Dear all
With the first on-site review the first year of NCCR SPIN has come to an official end. Despite lockdowns and a third and fourth pandemic wave, we are looking back on a successful first year. Besides successes in research, the in-person annual meeting was certainly a highlight which brought the NCCR SPIN network together as a community.
In our last newsletter of this year, we bring you news on the SNSF Site review, our new lab in Basel and new members within the network. The QuID Forum for Young Researchers has become active and we invite you all to meet our INSPIRE Potentials master's fellows.
Make sure you reserve the dates for our next annual meeting – June 13 – 15, 2022 – as well as for the SpinQubit5 Conference from September 4 – 9, 2022.
Best regards, happy holidays & see you next year!
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SNSF Site Review
On November 11 & 12, the SNSF Site Review with an international team of experts from Europe and the US took place in Basel. After the presentation of our current research projects, there were lively discussions between panel members, PIs and students at a poster session. A lab tour concluded the first day of the site review. The second day was dedicated to the presentation of our activities in the structure related areas - young researchers, knowledge and technology transfer, diversity & inclusion and communication and a short feedback round by the panel. We will receive the full report at the beginning of next year.
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New Labs
After a complex and - due to the pandemic - prolonged construction process, the new SPIN Cryolab in Basel was completed and took up operation this autumn. Two dilution refrigerators with vector magnets and bottom loaders were installed and the measurement setups are being put together for spin qubit experiments. Below an overview of the SPIN infrastructure developments:
- SPIN Cryolab with two dilution refrigerators (Basel)
- Two variable temperature insert (VTI) spin qubit setups (Basel)
- Nanomaterials Ge/Si growth facilities (Basel and EPFL)
- Dilution refrigerators with spin qubit setup (IBM and EPFL)
Currently underway is the design and setup of cryogenic wafer probers at both IBM and Basel labs. An advanced 100 kV electron beam writer is scheduled to be setup in the new cleanroom of the ETH-BSSE Basel in 2022.
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Prof. Andrea Hofmann
from the University of Basel was elected as full member of NCCR SPIN. She was appointed by the University of Basel as assistant professor (with tenure track) and has taken up the professorship in experimental quantum computing with semiconductors in the Department of Physics in October 2021. Her focus is on semiconductor nanostructures for the study of physics at the level of single electrons and quantum dot spin qubits. She is also researching hybrid superconductor-semiconductor devices to study Andreev spin qubits and topological superconductivity.
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Dr. Patrick Harvey-Collard
from IBM Research Zurich was elected as full member of NCCR SPIN. He is a Research Staff Member in the Quantum Technology group and focusses on quantum computing with spins in solid-state devices in his research. He is passionate about developing a scalable spin-qubit architecture, circuit quantum electrodynamics with spins, and semiconductor device fabrication. Prior to joining IBM, P. Harvey-Collard was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the group of Prof. Lieven Vandersypen at QuTech (Delft, 2018-2021) where he worked on combining technologies from circuit quantum electrodynamics and silicon spin qubits, with the goal to find new opportunities to advance both fields.
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Dr. Ivano Tavernelli
from IBM Research Zurich has joined the NCCR as an associate member. Ivano contributes to IBM’s quantum computing team already since 2015 and was appointed as "Global leader for advanced algorithms for quantum simulations" at IBM Research - Zurich. Within NCCR SPIN, Ivano's expertise is in quantum computing architectures and quantum algorithms.
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INSPIRE Potentials Master's Fellowship
At the time when this newsletter reaches your mailbox, the application for the second call for INSPIRE Potentials Master's Fellowship will be closed. The NCCR SPIN received a number of promising application, the awardees will be communicated in Januar.
In the meantime we invite you to meet the awardees of the first call and recommend in particular the interview with Asma Chabane, our first INPIRE Potentials alumna, who recently finished her internship with IBM.
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QuID Forum for Young Researchers
The QuID Forum for young researchers which was founded at our first annual meeting has had its first meeting recently. The participants shared ideas and are planning activities for 2022, on of them being a retreat.
QuID is still looking to enhance their team. If you are interested in contributing to an inspiring environment for young researchers within the NCCR SPIN network or would just like to share an idea, don't hesitate to contact Maria Longobardi maria.longobardi@unibas.ch
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January 11, 2022 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
NCCR SPIN Research Seminar: tba
Speaker: Nico Hendrickx
January 13, 2022 14:15 - 15:15 PM
NCCR SPIN Research Seminar: Quantum Computing in Pharma Research at Roche Innovation Centre Basel
Presenter: pRED Quantum Computing Taskforce
January 25, 2022, 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
NCCR SPIN Research Seminar: tba
Speaker: Mark Hogg
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NCCR SPIN Annual Meeting 2022
June 13 – 15, 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland
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SpinQubit 5 Conference & School
Sept 4 – 9, 2022 in Pontresina, Switzerland
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