Projects

The Quantum Device Lab is engaged in a number of individual and collaborative projects funded by the European Commission and the Swiss National Science foundation. An overview of these projects is presented on this webpage.

Ongoing Projects

Elements for Quantum Information Processing with Semiconductor/Superconductor Hybrids (EQUIPS)

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)

The quest for building quantum information processors is currently pursued along two largely orthogonal paths, one based on optical frequency excitations in atoms or ions in vacuum or embedded in a solid and the other based on microwave frequency excitations in superconducting or semiconducting micro- and nano-structures. While optical approaches drastically differ in their implementation from microwave implementations, solid state approaches based on superconducting electronic circuits and semiconductor quantum dots have very similar requirements for their successful implementation.

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QuSurf

IARPA, LogiQ program, IARPA-BAA-15-10

Large-scale quantum computation hinges on the ability to preserve and process quantum information with higher fidelity by increasing redundancy in a quantum error correction (QEC) code. Achieving such quantum fault tolerance in an extensible architecture remains an outstanding challenge for all experimental quantum computing platforms.

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NCCR QSIT, Subproject Hybrid quantum systems using microwave frequency on-chip resonators as a coupling bus

Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), NCCR
We combine the expertise of different research groups to explore novel hybrid quantum systems in joint interdisciplinary projects. One major goal is to combine the long coherence times available in microscopic quantum systems with the strong interactions and high level of integration available in solid-state systems to explore new approaches to quantum information processing.

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Superconducting Quantum Networks (SuperQuNet)

ERC Advanced Grant
Today superconducting electronic circuits are one of the prime physical systems to explore both foundations and technological applications of quantum mechanics. The concept of processing information more efficiently using quantum mechanics has stimulated enormous progress in control and measurement of quantum electronic circuits

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Completed Projects

Rydberg Quantum Simulators (RYSQ)

EU, Horizon 2020
Quantum Simulators provide new levels of understanding of equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of many-body quantum systems, one of the most challenging problems in physics. The main objective of the RYSQ proposal is to use Rydberg atoms for quantum simulations, because their outstanding versatility will allow us to perform a great variety of useful quantum simulations, by exploiting different aspects of the same experimental and theoretical tools.

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