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Biography

Holland joined the faculty of the �鶹��Ѱ����� in 1996 and is a Fellow of JILA and teaches in the Department of Physics. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. from the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and his D.Phil. from the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom for the thesis “A measurement approach to the quantum dynamics of open systems.” Holland was the Associate Chair of JILA in 2011 and the Chair of JILA in 2013. Holland has developed a number of courses in Boulder as part of a quantum science stream, including quantum optics, and quantum computing at both the graduate and undergraduate level. He received the Department of Physics Outstanding Physics Teacher Award in 2024 and the Marinus Smith Award from the �鶹��Ѱ����� in 2019, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Research Interests

The Holland group's research includes experimental and theoretical work into the properties of Bose and Fermi quantum gases, covering optical lattices and strongly interacting superfluids. The group is working on developing a new kind of matter-wave interferometer that uses phase and amplitude modulation of an optical lattice to create pathway interference, an effort that involves both theory and experiment. The group is also working on superradiant cavity quantum electrodynamics with group-II elements with the aim to develop a millhertz linewidth laser. Further research interests encompass properties of many-ion crystals for purposes of quantum information studies, and superconducting qubits interacting with microwave fields. A major theme is the use of machine learning, in particular reinforcement learning, to quantum design.

Selected Publications

M. J. Holland and K. Burnett, ‘Interferometric detection of optical phase shifts at the Heisenberg limit’, Physical review letters, vol. 71, no. 9, p. 1355, 1993.

M. Chiofalo, M. Holland, S. Kokkelmans, and R. Walser, ‘Resonance Superfluidity in a Quantum Degenerate Fermi Gas’, Physical Review Letters, vol. 87, no. 12, 2003.

D. Meiser, J. Ye, D. R. Carlson, and M. J. Holland, ‘Prospects for a millihertz-linewidth laser’, Physical review letters, vol. 102, no. 16, p. 163601, 2009.

J. E. Williams and M. J. Holland, ‘Preparing topological states of a Bose--Einstein condensate’, Nature, vol. 401, no. 6753, pp. 568–572, 1999.

B. T. Seaman, M. Krämer, D. Z. Anderson, and M. J. Holland, ‘Atomtronics: Ultracold-atom analogs of electronic devices’, Physical Review A, vol. 75, no. 2, p. 023615, 2007.

C. LeDesma, K. Mehling, M. Holland, ‘Vector Atom Accelerometry in an Optical Lattice’, Science Advances 11 (23), eadt7480 (2025).

L.-Y. Chih and M. Holland, ‘Reinforcement-learning-based matter-wave interferometer in a shaken optical lattice’, Physical Review Research, vol. 3, no. 3, p. 033279, 2021.