About the NCCR SPIN
National Centers of Competence in Research (NCCRs) are a funding scheme of the Swiss National Science Foundation. They promote long-term research networks in areas of strategic importance for Swiss science, the Swiss economy, and Swiss society. On the 16th of December 2019, the Federal Government and the Swiss National Science Foundation announced that “SPIN: Spin Qubits in Silicon” is one of six new NCCRs. For its first phase from August 2020 to July 2024, the NCCR SPIN will receive federal funding of CHF 17 million.
Our Goals
The main objective of the National Centre of Competence in Research "Spin Qubits in Silicon" (NCCR SPIN) is to develop small, fast, and scalable spin qubits in silicon and germanium, exploring the fundamental quantum physics of the qubits and architectures, our two main projects, as a foundation for a future technology with high fidelity and excellent scalability. The multidisciplinary effort combines physicists, materials scientists, engineers and computer scientists working together on the full stack of quantum computing from hardware to software in a collaboration between the EPFL, ETHZ, University of Konstanz and home institution, the University of Basel, together with industrial partners IBM Research and Roche.
Our Network
The NCCR SPIN team consists of researchers from the University of Basel, IBM Research, ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, the Univesity of Konstanz, and Roche. The team members are experts from various disciplines, such as quantum physics, materials science, engineering and computer science. In addition to the collaboration between academia and industry, the NCCR SPIN is characterized by very close links between theory and experiment. The “Leading House” is the University of Basel. Research in Basel will be pursued in the Department of Physics.
