QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

A PhD position is available at the Quantum Physics group of Saarland University, in Saarbrücken, Germany. The research is supervised by Dr. Marc Bienert and takes place in the theory group of Prof. Dr. Giovanna Morigi.

The PhD project "Optomechanical Cavity QED with Color Centres in Diamond" is funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) and runs for 3 years. The aim of the project is to develop a theoretical description of optomechanical crystals in diamond interacting with single defect centers. More information can be found at the group's page:

There is a PhD position open at Institut Néel in Grenoble entitled "Giant nonlinearity and optomechanical experiments with a single quantum dot in a photonic wire". For more information, visit
http://neel.cnrs.fr/emploi/these-financee/NEEL-PhD2013_POIZAT.pdf
or contact J.P. Poizat at jean-philippe [dot] poizat [at] grenoble [dot] cnrs [dot] fr

Several PhD (early stage researcher) and post-doctoral (experienced researcher) positions are available within the Initial Training Network QTea, funded by the Marie Curie Actions under the FP7 People programme of the European Commission.

We are looking for young researchers with a strong interest in applications of atomic and optical quantum physics. The QTea network comprises 10 academic and industrial partners offering a variety of research projects and opportunities for intensive collaboration and medium to long-term secondments (3-11 months).

The Physics of Information Group, at Instituto de Telecomunicacoes (in Lisbon, Portugal), is seeking to hire doctoral students to develop research in one of the following areas: quantum information theory, quantum effects in biology, quantum thermodynamics.

The candidates are expected to have a bachelor's or master's degree in the relevant area, with excellent grades.

Application timing

Applications should be submitted by 20 April 2013, but earlier applications are welcome.

Your theory work will cover the broad theme of cavity quantum electrodynamics to be performed in collaboration with the experimental group of Prof. Rempe at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching, Germany.

I am seeking a keen theorist to work as a PhD student at University College London (UCL) on "Many-Body Nonequilibrium Dynamics for Low-Control Quantum Information Processing". The studentship is funded by through the ERC project PACOMANEDIA (Partially Coherent Nonequilibrium Dynamics for Information Applications) and is for 4 years and should ideally start latest by Oct 2013. The student will be expected to be quite independent and will be co-supervised by a postdoctoral researcher working on the same project.

The Institute for Theoretical Physics UAM/CSIC, Severo Ochoa Center of Excellence, opens PhD fellowships for exceptional candidates to carry out a PhD within the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid Postgraduate Programme in Theoretical Physics. One field of research conducted at the IFT is dedicated to the investigation of quantum information processing using topological states of matter and to the quantum simulation of many-body quantum states with quantum optical systems.

We are launching the new interdisciplinary EC-funded ICT FET OPEN research program NANOQUESTFIT to explore the practical and fundamental

limits of the quantum superposition principle.

NANOQUESTFIT combines the expertise of the following research groups:  

The Centre for Quantum Dynamics undertakes experimental and theoretical studies of the behaviour and properties of physical systems governed by quantum mechanics. The Centre is particularly strong in fostering collaboration between different research areas, both theoretical and experimental.

The main areas of research in the Centre are:

We are looking for a motivated PhD student who is interested to work at the interface between the foundations of quantum mechanics and particle physics. The project aims at the investigation of possible Bell inequality violations in systems of neutral mesons and the modeling of the relevant decay processes with methods from quantum optics.