Lunch Seminar

The 'QSIT Lunch Seminar' took place every first Thursday of a month at 12:00 in the room HPF G6, ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg. There were two talks of 30 minutes duration jointly presented by two collaborators from different research groups. At 13:00 free pizza / lasgna was offered to the participants.  

September 1, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Towards a Bulk Acoustic Quantum Transducer
Maxwell Drimmer - Hybrid Quantum Systems Group (Chu group), ETH Zurich

Towards fast entangling operations in trapped ions with integrated photonics
Alfredo Ricci - Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group (Home group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 7, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Nanoparticle Levitation in a Hybrid Paul-Optical Trap
Eric Bonvin - Photonics Laboratory (Novotny group), ETH Zurich

Towards surface NMR using Nitrogen-Vacancy Centers in diamond
Konstantin Herb - Spin Physics Group (Degen group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 2, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

A Loophole-Free Bell Test with Superconducting Circuits
Simon Storz - Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

Experimental investigation of vacuum field correlations in causally disconnected space-time regions
Alexa Herter - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 5, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Modifying the integer quantum Hall effect with cavity vacuum fields
Josefine Enkner - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Anonymous, Robust Post-Quantum Public Key Encryption
Varun Maram - Applied Cryptography Group (Paterson group), Quantum Center, ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 7, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Heteroepitaxial growth of semiconductor/superconductor hybrid structures
Erik Cheah - Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials Group (Wegscheider group), ETH Zurich

Metamaterials breaking time-reversal symmetry
Johan Andberger - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 3, 2022

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Quantum optomechanics with a levitated nanoparticle in free space
Massimiliano Rossi - Photonics Laboratory (Novotny group), ETH Zurich

Superconducting devices in twisted bilayer graphene
Elías Portolés - Nanophysics Group (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

December 2, 2021

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Parity measurement in the strong dispersive regime of circuit quantum acoustodynamics
Yu Yang - Hybrid Quantum Systems (Chu group), ETH Zurich

Challenges for Practical Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution
Ramona Wolf - Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 4, 2021

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Phonon lasing in the quantum regime with mixed-species trapped ions
Tanja Behrle - Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group (Home group), ETH Zurich

Integration of MoS2 Monolayers onto III-V Nanowires into 1D/2D Heterostructures
Valerio Piazza - Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials (Fontcuberta group), EPF Lausanne

abstracts

October 7, 2021

ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting

Higgs analysis with quantum classifiers
Vasileios Belis - Institute of Particle Physics and Astrophysics (Dissertori group), ETH Zurich

Membrane-based scanning force microscopy
Thomas Gisler - Spin Physics Group (Degen group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 2, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Engineering Dynamical Tunneling in Quantum Gas Coupled to a Cavity
Rodrigo Rosa-Medina - Quantum Optics Group (Esslinger group), ETH Zurich

Tunable quantum confinement of neutral excitons using electric fields and exciton-charge interactions
Deepankur Thureja - Quantum Photonics Group (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 1, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting, please join via this external page link

15-year QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Lunch Seminar

To celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Lunch seminar, we invite you to this special edition where we welcome back two of the early Lunch seminar speakers - Andrea Hofmann and Johannes Fink. We will hear about their past experiences, current research and plans for the future.
A brief history of the Lunch seminar will be presented by Klaus Ensslin and Andreas Wallraff. At the end of the seminar we invite you to network with us on Gathertown.
We hope to see many of you - past and present QSIT and Quantum Center, ETH Zurich members - there!
 

Program:

12:00 - 12:10
History of the Lunch Seminar and NCCR QSIT

Klaus Ensslin (Director NCCR QSIT) and Andreas Wallraff (Founding Director Quantum Center, ETH Zurich)

12:10 - 12:40
Scientific talks by two of the early Lunch seminar speakers
Andrea Hofmann - previously a PhD student in Klaus Ensslin’s group (ETH Zurich)
Johannes Fink - previously a PhD student in Andreas Wallraff’s group (ETH Zurich), now PI of the Quantum Integrated Devices laboratory at IST Austria
abstracts

12:40 - 13:00
Interview with Andrea Hofmann and Johannes Fink
moderated by Chiara Decaroli (Outreach officer at the Quantum Center, ETH Zurich)

13:00 - 13:15
Questions from the audience

13:15 - open end
Networking on Gather.town

see also Conferences & Events

June 3, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

How to reach the motional ground state of a nanoparticle?
Nadine Meyer - Nanophotonic Systems Laboratory (Quidant group), Quantum Center, ETH Zurich

Universal quantum computing using electro-nuclear wavefunctions of rare-earth ions
Manuel Grimm - Condensed Matter Theory Group, Paul Scherrer Institut & Quantum Center, ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 6, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Implementation and network integration of high repetition rate QKD systems

Fadri Grünenfelder - Quantum Technologies (Zbinden group), University of Geneva

A Luttinger Liquid coupled to Ohmic-class environments
Andisheh Khedri - Electronic and photonic quantum engineered systems (Zilberberg group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 1, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

A Multi-​level IR for Quantum Program Optimization
David Ittah - Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory (Hoefler group), Quantum Center, ETH Zurich

Towards an error corrected logical qubit with surface codes
Ants Remm - Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 4, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Polaritonic nonlocality in ultra-strongly coupled systems
Shima Rajabali - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Phononic properties of nanowire heterostructures
Diego de Matteis - Nanophononics group (Zardo group), University of Basel

abstracts

February 4, 2021

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Escape dynamics of active particles in multistable potentials
Andrei Militaru - Photonics Laboratory (Novotny group), ETH Zurich

Modulation Doping of Template-Defined InGaAs Nanowires
Kristopher Cerveny - Quantum Coherence Lab (Zumbühl group), University of Basel

abstracts

December 3, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Gate-Defined Josephson Junctions in Magic-Angle Twisted Bilayer Graphene
Fokko de Vries - Nanophysics Group (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

A Double Quantum Dot Spin Valve
Arunav Bordoloi - Quantum- and Nanoelectronics (Schönenberger group), University of Basel

abstracts

November 5, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Demonstrating the power of state-of-the-art quantum computers
Elisa Bäumer - Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

Metrological complementarity reveals the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox
Matteo Fadel - Quantum Optics Lab (Treutlein group), University of Basel

abstracts

October 1, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Genuine high-dimensional quantum steering
Sébastien Designolle - Quantum Theory Group (Brunner group), University of Geneva

Light-mediated strong coupling between a mechanical oscillator and atomic spins 1 m apart
Thomas Karg - Quantum Optics Lab (Treutlein group), University of Basel

abstracts

September 3, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Compact SQUID realized in a double layer graphene heterostructure
David Indolese - Nanoelectronics (Schönenberger group), University of Basel

Large twisting angles in Bilayer graphene (Moire) quantum dot structures (and bits of machine learning)
Frantisek Herman - Strongly Correlated Electrons (Sigrist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 2, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Initialization of Single Spin Dressed States using Shortcuts to Adiabaticity
Johannes Kölbl - Quantum Sensing Lab (Maletinsky group), University of Basel

Accelerating Polaritons using External Electric and Magnetic Fields
Patrick Knüppel - Quantum Photonics Group (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 4, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

A high-cooperativity, silicon nitride transducer for room temperature quantum optomechanics
Mohammad Bereyhi - Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements (Kippenberg group), EPF Lausanne

Critical current for an insulating regime of an underdamped current-biased topological Josephson junction as a signature of Majorana fermions
Aleksandr Svetogorov - Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Computing (Klinovaja group), University of Basel

abstracts

May 7, 2020

NEW TIME: starting @ 14:00

Scheduled Zoom meeting

The upper branch broadening in ultrastrongly coupled THz Landau polaritons
Shima Rajabali - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Moiré band engineering and correlations in graphene-based materials
Tobias Wolf - Quantum Condensed and Coherent Systems (Blatter group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 2, 2020

Scheduled Zoom meeting

Magneto-capacitance measurement of electron-hole bilayer systems
Simon Parolo - Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials Group (Wegscheider group), ETH Zurich

Topological charge of finite-size photonic crystal modes
Zhixin Wang - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 5, 2020

Nanodiamonds as quantum sensors for biology
Takuya Segawa - Spin Physics and Imaging (Degen group), ETH Zurich

Entanglement and (non-)equilibration in quantum many-body systems
Henrik Wilming - Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

February 6, 2020
no Lunch Seminar -> QSIT General Meeting in Arosa  

December 5, 2019

Aharonov-Bohm cages with photonic waveguide arrays - The square-root of a topological insulator
Ioannis Petrides – Quantum Engineered Systems (Zilberberg group), ETH Zurich

2-qubit quantum logic on an optics integrated ion trap
Chi Zhang - Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group (Home group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 7, 2019

Direct field correlation measurement on the electromagnetic ground state
Francesca Fabiana Settembrini - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Light at a stalemate - Experimental observation of a polarization vortex at a bound state in the continuum
Hugo Doeleman - Hybrid Quantum Systems Group (Chu group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

October 3, 2019

Efficient two-qubit gate calibration using Bayesian estimation
Brennan de Neeve
- Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group (Home group), ETH Zurich

Motional Sideband Asymmetry of a Nanoparticle Optically Levitated in Free Space
Felix Tebbenjohanns - Photonics Laboratory (Novotny group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 5, 2019

Diamond Tips for Scanning NV Magnetometry
Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann - QZabre and Spin Physics group (Degen group), ETH Zurich

Electrostatically-Defined Quantum Dots in Bilayer Graphene
Annika Kurzmann - Nanophysics group (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 4, 2019

Wigner-Crystal formation at filling factor 1/5 in a bilayer two-dimensional electron (2DEG) gas?
Jan Scharnetzky - Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials (Wegscheider group), ETH Zurich

Practical tight-binding models for Twisted Bilayer Systems. Connection to ab-initio calculations.
Arkadiy Davydov – Condensed Matter Physics (Soluyanov group), University of Zurich

abstracts

June 6, 2019

Quantum Error Correction via Hamiltonian Learning
Eliska Greplova – Condensed Matter Theory and Metamaterials (Huber group), ETH Zurich

The THz Quantum Cascade Laser: past and future challenges
Lorenzo Bosco – Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 9, 2019

Entanglement Stabilization using Parity Detection and Real-Time Feedback in Superconducting
Christian Kraglund Andersen – Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

Quantum error correction in the presence of a continuous symmetry
Philippe Faist – Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

abstracts
 

April 4, 2019

Optical amplification by stimulated cooling of polaron-polaritons
Li Bing Tan - Quantum Photonics Group (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

Strong photon coupling to the quadrupole moment of an electron in solid state
Jonne Koski - Nanophysics Group (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich  

abstracts

March 7, 2019

Electrically pumped phonon-polariton lasers
Martin Franckie - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Cotunnelling in electronic dot—cavity systems
Michael Ferguson - Quantum Condensed and Coherent Systems (Blatter group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

February 7, 2019
no Lunch Seminar  -> QSIT General Meeting in Arosa  

December 6, 2018

39K2 Long-range Rydberg molecules bound by electron-atom scattering in the regime of strong hyperfine-induced mixing
Michael Peper – Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy (Merkt group), ETH Zurich

Investigating Long Range Vibrations in Nanocrystal Solids
Maximilian Jansen – Institute for Electronics (Wood group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 1, 2018

Axial gauge field in an acoustic Weyl metamaterial
Valerio Peri – Condensed Matter Theory and Metamaterials (Huber group), ETH Zurich

Magneto-transport ultrastongly coupled to vacuum fields
Felice Appugliese - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

October 4, 2018

Coupling two order parameters in a quantum gas
Andrea Morales – Quantum Optics Group (Esslinger group), ETH Zurich

3D Cavity Cooling of a Levitated Nanoparticle
Dominik Windey - Photonics Group (Novotny Group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 6, 2018

Tunneling into a finite Luttinger liquid coupled to capacitive leads
Antonio Štrkalj – Quantum Engineered Systems (Zilberberg group), ETH Zurich

Asymmetric quantum well system for dipolaritons and quantum Hall states
Mirko Lupatini – Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials (Wegscheider group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 5, 2018

Watching the precession of a single nuclear spin by weak measurements
Kristian Cujia – Spin Physics and Imaging (Degen group), ETH Zurich

Quantum computing for quantum chemistry simulations
Panagiotis Kl. Barkoutsos – IBM Research - Zurich

abstracts

June 7, 2018

Quantum clocks: applications and advantages over classical ones
Mischa Woods
 – Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

Transport of neutral optical excitations using electric fields
Ovidiu Cotlet
 – Quantum Photonics (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 3, 2018

Fast and Unconditional All-Microwave Reset of a Superconducting Qubit
Paul Magnard – Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

Repeated multi-qubit readout and feedback with a mixed-species trapped-ion register
Matteo Marinelli
– Trapped Ion Quantum Information (Home group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 12, 2018

Substrate-induced topological mini-bands in graphene
Tobias Wolf – Quantum condensed and coherent systems (Blatter group), ETH Zurich

Spin and Valley States in Gate-defined Bilayer Graphene Quantum Dots
Marius Eich
– Nanophysics (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 1, 2018

Manipulation of molecular hydrogen on a chip to study quantum effects in chemical reactions at low temperature
Katharina  Höveler – Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy (Merkt group), ETH Zurich

Formation of a spin texture in a quantum gas coupled to a cavity
Nishant Dogra
– Quantum Optics Group (Esslinger group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

February 1, 2018
no Lunch Seminar  -> QSIT General Meeting in Arosa  

December 7, 2017

Progress with Implantation Patterned Back Gates for Ultra-High Quality GaAs/AlGaAs Heterostructure Epitaxy
Matthias Berl  – Advanced semiconductor quantum materials (Wegscheider group), ETH Zurich

Parametric instabilities in a driven-dissipative BEC in a cavity
Luca Papariello
– Strongly correlated electrons (Sigrist group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 2, 2017

Perturbative metamaterials: Designing functionality with discrete models
Marc Serra Garcia – Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Optics (Huber group), ETH Zurich

Strong Coupling Cavity QED with Double Quantum Dot Charge Qubits: The Story Continues
David van Woerkom
– Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

October 5, 2017

Signatures of a dissipative phase transition in photon correlation measurements
Thomas Fink – Quantum Photonics (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

Quantum contextuality tests with a single trapped-ion qutrit
Maciej Malinowski
– Trapped Ion Quantum Information (Home group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 7, 2017

Manipulating magnetic properties in a periodically driven many-body system
Kilian Sandholzer
– Quantum Optics  (Esslinger group), ETH Zurich

On the zeroth law of thermodynamics
Philipp Kammerlander – Quantum Information Theory (Renner group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

July 6, 2017

Giant paramagnetism-induced valley polarization in charge tunable monolayer MoSe2
Patrick Back
– Quantum Photonics (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

Lateral p-n Junctions in Inverted InAs/GaSb Double Quantum Wells
Matija Karalic – Nanophysics (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 8, 2017

Ultra-sensitive diamond nanoladder cantilevers
Martin Héritier – Spin Physics and Imaging (Degen group), ETH Zurich

Studying the Functional Quantum Biology of Light-Harvesting Processes with Superconducting Circuits
Anton Potočnik – Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 11, 2017

Internal Temperature of Levitated Nano-Particles
Erik Hebestreit – Photonics Laboratory (Novotny group), ETH Zurich

Spin-coherent dot—cavity electronics
Michael Ferguson – Electronic and photonic quantum engineered systems (Zilberberg group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 6, 2017

Electrostatically induced quantum point contact in bilayer graphene
Hiske Overweg - Nanophysics group (Ensslin group), ETH Zurich

Electrically tunable artificial gauge potential for polaritons
Hyang-Tag Lim - Quantum Photonics group (Imamoglu group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 2, 2017

Ultrastrong coupling physics with metamaterials on sGe 2D hole gases: towards Dicke physics
Janine Keller - Quantum Optoelectronics Group (Faist group), ETH Zurich

Scattering mechanisms of highest-mobility InAs/AlxGa1−xSb quantum wells
Thomas Tschirky - Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Marerials (Wescheider group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

February 2, 2017
no Lunch Seminar  -> QSIT General Meeting in Arosa  

December 2, 2016

Site Visit in Basel  

November 3, 2016

Supersolid formation in a quantum gas breaking continuous translational symmetry
Julian Léonard  - Quantum Optics (Esslinger group), ETH Zurich

Cavity dispersive shift induced by Rydberg atoms
Sebastien Garcia - Quantum Device Lab (Wallraff group), ETH Zurich

abstracts

Oktober 6, 2016

Neural-Network Quantum States: Teaching Quantum Mechanics to an Artificial Intelligence
Giuseppe Carleo  - Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Trapping Ions in an optical lattice for quantum simulation
Matthew Grau - Trapped Ion Quantum Information  Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 1, 2016

Rydberg-atom macrodimers and aggregates
Heiner Sassmannshausen -
Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy, ETH Zurich

A two-qubit quantum heat engine assited by a quantum Maxwell demon.
Andrey Lebedev -
Quantum Condensed and Coherent Systems, ETH Zurich

abstracts

August 4, 2016

Summer break

July 7, 2016

Imaging transport of neutral atoms using a scanning gate microscope
Samuel Häusler - Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich
     
Optical control of a levitated nanoparticle
Vijay Jain - Photonics Laboratory, ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 2, 2016

Nonlocal Polarization Feedback in a Fractional Quantum Hall Ferromagnet
Szymon Hennel -  Nanophysics Grroup, ETH Zurich

Optimized Circuits for Transmon Dispersive Readout
Theo Walter - Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 12, 2016

A switchable source for extremely high magnetic field gradients
Alexander Eichler - Spin Physics and Imaging - Degen Lab, ETH Zurich
     
Practical, Reliable Error Bars in Quantum Tomography
Philippe Faist - Quantum Information Theory, ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 14, 2016

Disorder effects in InAs/GaSb topological insulator candidates
Camille Ndebeka-Bandou
- Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zurich

Charge Transport in Semiconductor Nanocrystal Solids
Nuri Yazdani
- Laboratory for Nanoelectronics, ETH Zurich

abstract

March 3, 2016

Mapping an electron wave function by a local electron scattering probe
Christian Reichl - Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials, ETH Zurich
     
Fermi polaron-polaritons in MoSe
Meinrad Sidler - Quantum Photonics Group, ETH Zurich

abstract

February 4, 2016
no Lunch Seminar  -> QSIT General Meeting in Arosa  

December 3, 2015

Quantum inspired annealing
Guglielmo Mazzola - Computational Physics, ETH Zurich

A nanoscopic light source based on antenna-coupled h-BN tunnel junctions
Markus Parzefall -  Photonics Laboratory, ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 5, 2015

Quantum phases emerging from competing short- and long-range interactions in an optical lattice
Renate Landig - Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

Microwave emission from hybridized charge states in a semiconductor charge qubit
Anna Stockklauser - Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

October 1, 2015    

Resonant and inelastic Andreev tunneling observed on a carbon nanotube quantum dot
Jörg Gramich -  Nanoelectronics group, University of Basel   

Incompressible polaritons in a flat band
Matteo Biondi - Quantum Condensed and Coherent Systems group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 3, 2015

Strong interface induced spin-orbit coupling in graphene-on-WS2 heterostructure
Zhe Wang - Quantum Electronics Group, University of Geneva

On the trace of spin-pairs in single and double quantum dots
Andrea Hofmann - Nanophysics group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

August 6, 2015

Summer break

July 2, 2015

Impedance and noise measurements of clean CNT quantum dots using GHz superconducting matching circuits

Vishal Ranjan - Nanoelectronics group, University of Basel

Generation of heralded entanglement between distant quantum dot hole spins
Zhe Sun - Quantum Photonics Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 4, 2015

Stabilized Skyrmion Phase Detected in MnSi Nanowires by Dynamic Cantilever Magnetometry
Andrea Mehlin - Poggio Lab, University of Basel

Fast coherent state generation through bang-bang control of a trapped ion
Florian Leupold -  Trapped Ion Quantum Information, ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 7, 2015

Please join the QSIT Lecture and the QSIT Colloquium by
Eugene Demler - Harvard University & ITP ETH Zurich

April 2, 2015

Heralded Phonon Entanglement on a Photonic Crystal Architecture
Hugo Flayac - Institute of Theoretical Physics, EPF Lausanne

Digital quantum simulation of spin models with circuit quantum electrodynamics
Yves Salathé - Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zürich

abstracts

March 5, 2015

A topological insulator on demand
Sina Zeytinoglu - ITP and IQE, ETH Zurich

abstract

January 8, 2015

No Lunch Seminar - QSIT General Meeting 2015

December 4, 2014

Witnessing genuine multipartite optical-path entanglement
Valentina Caprara Vivoli, GAP Quantique, Université de Genève

Direct characterization of a squeezed oscillator state and squeezed cat state production with trapped ions
Hsiang-yu Lo, Trapped Ion Quantum Information, ETH Zurich

abstracts

November 6, 2014

No Lunch Seminar this month.

October 2, 2014

Measurement and control of a mechanical oscillator at its thermal decoherence rate
Dalziel J. Wilson, Laboratoire de Photonique et de Mesure Quantique (LPQM), EPF Lausanne

Diamond based nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance
Michael Loretz, Spin Physics and Imaging - Christian Degen's Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 4, 2014

Characterization and manipulation of frequency entangled qudits
Bänz Bessire, Institute of Applied Physics, University of Bern

Experimental realization of the topological Haldane model
Remi Desbuquois, Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

August 7, 2014

        Summer break

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July 3, 2014

Strain Coupling of a Nitrogen-Vacancy Center Spin to a Diamond Mechanical Oscillator
Arne Barfuss, Quantum Sensing Lab, University of Basel

Single Photon Emitters in Monolayer WSe2
Meinrad Sidler, Quantum Photonics Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 5, 2014

Boundary between the Thermal and Statistical Polarization Regimes in a Nanometer-scale Spin Ensemble
Benedikt Herzog, Spin, Quantum Electronics, Nanomechanics - Poggio Lab, University of Basel

Entropies in thermodynamics and information theory: a new approach
Lea Krämer, Quantum Information Theory, ITP, ETH Zurich

abstracts

*** Wednesday ***
May 7, 2014

Hybrid Microwave Cavity Heat Engine
Björn Sothmann, Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève

Transport in quantum dash cascade laser structures
Gian Lorenzo Paravicini-Bagliani, Optoelectronics group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 3, 2014

Atomic scale contacts to holes in SiGe quantum dots
Sigrun Koester, IBM Research - Zurich

Quantum limited amplification and entanglement of microwave fields with coupled nonlinear cavities
Christopher Eichler, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 6, 2014

Quantum interferometry with cold atoms on a chip
Baptiste Allard, Department of Physics, University of Basel

Sequential quantum-enhanced measurement with an atomic ensemble
Andrey Lebedev, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

abstracts

January 23, 2014

Nonlocality, W-states and quantum asymmetry
Gilles Puetz, GAP-Quantique, University GE
Tomer Barnea, GAP-Quantique, University GE

Locally induced Aharonov-Bohm effect in scanning gate experiments
Aleksey Kotzikov, Nanophysics Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

December 5, 2013

No Lunch Seminar this month.

November 7, 2013

Universal transport properties of graphene on substrate
Nuno Couto Guimarães, Quantm Electronics group, Université de Genève

Using electrons to excite optical atennas
Palash Bharadwaj, Photonics Laboratory, ETH Zurich

abstracts

October 3, 2013

Manipulation of the nuclear spin ensemble in a quantum dot with chirped magnetic resonance pulses
Mathieu Munsch, Nano-Photonics Group, University of Basel

Experimental realization of non-abelian geometric gates with a superconducting three-level system
Abdufarrukh Abdumalikov, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

September 5, 2013

Sympathetic cooling of a micromechanical membrane by coupling to ultracold atoms
Tobias Kampschulte, Quantum atom optics lab, University of Basel

Ultracold Rydberg atoms: from atomic hyperfine-structure to many-body interactions
Johannes Deiglmayr, Molecular Physics and Spectroscopy, ETH Zurich

abstracts

August 2013

        Summer break

July 4, 2013

Non-local excitations of Andreev bound states
Jens Schindele, Nanoelectronics Group, University of Basel

Quantum Teleportation from a Propagating Photon to a Solid-State Spin Qubit
Weibo Gao, Quantum Photonics Group, IQE, ETH Zurich

abstracts

June 6, 2013

Engineered nano(hetero)structures for solar energy conversion
Esther Alarcón-Lladó, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, EPF Lausanne

Hong-Ou-Mandel Experiments with Microwaves: Correlations, Indistinguishability and Entanglement
Christian Lang, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

abstracts

May 2, 2013

Harnessing nuclear spin polarization fluctuations in a semiconductor nanowire
Phani Peddibhotla, Department of Physics, University of Basel

Topological charge pumping of cold atoms
Lei Wang, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

abstracts

April 4, 2013

Realization of a photonic micro-macro entangled state
Natalia Bruno, Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva

Entanglement Polytopes: Multi-Particle Entanglement from Single-Particle Information
Michael Walter, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

abstracts

March 7, 2013

Intrinsic Charge Fluctuations in a few electron GaAs double quantum dot
Daniel Biesinger, Quantum Coherence Lab, University of Basel

A microfabricated segmented linear Paul trap for precision control of mixed-species ion chains
Daniel Kienzler, Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group, ETH Zurich

abstracts

February 7, 2013

No Lunch Seminar this month.

January 10, 2013

Graphene Triple Dots
Dominik Bischoff, Nanophysics Group, ETHZ

Realizing a Deterministic Teleportation Protocol in Superconducting Circuits
Lars Steffen, Quantum Device Lab, ETHZ

abstracts

December 6, 2012

Exorcising the Maxwell Demon: Understanding the Interplay Between Work and Entropy in Quantum Systems
Phillippe Faist, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Transport
Christian Flindt, Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève

abstracts

November 1, 2012

Coupling of graphene to a THz-metasurface
Federico Valmorra, Quantum Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zurich

Observing the Drop of Resistance in the Flow of a Superfluid Fermi Gas
David Stadler, Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

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October 4, 2012

Feedback cooling of cantilever motion using a quantum point contact transducer
Michele Montinaro, Poggio Lab - Spin, Quantum Electronics, Nanomechanics, University of Basel

Origins of low quantum efficiencies in quantum dot LEDs
Deniz Bozyigit, Laboratory for Nanoelectronics, ETH Zurich

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September 6, 2012

Magnetic states of individual ferromagnetic nanotube probed by anisotropic magnetoresistance
Daniel Rüffer, Laboratory of Semiconductor Materials, EPFL 

Ultra-High Quality Factor Single-Crystal Diamond Nanoresonator
Ye Tao, Spin Physics and Imaging - Degen Lab, ETHZ

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August 2, 2012

        Sommer break
Please visit the ICPS 2012 in Zurich

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July 5, 2012

Observation of entanglement between a quantum dot spin and a single photon
Weibo Gao, Quantum Photonics Group, IQE, ETH Zurich

Quantum Hall effect with superconducting electrodes
Peter Rickhaus, Nanoelectronics Group, University of Basel

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June 7, 2012

Observing the 5/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State – The Growth Side
Christian Reichl, Advanced Semiconductor Quantum Materials Group, ETH Zurich

Probing charge noise in a semiconductor with laser spectroscopy on a quantum dot
Julien Houel, Nano-photonics group, University of Basel

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May 3, 2012

Coexistence of Coulomb blockades and the quantum Hall effect in high-quality suspended graphene nanoribbon
Dong-Keun Ki, DPMC and GAP, University of Geneva

Statics and dynamics of ultracold fermionic gases in harmonic traps with density functional theory
Ilia Zintchenko, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

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April 5, 2012

A hybrid on-chip optonanomechanical transducer for ultra-sensitive force measurements
Emanuel Gavartin, Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements, EPFL

Multi-qubit gates in Circuit –QED
Arkady Fedorov, Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich

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March 1, 2012

Integration of quantum dots with microwave circuits
Tobias Frey, Quantum Device Lab and Nanophysics Group, ETH Zurich

Cryogenic voltage switches for ultra-fast ion-trap applications
Joseba Alonso Otamandi, Trapped Ion Quantum Information Group, ETH Zurich

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February 1, 2012

Please refer to the General Meeting in Arosa

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December 1, 2011

Carbon nanotubes in electric and magnetic fields
Jelena Klinovaja, Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Computing Group, University of Basel

Site-controlled QDs for nanophotonics
Arun Mohan, Quantum Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zurich

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November 3, 2011

From Coulomb to photon blockade (and back)
Sebastian Schmidt, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Observation of Resonant Photon Blockade at Microwave Frequencies using Correlation Function Measurements
Christian Lang, Quantum Device Lab, Lab. for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich

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October 6, 2011

Ultrafast all-optical switching by single photons in quantum dot cavity QED
Andreas Reinhard, Quantum Photonics Group, IQE, ETH Zurich

Nonlinear Optomechanics in the single-photon regime
Andreas Nunnenkamp, Condensed Matter Theory Group, University of Basel

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September 1, 2011

The thermodynamic meaning of negative entropy
Johan Aarberg, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Low-Temperature Nuclear Spin Relaxation in an All-Electrical Lateral Spin Transport Device
Dominikus Kölbl, Quantum Coherence Lab, University of Basel

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August 4, 2011

        Summer break

July 7, 2011

Criticality with trapped cold atoms
Lode Pollet, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

Quantum-state controlled ultracold molecular ions and their applications
Xin Tong, Quantum Coherence Lab, University of Basel

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June 9, 2011

Cotunneling and one-dimensional localization in graphene nanoribbons
Susanne Dröscher, Nanophysics Group, ETH Zurich

Optomechancially Induced Transparency
Stefan Weis, Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements, EPF Lausanne

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May 5, 2011

Symmetry breaking and fluctuations at the Dicke quantum phase transition
Rafael Mottl, Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

Quantum storage of photonic entanglement in a crystal
Félix Bussières, Group of Applied Physics - Optique, Université de Genève

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April 7, 2011

Interferometric Measurement of Local Spin-Fluctuations in a Quantum Gas
Jakob Meineke, Quantum Optics Group, ETH Zurich

Spin-Squeezing a Bose-Einstein Condensate on an Atom Chip
Roman Schmied, Quantum Atom Optics Lab, University of Basel

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March 3, 2011

Multistage Zeeman Deceleration of Metastable Neon
Michael Motsch, Laboratory of Physical Chemistry, ETH Zurich

Ferromagnetic contacts for carbon nanotube spintronic devices
Hagen Aurich, Nanoelectronics Group, University of Basel

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February 3, 2011

Strong coupling regime in parabolic semiconductor quantum wells
Markus Geiser, Quantum Optoelectronics Group, ETH Zurich

Dynamical resurrection of the visibility in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer
Andrey Lebedev, Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich

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