Hugh Churchill Source Confirmed

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◆ ARA Academy Federal Grant PI High Impact

Researcher

University of Arkansas at Fayetteville

faculty

23 h-index 125 pubs 5,349 cited

Research Areas

2D Materials and Applications Quantum and electron transport phenomena Physics of Superconductivity and Magnetism Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices Topological Insulators and Spintronics Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Thin Film Deposition and Characterization

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OverviewAI-generated summary

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Metrics

h-index: 23
Publications: 125
Citations: 5,349

Selected Publications

Diffusion-inspired quantum noise mitigation in parameterized quantum circuits (2025) DOI
Quantum oscillation studies of the nodal line semimetal Ni3In2S2-Se (2025) DOI
Large negative magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:mrow><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">G</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">d</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">S</mml:mi><mml:msub><mml:mi mathvariant="normal">e</mml:mi><mml:mn>3</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:mrow></mml:math> (2025) DOI
Hierarchical Quantum Control Gates for Functional MRI Understanding (2024) DOI
QClusformer: A Quantum Transformer-based Framework for Unsupervised Visual Clustering (2024) DOI
Hybrid Quantum Tabu Search for Solving the Vehicle Routing Problem (2024) DOI
Biaxial strain tuning of excitons in monolayer <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><mml:msub><mml:mi>MoSe</mml:mi><mml:mn>2</mml:mn></mml:msub></mml:math> by high-temperature physical vapor deposition (2024) DOI
Study of phase decoherence in GeSn (8%) through measurements of the weak antilocalization effect (2024) DOI
Diffusion-Inspired Quantum Noise Mitigation in Parameterized Quantum Circuits (2024) DOI
Insulator‐to‐Metal Transition and Isotropic Gigantic Magnetoresistance in Layered Magnetic Semiconductors (2024) DOI
Substrate Interference and Strain in the Second-Harmonic Generation from MoSe<sub>2</sub> Monolayers (2024) DOI
Quantum visual feature encoding revisited (2024) DOI
Surface Roughness Measurement of Functionalized CVD Graphene and Hexagonal Boron Nitride Heterostructures Using Atomic Force Microscopy (2024) DOI
Quantum Visual Feature Encoding Revisited (2024) DOI
Temperature, Sensitivity, and Frequency Response of AlN/GaN Heterostructure Micro-Hall Effect Sensor (2024) DOI

ARA Academy 2021 ARA Fellow

Dr. Churchill is an Arkansas native who earned his Ph.D. in Physics from Harvard University and held a Pappalardo Fellowship at MIT before joining the University of Arkansas in 2015. The Churchill Lab combines expertise in nanofabrication with quantum transport and optoelectronic characterization to investigate the electronic, magnetic, and optical properties of atomically thin 1D and 2D semiconductor quantum devices.

Policy Impact

Co-directs the MonArk NSF Quantum Foundry, securing major federal investment in quantum science and positioning Arkansas as a national player in quantum technology.