Talks & Seminars 2011-2014
Past talks:
Fri Dec 19, 2014 - 15:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum systems in one dimension
T.L. Schmidt - Universität Basel, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT colloquia external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Mon Dec 15, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Nanomechanics meets spintronics: spin-dependent transport and nanomechanical spin-valve
Gianluca Rastelli - Universität Konstanz, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Mon Dec 8, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Spin Transport in Graphene/h-BN van der Waals Heterostructures
Saroj Prasad Dash - Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon Dec 8, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Pairing phenomena in quasi-2D Fermi gases
Meera Parish - University College London, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jean-Philippe Brantut
Fri Dec 5, 2014- 15:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
The future of silicon
Gabriel Aeppli - PSI, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT colloquia external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Wed Dec 3, 2014 - 09:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPV G 5
A Personal Perspective on Qunatum Cryptography
Gilles Brassard - ETH Zurich and Université de Montréal
Special Student Lecture, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Host: Renato Renner, Klaus Ensslin and Atac Imamoglu
Mon Dec 1, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Cooling and Cooperative Coupling of Single Atoms in an Optical Cavity
Rene Reimann - Universität Bonn, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner / Tilman Esslinger
Wed Nov 26, 2014 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF E 6
Graphene electronic properties in random magnetic fields: theory and experiment
Caio Lewenkopf - Universidade Federal Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon Nov 24, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Controlling the interaction of light and matter at the level of single quanta
Stephan Götzinger - Max-Planck-Institut, Erlangen
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri Nov 14, 2014 - 15:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
The winding road to topological insulators
Eugene Mele - University of Pennsylvania, USA
QC2/QSIT colloquia external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder, Daniel Loss
Wed Nov 12, 2014 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF E 6
A Glance at the Exotic Quantum Liquids and Solids of the Two-Dimensional Electron Gas
Gabor Csathy - Purdue University, USA
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon Nov 10, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Transport through dual-gated bilayer graphene: from Fabry-Pérot interference to the observation of a tunable Lifshitz transition
Anastasia Varlet - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri Nov 7, 2014 - 14:50
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Breakdown of Fermi liquid description in the normal phase of the BCS-BEC crossover
Tara Drake - JILA, Univ of Colorado, Boulder, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Wed Nov 5, 2014 - 11:15
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Collective spin-excitations and Stoner ferromagnetic transition in strongly interacting 2D-electron systems
Igor Kukushkin - Russian Academy of Science, Chernogolovka and Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart
QSIT Seminar
Host: Werner Dietsche
Tue Nov 4, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF E 20
2DEG Mobility & FQHE - a puzzling behavior
Vladimir Umansky - Weizmann Institute of Science, Department of Condensed Matter, Israel
QSIT Seminar
Host: Werner Wegscheider
Mon Oct 27, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Nano-Opto-Mechanics at Microwave Frequencies
Hans Hübl - Walther-Meissner-Institut, Garching
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon Oct 27, 2014 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
The thermalization, condensation and flickering of photons
Jan Klaers - University of Bonn, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Thu Oct 23, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
One ring to bind them all: three wave mixing in non-linear WGM resonators
Harald Schwefel - Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Tue Oct 21, 2014 - 15:30
USI Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13 - room A-23
Cryptography in a Quantum World
Gilles Brassard - Université de Montréal, Canada
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Stefan Wolf
Tue Oct 21, 2014 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Entanglement as a resource for a cavity-based quantum interface
Tracy Northup - Universität Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri Oct 17, 2014 - 15:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Engineering extreme materials with defects and nonlinearity
Chiara Daraio - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT colloquium external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Thu Oct 16, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Bloch oscillations and Wannier-Stark states of a quantum particle in a generic two-dimensional lattice
Andrey Kolovsky - L. V. Kirensky Institute of Physics, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Daniel Greif, Tilman Esslinger
Wed Oct 15, 21014 - 10:15
University of Geneva - 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet - Salle 234
Time-bin single electron qubits (multiple peak electrons)
Michael Moskalets - Kharkiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Christian Flindt
Mon Oct 13, 2014 - 16:15
University of Geneva - 24, Quai Ernest Ansermet - Salle 234
Decoherence-free test of orbital entanglement in quantum dot systems
Peter Samuelsson - Department of Physics, Lund University, Sweden
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Christian Flindt
Thu Oct 9, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT E41.1
Combatting quantum noise
David Reeb - TU Munich, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Volkher Scholz
Mon Oct 6, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Ballistic transport in graphene nanodevices
Christoph Stampfer - RWTH Aachen, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Tue Sept 30, 2014 - 13:30
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Shortcuts to adiabaticity in trapped ion manipulation
Mikel Palmero - Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Joseba Alonso, Jonathan Home
Mon Sept 29, 2014 - 16:15
Universität Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum assisted sensing with diamond spins
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich - UC Santa Barbara, USA
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri Sept 26, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF E 6
Current Fluctuation in Spin-dependent Transport
Kensuke Kobayashi - Osaka University, Japan
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Thu Sept. 25, 2014 - 10:15
University of Geneva - 24 Quai E. Ansermet - Salle 234
Entanglement in Cooper pair splitters
Rakesh Tiwari - University of Basel, Switzerland
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Christian Flindt
Thu Sept 18, 2014 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT J 53
Black-box assessment of quantum devices
Valerio Scarani - Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host:Yeong-Cherng Liang, Renato Renner
Tue Sept 16, 2014 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT K 51
How much information can we reliably send through a realistic quantum channel?
Marco Tomamichel - University of Sydney, Australia
Quantum Information Theory Seminar, abstract
Host: Volkher Scholz
Tue Sept 16, 2014 - 13:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Robust Software - How to add Quality into your Software Projects
Fabian Meier - G-Lab GmbH, Switzerland
QSIT Seminar, abstract, Downloadslides (PDF, 2.7 MB)
Hosts: Ben Keitch, Jonathan Home
Fri Sept 12, 2014 - 13:30
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
All-optical routing of single photons by a single atom
Serge Rosenblum - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue Aug 26, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Tailoring atom-photon interactions using cavity-assisted Raman transitions
Markus Baden - Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Tobias Donner / Tilman Esslinger
Mon Aug 25, 2014 - 13:15
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT E 41.1
Cooperative effects and quantum optics with arrays of single photon emitters
Osip Schwartz - Nova Measuring Instruments Inc., Weizmann Science Park, Rehovot, Israel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Thu Aug 14, 2014 - 16:45
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Cold atoms coupled to photonic crystals: a platform for tunable long-range interactions
Darrick Chang - Inst. of Photonic Sciences, ICFO, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Wed July 30, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Strongly Interacting Photons in Superconducting Circuit Networks
Michael Hartmann - TU München, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Milan Allan/Anna Hambitzer
Tue July 22, 2014 - 10:00
Basel University - Room 1.22
Diamond platforms for nanoscale photonics and metrology
Brendan Shields - Harvard University
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri July 18, 2014 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
THz/mid-IR nonlinear optics and plasmonics of graphene and topological insulators
Alexey Belyanin - Texas A&M University, College Station, USA
QSIT Seminar
Host: Jerome Faist
Mon July 14, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF E 6
Odd even-denominator fractional quantum Hall physics in ZnO based two-dimensional electron systems
Jürgen Smet - MPI Stuttgart, Germany
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Wed July 9, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT E 41.1
The Constructor Theory of Information
Chiara Marletto - University of Oxford, U.K.
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Renato Renner
Mon July 7, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Scalable Techniques for Trapped-ion Quantum Information Processing
Ryan Bowler - NIST, Boulder, CO, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri July 4, 2014 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Applied research in industry
Stephan Schnez - ABB Corporate Research, Applied Physics, Baden-Dättwil, CH
QSIT Program: Advancement of young researchers Link
Host: Thomas Ihn
Wed July 2, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Coherent control of diamond defects: Nanoscale sensing in living cells
Peter Maurer - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Thu June 26, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Non-classical phenomena in primary events of photosynthesis
Alexandra Olaya-Castro - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University College London, United Kingdom
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Thu June 26, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Atomic Hong-Ou-Mandel effect in tunnel-coupled optical tweezers
Adam Kaufman - JILA, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Tobias Donner/ Tilman Esslinger
Mon June 23, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Symmetry Breaking and Topological Defect Formation in Ion Coulomb Crystals
Tanja E. Mehlstäubler - Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, Braunschweig, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon June 16, 2014 - 10:15
University of Geneva - 24, Quai E. Ansermet - Salle 234
How a quantum state gets from A to B
Andrew Jordan - University of Rochester, NY, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Géraldine Haack
Thu June 12, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT F 12
Microscopic Origin of the 0.7-Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts
Jan von Delft - Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri May 23, 2014 - 17:00-19:00
STW Schmelzbergstrasse 25 - 8006 Zürich
Non-Locality and What to Do With It
Michael Esfeld - Philosophy of Science, University of Lausanne
Nicolas Gisin - Quantum Optics, University of Geneva
Collegium Helveticum Link
Science and Philosophy, Lecture series at ETH Zurich Link
Fri May 23, 2014 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Majorana, Kondo, and Andreev walk into a bar...
Charles Marcus - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
QC2/QSIT colloquium external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Thu May 22, 2014 - 11:00
University of Geneva - 24 Quai E. Ansermet - Salle 234
Using a two-electron spin-qubit to detect flying electrons above the Fermi sea
Tristan Meunier - Institut Néel, Grenoble, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Christian Flindt
Tue May 20, 2014 - 16:45
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Mechanical resonators based on nanotubes and graphene
Adrian Bachtold - ICFO – The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain
QSIT/ LFKP Seminar, abstract
Host: Christian Degen
Fri May 9, 2014 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum measurements with diamond spins: from fundamental studies to remote teleportation
Ronald Hanson - Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
QC2/QSIT colloquium external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri May 9, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in self-assembled quantum dots: structural analysis and quantum computing applications
Evgeny Chekhovich - Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, U.K.
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri May 9, 2014 - 11:00
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 2, 1st floor
Single shot correlation spectroscopy and high fidelity gates for two electron spin qubits
Hendrik Bluhm - RWHT Aachen, Germany
QC2/QSIT seminar
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Thu May 8, 2014 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Non-adiabatic holonomic quantum computation
Erik Sjöqvist - Department of Quantum Chemistry, Uppsala University, Sweden
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Stefan Filipp/Andreas Wallraff
Mon May 5, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Magnetic resonance in self-assembled quantum dots: structural analysis and quantum computing applications
Evgeny Chekhovich - University of Sheffield, U.K.
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Mathieu Munsch
Mon April 28, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Detecting multiparticle entanglement of Dicke states
Carsten Klempt - Leibnitz Universität Hannover, Germany
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Tue April 15, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Light and matter: towards macroscopic quantum systems
Jacob M. Taylor - Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland and National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon April 14, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum optomechnics with nanofabricated devices
Amir Safavi-Naeini - ETH Zürich
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Fri April 11, 2014 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Spooky action in the past?
Klaus Moelmer - Aarhus University, Denmark
QC2/QSIT colloquium external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Wed April 9, 2014 - 13:15
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Dipolar interactions in confined geometries: From Casimir to entanglement
Ephraim Shahmoon - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Stefan Filipp & Andreas Wallraff
Mon April 7, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Hybrid Nano-optomechanical systems
Olivier Arcizet - Institut NEEL, Grenoble, France
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri April 4, 2014 - 13:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT J 53
Carbon-nanotube optomechanics
Ignacio Wilson-Rae - University of York, U.K.
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon March 31, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Understanding and Optimizing Solution Processed Solids for Energy Applications
Vanessa Wood - ETH Zurich
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: E. Meyer
Fri March 28, 2014 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Nano-Photonic Quantum Interfaces for Cold Neutral Atoms
Arno Rauschenbeutel - TU Wien, Austria
QC2/QSIT colloquia external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Thu March 27, 2014 - 16:45
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT H 42
Polariton condensates in photonic lattices
Alberto Amo - Laboratoire de Photonique et Nanostructures, CNRS, Marcoussi, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon March 24, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
AC Josephson Effect in topological Josephson Junctions
Julia Meyer - Université Joseph Fourrier, Grenoble, France
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Thu March 20, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Cooper-pair pumps: turning quantum coherence into an electric current
Simone Gasparinetti - Aalto University, Finland
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Stefan Filipp & Andreas Wallraff
Mon March 17, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum Design in Carbon Nanotubes
Shahal Ilani - Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Fri March 14, 2014 - 16:45
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HCI J 4
Two-, three-, four-, and many-body effects in a cold Rydberg-atom sample
Pierre Pillet - Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, CNRS, Université Paris-Sud and ENS Cachan, France
Currently Invited Professor at the LPC
Seminar on Theoretical Chemistry, Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamic, Downloadabstract (PDF, 25 KB)
Host: Frédéric Merkt
Mon March 3, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Toward the generation of phonon Fock state and on-demand single photons in a weakly coupled optomechanical system
Christophe Galland - EPF Lausanne, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Martino Poggio
Thu Feb 27, 2014 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT K 52
Embedding Quantum Simulators for measuring n-time correlation functions
Julen Pedernales - University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Wed Feb 26, 2014 - 16:45
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPV G 4
A CLOSE-UP of Synthetic Quantum Matter
Markus Greiner - Harvard University and Center for Ultracold Atoms, Cambridge, USA
The Zurich Physics Colloquium
Host: Gregor Jotzu
Mon Feb 24, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Transport
Christian Flindt - Université de Genève, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Mon Feb 17, 2014 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Interactive teaching methods: university instruction beyond the lecture
Audra Baleisis - ETH Zurich
QC2/QSIT seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri Feb 14, 2014 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Prospects for topological quantum computing
Anthony J. Leggett - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
QC2/QSIT colloquia external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Thu Jan 23, 2014 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HIT K 51
Few body Rydberg systems and the prospect for realizing strongly correlated electron gases
Dieter Jaksch - University of Oxford, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Matthias Christandl
Mon Jan 20, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Feedback loops applied to the measurement and control of light in a cavity
Bruno Peaudecerf - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, ENS-UPMC-CNRS-Collège de France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Thu Jan 16, 2014 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Nondestructive Detection of an Optical Photon
Andreas Reiserer - Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Wed Jan 8, 2014 - 13:00
ETH Zurich, Hönggerberg - HPF G 6
Ultracold rubidium atoms in optical lattices
Georgios Siviloglou - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Mon Dec 9, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Cavity-Enabled Control of Collective Spin States for Quantum Metrology
Monika Schleier-Smith - Stanford University
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Tue Dec 3, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Wave Particle Duality for a Single Photon
Alain Aspect - Ecole Polytechnique, Institut d'Optique, Palaiseau, France
The Zurich Physics Colloquium Link
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Tue Dec 3, 2013 - 14:15
Uni Basel - Lect. Hall 2
Spin qubit control and coherence in GaAs and Silicon
Lieven Vandersypen - Delft University of Technology
QC2/QSIT Seminar
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Thu Nov 28, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Bern - Hörsaal B116
Heralded entanglement between distant atoms. Towards a loophole free test of Bell's inequality?
Harald Weinfurter - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, and
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
QSIT Seminar
Host: André Stefanov
Thu Nov 28, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Shortcuts to adiabaticity
Gonzalo Muga - EHU in Bilbao, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Joseba Alonso / Jonathan Home
Mon Nov 25, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Abelian an Non-Abelian quantum Hall states in bilayer graphene
Dimitry Abanin - Perimeter Institut, Harvard University
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri Nov 22, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Probing Quantum Matter at the Single Atom Level
Immanuel Bloch - Ludwigs-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Thu Nov 21, 2013 - 13:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Towards a "solid-state optical nuclear clock"
Thorsten Schumm - Vienna University of Technology, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner / Tilman Esslinger
Mon Nov 18, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Non-relativistic and relativistic approaches to spintronics
Tomas Jungwirth - Academy of Science of the Czech Republic
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon Nov 18, 2013 - 10:45
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Dissipative production of a maximally entangled steady state
Yiheng Lin - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host:Jonathan Home
Tue Nov 12, 2013 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Engineered spin-motion and spin-spin interactions on a 2D array of trapped ions
Joseph W. Britton - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon Nov 11, 2013 - 17:15
ETH Main Campus - HG F 7
The ultimate limits of privacy
Artur Ekert - University of Oxford
Institute for Theoretical Studies, Colloquium Link
Fri Nov 8, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Cooling and Amplification of a Vacuum-Trapped Nanoparticle
Lukas Novotny - ETH Zürich, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Richard Warburton
Thu Nov 7, 2013 - 19:30
ETH main building - HG G 5
Quantentechnologie für und gegen Spione
Renato Renner - ETH Zurich
Physikalische Gesellschaft Zurich external pageLink
Thu Nov 7, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HP G 5
Graphene nano-photonics and carrier dynamics
Frank Koppens - ICFO - The Institute of Photonic Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
QSIT Colloquium, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Wed Nov 6, 2013 - 14:45
ETH Science City - HPH G 2
Special Student Lecture, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1003 KB), podcast
Serge Haroche - Ecole Normale Supérieure and Collège de France, Paris - Nobel Prize in Physics 2012
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Tue Nov 5, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Manipulating a spin qubit by the backaction of sequential adaptive partial measurements
Cristian Bonato - Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Thu Oct 31, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Atoms cooperating in an optical cavity: Superradiant lasing and spin squeezing
Justin G. Bohnet - University of Colorado at Boulder, JILA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner/ Tilman Esslinger
Mon Oct 28, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Superconducting Proximity Effect in Interacting Quantum-Dot Systems
Jürgen König - Universität Duisburg Essen, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri Oct 25, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Simple and complex assemblies of photofunctional nanostructures
Alexander Högele - Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Thu Oct 24, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF E 6
Nanostructures for Plasmonics and Spintronics
Tomas Sikola - University of Brno, CZE
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon Oct 21, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Interactions on flat bands: a route to non-standard condensation
Sebastian Huber - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri Oct 18, 2013 - 14:00
Uni Basel, Physics Dept. - Room 2.04
Quantum control of interactions between spins and photons in diamond
Yiwen Chu - Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Thu Oct 17, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Superfluid atom circuits
Fred Jendrzejewski - Joint Quantum Institute and NIST ( Gaithersburg), USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jean-Philippe Brantut / Tilman Esslinger
Mon Oct 14, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum control of interactions between spins and photons in diamond
Yiwen Chu - Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Fri Oct 11, 2013 - 13:45
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Generating two-qubit entanglement by parity measurement and feedback in circuit QED
Leo DiCarlo - Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Thu Oct 10, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G6
The orbital magnetization in periodic systems: theory and ab-initio calculation
Davide Ceresoli - University of Milan, Italy
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Alexey A. Soluyanov/Matthias Troyer
Mon Sept 30, 2013 - 17:15
ETH main building - HG F 30
Wenn uns kalte Gase die Welt der Elektronen erklären
Sebastian Huber, HG F 30
Introductory lecture
Mon Sept 30, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Realizing the Harper Hamiltonian with Laser-Assisted Tunneling
Colin Kennedy - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Michael Messer / Tilman Esslinger
Mon Sept 23, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Magnonics - shrinking microwaves to nanoscale
Dirk Grundler - Technische Universität München, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar
Host: Martino Poggio
Tue Sept 17, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Deterministically encoding quantum information in 100-photon Schrödinger cat states
Brian Vlastakis - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Fri Sept 6, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Towards scalable quantum information processing and quantum simulation with trapped ions
Dietrich Leibfried - National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Wed Aug 28, 2013 - 15:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Photonic quantum computing
Stefanie Barz - University of Vienna, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Wed Aug 28, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
A Quantum Ratchet showing directional motion in absence of a directional force
Maarten Hoogerland - University of Auckland, New Zealand
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner/Tilman Esslinger
Mon Aug 5, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum Control of Diamond Defects: Nanoscale Sensing in Living Cells
Peter Maurer - Harvard University, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Tue July 30, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Polariton-powered devices: lasers, superfluids and superconductors
Fabrice Laussy - Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Wed July 24, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Bose-Einstein Condensation versus Dicke-Hepp-Lieb Transition in an Optical Cavity
Francesco Piazza - TU Munich, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Ferdinand Brennecke/Tilman Esslinger
Thu July 4, 2013 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HIL D 10.2
Trapped ion collisions with cold atoms and cold molecules
Seunghyun Lee - Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Wed July 3, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Simulation open quantum systems with ions
Philipp Schindler - Universität Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Tue June 25, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Spin Physics in the Lowest Landau Level
Yongqing Li - Inst. of Physics, Beijing, China
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Werner Dietsche/Werner Wegscheider
Wed June 5, 2013 - 13:00
Basel University - Dept. of Physics - 'alter Hörsaal', 1.22
Quantum sensing with single spins in diamond
Vincent Jacques - ENS Cachan, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Wed June 5, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Quantum Walks - from Integrated Photonics to Cold Atoms
Yoav Lahini - MIT Department of Physics
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Sebastian Huber
Wed May 29, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Graphene Future Emerging Technology
Andrea Ferrari - Cambridge Graphene Centre, University of Cambridge, UK
The Zurich Physics Colloquium
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon May 29, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Silicon quantum electronics
Floris Zwanenburg - University of Twente
QC2/QSIT special seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri May 24, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Designer Dirac Fermions, Topological Phases, and Gauge Fields in Molecular Graphene
Hari C. Manoharan - Stanford University, USA
QSIT Colloquium, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Coffee and tea after the lecture
Thu May 23, 2013 - 15:15
ETH Zentrum - HG G 43
From Pauli's Principle to Fermionic Entanglement
Matthias Christandl - ETH Zurich
Talks in Mathematical Physics
Wed May 22, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Quantum Magnetism from the Bottom up
Christopher Monroe - Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, USA
The Zurich Physics Colloquium
Host: Jonathan Home
Thu May 16, 2013 - 13:30
Uni Basel - Room 4.1
Electron-nuclear spin interaction in the quantum Hall regime
Benedict Friess - MPI for Solid State Research, Stuttgart
QC2/QSIT special seminar external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Thu May 16, 2013 - 14:45
Uni Basel - Room 4.1
Integer and Fractional Quantum Hall Effect in a Strip of Stripes
Jelena Klinovaja - Department of Physics, University Basel
QC2/QSIT special seminar, abstract
Host: Daniel Loss
Mon May 6, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum alchemy for the 21st century: creating topological states in trivial systems via time-dependent driving
Mark Rudner - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen
QC2/QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Mon April 29, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Quantum Physics with Massive Objects
Roman Schnabel - MPI Hannover, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Fri April 26, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Entanglement and Distinguishability of Quantum States
Augusto Smerzi - QSTAR, INO-CNR and LENS, Firenze
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Coffee at 15:15
Mon April 22, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Carbon nanotube-graphene junctions
Romain Danneau - Karlsruher Institut für Technologie
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Thu April 18, 2013 - 10:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
The Penrose-Onsager criterion and spinor topological defects in Exciton-Polariton condensates
Francesco Manni - Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, EPFL
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue April 16, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Do birds use entangled spins in their magnetic compass sensor?
Peter J. Hore - Oxford University, UK
QSIT Colloquium, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon April 15, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Edges and grain boundaries in graphene: a theorist's view
Oleg Yazyev - EPF Lausanne
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri April 12, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Topological order and topological states of matter
Bogdan A. Bernevig - Princeton University, USA
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Coffee at 15:15
Mon April 8, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Entanglement detection and quantum communication with electron spins and ferromagnetic detectors
Jan Martinek - Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznan
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri April 5, 2013 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Quantum optics with electrons
Bernard Plaçais - ENS Paris
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Coffee at 15:15
Tue March 26, 2013 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Microwave quantum logic and a CPT test with single (anti-)protons
Christian Ospelkaus - Institut für Quantenoptik, Leibniz Universität Hannover
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon March 18, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF E 6
How to make graphene superconducting
Franceso Mauri - Université de Paris, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Thu March 7, 2013 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Information Thermodynamics and Fluctuation Theorems
Masahito Ueda - University of Tokyo, Japan
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon March 4, 2013 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Microwave and Optical Measurement Schemes for Nanometer-Scale Devices
Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann - ETH Zurich, Switzerland
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Thu Feb 7, 2013
ETH Science City - HIT H 51
Dynamical critical phenomena in driven-dissipative systems
Sebastian Diehl - Universität Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Sebastian Huber
Thu Jan 24, 2013 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Coupling spin qubits in diamond to mechanical resonators
Ania Bleszynski-Jayich - University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
joint Solid State Physics / QSIT Seminar
Host: Christian Degen
Fri Jan 11, 2013 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HIT E 41.1
Stabilizer quantum error correction toolbox for superconducting qubits
Simon E. Nigg - Yale University, CT, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Stefan Filipp/Andreas Wallraff
Fri Nov 30, 2012 - 14:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Observation of the single photon Kerr effect and deterministic Schrödinger-cat creation in QED
Gerhard Kirchmair - Applied Physics Department, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Fri Nov 23, 2012 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Graphene Nano-photonics and Quantum Opto-electronics
Frank Koppens - ICFO Barcelone, Spain
external pageColloquium
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Tue Nov 20, 2012 - 16:15
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Synthetic gauge fields in cavity/circuit QED
Jonas Larson - University of Stockholm
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Hosts: Ferdinand Brennecke/Tilman Esslinger
Mon Nov 19, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Fractional quantum Hall effect with Rydberg atoms
Michael Fleischhauer - Universität Kaiserslauten, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Mon Nov 12, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Frontiers in the Atomistic Modeling of the Excited States of Nanostructures
Gabriel Bester - Max Planck Institut for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Richard Warburton
Mon Nov 5, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Nano-Optomechanical Systems for Measurement Applications
Emanuel Gavartin - EPFL
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri Nov 2, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Transition from fractional to Majorana fermions in Rashba nanowires
Jelena Klinovaja - Condensed Matter Theory and Quantum Computing Group, University of Basel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Parisa Fallahi/Atac Imamoglu
Mon Oct 29, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Trapping Single Atoms near Nanoscale Structures
Tobias Tiecke - Havard University
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Fri Oct 26, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Coherent forward scattering reveals Anderson localization of matter waves
Cord A. Mueller - National University of Singapore
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jean-Philippe Brantut/Tilman Esslinger
Tue Oct 23, 2012 - 10:45-11:30
ETH Science City - HPH G 3
Mildred S. Dresselhaus
MIT, Cambridge, USA
Special Student Lecture, DownloadFlyer (PDF, 781 KB)
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon Oct 22, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Spin Physics in Carbon Nanotube Double Quantum Dots
Mark Buitlaar - University of Cambridge
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon Oct 8, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
The Behavior of Individual Superconducting Vortice as Revealed by Magnetic Force Microskopy
Ophir Auslaender - Technion Israel
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Mon Oct 1, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Hörsaal 1
Polarons: from Models to Materials to Quantum Simulation
Vladimir Stojanovic - Universität Basel
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christoph Bruder
Wed Sept 26, 2012 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Prospects for Superconducting Qubits
David DiVincenzo - Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachen, Germany
The Zurich Physics Colloquium
Host: Matthias Christandl
Tue Sept 25, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Superfluid behaviour of a two-dimensional Bose gas
Rémi Desbuquois - Ecole Normal Supérieure, Paris
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Tue Sept 25, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Fermions with spin-orbit coupling generated by synthetic non-Abelian gauge fields
Vijay B. Shenoy - Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Fri Aug 31, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Optically controlled spins in quantum dots
Sophia Economou - Naval Research Labs, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon Aug 20, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Beyond the Pseudopotential Approximation
Haggai Landa - Tel-Aviv University
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri Aug 3, 2012 - 13:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Transport and excitations in lattice-trapped bosonic mixtures
Dominik Schneble - Stony Brook University, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Daniel Greif/Tilman Esslinger
Tue July 31, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Modular Universal Scalable Ion-trap Quantum Computer (MUSIQC): Engineering a Practical Quantum Computer
Jungsang Kim - Duke University, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Thu July 26, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Optical Diamond Nanocavities for Integrated Quantum Networks
Yiwen Chu - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu/Emre Togan
Thu July 19, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum Simulations with Trapped Ions
Lucas Lamata - Universidad del País Vasco UPV/EHU, Bilbao, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff/Stefan Filipp
Mon July 2, 2012 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Geometric Crossover between the Kondo Effect and the 0.7-Anomaly
Jan van Delft - LMU München, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon June 25, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Topological Quantum Computing with Anyons: Experimental Status and Future Prospect
Woowon Kang - University of Chicago, USA
QSIT Seminar
Host: Werner Wegscheider
Mon June 25, 2012 - 13:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Recent experiments with ions in microfabricated surface-electrode traps
Yves Colombe - NIST Boulder, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri June 15, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
The three decade-long-interaction between MBE quality improvements in 2D electron systems, and new discoveries in Quantum Hall physics
Loren Pfeiffer - Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, USA
QSIT Seminar
Host: Werner Wegscheider
Thu June 7, 2012 - 14:00
Uni Basel - Room 2.04
Imaging magnetic structures at the nanoscale with a single NV spin scanning probe magnetometer
Loic Rondin - LPQM ENS Cachan, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Patrick Maletinsky
Thu June 7, 2012 - 11:15
Uni Basel - Room 4.1
Tunable Electron Many-Body Physics with Single and Paired Localized States in Quantum Point Contacts
Caspar van der Wal - University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Special QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Dominik Zumbühl
Fri June 1, 2012 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Superconducting circuits for quantum information technology
Leonardo DiCarlo - Delft University of Technology
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri June 1, 2012 - 13:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Effect of disorder on the coherence properties of 2D Bose gases
Baptiste Allard - Institut d'Optique Graduate School, Palaiseau (France)
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger/Jean-Philippe Brantut
Wed May 31, 2012 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Cavity quantum electrodynamics with semiconductor quantum dots
Pascale Senellart - CNRS Marcoussis, France
QSIT Colloquium, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri May 25, 2012 - 15:15
Uni Basel - St. Johanns-Ring 25 - Lecture Hall 1
Atomic and solid-state cavity QED with fiber Fabry-Perot cavities
Jakob Reichel - ENS Paris, France
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Thu May 24, 2012 - 19:30
ETH Main Campus - HG F 5
Quantenphysik auf einem Chip
Klaus Ensslin - ETH Zurich
external pagePhysikalische Gesellschaft Zürich
Mon May 21, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Quantum interference and phonon-mediated back-action in nanoscale devices
Stefan Ludwig - LMU München, Germany
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon May 14, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Recent results on counting individual electrons
Thomas Ihn - ETH Zurich
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Mon May 7, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Klingelbergstr. 82
Emergent Electromagnetism in Bilayer Graphene
Roland Winkler - Northern Illinois University
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Fri May 4, 2012 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Nanoscale Imaging and Quantum Sensing with Single Spins
Patrick Maletinsky - University of Basel
Antrittsvorlesung
Host: E. Meyer
Thu May 3, 2012 - 15:00
ETH Science City - HPT C 103
Artificial magnetic field for photons in a coupled cavity array
Onur Umucalilar - INO-CNR BEC Center and Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Trento, Italy
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Mon April 23, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Universality in ultracold cesium gases: more resonances, more atoms, less dimensions
Alessandro Zenesini - University of Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Fri April 20, 2012 - 15:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Nanotechnologies for Humans and Humanoids
Roberto Cingolani - IIT & Università del Solento, Lecce
QC2/QSIT Colloquium external pageLink
Host: Martino Poggio
Mon April 16, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Optical Manipulation of Carrier and Nuclear spins in novel GaAs droplet dots
Bernhard Urbaszek - INSA Toulouse
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Richard Warburton
Wed April 11, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Lattice modulation of a two-dimensional superfluid: could it be…the Higgs particle?
Lode Pollet - LMU Munich, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Wed April 4, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HIT K 51
Quantum Computing with Non-interacting Particles
Alex Arkhipov - MIT, Cambridge, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Matthias Christandl
Thu March 29, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Hybrid quantum circuit with a superconducting qubit coupled to a spin ensemble
Denis Vion - CEA-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
Solid State Physics Seminar / QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Mon March 26, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Circuit-QED with hybrid quantum dot devices
Audrey Cottet - ENS Paris, France
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri March 23, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Techniques for Scalable Ion Trap Quantum Information Processing
David Lucas - Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri March 23, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF E 6
Noise spectroscopy through dynamical decoupling with a superconducting flux qubit
Simon Gustavsson - MIT, Boston, USA
QSIT Seminar
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon March 19, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Electronic matter wave interference on the attosecond time scale in photoemission from nanoscale metal tips
Peter Hommelhoff - MPQ Garching
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Wed March 14, 2012 - 15:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Digital quantum simulation with trapped ions
Markus Müller - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon March 12, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Singlet-triplet splitting in double quantum dots from spin-orbit and nuclear hyperfine interactions
Dimitrije Stepanenko - Universität Basel
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Daniel Loss
Thu March 8, 2012 - 17:15
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Why physicists should care about information theory
Renato Renner - Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
abstract
Tue March 6, 2012 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Silicon quantum information processing
Kohei Itoh - Keio University, Japan
QSIT Colloquium, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 652 KB)
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Mon March 5, 2012 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
New ion (+atom) trap concepts for quantum simulations
Tobias Schätz - MPQ, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
QC2/QSIT Seminar external pageLink
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Fri March 2, 2012 - 10:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Novel ion traps for deterministic ion implantation and quantum simulation
Kilian Singer - University of Mainz, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Wed Feb 8, 2012 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HIT J 51
The Oxford Planar Ion Trap Project
David Allcock - University of Oxford, U.K.
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Thu Jan 26, 2012 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Quantum Electrodynamics with Quantum Dots in Photonic Nanostructures
Peter Lodahl - Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen, DK
QSIT Colloquium, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 596 KB)
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue Jan 24, 2012 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Nanophotonic devices in fiber form: from plasmonics towards nonlinear optics
Markus Schmidt - MPI for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Tue Jan 17, 2012 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Scalable quantum computation via local control of only two qubits
Daniel Burgarth - Aberystwyth University, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Tue Dec 20, 2011 - 13:45
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Tunable quantum glasses and phase transitions of atoms and photons: first testable predictions for glassy physics with many-body cavity QED
Philipp Strack - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Thu Dec 15, 2011 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HIT H 51
Robust Trapped-Ion Quantum Logic Gates by Microwave Dynamical Decoupling
Alex Retzker - University of Ulm, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Tue Dec 13, 2011 - 13:00
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
Seeing topological order
Jiannis K. Pachos - University of Leeds, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Mon Dec 12, 2011 - 16:15
Uni Basel - Lecture Hall 1
Spintransport in graphene
Bernd Beschoten - RWTH Aachen, Germany
Condensed Matter Seminar
Host: Christian Schönenberger
Fri Nov 25, 2011
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Optical Flux Lattices for Ultracold Atomic Gases
Nigel Cooper - University of Cambridge, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Mon Nov 21, 2011 - 16:15
Uni Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82 - Lecture Hall 1
Transport in topological insulators
Reinhold Egger - Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Condensed Matter Seminar
Host: Christoph Bruder
Mon Nov 21, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Spin current phenomena: new impetus to spintronics
Sergio Machado Rezende - Departamento de Física, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, PE, Brazil
Former Minister of Science of Brazil
QSIT Colloquium, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1.9 MB)
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Sun Nov 20, 2011 - 11:00 and 14:00
ETH Science City - HCI J 7
Waren Sie schon an zwei Orten gleichzeitig?
Klaus Ensslin - ETH Zurich
Treffpunkt Science City
Wed Nov 2, 2011 - 12:45-14:30
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Quantum Physics in Nanowires and Nanotubes
Leo Kouwenhoven - Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
Special Student Lecture, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1.2 MB)
Coffee and tea at 13h30
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Tue Nov 1, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Working with multipartite entanglement in real systems
Jens Siewert - Universidad del País Vasco, Bilbao, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Mon Oct 31, 2011 - 17:00
Université de Genève, 24 quai E. Ansermet - Auditoire Stueckelberg
Electron counting in quantum dots in and out of equilibrium
Klaus Ensslin - ETH Zurich
Colloque à l'Ecole de Physique
Thu Oct 27, 2011 - 16:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Slow-light polaritons
Michael Fleischhauer - University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
QSIT Colloquium, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 990 KB)
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri Oct 14, 2011 - 15:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
From quantum logic spectroscopy to coherent state detection: Experiments with AI+ clockwork
David B. Hume - University of Heidelberg, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri Sept 30, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Writing, reading and controlling the spin state of single matter spin qubits using a single picosecond laser pulse
David Gershoni - Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri Sept 30, 2011 - 09:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Scalable trapped-ion quantum computing in Innsbruck
Michael Brownnutt - University of Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Joseba Alonso Otamendi
Wed Sept 21, 2011 - 09:30
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
States with spontaneously broken time reversal symmetry in graphene
Leonid Levitov - MIT, Cambridge, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Tue Sept 20, 2011 - 17:15
ETH Zurich, Zentrum - HG F 30
Nanoscale Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Christian Degen - ETH Zürich
Introductory Lecture
Tue Sept 6, 2011 - 10:30
IBM Rüschlikon - Room C 201
One-dimensional nanolines and atom chains on the Si(001) surface
Sigrun A. Koester - University of Geneva, Switzerland
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Fuhrer
Fri Sept 2, 2011 - 11:00
Universität Basel - small lecture PC room
Quantum Logic for Molecular Spectroscopy
Jordi Muri-Petit - CSIC, Madrid, Spain
QSIT Seminar, Downloadflyer (PDF, 39 KB)
Host: Stefan Willitsch
Thu Aug 4, 2011 - 17:00
ETH Science City - HIT H 42
New ion (+atom) trap concepts for quantum simulations
Tobias Schätz - Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Garching, Germany
University of Freiburg, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon July 25, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Coherent destruction of tunneling and synthetic gauge fields in trapped ions
Diego Porras - Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Mon July 4, 2011 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Photonic structures for quantum information science
Alberto Politi - University of Bristol, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Fri July 1, 2011 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Cryogenic electronics for trap and quantum experiments
Stefan Stahl - Stahl Electronics, Blenheim, Germany
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Joseba Alonso Otamendi
Thu June 23, 2011 - 16:00
ETH Science City - HIT F 32
Dynamics of central spin models and nonlinear quantum optical systems
Vladimir Gritsev - University of Fribourg, Switzerland
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue June 21, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Model for the Dissipative Conductance in Fractional Quantum Hall States
Nicholas d'Ambrumenil - University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
FQHS Seminar, abstract
Host: Rudolf Morf, PSI
Thu June 16, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Non-Markovian open quantum systems: Why should we care?
Sabrina Maniscalco - University of Turku, Finland
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Fri June 10, 2011 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum walks and quantum correlations in photonic lattices
Yoav Lahini - Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Wed May 11, 2011 - 17:15
ETH Zurich, Zentrum - HG F 30 (Audi Max)
Nanoelectronics - Bringing the Ultra-small to Batteries, LEDs, and other devices
Vanessa Wood - Dep. of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, ETH Zurich
Introductory Lecture
Fri April 15, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
An Integrated Photonic Atom Chip and Minimally-Destructive Detection of Magnetically-Trapped Atoms
Robert A. Nyman - Imperial College, London, UK
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Mon April 11, 2011 - 11:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Neutral Fermions and Skyrmions in the Moore-Read state at ν= 5/2
Nigel Cooper - University of Cambridge, U.K.
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Thu April 7, 2011
ETH Science City - HIT E 51
Electronic transport in graphene quantum dots
Johannes Güttinger - Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zurich
AMP Colloquium
Thu March 31, 2011 - 16:45-18:00
ETH Science City - HPV G 4
Magnetic orientation – does quantum physics play a role?
Thorsten Ritz - University of California, Irvine, USA
QSIT Colloquium, Downloadflyer (PDF, 2.5 MB)
Coffee and tea at 16:15
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue March 29, 2011 - 17:15
ETH Science City - HIT J 51
Testing Quantum Devices for Quantum Communication
Norbert Luetkenhaus - Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Canada
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Renato Renner
Fri March 25, 2011 - 14:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
Exploring new frontiers of quantum optical science
Mikhail Lukin - Harvard University, USA
QSIT Colloquium, Downloadflyer (PDF, 843 KB)
Coffee and tea at 15:30
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Tue March 22, 2011 - 15:45
ETH Science City - HPV G 5
What is special about graphene
Carlo Beenakker - Instituut-Lorentz, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Special Student Lecture, abstract, Downloadflyer (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Coffee and tea at 15:15
Host: Klaus Ensslin, Thomas Ihn
Mon March 21, 2011 - 13:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum transport with matter-waves
Philippe Bouyer - Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Tue March 8, 2011 - 13:00
ETH Science City - HIL E 7
Non-equilibrium quantum phase transition with atoms in optical resonators
Peter Domokos - Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics, Budapest, Hungary
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Fri March 4, 2011 - 15:15
Uni Basel, Dep. of Physics - Large lecture theatre
Prospects for superconducting qubits
David P. DiVicenzo - RWTH Aachen/Forschungszentrum Jülich
QSIT Colloquium, Downloadflyer (PDF, 400 KB)
Host: Richard Warburton
Tue March 1, 2011 - 17:15
ETH Zurich, Zentrum - HG F 30
Turning an Enemy into a Friend - Quantum Computation an Decoherence
Jonathan Home - ETH Zürich
Introductory Lecture
Tue Feb 22, 2011 - 17:15
ETH Zurich, Zentrum - HG F 30
Verschlüsseln mit Verschränkung
Matthias Christandl - ETH Zürich
Introductory Lecture
Mon Jan 17, 2011 - 14:00
ETH Science City - HPF G 6
Quantum entanglement between an optical photon and a solid-state spin qubit
Emre Togan - Harvard University, USA
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu