Dear all
Our first Newsletter of 2022 brings you info on the qubit platforms workshop in March and announces our very first Excellent Paper Award. We welcome Cezar Zota as a new PI and Eugene Demlere as a new assoiciate member to the network. And we congratulate our four new INSPIRE Potentials Master's Fellows Linnea Bendrot, Lara Ostertag, Ekaterina Vlasiuk and Marina Obramenko who will start their Master's projects between February and June.
Make sure you reserve the dates for our next annual meeting – June 13 – 15, 2022 – as well as for the SpinQubit5 Conference from September 5 – 9, 2022.
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Qubit platforms workshop
The NCCR SPIN is organizing a broader, across the qubit platforms workshop.This is a strategic meeting and brainstorming event rather than a progress report, to provide a broad discussion, inside each qubit team, but also across the different qubits (FD-SOI, finFET, Ge/Si nanowire and Ge planar). The event brings together the SPIN partners from theory, simulation, experiment, materials, engineering, algorithms etc. to provide questions, thoughts and ideas across the qubit platforms. In Aug 2022, the outline proposal for the 2nd phase is to be submitted. We would like to also discuss possible roadmaps and possible directions to take. Each qubit team would discuss what their main challenges are, and how these are proposed to be overcome. Further, each qubit should be contrasted to similar qubit efforts going on at other groups elsewhere, to highlight the novelty and relevance of our approach, and to avoid repeating research already done elsewhere.
Nominations are done through PIs and are still possible, the Workshop takes place on March 24 in Basel.
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Excellent Paper Award
The SPIN PIs can nominate candidate papers in recognition of a remarkable achievement in research. Nominated work needs to be published in a scientific journal on a topic relevant to the NCCR SPIN including an acknowledgment of NCCR SPIN. At least one author needs to be from SPIN, ideal is a collaboration of authors from different institutions of the NCCR SPIN network. The paper must be published between August 2020 and May 2022. A committee will evaluate the submissions and the winners will be announced at the annual meeting in Pontresina in June 2022. The award consists of a certificate, listing on the SPIN page, and a monetary prize of CHF 700 for the first author(s) of the paper to be used on a team event. The nomination deadline is Friday, May 13, 2022.
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Dr. Cezar Zota
from IBM Research Zurich was elected as a full member of NCCR SPIN and the PI of project A4. His research interests include cryogenic electronics, quantum computing technologies, 3D integration technology, as well as Weyl materials and design, fabrication and analysis of RF-transistors. Within NCCR SPIN, he will lead the cryo CMOS qubit control effort of project A4.
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Prof. Eugene Demler
moved to the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the ETH Zürich in 2021 from Harvard University and is now joining the NCCR SPIN as an associated member. He is a highly distinguished physicist, most recently being named as a Simons Investigator and receiving the Hamburg Prize for Theoretical Physics. He has very broad interests in theoretical physics, ranging from atomic, molecular and optical physics, to condensed matter physics as well as quantum simulation and quantum computation, in particular also quantum algorithms and NISQ applications.
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New INSPIRE Potentials Master's Fellows
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Linnea Bendrot
is a student at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. She started her master’s thesis in the group of Cezar Zota at IBM Research Zurich in February 2022. Her project in the Material Integration Nanoscale Devices lab is about cryogenic electronics for scalable spin-based quantum computers.
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Lara Ostertag
graduated with High Honors from University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s in physics. In February 2022, she will start her Master's thesis in Professor Klaus Ensslin's laboratory for Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich, working on transport measurements in germanium nanowires.
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Ekaterina Vlasiuk
studies at the ITMO University in Saint Petersburg, Russia. From April 2022, she will conduct her Master's thesis in the condensed matter theory & quantum computing group of Jelena Klinovaja at the University of Basel. Ekaterina Vlasiuk is particularly interested in many-body quantum physics.
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Marina Obramenko
studies at the ITMO University, Department of physics and Engineering in Saint Petersburg. Starting in June 2022, she will conduct her Master’s thesis project on active resonant silicon nanostructures in NIR range in the theory Group of Professor Daniel Loss at the University of Basel.
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Interviews with former INSPIRE Potentials Fellows
To celebrate the International Day of Girls and Women in Science on February 11, our first generation of INSPIRE Potentials Fellows have shared their views on the situation of women in science and why they are passionate about their research area. Read the interviews with Rhea Hoyer, Lisa Sommer and Asma Chabane.
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March 24, 2022
Qubit Platforms Workshop
Biozentrum, Basel
April 14, 2022
World Quantum Day
June 25, 2022
Saturday Morning Physics
Departement of Physics, Basel
September 5-9, 2022
SpinQubit5 Conference
Pontresina
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NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2022
June 13 – 15, 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland
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Swiss Nano Convention
July 6-7, 2022 in Fribourg, Switzerland
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