph.D. in 2011 at Louisiana State University (LSU). After completing his Ph.D., he had postdoctoral fellowships first at Georgetown University, then at the Department of Energy (DOE) Ames Laboratory in Ames IA. Following this, he joined the faculty in the department of Physics at the University at Albany where he was from September 2016 until August 2022.

In his research, Dr. Fotso studies the non-equilibrium dynamics of many-particle quantum systems. On the one hand, his focus is on the dynamics of correlated quantum systems away from equilibrium where the interest is to understand novel properties, and, to benchmark experimental efforts that probe non-equilibrium processes in relevant materials. Such non-equilibrium processes are pertinent for time-dependent spectroscopy experiments, and for experiments that use ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices to emulate fundamental lattice models.

On the other hand, his research aims to understand and optimize light-matter interfaces that are essential for fundamental photon-mediated operations in quantum information processing. On this front, he aims to supplement device/material engineering approaches with control protocols that rely on the application of external control fields to modulate spectral properties of different quantum emitters.