Jason Robert Petta (born 1975) is a physics researcher, professor, and noted contributor to developments in quantum computing.
[1][2]: iii After graduating Cornell with his Ph.D., Petta worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Charlie Marcus's research group at Harvard University, participating in experiments trapping and detecting singular electrons and controlling spin states with two electrons.
[3] Petta left Harvard and started a position at Caltech in 2006, before joining Princeton University in 2007.
This was touted as a milestone in physics by Princeton, and experts such as David DiVincenzo commended the discovery.
[10] At UCLA, he is a faculty member in the Department of Physics & Astronomy,[11] works for the Center for Quantum Science and Engineering,[12] and moved into his eponymous Petta Lab in May 2023.