1.E Scanning probe microscopy of atomic structures and molecular assemblies on superconductive materials

• Host organisation: University of Basel, Physics Department
• Contact: jungching.liu@unibas.ch
• About me: I am from Taiwan, which is a beautiful island full of passionate people. I finished my higher education in several places, including my homeland, Hong Kong, and Sweden. Being interested in experiencing different academic cultures, I am currently working as a Ph.D. student in University of Basel, Switzerland. My field of interest lies in scanning probe microscopy and surface science. During my Master’s thesis, I started to work with scanning tunnelling microscopy, and use this technique to characterize different amount of bismuth deposition on the InAs(111)B surface. Now, in University of Basel, I continue to explore surface science at liquid helium temperature, expecting to find interesting interactions with superconducting materials.
• Thesis topic: My project is about using the scanning probe microscopy to investigate atomic structures and molecular assemblies on the superconducting material. This topic includes a wide variety of works. For example, growing silver (Ag) films on the superconducting niobium (Nb) surface, synthesizing graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) on top of Ag films, and most importantly, investigating interactions between GNRs and the Ag/Nb substrate. With the help of scanning probe microscopy, we aim for fabricating the system that is possible for hosting Majorana fermions. We expect that our work is able to provide an inspiration to the novel carbon-based spintronics or quantum computers.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisors: Ernst Meyer, Rémy Pawlak
  Co-supervisor: Wulf Wulfhekel
  Mentor: Martino Poggio

1.I Study of thermal transport in low-dimensional materials

• Host organisation: University of Basel, Physics Department
• Contact: chaitanya.arya@unibas.ch
• About me: I graduated from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, India (2014-19) with Bachelor of Technology in Engineering Physics and Masters of Technology in Solid States Materials. In summer of 2018, I was an internship student at NUS Nanoscience and Nanotechnology Initiative (NUSNII), Singapore. Before starting my PhD, I was working as a visiting research student at the Toyota Technological Institute, Japan.
  Interests – Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Neuroscience, Financial Markets, Politics, Climate Change.
• Thesis topic: Our project is to study the wave-particle crossover, i.e. the crossover between particle-like and wave-like phonon transport, by measuring the thermal conductivity of superlattices in nanowires. We will perform phonon transport experiments varying the density and the length of the SL period. We will perform thermal conductance measurements using microfabricated sensors and devices.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Ilaria Zardo, University of Basel
  Co-supervisor: Dr. Bernd Gotsmann, IBM Research Zurich
  Mentor: Prof. Dominik Zumbühl, University of Basel
  
  

2.A Hydrodynamic thermal transport and non-linear effects in 2D materials by means of pump-probe experiments

• Host organisation: University of Basel, Department of Physics
• Contact: grazia.raciti@unibas.ch
  Klingenbergstrasse 82
  4056 Basel
  +41(0) 61 207 5677
• About me: I come from Italy, I completed my bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of Catania (Sicily, Italy) and then I moved to the University of Pisa (Tuscany, Italy) for my master’s. My master project was based on the optical characterization of III-V semiconductor quantum wells with different spectroscopic techniques. During this period, I developed a deep interest in nanomaterials and in their applications, which drove me to move to the University of Basel in the Nanophononics group.
• Thesis topic: “Hydrodynamic thermal transport and non-linear effects in 2D material by means of pump-probe experiments”. My current research is focused on the investigation of the hydrodynamic regime in nanomaterials (graphene and 2DEGs). I’m involved in the building of a sophisticated time-resolved Raman setup that allows a direct determination of the temporal evolution of the phonon population, which will enable us to extract hydrodynamic heat transport parameters.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Prof. Dr. Ilaria Zardo

2.F Hole Spin Qubits in Ge/Si Nanowires

• Host organisation: University of Basel / Department of Physics
• Contact: pierre.chevalierkwon@unibas.ch
  Department of Physics
  University of Basel
  Klingelbergstrasse 82
  4056 Basel, Switzerland
• About me: I grew up in Burgundy, deep in the French countryside, far away from the academic world. I nevertheless studied Fundamental physics at Paris-Saclay, an internationally renowned university. I obtained my first research experience in the Laboratoire de Physique des Solides where I studied superconductors. During my master, I received an excellence mobility scholarship that allowed me to experience research in an international environment, at the Center for Integrated Nanostructure Physics in South Korea. I was able to continue in nanophysics field there, studying 2D materials.
• Thesis topic: “Hole Spin Qubits in Ge/Si Nanowires”Quantum computer became a hot research topic these last decades. Indeed, quantum computer can potentially solve problems (related to cryptography or quantum simulation for example) that classical computer will never be able to solve. Making a good qubit, the quantum equivalent of a classical bit, is the backbone of making a functional quantum computer. My project is to make a qubit using hole spin in a Ge-Si core-shell nanowire. Among many attempts to made the best qubit, this device may have numerous advantages such a high electrical tunability or a fast switching of the qubit state.
• Individual Training Panel:
  PhD Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dominik Zumbühl

3.G Quantum transport in superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid devices with axially built-in quantum dots as spectrometers

• Host organisation: University of Basel / Physics Department
• Contact: carlo.ciaccia@unibas.ch
  +41 (0) 61 207 3864
• About me: I hold a Double M.Sc. in Nanoelectronics & Nanoquantistic Devices at Turin Polytechnic & Paris Diderot University. I carried on my Master thesis at IMB Research – Zürich, in the group of Dr. Fabrizio Nichele on “Local electrostatic control of TASE-grown InAs nanowires”.
• Thesis topic: “Quantum transport in superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrid devices with axially built-in quantum dots as spectrometers” My current research focuses on electronic transport in hybrid semiconducting-superconducting quantum devices. The aim of the PhD is to investigate transport properties of semiconducting devices with strong spin-orbit interaction coupled to conventional superconductors. These exotic quasiparticle excitations, also known as Majorana or Andreev bound states, have been proposed as building blocks of new quantum computing architectures.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Christian Schönenberger

3.J Microkelvin Nanoelectronics

• Host organisation: University of Basel / Department of Physics
• Contact: omid.sharifisedeh@unibas.ch
  Klingelbergstrasse 82
  4056 Basel, Switzerland
  +41 (0) 61 207 3786
• About me: I earned my master of science in Solid State Physics at the University of Tehran, Iran. In the MSc period, I worked on the interaction of THz EM wave with quantum rings in the presence of Rashba spin-orbit interaction. As a result of this study we published a paper in Physical Review B, with the title “Terahertz radiation, circular dichroism, and optical activity of a Rashba quantum ring subjected to a static electric field”.
• Thesis topic: “Microkelvin Nanoelectronics” I investigate the transport of nanoelectronics devices at ultra-low temperatures, namely the submillikelvin regime. For this purpose, we use a technique called nuclear adiabatic demagnetization. In this technique, we polarize the nuclear spins of an on-chip and/or an off-chip material such as copper, indium, and by ramping down the magnetic field in an adiabatic process, we reach ultra-low nuclear spin temperatures. Thanks to the partial non-adiabaticity of this process, the nuclear spins cool down the electrons of the structure through hyperfine interaction. This makes the submillikelvin temperatures achievable.
• Individual Training Panel:
  PhD supervisor: Prof. Dominik Zumbuhl

5.A Hybrid quantum networks with atomic memories and quantum dot single-photon sources

• Host organisation: University of Basel / Department of Physics
• Contact: madhavakkannan.saravanan@unibas.ch
• About me: I was born and brought up in Salem, a city in Southern part of India. After my schooling I moved to Chennai for my Bachelor’s degree in Physics at Loyola college. During my Bachelors I got a chance to attend a summer school on experimental physics at HBCSE, Mumbai, which sparked my interest in this subject. After graduation I moved to Germany, I did my Masters in Physics at the University of Bonn where I specialised in quantum optics and atomic physics. My master thesis was titled “Mode-Matched Fiber Fabry-Pérot cavities for Quantum technologies”. I built fiber integrated optical cavities that had improved mode matching and high coupling efficiencies. I like to spend my free time exploring new cities and I am interested in film photography.
• Thesis topic: “Hybrid quantum networks with atomic memories and quantum dot single-photon sources” Quantum information and computing rely on a quantum network to facilitate information exchange (in form of qubits) between quantum processors and helps in timing and synchronising the system. Understanding the techniques to establish such a network marks an important step for the development of quantum computers. My thesis focuses on interfacing a solid-state quantum dot single photon source to a Rubidium vapour quantum memory that can store and retrieve single photons. This involves developing techniques to efficiently store single photons in the memory and retrieve them on demand, without affecting the quality of the photons during the storage process. Further, such memories and sources will be used as nodes that connects several other sources and/or processors to build a Quantum Network.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Philipp Treutlein, Institute of Physics, University of Basel

5.B Solid-state spins in an optical cavity

• Host organisation: University of Basel / Department of Physics
• Contact: andrea.corazza@unibas.ch
  Klingenvergstrasse 82
  4056 Basel, Switzerland
  +41 (0) 61 207 5677
• About me: I grew up in a small city between Venice and the Dolomites, in Italy. I completed both my Bachelor and Master degrees cum laude in Materials Science at the University of Padova (Veneto, Italy). During my Master studies, I attended a 6 months Erasmus in Physics at Aarhus University (Denmark), where I discovered my passion for light-matter interactions in the quantum regime studying and working in several research projects. After this experience, I came back to the University of Padova where I carried out my Master thesis in the NanoStructure Group at the Physics department on the control of the Er³⁺ spontaneous emission properties through emitter-nanocavities coupling, with the main emphasis on the reduction of its radiative lifetime exploiting the Purcell effect generated by specific optical nanocavities.
• Thesis topic: “Solid-state spins in an optical cavity” My current research field is quantum- and nano-optics and my project focuses on the study of the Nitrogen vacancy centre in diamond crystals as optically-active solid-state spins. NV centres are a resource for creating spin-photon entangled pairs, allowing two remote spins to be entangled since the photons would act as entangling “glue”, potentially covering a key role in the development of quantum networks and quantum memories. At the moment spin-spin entangling rates are presently too low to be useful in any quantum technology application and to overcome this limitation we are studying how to enhance the creation of phonon-free single photons by embedding NV centres in diamond in a tunable micro-cavity, exploiting the Purcell effect.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Richard Warburton,
  Co-supervisor: Patrick Maletinsky

5.C Development of quantum technologies for molecular systems: quantum sensing of molecular and chemical properties

• Host organisation: University of Basel, Department of Chemistry
• Contact: pietro.vahramian@unibas.ch
  Klingelbergstrasse 80,
  4056 Basel
• About me: I grew up in Milan, Italy, where I got both my Bachelor and Master degrees in Physics. After a Bachelor thesis in complex fluids, I moved towards “quantum” stuffs and ended up doing my master thesis in Vienna in the group of Markus Ardnt, where I have been working towards bringing single levitated nanorods in the UHV regime by means of feedback and cavity cooling techniques. Moving from single nanoparticles to bunch of molecules, I landed now in Basel in the group of Stefan Willitsch.
• Thesis topic: “Development of quantum technologies for molecular systems: quantum sensing of molecular and chemical properties” Imagine getting two halves of a molecule and slowly, very gently get them closer and closer, until they attract each other and bound to form the full molecule. This is the main topic of my PhD: study molecular collisions at extremely low temperatures and with exquisite control over one or both the halves of the wannabe molecule. In particular, I will implement protocols to initialize and read-out motional and vibrational states of single molecular ions coupled to atomic ions, following their state evolution during collisions with neutral molecules by means of quantum non-demolition state detection protocols.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Stefan Willitsch

1.C Elastic Tuning of electronic properties of quantum materials

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Contact: anmol.shukla@kit.edu
• About me: I am from Lucknow, India. I obtained a master’s degree in Solid State Materials from Indian Institute of Technology Delhi with a thesis focused on Iron-based superconductors. Part of this work was published and presented at several conferences. I have also worked on spin simulations for 2D lattices of Iron (III) Oxide. Apart from research, I enjoy photography and traveling.
• Thesis topic: “Elastic Tuning of electronic properties of quantum materials” In a trivial sense, all materials exist due to quantum mechanics. However, the term ‘quantum materials’ is usually used to describe the materials with strong electronic correlation or display emergent phenomena. Superconductivity, the most general example, is a phenomenon emerging from the pairing of two electrons. Understanding these properties and their control via temperature, pressure, magnetic field, dimensionality, etc., has vast technological implications.
  This doctoral project aims at using novel pressure techniques to investigate the electronic states in quantum materials, especially, Iron-based superconductors. Pressure application is a proven way to fine-tune the ground state of quantum materials. The results will be complemented with the thermodynamic and magnetic measurements.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Matthieu Le Tacon, KIT
  Co-Supervisor: Dr. Christoph Meingast, KIT

1.D Preparation and characterization of spin-polarized two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) in correlated quantum materials

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies (IQMT)
• Contact: arun.jaiswal@kit.edu
  +49 721 608-24690
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (CN), Hermann-von-Helmholtz Platz 1, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen 76344, Germany
  Building Number: 425, Room Number: 324
• About me: I was born and grew up in Siddharthnagar (Uttar Pradesh, India). I obtained my bachelor’s degree with majors in Physics and Mathematics from DDU Gorakhpur University India. Following my interests, I moved to the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi and obtained a master’s degree in Solid State Materials in 2019. Currently, I am a PhD candidate at KIT. During masters, I was awarded DAAD scholarship, with which I carried out my master’s thesis work at KIT. The motivation of my thesis was to understand the electronic transport properties of SrIrO3 thin films. SrIrO3 is of current interest due to its strong spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and its interplay with moderate electronic correlations. In particular, I grew the thin films of SrIrO3 and studied their electronic transport properties through temperature-dependent magneto-transport measurements. After completing my master’s degree and before joining PhD I briefly worked as a research assistant at KIT until February 2020. My current research interest is to understanding novel electronic, magnetic properties in oxide thin films and heterostructures. Besides research, I love to spend time by cooking, travelling and exploring the music of different countries.
• Thesis topic: “Preparation and characterization of spin-polarized two-dimensional electron systems (2DES) in correlated quantum materials”. In the last decade, heterostructures (HS) based on transition metal oxides (TMO) have emerged as a playground for generating and manipulating new quantum states that are otherwise absent in individual constituents. Epitaxial strain, charge transfer, symmetry breaking, and exchange interactions are most likely the main reasons for the changed behavior and provide huge potential for tailoring new materials for spintronics. LaAlO3/SrTiO3 is one of the most prominent example of TMO-based HS. Here, the LaO-TiO2 interface results in a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) with strong Rashba-type SOC – in particular suitable for spin-manipulation.
  In my PhD project, the focus is placed on spin-polarized 2DEGs on the base of TMO HS comprising of correlated quantum materials. We will follow different routes to generate 2DES such as interfacial doping or spatial confinement (-doping). The spins of the 2DES are aimed to be polarized by the use of magnetic insulating layers via the interplay between exchange interaction and SOC.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Matthieu Le Tacon, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, KIT
  Co-supervisor: Dr. Dirk Fuchs, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, KIT

2.C Improving the coherence in superconducting quantum circuits based on granular aluminium through optimization of material properties

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies (IQMT)
• Contact: mahya.khorramshahi@kit.edu
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
  76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
  Germany
• About me: I received my Master degree in solid state physics from university of Tehran. The main topic of my master was “Analysis of copper oxide superconducting compounds under pressure”. Inspired by my interest in experimental physics, I have worked in various labs during my master studies and this helped me to get introduced to a wide range of research fields. Finally, I found quantum computing very fascinating and decided to persue my PhD in this field.
• Thesis topic: “Improving the coherence in superconducting quantum circuits based on granular aluminium through optimization of material properties” The aim of this project is to improve further the coherence in high impedance superconducting quantum circuits based on granular aluminum. The project will involve fabrication of superconducting circuits by lithographic methods, their analysis with standard high frequency electromagnetic simulation software, and the characterization of the material characteristics by HF experiments in millikelvin cryostats.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Dr. Ioan Pop, KIT
  Co-supervisor: Prof. W. Wernsdorfer, KIT

2.D Superconducting quantum circuits based on Tantalum for improved quantum coherence

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies (IQMT)
• Contact: ritika.dhundhwal@kit.edu
• About me: I am from Rajasthan, India. I completed integrated M.Sc. degree in Physics from Centre for Excellence in Basic Sciences (CEBS), Mumbai (2014-2019). During my Master’s thesis, I started learning about low temperature superconductors and fabricated NbN thin films with varied degree of disorder by varying the film thickness and the film with highest disorder was studied using magneto-transport measurements. Along with research, I like to do painting and photography.
• Thesis topic: “Superconducting quantum circuits based on Tantalum for improved quantum coherence” Superconducting circuits are promising candidates for quantum devices. A major outstanding problem is the low qubit relaxation as well as coherence time which can be increased by improving design, fabrication process and the superconducting material used. Therefore, material choices can lead to significant improvements in qubit dissipation. Most commonly superconducting materials used in quantum circuits are Aluminium and Niobium. Whereas very recent results showed Tantalum (Ta, Atomic no. 73) as an up-and-coming material for superconducting qubits. The aim of this project is to fabricate lithographically superconducting circuits based on tantalum and characterize material properties of Ta, such as its loss tangent by HF experiments in millikelvin cryostats and the analysis with standard high frequency electromagnetics simulation software. Based on these results the major goal is to implement tantalum-based circuits with improved quantum coherence and to investigate the Josephson junctions based on Tantalum.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Dr. Ioan Pop, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, KIT
  Co-supervisor: Dr. Thomas Reisinger, Institute for Quantum Materials and Technologies, KIT

3.E Molecular quantum Spintronics combining synthesised magnetic molecules with electrode materials

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Quantum Materials & Technology
• Contact: patrick.lawes@kit.edu
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  Institute of Nanotechnology (INT)
  Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
  76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
  Germany
• About me: I come from England, and received a Master of Physics in physics from the University of York, with a particular interest in quantum physics and physics of the nanoscale. I am particularly interested in the unique nature of undertaking research, and the possibility of studying something that has never before been discovered. I conducted a short research program at the Tokyo Institute of Technology studying physically defined hole spin qubits. As well as a great opportunity to conduct research closer to the cutting edge, I also appreciated the opportunity to immerse myself in another culture. I am particularly excited by the opportunities given by QUSTEC, to visit and work in labs in multiple countries, allowing me to see a large variety of both advanced research, and differing cultures. In my personal life, I have a strong interest in popular culture of all kinds, as well as cycling and climbing.
• Thesis topic: “Molecular quantum Spintronics combining synthesised magnetic molecules with electrode materials” Using highly sensitive low temperature, ultra-high vacuum, STM equipment, the re-organisation of electrons in surface molecules, due to the crossing of a quantum critical point will be studied. By physically manipulating pre-synthesised lanthanide double-decker molecules using the tip of the STM, the desired order and orientation of molecules in clusters can be achieved. The quantum critical parameter will be controlled locally using magnetic fields. The purpose of this research is to better understand new quantum materials, towards the interest of quantum computing.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Prof. Mario Ruben (KIT)
  Co-supervisor: Prof. Jean-Pierre Bucher (University of Strasbourg)

3.F Synthesis of molecular spin qudits with increased Hilbert spaces

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Quantum Materials & Technology
• Contact: sai.panguluri@kit.edu
  Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  Institute of Nanotechnology (INT)
  Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1
  76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen
  Germany
• About me: I am from Andhra Pradesh, India. I have been admitted to the degree of Master of Science (5-year Integrated) in the subject of Chemical Sciences and have been awarded the University Gold Medal at the University of Hyderabad’s convocation held in 2019. I have synthesised and characterised Spin Crossover complexes in UGC-DAE-CSIR-Indore over a period of 7 months and have had an association with some of the most sophisticated instruments of our times (AFM, STM, XPS, VSM-SQUID). I like performing and have been a part of the theatre group in the university and subsequently took part in many plays on various occasions.
• Thesis topic: “Synthesis of Spin Qudits in the Increased Hilbert Space” Synthesis of Ln-based Spin & Optical Qudits and explore their role in molecule-surface interfaces in tuning the electric, optic and magnetic properties. The long-term goal is to design molecular spin qudits with long quantum coherence times and to implement them in Quantum Computation.
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• Individual Training Panel:
  Supervisor: Mario Ruben, KIT, IQMT
  Co-supervisor: Paul-Antoine Hervieux, University of Strasbourg
  Mentor: Jean-Pierre Bucher, University of Strasbourg, IPCMS

3.H Quantum nanomagnets: Developing new techniques to control and manipulate the magnetization dynamics in small magnetic devices with microwave magnetic fields

• Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institut of Technology, Institute of Quantum Materials & Technology
• Contact: daria.sostina@kit.edu
  Campus Süd
  Physikalisches Institut
  Geb. 30.23 Rm 2-05
  Wolfgang-Gaede Str. 1
  76131 Karlsruhe
• About me: I grew up in St. Petersburg, Russia. Both of my degrees, Bachelor and Master, were obtained in St. Petersburg State University at the Department of solid-state physics. During my Master studies my research activity was mostly focused on design and study of materials with non-trivial topology, such as combined graphene systems, topological insulators and magnetically doped Rashba semiconductors by means of synchrotron-based techniques. I started to work on projects involving molecular magnetism at Paul Scherrer Institute, Switzerland, then continued my studies already with single-atom magnets in Seoul, South Korea, at the Center for Quantum Nanoscience.
• Thesis topic: “Developing new techniques to control and manipulate the magnetization dynamics in small magnetic devices with microwave magnetic fields”. The main goal of our work is to create a reliable way to coherently manipulate single atomic and molecular spins. The motivation for such a goal is to create the new solid-state architecture for quantum information processing and magnetic sensing. We aim to achieve it by advancing the recently realised combination of electron spin resonance and scanning tunnelling microscopy at extremely low temperatures.
• Individual Training Panel:
  Prof. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer

3.I Experimental studies of molecular qubits and implementation of optical read-out schemes based on single- and entangled photon sources

Host organisation: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Institute of Quantum Materials and Technology (IQMT)

Contact: safa.ahmed@kit.edu
+49 721 608-43522

About me: I grew up in Dhaka, Bangladesh and obtained my Bachelor’s in Physics in South Korea under a Global Korean Scholarship (GKS) of 5 years. In the final year I joined the Center for Quantum Nanoscience (QNS) as an intern and continued there for my master’s degree. As a Master’s student I worked with XMCD and XMLD joining 8 beamtimes in three different synchrotron facilities in Switzerland, Spain and South Korea accross various collaborative projects. My Master’s thesis was about investigating the magnetic anisotropy of surface embedded rare earth single ions in MgO with room temperature structural stability. Soon after completing my Master’s thesis, I arrived to Germany to start my PhD from September 2020.

Thesis topic: “Experimental studies of molecular qubits and implementation of optical read-out schemes based on single and entangled photon sources” Our main motivation is to develop a fast single-shot read-out of molecular spin qubits, mandatory for quantum information processing. Molecular spin qubits will be fabricated using molecular magnets covalently bonded to a fluorophore, allowing a fast read-out. Transport properties and fluorescence of the devices will be studied in a three-terminal geometry as a function of source-drain voltage, gate voltage, magnetic fields, and light irradiation. The local electrodes enhance the light-matter interaction and, in addition, allow the application of fast gate pulses and micro-wave electric fields, which couple to the spin system via the DC or AC Stark effect. The combined electronic and optical read-out will allow simple quantum information processing protocols. By scanning the excitation laser and by using a few fluorophores with different fluorescence energies, we will perform the optical read-out of single spins inside larger molecules, and in 1D and 2D molecular networks.

Individual Training Panel:
Supervisor: Prof. Wolfgang Wernsdorfer