QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

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PhD positions in the field of Quantum Information – Quantum Teleportation, Quantum Computation and Quantum Cryptography
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In the group Quantum Gases and Quantum Information at the University of Amsterdam we are looking for a talented PhD student.

In the framework of a new large research initiative on Nanoscale Quantum Optics, the Dutch FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) has an open PhD position. The research will be carried out at the Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics group at the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands), see http://www.phys.tue.nl/psn. The selected candidate will perform cutting-edge fundamental research at the interface between quantum optics and solid-state nanophysics.

The Insitute of Quantum Information Processing of the Ulm University is looking for several Post-doc and Ph.D students to work in the group of Prof. T.Calarco on quantum control of few- to many-body systems for quantum technologies.

Independent and brilliant candidates with experience in quantum information, quantum optics and/or quantum control are invited to apply. The positions last up to three years starting from early 2011.

Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) and Max F. Perutz Laboratories at the University of Vienna, Austria

We are an interdisciplinary group of physicists, neuroscientists structural biologists and physical chemists with expertise ranging from quantum optics to protein engineering. We are interested in fundamental questions at the intersection between biology and physics and development of new structural and functional methods for studying biological questions.

In our new group at the University of Siegen (Germany) we are looking for a motivated PhD student in the field of quantum information theory. The research topics include:

• theory of multiparticle entanglement
• entanglement measures
• foundations of quantum mechanics, e.g. the Kochen-Specker theorem

Applicants are expected to have a master / diploma in physics, experience in theoretical physics and interest in foundational questions of quantum mechanics.

Doctoral Fellowships in the

A PhD position is open in the atom optics group in Hamburg, Germany for studying the interaction of a Bose-Einstein condensate in an optical high finesse (> 500.000) cavity operating in the regime of resolved recoil sidebands.

See details on our group homepage:

http://photon.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/de/ilp/footer/news-detail/open-phd-...

We are investigating a range of systems in order to produce a robust quantum memory. For example, we recently showed how to store a quantum state in a nuclear spin for over three seconds [1], in a solid state system. We are now looking at ways of extending this coherence time, and at making the memory more versatile [2].

In this project, we aim to design improved quantum memories in both single spins and spin ensembles. There will be opportunities for collaboration with experimentalists both locally, and at the University of Oxford and Princeton.