News & Events 2019-2022
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22.12.2022
In an ETH News interview, our director Klaus Ensslin looks back on 12 years of NCCR QSIT - on progress, achievements and challenges of various kinds.
16.11.2022
Cordial congratulations to Tobias Donner, senior scientist and lecturer in the Quantum Optics group (Tilman Esslinger group, ETH Zurich), who has received a SERI-financed ERC Consolidator Grant.
CONGRATULATIONS!
03.11.2022
Writing in Nature Nanotechnology, the group of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn (ETH Zurich) report how they made the first superconducting component from graphene that is quantum coherent and sensitive to magnetic fields.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
ETH News
external page Mirage News
external page Nanowerk
10.11.2022
The SRF Science Magazine on the Physics Nobel Prize, with Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel).
external page SRF Science Magazine (from 19:00, in German)
08.10.2022
A delegation of European and Swiss parliamentarians visited ETH Zurich, including several quantum-research labs. This was reported in the SRF evening news.
external page SRF (from 5:13)
05.10.2022
Renato Renner (ETH Zürich) in the St. Galler Tagblatt (in German) on this year's Physics Nobel Prize.
27.09.2022
The Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland, QIDiS will take place on Tuesday October 4th in Technopark, Zürich.
Registration is open. Please register external page here.
21.09.2022
Congratulations to Begoña Abad Mayor (Zardo group) who has been awarded a SNSF PRIMA grant. Begoña Abad Mayor received an NCCR QSIT Postdoc Award in 2020 and was featured in the #NCCRWomen campaign - we are pleased to see her excel in her scientific career.
CONGRATULATIONS!
22.08.2022
New work by the group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zürich) on "Self-oscillating pump in a topological dissipative atom–cavity system" published in Nature.
04.08.2022
New work by the group of Giuseppe Carleo (EPF Lausanne), working with colleagues from Center for Computational Quantum Physics, Flatiron Institute, on "Fermionic wave functions from neural-network constrained hidden states" published in roceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
external page Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
external page EPFL News
13.07.2022
New work by the group of Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zürich), working with colleagues from Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, on "Realizing quantum convolutional neural networks on a superconducting quantum processor to recognize quantum phases" published in Nature Communications.
07.07.2022
On 17 June the Department of Physics at ETH Zürich and NCCR QSIT welcomed several thousand guests at the summer festival of science on the Hönggerberg campus, Night of Physics #NachtderPhysik 2022.
A review of the evening can be found here: ETH D-PHYS News
21.06.2022
Congratulations to Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zürich), who has has been recognised today with an Honorary Degree from the Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland.
CONGRATULATIONS!
10.06.2022
Congratulations to Stefan Willitsch (Uni Basel) and Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zürich), who are among the 24 recipients of SNSF Advanced Grants.
CONGRATULATIONS!
02.06.2022
New work from the group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPF Lausanne) on "Hierarchical tensile structures with ultralow mechanical dissipation" published in Nature.
29.05.2022
The group of Ataç İmamoğlu (ETH Zürich), working with colleagues at D-MAVT, Colombia University and NIMS, has succeeded for the first time in trapping excitons in a semiconductor material using controllable electric fields.
18.05.2022
Cordial congratulations to Natasha Tomm on receiving the SCNAT Prix Schläfli 2022 in Physics. Working in the group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel), she (co-)developed a super-efficient source of individual photons.
CONGRATULATIONS!
13.05.2022
New collborative work by the groups of Jelena Klinovaja and Daniel Loss (Uni Basel) and colleagues at the University of Cologne on "Giant magnetochiral anisotropy from quantum-confined surface states of topological insulator nanowires" published in Nature Nanotechnology.
13.05.2022
Gianni Blatter (ETH Zürich) gave his farewell lecture. Thank you for everything you have done for QSIT, Gianni!
A recording of the lecture can be found here.
09.05.2022
New work on "An ultrastrongly coupled single terahertz meta-atom" by the groups of Jerome Faist, Giacomo Scalari and Werner Wegscheider (ETH Zürich) published in Nature Communications.
02.04.2022
An international collaboration including the group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) reports in Nature Commmunications how the density of optically active quantum dots can be modulated with MBEin 1D and 2D patterns.
18.03.2022
Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) in a feature just aired on 3sat on what the exclusion of Switzerland from the Horizon EU programme means for quantum science.
17.03.2022
A freshly published paper reports on the mentoring programme for physics students ETHZ - a joint initiative of the NCCRs MUST and QSIT and the Department of Physics at ETH Zurich - on "Improving the learning environment in the Department of Physics: a peer mentoring program for first-year female physicists alongside changes in the lecture programme".
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17.03.2022
Congratulations to no fewer than three NCCR QSIT members on being awarded an ERC Research Consolidator grant in the latest call:
Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPF Lausanne)
Giuseppe Carleo (EPF Lausanne)
Jelena Klinovaja (Uni Basel)
CONGRATULATIONS!
04.03.2022
New work from the group of Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich), working with samples from the group of Werner Wegscheider (ETH Zurich) and with theory support from Cristiano Ciuti (University of Paris) on "Breakdown of topological protection by cavity vacuum fields in the integer quantum Hall effect".
03.03.2022
New collaborative work from the groups of Andreas Fuhrer (IBM Research), Richard Warburton and Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel) on "A hole spin qubit in a fin field-effect transistor above 4 kelvin".
01.03.2022
New work from the group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPF Lausanne) on "Strained crystalline nanomechanical resonators with quality factors above 10 billion".
10.02.2022
Congratulations to Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich), who has been elected an international member of the US National Academy of Engineering.
CONGRATULATIONS!
05.02.2022
Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) and Hugo Zbinden (Uni Geneva) talk in NZZ about what it means for Swiss quantum researchers to have no more access to Horizon Europe funds.
02.02.2022
Gian-Luca Schmid and Chun Tat Ngai, doctoral students in the group of Philipp Treutlein (Uni Basel) explain how they achieved coherent feedback cooling of a nanomechanical membrane with atomic spins.
13.01.2022
New work from the group of Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich) on "Ultra-low threshold lasing through phase front engineering via a metallic circular aperture".
06.01.2022
In an insightful discussion, Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich) looks back to his co-invention of the quantum cascade laser (QCL).
06.01.2022
New work from the group of Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich) on Dissipative Kerr solitons in semiconductor ring lasers.
22.12.2021
Writing in Nature, the group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL), together with colleagues Uni Göttingen, report coherent phase modulation of an electron beam using a microresonator - merging integrated photonics with electron microscopy.
16.12.2021
The new ETH image film "Where the future begins" revolves around six research & education projects.
One of these is quantum physics, introduced by NCCR QSIT vice director Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich).
15.12.2021
An international collaboration including NCCR QSIT honorary member Nicolas Gisin (Uni Geneva) shows that complex numbers are actually needed in the quantum formalism - and describe experiments to test this.
external page Nature
external page ScienceDaily
external page Techno-Science
12.12.2021
The Belgian business newspaper L'Echo visits the labs of @IBMResearch Zurich and writes about encounters with Andreas Fuhrer and other researchers.
08.12.2021
In a preprint posted on arXiv, the group of Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) reports the demonstration of repeated, fast and high-performance quantum error correction cycles on a 17-qubit superconducting circuit device. This work is a collaboration of the Quantum Device Lab at ETH Zurich with colleagues at University of Sherbrooke, RWTH Aachen, Forschungszentrum Jülich and CIFAR.
external page arXiv
external page NZZ
ETH News
external page Blick
external page Der Standard
29.11.2021
A group of leading experts - including Daniel Loss (Uni Basel) - review the field of 'quantum-coherent nanoscience', which is concerned with understanding & applying quantum coherence in nanoscale systems.
22.11.2021
New work on Femtosecond pulses from a mid-infrared quantum cascade laser by the group of Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich).
external page Nature Photonics
ETH D-PHYS News
external page Photonics.com
22.11.2021
Congratulations to Yiwen Chu (ETH Zurich), who has been awarded the 2020 Sackler International Prize in Physics, together with Yuan Cao (Harvard) and Ronny Thomale (Julius-Maximilians-Universität ).
CONGRATULATIONS!
external page The Raymond and Beverly Sackler International Prize in Physics
18.11.2021
New work on Universal pair polaritons in a strongly interacting Fermi gas by the group of Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL).
external page Nature
external page Phys.org
16.11.2021
Congratulations to Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich) and Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL), who are recognised as external page 2021 Highly Cited Researchers.
CONGRATULATIONS!
12.11.2021
Matteo Fadel (ETH Zurich) is portrayed in the ETH news. He has been a member of the QSIT network throughout his career - a MSc thesis student at the Quantum Device Lab (ETH Zurich), for his PhD and as postdoc in the Treutlein group (Uni Basel) and now working on Hybrid Quantum Systems in the Chu group (ETH Zurich).
03.11.2021
The groups of Hugo Zbinden and Nicolas Brunner (Uni Geneva) - working with colleagues at McGill Science and at Concordia University- report the experimental realization of so-called relativistic zero-knowledge proofs.
external page Nature
external page ScienceDaily
external page Heidi.news
02.11.2021
The #NCCRWomen campaign, portraying around 100 women researchers working in Swiss research institutes, is featured in the SNSF News.
22.10.2021
Audio episodes at Radio Télévision Suisse (in French), giving insight into the life and work of QSIT honorary member Nicolas Gisin (Uni Geneva).
15.10.2021
Congratulations Valerio Piazza (Fontcuberta group) for the 2020 Piaget Scientific Award.
CONGRATULATIONS!
04.10.2021
Members of the groups of Martino Poggio (Uni Basel) and Christian Degen (ETH Zurich) provide an analysis of techniques for imaging weak magnetic fields that are most promising for the study of 2D materials, in Nature Reviews Physics.
29.09.2021
In connection with the 21/03 issue of the ETH magazine Globe on 'Quantum worlds', several articles with contributions from many QSIT PIs were published in the ETH news.
Chu, Wegscheider and Home on complementary routes towards robust quantum systems: ETH News
Wallraff and Wood on quantum technology at ETH and in Switzerland: ETH news
Novotny on the Master’s degree in quantum engineering: ETH News
See also the accompanying videos with Klaus Ensslin, Renato Renner, Christian Degen and Tilman Esslinger on Youtube.
Ensslin: external page What is a quantum system?
Renner: external page How do quantum physics and general relativity relate to each other?
Degen: external page What is a quantum sensor?
Esslinger: external page Which insights can we gain with quantum computers?
18.09.2021
An insightful piece in Pour la Science (in French) on recent work by the group of Ataç İmamoğlu (ETH Zurich) and, independently, a group at Harvard.
09.09.2021
In a Science Magazine paper published today, the group of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn (ETH Zurich) reports the observation of a correlated electron–hole state in twisted double-bilayer graphene.
external page Science
ETH News
external page Graphene-info
external page pro-physik.de
external page Florida News Times
25.08.2021
The group of Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL) reports cavity-QED experiments in which they use molecular transitions in a strongly interacting Fermi gas to directly couple cavity photons to pairs of atoms.
external page Nature
external page EPFL News
external page phys.org
20.08.2021
If you have acceess to Die Zeit / Schweiz-Ausgabe, check out the interview with Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zurich) regarding Switzerlands new status as "non-associated third country" in the EU framework program Horizon Europe, and what this means for the country.
17.08.2021
Congratulations to Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich) on having been announced as one of the recipients of the external page BEC Senior Award 2021, awarded under the auspices of the biennial BEC conference.
CONGRATULATIONS!
16.08.2021
Lukas Novotny (ETH Zurich) and his colleagues Gabriele Rainò and Martin Frimmer discuss in Nature Materials the ETH approach to training quantum engineers.
09.08.2021
In a paper published in Nature Photonics, the group of Jérôme Faist (ETH Zurich) - working with colleagues at University of Southhampton - reports that there are physical limits to how strong light–matter coupling can be made in nanophotonic devices.
external page Nature Photonics
ETH D-PHYS News
external page Phys.org
27.07.2021
In a joint project, researchers from the groups of Stefan Willitsch (Uni Basel), Frederic Merkt and Jerome Faist (ETH Zurich), together with colleagues from METAS, INRIM and SWITCH, report on SI-traceable frequency dissemination at 1572.06 nm in a stabilized fiber network with ring topology.
external page OSA Publishing Optics Express
ETH News
external page Uni Basel News
15.07.2021
Writing in Nature, the group of Lukas Novotny (ETH Zurich) reports experiments in which they have trapped a tiny sphere measuring a
hundred nanometres using laser light and slowed down its motion to the lowest quantum mechanical state.
external page Nature
ETH News
external page Phys.org
external page SlashGear
external page Science Alert
30.06.2021
New work from the group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel) on "Global strain-induced scalar potential in graphene devices".
external page Nature Communication Physics
external page SNI News
28.06.2021
Congratulations to all recipients of the Swiss NanoConvention prize for best 2020 first-author PhD papers, and especially to the NCCR QSIT
researchers:
David Hälg (Degen group, ETH Zurich)
Thomas Karg (Treutlein group, Uni Basel)
Nadine Leisgang (Warburton group, Uni Basel)
CONGRATULATIONS!
21.06.2021
New work by the group of Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel) and collabroators on "Deep reinforcement learning for efficient measurement of quantum devices".
09.06.2021
Welcome to Christophe Galland (EPFL), head of the external page Laboratory of Quantum Nano-Optics, who has been elected Associate Member by the NCCR QSIT Scientific Committee.
27.05.2021
Congratulations Chiara Decaroli (Home group) for winning the ETH 2021 AVETH Diversity Award. Chiara Decaroli is active in several of the NCCR QSIT Equal Opportunity activities, inspiring and networking girls and women in STEM.
CONGRATULATIONS!
13.05.2021
The group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich) reports in Physical Review X on how a tiny cloud of atoms can be turned from a heat engine into a cooler by cranking up the interactions between the particles.
external page Physical Review X
D-PHYS News
external page Phys.org
11.05.2021
Writing in Nature Electronics, the group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) presents a cryogenic electro-optic interconnect for superconducting devices.
07.05.2021
Yiwen Chu (ETH Zurich) commenting in Scientific Americam article on two recent works that demonstrate the ability to extend quantum entanglement to massive macroscopic systems.
03.05.2021
New work by the group of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn (ETH Zurich) - working with colleagues at National Institute for Materials Science - demonstrating the realization of gate-defined Josephson junctions in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene, has just been published in Nature Nanotechnology.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
ETH News
external page Graphene Info
external page New Atlas
03.05.2021
Hugo Zbinden (Uni Geneva) in a Le Temps article (in French) on threads that Switzerland and other third countries might be excluded from European research programs in quantum and space technologies.
03.05.2021
ETH and PSI found the Quantum Computing Hub. Under the leadership of Andreas Wallraff and Jonathan Home (ETH Zurich), some 30 researchers will pursue research in the two technology areas of superconducting circuits and ion traps.
ETH News
external page NZZ
external page 20 Minuten
external page inside-it.ch
external page Heise Online
27.04.2021
New work by Matteo Fadel (Uni Basel), working with Benjamin Yadin (Univeristy of Nottingham and Univeristy of Oxford) and Manuel Gessner (Lab. Kastler Brossel), in which they formulate the EPR paradox in the framework of quantum metrology .
external page Nature Communications
external page Uni Basel News
12.03.2021
Hugo Zbinden (Uni Geneva) in a Science Magazine piece on a possible exclusion of Switzerland & others from Horizon Europe quantum research.
09.03.2021
The American Physical Society has selected Manfred Sigrist (ETH Zurich) as an Outstanding Referees for 2021.
CONGRATULATIONS!
05.03.2021
Meet the NCCR women! In celebration of the 50th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Switzerland, the NCCRs will introduce you to some of the women working in Swiss research institutes.
From Women’s Day on March 8th, to October 31st - the anniversary of the first women's vote - our female colleagues will be showing you who they are, what they do and why.
#NCCRWomen
Follow us on external page Youtube and external page Instagram!
15.02.2021
The group of Patrick Maletinsky (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues at Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Kyiv University - used high-resolution magnetometry to reveal nanoscale mechanics of antiferromagnetic domain walls.
external page Nature Physics
external page Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
10.02.2021
Cordial congratulations to Patrick Maletinsky (Uni Basel) on his promotion to Full Professor.
CONGRATULATIONS!
05.02.2021
The group of Christian Degen (ETH Zurich) on the first demonstration of an approach that inverts the standard paradigm of scanning probe microscopy - raising the prospect of quantum-limited force sensing - published in Physical Review Applied.
external page Physical Review Applied
ETH D-PHYS News
external page Phys.Org
external page AZoNano
04.02.2021
Work by Jose Lado (Aalto University) together with Tobias Wolf, Oded Zilberberg and Gianni Blatter (ETH Zurich) published in Physical Review Letters.
external page Physical Review Letters
external page Science Daily
external page Phys.Org
external page Nature Reviews Physics
28.01.2021
The group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues at Ruhr-Universität Bochum - reports the realization of a novel single-photon source with high end-to-end efficiency.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
external page Nature Nanotechnology News&Views
external page Uni Basel News
external page Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
external page EurekAlert
11.01.2021
The group of Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel), together with colleagues TU Eindhoven, introduces an ultrafast hole-spin qubit with gate-tunable spin-orbit switch functionality.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
external page Uni Basel News
external page pro-physik.de
06.01.2021
Writing in Nature Physics, an international team including Thierry Giamarchi (Uni Geneva) present a study of the out-of-equilibrium dynamics of a dipolar supersolid.
external page Nature Physics
external page Science Daily
external page Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
17.12.2020
Welcome to the new ETH Quantum Center!
Andreas Wallraff and Lukas Novotny in the ETH News regarding the new quantum center.
ETH News
external page inside-it.ch
external page itmagazine.ch
Website ETH Quantum Center
28.11.2020
Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) in an NZZ article on how big tech companies and start-ups are pushing towards - and competing - to turn the promise of quantum computation into practice.
25.11.2020
“The planned building will allow us to push research to the limits of what is technically possible” - Gianni Blatter (ETH Zurich) in the ETH News regarding the planned highly specialised physics laboratory building on the Hönggerberg campus. The project has received a generous donation from ETH alumnus and ETH Honorary Councillor Martin Haefner.
13.11.2020
Congratulations to Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) on receiving one of the 2020 Helmholtz International Fellow Awards.
CONGRATULATIONS!
05.11.2020
Congratulations to Andreas Wallraff (ETH Zurich) on being recognised for one of ten Falling Walls Science Breakthroughs of the Year in the category Physical Sciences, for "breaking the wall to efficient quantum computing".
19.10.2020
Manfred Sigrist (ETH Zurich), Associate Member of NCCR QSIT, has been named Vice Rector for Doctoral Studies at ETH.
06.10.2020
Congratulations to Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPFL) on receiving one of the 2020 AGEpoly Polysphere awards, for excellence in teaching at EPFL.
CONGRATULATIONS!
25.09.2020
Congratulations to Vanessa Wood (ETH Zurich), who has been appointed Vice President for Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations at ETH Zurich.
CONGRATULATIONS!
ETH News
external page NZZ
external page Aargauer Zeitung
external page Science Business
24.09.2020
Writing in Nature Communications, the group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues Ruhr-Universität Bochum - introduces GaAs quantum dots with ultra-low noise, establishing a platform for quantum photonics close to the red part of the spectrum.
10.09.2020
Congratulations to Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) on securing an InnovareAdvance grant for pursuing "potentially game-changing concepts" related to quantum technologies.
CONGRATULATIONS!
08.09.2020
The group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel), working with colleagues at Budapest University of Technology and Economics and at National Institute for Material Science (NIMS), has realized a compact SQUID in a double-layer graphene heterostructure.
external page Nano Letters
external page Uni Basel News
external page The Science Times
external page Graphene-info
03.09.2020
Cordial congratulations to Yiwen Chu (ETH Zurich) who receives an ERC Research Starting Grant for her project "Quantum Information Transduction with Acoustic Resonators".
CONGRATULATIONS!
20.08.2020
Published in Nature communcations, a paper on machine learning that enables completely automatic tuning of a quantum device faster than human experts. This work was done by a collboration led by Natalie Ares (University of Oxford) with DeepMind, Lancaster Physics and the group of Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel).
17.08.2020
Writing in Communications Physics the group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel), working with colleagues at Scuola Normale Pisa, report a new concept for spin injection and detection in semiconductor devices.
external page Communications Physics
external page elektroniknet.de
external page Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
external page pro-physik.de
external page Science Daily
11.08.2020
The Swiss National Science Foundation has approved the interdisciplinary Sinergia project Hydronics, a project led by Ilaria Zardo (Uni Basel), bringing together an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the University of Basel, EPFL, Empa and IBM to study charge and heat transport, and explore new ways of controlling electrical and thermal currents.
CONGRATULATIONS!
11.08.2020
The group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) and colleagues at University of Toulouse and at NIMS demonstrate giant Stark splitting of an exciton in bilayer MoS2 - establishing a promising platform for non-linear optics with polaritons.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
external page Informationsdienst Wissenschaft
external page pro-physik.de
external page Phys.org
27.07.2020
The IBM Research team of Andreas Fuhrer and colleagues Imec demonstrate that hydrogen-resist lithography with an STM tip can be used to pattern p-type nanostructures with an indicated resolution <2nm. This approach enables the creation of p-type and bipolar dopant devices, which could be the basis for future dopant-based quantum computers.
18.07.2020
Congratulations to Daniel Najer from the group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) being awarded the 2020 Swiss Nanoscience Institute (SNI) PhD Award.
CONGRATULATIONS!
external page Uni Basel SNI News
The award winning paper: external page Nature
14.07.2020
A great example of collaboration within NCCR QSIT, in particular between PhD students Matija Karalic (Ensslin/Ihn experimental group) and Antonio Štrkalj (Zilberberg theory group), and in general between groups covering theory, experiment and material growth.
external page Physical Review X
ETH D-PHYS News
external page Science Daily
29.06.2020
The group of Vanessa Wood (ETH Zurich) reports the first theoretical explanation for how electrical current is conducted in semiconductors made of nanocrystals.
external page Nature Communications
ETH News
external page Phys.org
external page Chemie.de
external page electropages
29.06.2020
The group of Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPF Lausanne) reports strong coupling between a quantum-degenerate unitary Fermi gas and light in a high finesse cavity.
external page Nature Communications
external page EPFL News
external page Phys.org
18.06.2020
NCCR QSIT director Klaus Ensslin (ETH Zurich) has just been announced as the recipient, together with Dieter Weiss (Universität Regensburg) and Jurgen Smet (Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research), of the European Physical Society Edison Volta Prize 2020.
CONGRATULATIONS!
external page European Physical Society
15.06.2020
The group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and University Copenhagen - reports the observation of a radiative Auger process in the single-photon limit.
external page Nature Nanotechnology
external page Science Daily
external page innovations report
external page Tech Explorist
12.06.2020
Call for applications - Quantum Future Academy 2020 - submission deadline 01.08.2020
The Quantum Future label is an established label for education and outreach in the field of promotion of young talents in the field of Quantum Technology.
A one-week event at the end of 2020 will take place in Berlin and will include a high-level and very interdisciplinary and outstanding programme.
Students of engineering and natural sciences in the last year of their Bachelor studies or in their Master studies from a Swiss university or research institution can apply to the Academy. Students before or during specialisation phase of their studies are eligible for application.
Please find more information on the event and how to apply Download here (PDF, 3 MB)
Further infromation can be found at
external page https://www.quantentechnologien.de/event/quantum-future-academy-2020.html
11.06.2020
Today in Physical Review Letters, the groups of Nicolas Sangouard (Uni Basel) and Renato Renner (ETH Zurich) introduce a quantum communication protocol that offers ultimate privacy protection and can be implemented experimentally.
external page Physical Review Letters
D-PHYS News
external page Uni Basel News
external page pro-physik.de
external page innovations report
external page Science Daily
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10.06.2020
Martino Poggio (Uni Basel) has been appointed Full Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Basel.
CONGRATULATIONS!
25.05.2020
Writing in Nano Letters, an international team led by Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel) presents an transport study of few-layer WTe2 samples, providing evidence for higher-order topological insulator states in this system.
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11.05.2020
The groups of Werner Wegscheider, Andreas Wallraff, Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn (ETH) report in Nature Physics on strong photon coupling to the quadrupole moment of an electron in a solid-state qubit.
07.05.2020
The group of Philipp Treutlein (Uni Basel) demonstrated light-mediated strong coupling between a mechanical oscillator and atomic spins one metre apart - a step towards long-distance quantum networks.
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07.05.2020
Andreas Wallraff (ETH) commenting in a Spektrum.de article on quantum computers.
20.04.2020
The group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel) has recently reported how in-situ reduction of random strain fluctuations can enhance carrier mobility in graphene.
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08.04.2020
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPF Lausanne) is highlighting the work of E.P.A.M. Bakkers et al. at Eindhoven University of Technology, opening the path for Ge and GeSi in optoelectronic applications, in a Nature News and Views article.
02.04.2020
53 participants joined the first virtual QSIT Lunch Seminar, that also got a shout-out in this ETH News story.
31.03.2020
A new podcast series of the Swiss tabloid Blick features Simon Storz, PhD student in the group of Andreas Wallraff (ETH). He explains beautifully - and patiently - the differences between quantum teleportation and StarTrek-type teleportation.
23.03.2020
Andreas Wallraff (ETH) in a Spektrum.de article on what the current coronavirus pandemic might mean for science.
15.03.2020
Reporting in ScienceAdvances, an international team led by the group of Klaus Ensslin & Thomas Ihn (ETH) provides clear examples demonstrating how the finite thickness of 2D crystals does matter.
13.03.2020
Reading a molecule without destroying it - just published in Science: Work by the group of Stefan Willitsch (Uni Basel) demonstrating quantum non-demolition state detection and spectroscopy of single trapped molecules.
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11.03.2020
In a further virtual contribution from ETH to the cancelled APS March Meeting, Hugo Doeleman of Yiwen Chu's group presents their work towards quantum optomechanics using bulk acoustic wave resonators.
05.03.2020
Christian Degen (ETH) has been appointed Full Professor of Spin Physics.
CONGRATULATIONS!
05.03.2020
In the Quantum Device Lab, the group of Andreas Wallraff (ETH) has realized the first quantum coherent communication protocol operated between superconducting quantum circuits housed in two cryogenic systems separated by a distance of 5 meters.
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02.03.2020
Hugo Zbinden (Uni Geneva) on the Quantum Flagship project QRANGE, which aims to push quantum random number generation (QRNG) technology forward.
13.02.2020
Research done by the group of Sebastian Huber (ETH) demonstrate, for the first time, that the abstract concept of 'fragile topology' leads to direct and clear experimental signatures.
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07.02.2020
Jelena Klinovaja and Ilaria Zardo (Uni Basel) on putting together the programme for the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11 February at Uni Basel.
21.01.2020
In an ETH joint session co-organised with Microsoft and IBM Research, Jonathan Home (ETH), Julie Love (Microsoft) and Heike Riel (IBM Research) are discussing quantum computing in Davos during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting.
21.01.2020
Chiara Decaroli, Maciej Malinowski, Celeste Carruth, and Christoph Fisher (Home group) are in Davos as part of the RETHINKING CREATIVITY exhibition (ETH Meets You in Davos during the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting) with their wonderful piece "Do you speak quantum?"
Read the ETH and ETH Ambassadors Blog posts related to the exhibtion:
We are entering the second quantum revolution. This is how we got here.
This is how a walk on the beach can help explain quantum computing
10.01.2020
An atonishing twist in a quantumsystem caused by the interplay between energy dissipation and coherent quantumdynamics has been observed by researchers in the group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH Zurich), together with researchers at Cavendish Laboratory, UK.
08.01.2020
A neural network evokes memories of Copernicus - an insightful article in NZZ on a work by the group Renato Renner (ETH) on discovering physical concepts with neural networks.
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19.12.2019
Writing in Science, the group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH) reports the discover of a phenomenon where chiral non-stationary dynamics emerges in a quantum gas when the energy scales of dissipative and unitary processes are similar.
16.12.2019
Congratulations to all of the new six NCCRs of the 2020 series. In particular, congratulations to Uni Basel and Richard Warburton (Director), Daniel Loss (Co-Director) and Jelena Klinovaja (Deputy Co-Director) who will lead the new NCCR SPIN, in collaboration with IBM Research Zurich, Heike Riel (Deputy Director).
CONGRATULATIONS!
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13.12.2019
Congratulations to Jonathan Home (ETH) to being appointed Full Professor of Experimental Quantum Information at ETH.
CONGRATULATIONS!
09.12.2019
Flavio Del Santo (Universität Wien) and NCCR QSIT honorary member Nicolas Gisin (Uni Geneva) propose an interpretation of classical physics that provides fresh insight on the relationship between classical & quantum physics.
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04.12.2019
"Scattering between electrons in the material graphene can cause these particles to flow like a viscous liquid. Such flow, which has previously been detected using measurements of electrical resistance, has now been visualized." Klaus Ensslin (ETH) in Nature News & Views.
22.11.2019
"The core event was the QSIT session [...], complemented by a session [...] on job opportunities in emergent industries in the realm of quantum and artificial intelligence."
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12.11.2019
Congratulation to Qnami for beeing able to secure an additional seed round! It is a pleasure for QSIT to support and be part of this evolution: from qstarter award to the technology transfer grants, QIDiS and much more.
Qnami announced today the closing of a 2.6M CHF seed round led by Venture Capital fund Quantonation and further supported by investiere, ZKB Start-up Finance and the High Tech Gründerfond.
10.11.2019
"[One of] the first tests of a technique that researchers hope they can use to discover new laws of physics, and perhaps to reformulate quantum mechanics"
A Nature News piece by Davide Castelvecchi on recent work by the group of Renato Renner (ETH).
08.11.2019
In a pair of papers published today in Physical Review Letters and Physical Review A, the group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH) demonstrates simultaneous control over transport and spin properties of cold atoms - establishing a framework for exploring spintronics concepts.
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07.11.2019
In a Nature Communications paper, a collaboration of the members of the groups of Klaus Ensslin, Thomas Ihn, Andreas Wallraff and Werner Wegscheider (ETH), IBM Research, the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of New South Wales, presents a new approach linking spin qubits and superconducting qubits.
04.11.2019
Reporting in Physical Review X, an international team led by Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) unravels novel dynamics in the interaction between light and mechanical motion - with significant implications for backaction-evading measurements.
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25.10.2019
..and by Daniel Loss (Uni Basel) on SRF.
24.10.2019
Renato Renner and Andreas Wallraff (ETH) comments in the media on Google's "quantum supremacy" experiment, whose results were reported yesterday in Nature.
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21.10.2019
A Naturepaper in which the groups of Richard Warburton and Nicolas Sangouard (Uni Basel), working with colleagues Ruhr-Universität and Laboratoire des Matériaux Avancés, report a device strongly coupling a quantum dot to an optical microcavity.
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17.10.2019
A recent Physical Review Letters paper of the NCCR QSIT groups of Nicolas Brunner and Nicolas Gisin (Uni Geneva), working with colleagues ETH, EPFL IC and IPM Tehran, made it onto the PRL trending list.
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02.10.2019
"A technical and scientific breakthrough, but not yet of practical relevance." - Klaus Ensslin (ETH) in a Berner Zeitung article by Simon Hurtz and Joachim Laukenmann on 'Google's quantum leap', the demonstration of 'quantum supremacy'.
01.10.2019
An article on machine learning algorithm performing measurements on quantum dot by the group of Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel) in collaboration with Natalia Ares' group at Oxford University and Edward Laird at Lancaster Univerity published in npj Quantum Information.
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01.10.2019
A portrait of Anna Fontcuberta i Morral in the EPFL News for EPFL's 50th anniversary.
27.09.2019
"A historic breakthrough?" Klaus Ensslin (ETH) in an interview with Radio SRF regarding the news that Google claims to have reached quantum supremacy.
24.09.2019
Andreas Wallraff (ETH) comments on Googles 53 qubit quantum computer in an article in NZZ.
19.09.2019
"Appreciating the classical elegance of time crystals" - Physicists at ETH (amongst others Oded Zilberberg and Alexander Eichler) have developed a versatile framework for studying periodically driven systems, providing a unifying platform to explore 'time crystals' in both the classical and the quantum regime.
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17.09.2019
In the current issue of Nature Physics, Cheng Chin (Univeristy of Chicago) writes about two recent experiments demonstrating the building blocks for the quantum simulation of dynamical gauge fields, one of them by the group of Tilman Esslinger (ETH).
04.09.2019
New results from a collaboration between the groups of Werner Wegscheider, Thomas Ihn and Klaus Ensslin (ETH), working with colleagues at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and at Weizmann Institute.
31.08.2019
Anna Fontcuberta i Morral (EPFL) appears in a series of short films in RTS. The goal of these short films is to inspire youngsters to make a career in science.
28.08.2019
In a recent Nature Communications Physics paper, the group of Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues at the Ruhr-Universität and Forschungszentrum Jülich - reports how a modification in how InGaAs quantum dots are grown can eventually lead to improved light-matter interfaces.
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20.08.2019
"Towards an ‘orrery’ for quantum gauge theory" - Writing in Nature Physics, the group of Tilman Esslinger presents a new approach to engineer quantized gauge fields coupled to ultracold matter.
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16.08.2019
New Quantum Device Lab (Andreas Wallraff group, ETH) out in Nature npj Quantum Information - Entanglement stabilization using ancilla-based parity detection and real-time feedback in superconducting circuits.
01.08.2019
euronews science reporter Jeremy Wilks visited Uni Geneva and ICFO to talk with leading experts - among them Rob Thew and Hugo Zbinden - about the state of the art in the field of quantum random number generators.
13.07.2019
In quasiparticles known as polaritons, states of light and matter are strongly coupled. The group of Ataç İmamoğlu (ETH) has now developed a new approach to study nonlinear optical properties of polaritons in strongly correlated electronic states. In doing so, they opened up fresh perspectives for exploring both ingredients of the polariton: novel functionalities for photonic devices and fundamental insight into exotic states of matter.
08.07.2019
In Nature Communciations today, a paper on coherent coupling between superconducting and a semiconductor qubits by the group of Andreas Wallraff (ETH). It’s a NCCR QSIT collaboration with the Ensslin, Ihn and Wegscheider groups (ETH) and the Blais group (Institut quantique, Sherbrooke, Québec).
03.07.2019
Writing in Nature Communications Physics, the group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel) - working with colleagues at Lund University - report electronic spectroscopy measurements of the proximity gap in a semiconducting nanowire segment coupled to a superconductor.
01.07.2019
"Apparently Europe is not the only thing getting hotter in this period; look at the new world temperature record achieved by Faist group (ETH) for THz Quantum Cascade Laser operation clicking on the following link."
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01.07.2019
Alexandra Nagy and Vincenzo Savona (EPFL) report a method to efficiently simulate the non-equilibrium steady state of open quantum systems, based on variational Monte Carlo methods & a neural network representation of the density matrix.
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28.06.2019
How do quantum computers work? Andreas Fuhrer (IBM Research) explains in a netzmedienag video some of the basic principles.
27.06.2019
This year, two ETH physics graduates were awarded the ETH Silver Medals for outstanding Master's theses - both come from QSIT groups. Christian Carisch received the medal for his Master's thesis "Operator Space Entanglement Spectrum of Mixed States - An Anderson Localization Case Study", under the supervision of Oded Zilberberg. And Valerio Peri received the award for his thesis "Axial field induced chiral channels in an acoustic Weyl system", under the supervision of Sebastian Huber.
CONGRATULATIONS!
24.06.2019
Congratulations to Andreas Landig from the group of Klaus Ensslin and Thomas Ihn (ETH) on receiving one of the 2019 Swiss Nanotechnology PhD Awards for excellent first-author papers in the field of nanotechnology and nanoscience.
CONGRATULATIONS!
24.06.2019
The group of Christian Degen (ETH) reports in Nature experiments in which they tracked the precession of single nuclear spins & extracted central pieces of information in NMR: the free-precession frequency and the dephasing rate.
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17.06.2019
Published in Nature Photonics: a collaboration including the Faistgroup (ETH) demonstrates the simultaneous acquisition and monitoring of the phase pattern of an unknown frequency comb - establishing a versatile method to characterise frequency combs.
12.06.2019
"Quantum computers threaten classical cryptography, [...] [q]uantum cryptography can be a solution" - Hugo Zbinden (Uni Geneva) in a Horizon Magazine article on Quantum Flagship projects dedicated to quantum cryptography.
24.05.2019
The cover story of the current issue of the Swiss magazine Netzwoche is on quantum computing, and NCCR QSIT researchers featuring prominently: in a piece on the contributions of IBM Research and Zurich Instruments, and an interview with Renato Renner (ETH).
23.05.2019
Scientists in the teams headed by Dominik Zumbühl and Daniel Loss (Uni Basel) are able to show for the first time, with a newly developed method, how a single electron looks in an artificial atom. Bein able to show the probability of an electron being present in a space, allows improved control of electron spins, which could serve as the smallest information unit in a future quantum computer. The experiments were published in Physical Review Letters and the related theory in Physical Review B.
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21.05.2019
Congratulations to Matteo Fadel (Uni Basel) on receiving the Prix Schläfli 2019 in Physics, for his dissertation in the group of Philipp Treutlein, on quantum correlations in Bose-Einstein condensates. The Prix Schläfli honours "the four most important insights gained by young researchers at Swiss universities", in the fields of Chemistry, Physics, Biology and Geosciences.
CONGRATULATIONS!
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09.05.2019
Quantum backaction (QBA) limits the precision of position measurements. The group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) and colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge report now in Nature Communications how they achieved optically measuring the motion of a mechanical oscillator avoiding QBA.
02.05.2019
A team including Christian Reichl and Werner Wegscheider (ETH), led by Lieven Vandersypen (QuTech and Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, TU Delft), reports a method for systematically adding quantum dots to an array — a step towards scaling up semiconductor quantum devices.
29.04.2019
Matthias Troyer, NCCR QSIT member while ETH, will receive the 2019 Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics, for his contributions to the development of quantum Monte Carlo algorithms. The prize comes with a purse of € 137,036 — in a nod to the fine-structure constant.
25.04.2019
Impressive results obtained in a collaboration between the groups of Patrick Maletinsky (Uni Basel) and Alberto Morpurgo (Uni Geneva), who contributed their expertise in diamond-based single-spin quantum sensors and 2D materials, respectively.
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25.04.2019
Writing in Physical Review Letters the group of Lukas Novotny (ETH) - working with colleagues from Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation and Universität Innsbruck - report cavity cooling of all three translational degrees of motion of a levitated nanoparticle in vacuum.
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15.04.2019
A bottleneck for spin-based qubits in semiconductors is the destructive nature of single-shot measurements. An intl team including Daniel Loss (Uni Basel and RIKEN) reports today in Nature Nanotechnology a quantum non-demolition measurement of such qubits.
09.04.2019
An article in DesignNews on recent work in which the group of Christian Schönenberger (Uni Basel), working with colleagues at the National Cheng Kung University, the Budapest University of Technology and the Economics and National Institute for Materials Science, report a potential way to expand the electrical properties of graphene.
01.04.2019
Hearing the Quantum is a new podcast made for researchers by Maciej Malinowski (Jonathan Home's group). Each episode features an hour-long discussion with authors of recent papers. We find out not just about their results, but also about the background necessary to understand the work, and how many times the laser broke while taking data.
01.04.2019
Quantum Industry Day in Switzerland 2019 external page #QIDiS – Join us again!
Save the date October 4, 2019, Technopark in Zurich – registration opening in May.
01.04.2019
Congratulations to Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) on receiving an ERC Research Advanced Grant for his project "Extremely Coherent Mechanical Oscillators and circuit Cavity Electro-Optics" (ExCOM-cCEO) — his 2nd ERC Adv. Grant, and 4th ERC grant in total.
CONGRATULATIONS!
22.03.2019
Writing in Physical Review Letters, the group of Vincenzo Savona (EPFL), with colleagues from MPQlab and Riken, predict that an appropriately driven lattice of coupled optical resonators can emulate the quantum transverse Ising model at finite temperatures.
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14.03.2019
Dephasing of electron spins by nuclear spins is a main obstacle for semiconductor-based quantum devices. Writing in Nature Communications, the groups of Gian Salis (IBM) and Werner Wegscheider (ETH) show how to control that nuclear background.
11.03.2019
Writing today in Nature Nanotechnology, a team led by Richard Warburton (Uni Basel) reports how the 2D electron gas in a gated MoS2 monolayer becomes spin-polarized upon applying a magnetic field, and suggest that Coulomb interactions cause this symmetry breaking.
11.03.2019
Super superlattices: The moiré patterns of three layers change the electronic properties of graphene - this is what physicists from Christian Schönenberger's group at The University of Basel report in their recent NanoLetter.
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06.03.2019
In the current issue of Nature, Jonathan Home (ETH) comments on work by Chris Monroe (University of Maryland and IonQ) and colleagues demonstrating the dispersal of local quantum information throughout a many-body system.
01.03.2019
Shawn Divitt and Lukas Novotny (ETH) have submitted a patent application for a new method of transferring data based on noise.
28.02.2019
Researchers in the group of Tobias Kippenberg (EPFL) have built the smallest frequency comb ever with small optical losses.
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28.2.2018
Christa Flühmann and colleagues from Jonathan Home's group have used trapped calcium ions to demonstrate a new method for making quantum computers immune to errors. To do so, they created a periodic oscillatory state of an ion that circumvents the usual limits to measurement accuracy.
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24.02.2019
Researchers from EPFL's Semiconductor Materials Laboratory, led by Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, in collaboration with colleagues at MIT and the IOFFE Institute, have found a way to grow nanowire networks in a strictly controlled and fully reproducible manner.
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22.02.2019
Leading quantum-technology experts from around the world have explored their respective regional and national goals for the future of the field, in a new focus issue of Quantum Science and Technology, a IOP Publishing journal edited by Rob Thew (Uni Genf).
12.2.2019
Jerome Faist from the ETH Zurich receives the Julius Springer Prize 2019 for Applied Physics. He is honored for his work on quantum cascade lasers. The prize, worth $ 5,000, will be presented on May 13, 2019 at the Magnus-Haus in Berlin and will be accompanied by a public lecture given by the winner.
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05.02.2019
"But if Switzerland were excluded for a long time, science would surely suffer." - Dominik Zumbühl (Uni Basel) in SRF, regarding the end of Horizon 2020 and what comes after.
25.01.2019
"Cold-atom quantum simulations are now at an accuracy and precision that can compare with the best classical simulation methods, opening fascinating perspectives" - Jean-Philippe Brantut (EPFL) in Science on recent quantum-transport experiments.