NCCR SPIN launches the new INSPIRE Potentials – SPIN Master's Fellowships to attract and empower excellent female students to conduct their Master's thesis research on "spin qubits in silicon" in the SPIN Network.

Meet the NCCR women! To celebrate the 50th anniversary of women obtaining the right to vote in Switzerland, the 22 active NCCRs have joint forces in a campaign showing how in these 50 years women have come to occupy a central place in research in almost all scientific fields.

After unanimous election by the Executive Committee of NCCR SPIN, Dominik Zumbühl was proposed to the SNF and confirmed this week as the new director of NCCR SPIN. Richard Warburton decided to resign as director of NCCR SPIN in November 2020 and is continuing to contribute scientifically as a project leader. Many thanks go to Richard for his important contributions on setting up NCCR SPIN.

Physicists from the University of Basel and the TU Eindhoven have demonstrated a new type of qubit – the basic building block of a quantum computer – where the speed and frequency of operation can be widely tuned with a gate voltage. They used this flexibility to optimize the hole spin qubit to operate very fast, coherently flipping the spin from up to down in as little as ~1 ns – approaching the clock speeds of today’s computers. The experiment is a big step towards interconnecting and scaling to larger numbers of qubits and thus towards the ultimate goal of building a quantum computer.

More than 20 years ago, Daniel Loss and David DiVincenzo proposed an electrically controllable quantum computer based on quantum dots. Their paper is listed among Physical Review A's 50th Anniversary Milestones.