Welcome to the new INSPIRE Potentials — Quantum Center Master Awardees We are delighted to introduce Jiangjing DONG, Luise Müller and Irene Occhiodori as the latest INSPIRE Potentials - Quantum Center Master Award winners. The award recognises outstanding and highly motivated female students who are about to conduct their Master's thesis in one of the groups of the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich. Jiangjing Dong is conducting her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2024 in the Computational Lattice Field Theory group of Prof. Marina Krstic Marinkovic (D-PHYS, ETH Zürich), focusing on dynamical signatures of quantum many-body scars in quantum link models. She obtained her Bachelor's degree in the Ingénieur Polytechnicien programme at the École Polytechnique, majoring in physics. Luise Müller is a Master’s student in physics with a Bachelor’s degree from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. She is pursuing her Master's thesis during the Autumn Semester 2024 in the Hybrid Quantum Systems group of Prof. Yiwen Chu (D-PHYS, ETH Zürich), investigating the inverse Purcell effect when coupling a high-overtone bulk acoustic wave resonator (HBAR) to a superconducting qubit, focusing on how the properties of the qubit affect the lifetime of the resonator. Irene Occhiodori will conduct her Master's thesis in the Autumn Semester 2024 in the group of Prof. federico capasso at Harvard University, co-supervised by Prof. David Norris (Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering (D-MAVT), ETH Zurich). This joint project focuses on the enhancement of the second-harmonic signal of multi-quantum well devices through the design of metasurfaces. She received a grant from the Zeno Karl Schindler Foundation, Geneva to support her research stay at Harvard. Prior to joining ETH Zürich, she earned a Bachelor's degree in materials and nanotechnology engineering from the Politecnico di Milano. Our cordial congratulations to all three awardees. It has become a tradition to invite all the INSPIRE Potentials — Quantum Center Master Awardees to lunch twice a year, where we present the certificate to the newest winners. The event provides a perfect opportunity for exchange and for the awardees of previous years to share their experiences. More about the INSPIRE Potentials — Quantum Center Master Awards https://lnkd.in/dVySBpCF The next deadline for applications is 15 January 2025 #ETHQC
Quantum Center, ETH Zurich
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Bringing together the various scientific and structural activities in quantum science and technology at ETH Zurich.
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The Quantum Center is the central hub for coordinating the various scientific and structural activities in quantum science and technology across departments at ETH Zurich, and to develop a sustainable basis for research and teaching in this emerging discipline.
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A fruitful exchange between the Canadian and Swiss quantum communities Last week, Quantum Center Executive Director Anu Unnikrishnan had the pleasure and privilege of participating in the Swiss-Canadian Quantum Symposium held at Platform Calgary. This event was a part of the “Swiss Innovation meets Alberta” week and was organised by Urs Obrist, Senior Science and Technology Counsellor at the Embassy of Switzerland in Canada. The focus of the two-day exchange between the Canadian and Swiss quantum communities was to get a broad overview of the quantum ecosystems in each country, to learn about current research topics, to identify potential for collaborations and exchange programmes — and to have the opportunity to meet each other in person. The opening session of the first day was dedicated to introductions to the Swiss and Canadian quantum ecosystems, with talks by Barry Sanders (University of Calgary/Quantum City), Wolfgang Tittel (University of Geneva/Swiss Quantum Commission), Catherine Lefebvre, PhD (GESDA - Geneva Science and Diplomacy Anticipator/OQI – Open Quantum Institute), Alannah Hallas (The University of British Columbia/CIFAR) and Anu Unnikrishnan (Quantum Center, ETH Zurich). These presentations were followed by a panel discussion moderated by Brendan Karch of Swissnex in Boston and New York. On the second day, key players in the quantum field from both countries delivered lightning talks elaborating on both academic and industrial perspectives. Among more than a dozen speakers, Anu Unnikrishnan presented the broad activities at ETH Zürich, with Philippe Caroff of the EPFL Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE) reporting on the programmes at EPFL. We thank the organisers for providing this excellent platform for exchange, and all the participants — including the Swiss Ambassador to Canada, Olaf Kjelsen, and Consul General Thomas Schneider — for their contributions and interest. We look forward to many fruitful exchanges in the future.
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Inaugural Quantum Center Research Fellowships awarded We are pleased to announce that the first Quantum Center Research Fellowships have been awarded to Lorenzo Dania, Clara Galante Agero and Frieder Lindel. The Quantum Center Research Fellowship programme is endowed by the “Dr. Alfred and Flora Spälti Fonds“ and the "Heidi Ras Foundation" and funds PhD students and postdocs hosted by member groups of the Quantum Center at ETH Zürich. The fellowships support innovative, original research that aligns with the interests of the host group while fostering the fellow's independence. In addition, each fellow helps to bring together the doctoral and postdoctoral community in the Quantum Center, for example by organizing technical exchanges or social activities. Lorenzo Dania completed his PhD at Universität Innsbruck in December 2023, working on hybrid quantum systems with charged nanoparticles and atomic ions. In 2023, he joined the Photonics Laboratory of Lukas Novotny (ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering), where now, as a Quantum Center Research Fellow, he is studying the birth and death of large quantum states of motion using optically levitated nanoparticles. Clara Galante studied physics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and at ETH Zürich. She completed her Master's thesis in physics at ETH, focusing on gate-defined Josephson junctions in magic-angle twisted four-layer graphene. In June 2024, Clara started her PhD thesis in the Nanophysics Group of Klaus Ensslin, supervised by Thomas Ihn (D-PHYS, ETH Zürich). As a Quantum Center Research Fellow she will work in the same group on gate-defined qubits in bilayer-graphene quantum dots. Frieder Lindel received his PhD from the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau in June 2024, where he worked on the detection of quantum states of light in space and time and their use for optimal control. In March 2024, he started a postdoctoral position at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. From February 2025, Frieder will be a Quantum Center Research Fellow in the groups of Eugene Demler and Jerome Faist (both at D-PHYS, ETH Zürich), where he will explore ways to control emergent phenomena in quantum many-body systems by strongly coupling them to tailored vacuum fluctuations in a cavity. More about the Quantum Center Research Fellows https://lnkd.in/dXcWAYmC More on the Quantum Center Research Fellowship https://lnkd.in/dDzD6a4d
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A new class of MSc students in Quantum Engineering The Quantum Center faculty and departments provide a broad educational offering in quantum science, technology and engineering at ETH Zürich. One of the outstanding programmes is the Master's Degree in Quantum Engineering, which was created as one of the first such initiatives worldwide in 2019, as a joint programme of the ETH Zurich, Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering and D-PHYS, ETH Zürich. On 17 September, the latest class of MSc students in Quantum Engineering started their studies. After a welcome event introducing them to the programme, they attended the first Pauli Lecture gives by Prof. John Preskill from Caltech (see https://lnkd.in/dtZ9KWbS), which was followed by a reception where all students had the opportunity to network with the Quantum Engineering community at and around ETH Zürich. More about the MSc Quantum Engineering programme https://master-qe.ethz.ch/ More about education in quantum science, technology and engineering at ETH Zürich https://lnkd.in/gCc6ZRH9 #ETHQC #QuantumEngineering Quantum Engineering Commission
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👉 A noisy, intermediate-scale and fun quantum endeavour 💡 This year's Wolfgang Pauli Lecture was devoted to #physics: John Preskill offered an engaging overview of #quantum information science, from entanglement to error correction for quantum computing, and discussed some of his recent research activities. Read the article about his time at ETH Zurich: https://lnkd.in/dtZ9KWbS If you missed one or all of Preskill's talks, find the recordings here: https://lnkd.in/diRTRsdG D-PHYS ETH Zürich Quantum Center, ETH Zurich
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Forging and strengthening connections at #QIDiS2024 Monday of this week was the 7th Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland (#QIDiS). This event has long become a fixture in the calendar of the Swiss quantum community. After three editions in the TECHNOPARK® Zürich (2018, 2019 and 2022), two online (2020 and 2021) and last year's in the SwissTech Convention Center on the campus of EPFL, #QIDiS2024 was hosted by QuantumBasel at uptownBasel. For us, this was once again a wonderful opportunity to catch up with colleagues and partners, and to meet new ones. We were pleased to see the lively interest in the Quantum Center and in quantum research at ETH Zürich, and we greatly enjoyed the exchange with participants from various fields who visited our booth. As the name of the event suggests, there has been a clear focus on industry. We followed with particular interest the presentations of our corporate partners QZabre LLC in the Quantum Sensors session, Zurich Instruments in the Quantum Instrumentation session, and Bosch in the Quantum Computing session, as well as that of ETH spin-off ZuriQ in the Business Development session — reflecting the enormous breadth of the quantum ecosystem covered by both QIDiS and by the Quantum Center. Similarly, we were delighted to see a strong turnout from the younger generation and in particular from ETH Quantum Engineering Masters students. Their enthusiasm for insightful discussions and networking opportunities was palpable, leaving no doubt that the future of this field is very bright. The Quantum Center, ETH Zurich was proud to co-organise the event, alongside CSEM, the Enterprise Europe Network (EEN) Switzerland, Euresearch, IBM Research, ID Quantique, Innosuisse, NCCR SPIN: Spin Qubits in Silicon and Zurich Instruments, and in partnership with the EPFL Center for Quantum Science and Engineering (QSE), Swissmem and the Swiss Quantum Initiative. Further information: https://lnkd.in/g_e_v4ar #QIDiS #QIDiS2024 Quantum Engineering Commission
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A stimulating Quantum Center Colloquium with Jelena Vuckovic On Monday this week, Jelena Vuckovic from the Ginzton Laboratory at Stanford University visited the Quantum Center at ETH Zürich. She gave a well-attended Quantum Center Colloquium on scalable semiconductor quantum-photonic systems, hosted by Atac Imamoglu (D-PHYS, ETH Zürich), which attracted great interest — and many stimulating questions. Equally stimulating was the exchange with several members of the Quantum Centre and their groups. We much appreciate the time our guest has taken for her visit and the insightful discussions with her. (Photos: Kilian Kessler, D-PHYS, ETH Zürich)
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Max Planck-Humboldt Medal to Torsten Hoefler Congratulations to Quantum Center member Torsten Hoefler (Department of Computer Science (D-INFK), ETH Zürich) on being selected as one of this year's recipients of the Max Planck–Humboldt Medal. The award recognises Hoefler's pioneering research in computer science, with a focus on increasing the efficiency of algorithms, particularly for applications in high-performance computing and artificial intelligence. His approaches have led to significant advances in various fields, including quantum science, where his team has found ways to significantly speed up highly complex computational problems such as quantum simulations, which are important to the semiconductor industry. Read more https://lnkd.in/emuYgZrQ
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Courses in quantum science and technology at ETH Next week, the autumn semester 2024 starts at ETH Zürich. Also this semester, a broad spectrum of lectures on quantum science and technology are on offer. We have complied a list of all introductory, basic, and advanced and specialized courses across ETH departments: https://lnkd.in/dyd8Ceyg
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Quantum Center Colloquium with Jelena Vuckovic — Monday, 16 September 2024, 16:00 CEST We are pleased to announce the upcoming Quantum Center Colloquium with Jelena Vuckovic (Ginzton Laboratory, Stanford University), on scalable semiconductor quantum photonic systems. Monday, 16 September 2024, 16:00 CEST ETH Zürich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4 Host: Atac Imamoglu, D-PHYS, ETH Zürich https://lnkd.in/dcBJ4wJe