PhD

Led by the University of York, the Quantum Communications Hub (http://www.quantumcommshub.net) is a partnership of eight universities and numerous private sector companies. The overall aim of the Hub is to develop a range of new, secure, quantum communications technologies. A PhD studentship, supported by EPSRC funding through York, is available to work on high-rate quantum communications, based at the Department of Computer Science, University of York.

The Institute for Theoretical Physics invites applications for

PhD Candidates
(Salary Group 13 TV-L, 75%)

to be filled on 1 August 2016 or on a later date for a duration of three years.

Job description

The Quantum Computing Lab in the Department of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University is seeking a motivated PhD student in the area of quantum computation and information. Our lab currently focuses primarily on Quantum Hamiltonian Complexity, though areas such as quantum algorithms and quantum cryptography are also of interest. More information can be found at:

http://www.people.vcu.edu/~sgharibian/index.html

Tuition, stipend, and travel costs for conference travel are provided.

We are currently offering two PhD positions to highly motivated and well-qualified students who intend to enhance their career on the intersection of quantum many-body theory and quantum information science. The successful candidates will work as part of the research group led by Jens Eisert at the FU Berlin, in collaboration with that of Emil Bergholtz at the FU Berlin and in Stockholm. For an overview of the research activities of the groups, see

Center for Quantum Devices is offering a PhD scholarship commencing July 1. or as soon as possible thereafter.

The last year has seen tremendous advances in fabricating spin qubit devices from group IV semiconductors. This PhD project will investigate spin qubits realized in natural and isotopically purified silicon-germanium heterostructures. The objective is to create ultra-coherent qubit devices that can be controlled, coupled, and read out in a scalable geometry.

Center for Quantum Devices is offering a PhD scholarship commencing 1 July or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Center for Quantum Devices and Station Q Copenhagen is looking to hire one or more PhD students to work on realizing superconducting multi-qubit devices to function as a small quantum computer. The realization will be based on gatemon technology controlled by FPGA-based waveform generators. Projects ranging from nanofabrication, device testing, to building classical control electronics are available.

(This is a re-posting as the deadline is near ....)
This position is associated with a project entitled "Quantum Machine Learning", and includes the following possible research topics:

We are inviting applications for both PhD and postdoctoral positions. The group aims to fill up to three positions until autumn 2016.

The successful candidates will work on interdisciplinary projects either within the field of compressed sensing or on quantum information theory. Within compressed sensing, our focus will lie on exploiting low-rank and bilinear structures. Relevant topics in the context of quantum information include many-body theory and topological order, aspects of computational complexity, and foundations of quantum mechanics.

This PhD project will address quantum computation and information processing in realistic environments, in particular, in the NQIT Q:2020 machine. This device is being developed within the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, and aims to consist of 400 qubits across 20 different traps with photonic interconnects. In this theoretical project, the student will abstract the main sources of error from the physics of local quantum operations, transmission and measurement of quantum states of ions and photons.