Eric Switzer (Fed)

Eric Switzer is a theoretical condensed matter physicist at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST), working as a National Research Council Postdoctoral Associate with the Atom Scale Devices Group led by Garnett Bryant. His research is focused on the fundamental study of non-equilibrium phenomena in two-dimensional atomic and nanoscale devices, including transport in solid-state systems and the demonstration of many-body localized discrete time-crystalline behavior using transmon qubit-based quantum computers. Eric obtained his PhD at the University of Central Florida for his research on magnetic tripartite systems and their utility for quantum architectures, working in partnership with the Center for Molecular Magnetic Quantum Materials (M2QM), a Department of Energy, Basic Energy Science, Energy Frontier Research Center. As a postdoctoral scholar, he has worked at the University of Central Florida and Donostia International Physics Center. He developed models to predict transport properties of scanning tunneling microscope electron spin resonance systems and investigated optical, structural, and transport properties of organic molecules on metallic surfaces.