Quantum Center Seminars & Colloquia
Quantum Center seminars & colloquia are hosted by members of the Quantum Center.
Upcoming Seminars & Colloquia
Quantum Center Colloquium
Friday, May 10, 2024 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT E 51
Efficient Programmable Quantum Simulation of Correlated Bosons and Lattice Gauge Theories
Steven M. Girvin - Yale Quantum Institute
Abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Wednesday, May 15, 2024 - 09:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPZ E 35
Magnetic levitation for large mass superpositions and sensing gravity
Bas Hensen - Uni Leiden, NL
Host: Lukas Novotny
Past Seminars & Colloquia
Quantum Center Colloquium
Friday, April 19, 2024 - 16:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4
Precision quantum sensing on very small length scales
Jörg Wrachtrup - Centre for Applied Quantum Technologies and IQST, University of Stuttgart, Max Planck Institute for Solid State Science, Germany
Abstract
Host: Christian Degen
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT E 41.1
Quantum Simulations with Quantum Computers on the Cloud
Emanuele Dalla Torre - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Host: Eugene Demler
Thursday, February 1, 2024 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Thin-film strontium titanate for electro-optical transduction
Christian Haffner - IMEC, Belgium
Host: Matteo Fadel
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 13:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HCI J6
Quantum Advantage: Hope and Hype
Matthias Troyer - Microsoft, USA
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Special Seminar organized by the QEC
Tuesday, December 5, 2023 - 17:15
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4
Giant Artificial Atoms and Molecules: Chiral (Directional) Photon Emission via Waveguide QED
William D. Oliver - Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Abstract
Host: Jonathan Knoll
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Coherent control of a symmetry-engineered multi-qubit dark state in waveguide quantum electrodynamics
Gerhard Kirchmair - Institute for Experimental Physics, University of Innsbruck, Austria; IQOQI Innsbruck, Austria
Host: Yiwen Chu
Quantum Center Colloquium
Monday, November 27, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4
How does a quantum object gravitate?
Markus Aspelmeyer - Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna; Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Abstract
Host: Wenchao Xu
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Gaussian Boson Sampling experiments with displacements and time-bin encoding
Raj Patel - Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Host: Robert Chapman and Rachel Grange
Friday, October 27, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
NanoMRI Measurements of Dynamic Nuclear Polarization Using Trityl Radicals
Raffi Budakian - Institute for Quantum Computing, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Waterloo, Canada
Abstract
Hosts: Alexander Eichler and Christian Degen
Wednesday, October 18, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Error-tolerant quantum convolutional neural networks for symmetry-protected topological phases
Petr Zapletal - University of Basel, Switzerland
Abstract
Host: Christoph Hellings
Tuesday, October 17, 2023 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT E 41.1
Structural Dynamics and Strong Correlations in Dynamical Quantum Optical Lattices
Santiago F. Caballero-Benítez - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT F 11.1
Towards top-down integrated quantum photonics with colour centres in hexagonal boron nitride
Aymeric Delteil - Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, CNRS, GEMaC, France
Abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Thursday, October 12, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT F 12
Magnetic excitons and strong light-matter coupling in van der Waals magnets
Florian Dirnberger - Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Friday, September 29, 2023 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT E 41.1
Light scattering in disordered atomic systems: from single- to many-photon physics
Romain P M Bachelard - Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil
Abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Wednesday, September 27, 2023 - 09:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Superconducting thermometers for the direct detection of dark matter
Felix Wagner - Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria
Abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Quantum Center Colloquium
Tuesday, September 26, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4
Quantum engineering for superconducting quantum computers
Yasunobu Nakamura - RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing; Department of Applied Physics, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo
Abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Friday, September 8, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Realization of an ultracold indium gas
Travis Nicholson - National University of Singapore, Singapore
Abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Tuesday, September 5, 2023 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HCI G 3
Rotating traps, a Laughlin wave function, and the emergence of fluid behavior
Selim Jochim - Heidelberg University
Abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Friday, September 1, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Coupling an Andreev spin qubit to a transmon
Angela Kou - University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
Abstract
Hosts: Alexander Grimm and Yiwen Chu
Wednesday, August 30, 2023 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPV G 4
Frustration and kinetic magnetism in a cold-atom quantum simulator
Martin Lebrat - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Abstract
Realization of 1D anyons with arbitrary statistical phase
Joyce Kwan - Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Ultracold Feshbach molecules in an orbital optical lattice
Yann Kiefer - University of Hamburg, Germany
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Wednesday, August 16, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Microwave Quantum Radar
Michael Würth - Technical University of Munich
Abstract
Host: Christoph Hellings
Monday, August 14, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
A Universal Theory of Spin Squeezing
Norman Yao - Harvard University, USA
Abstract
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Hosts: Yiwen Chu and Eugene Demler
Monday, August 14, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT H42
News from the Quantum Twisting Microscope
Shahal Ilani - Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Abstract
Hosts: Atac Imamoglu and Klaus Ensslin
Tuesday, July 18, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF E 6
Your Physics results in PRL
Samindranath Mitra - Editor PRL, American Physical Society, USA
Abstract
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Wednesday, June 21, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
2D amorphous materials and their Applications: From Ferromagnetic 2D Superconductivity to ultra-low k dielectrics
Barbaros Oezyilmaz- NUS Singapore
Abstract
Host: Atac Imamoglu
Monday, June 12, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPZ E 35
Spin Mechanics with magnetic particles in Paul traps
Gabriel Hétet - LPENS Paris
Abstract
Host: Lukas Novotny
Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Counting phonons and measuring their coherences in a superfluid optomechanical device
Jack Harris - Yale University
Abstract
Host: Yiwen Chu
Friday, May 5, 2023 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT H 42
Many-body physics with arrays of silica particles: Tunable interactions and non-Hermitian dynamics
Uros Delic, Universität Wien
Abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Thursday, April 20, 2023 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Academia to Industry: The development of Neutral Atom Quantum Computing
Davide Dreon, PASQAL (France)
Abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Eigenoperator thermalization theory
Berislav Buca - Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen and Department of Physics, University of Oxford
Abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF E6
Longitudinal coupling between a Si/SiGe quantum dot and an off-chip TiN resonator
Mark A. Eriksson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Klaus Ensslin
Thursday, January 26, 2023 - 14:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Isotope shift spectroscopy to search for New Physics
Simon Stellmer - University of Bonn
Abstract
Host: Cornelius Hempel
Friday, January 6, 2023 - 13:00 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Many-body phases in ultracold dipolar gases: novel quantum mixtures and supersolidity
Claudia Politi - Institut für Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria and Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria
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Host: Jonathan Home
Monday, November 14, 2022 - 10:30 - 11:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT F 13
Quantum Sensors at Bosch Corporate Research - Vision, Achievements, and Challenges
Tino Fuchs - Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
Host: Christian Degen
Thursday, November 3, 2022 - 16:00 - 17:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Experimental study of critical fluctuations and critical Casimir forces
Giovanni Volpe - Departement of Physics, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Abstract
Host: Lukas Novotny
Wednesday, October 19, 2022 - 11:00 - 12:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Two-qudit (d=4) ion quantum processor on a quadrupole optical transition in 171Yb+
Ilia Zalivako - Lebedev Physical Institute, Moscow
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Host: Nikita Zhadnov
Thursday, October 6, 2022 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Universal matter-wave interferometry: atoms, molecules, clusters and perspectives for nanoparticle experiments
Markus Arndt - University of Vienna, Austria
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Lukas Novotny
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 - 11:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Four-second optical coherence between different atomic species, and the search for new physics with atomic clocks
David Leibrandt - NIST, USA
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Monday, October 3, 2022 - 15:00 - 16:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT G 41.1
Competing interactions in dipolar erbium atoms
Gabriele Natale - Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria & Institut fur Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria
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Many-body phases in ultracold dipolar gases: novel quantum mixtures and supersolidity
Claudia Politi - Institut fur Experimentalphysik, Universität Innsbruck, Austria & Institut fur Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Austria
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Hosts: Tilman Esslinger & Tobias Donner
Thursday, September 29, 2022 - 15:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Enhancing Applications of Variational Quantum Gate Sequences
Michael J. Hartmann - Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Johannes Herrmann
Thursday, September 15, 2022 - 9:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Quantum science with programmable alkaline earth atom arrays: from linear quantum optics to entanglement enhanced metrology
Aaron Young - JILA, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Yiwen Chu & Jonathan Home
Wednesday, September 14, 2022 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Towards High Resolution Spectroscopy on Trapped Helium Ions
Fabian Schmid - Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik, Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Paolo Crivelli & Daniel Kienzler
Thursday, August 18, 2022 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
New results on the Kondo effect in systems with atoms and molecules on metallic surfaces and application to STM experiments
Armando Aligia - Centro Atómico Bariloche, INN, CNEA, CONICET, ARGENTINA
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Tuesday, July 19, 2022 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Site-selective dissipation and measurement without decohering neighbours in a programmable trapped ion quantum simulator
Rajibul Islam - University of Waterloo, Canada
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Daniel Kienzler
Wednesday, June 29, 2022 - 13:15
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Single spin magnetic resonance by microwave fluorescence detection
Patrice Bertet - Université Paris-Saclay - CEA, CNRS, SPEC, France
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Host: James O'Sullivan
Tuesday, June 7, 2022 - 17:00
Scheduled Zoom meeting
Coherent Ising Machines: Embedding QUBO in bifurcations of polynomial systems
Hideo Mabuchi - Stanford University, USA
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Alexander Eichler
Monday, May 16, 2022 - 10:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Putting the squeeze on nanomechanical resonators
Ewold Verhagen - AMOLF, Netherlands
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Yiwen Chu
Friday, April 8, 2022 - 11:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT F 11.1
Machine Learning assisted Superconducting Qubit Readout
Benjamin Lienhard - Princeton University, USA
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Christopher Eichler
Thursday, January 13, 2022 - 10:00
Scheduled Zoom meeting
High-temperature superconducting biomagnetometers
Silvia Ruffieux - Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 16:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Two ways to cool a levitated nanoparticle in a Paul trap
Tracy Northup - University of Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar
Host: Lukas Novotny
Thursday, December 16, 2021 - 14:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Controlling Quantum Materials using Periodic Driving: Topology, Superconductivity and Ultrafast Magnetic Field Control
Gregor Jotzu - Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter, CFEL, Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Thursday, December 9, 2021 - 09:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Tuning material properties via light-matter hybridization
Simone De Liberato - University of Southampton, United Kingdom
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Giacomo Scalari
Thursday, December 2, 2021 - 11:30
scheduled Zoom meeting
Second sound and the birth of turbulence in two dimensions
Panos Christodoulou - University of Cambridge, UK
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Wednesday, October 27, 2021 - 13:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HIT F 11.1 & scheduled Zoom meeting
Quantum networks with neutral atoms in optical cavities
Stephan Welte - Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Jonathan Home
Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 13:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Observation of Cooper Pairing in a Mesoscopic Fermi Gas
Marvin Holten - Physikalisches Institut, Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Thursday, October 7, 2021 - 16:30
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6 & scheduled Zoom meeting
Quantum and thermal stability of quasiperiodic patterns of ultracold Bose gases
Tommaso Macrì - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Wednesday, October 6, 2021 - 15:00
ETH Zurich, Campus Hönggerberg, HPF G 6
Entanglement in non-classical spin states and realisation of a Laughlin charge pump with ultracold dysprosium
Tanish Satoor - Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Collège de France, CNRS, ENS-PSL University, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tilman Esslinger
Thursday, September 23, 2021 - 16:15
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Quantum Simulation and Computation with trapped ions
Christopher Monroe - Duke University and University of Maryland, as well as co-Founder and Chief Scientist at IonQ
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich colloquium, abstract
Host: Cornelius Hempel
Wednesday, September 15, 2021 - 16:00
scheduled Zoom meeting
Nonlinearities in Ultrathin Suspended Structures
Akshay Naik - Indian Institute of Science, India
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Alexander Eichler
Monday, July 5, 2021 - 14:30
scheduled Zoom meeting
Nonequilibrium Entropy and the Second Law in Quantum Many-Body Systems
Philipp Strasberg - Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Monday, June 7, 2021 - 14:30
scheduled Zoom meeting
Cavity-Induced Dynamical Gauge Potentials
Farokh Mivehvar - University of Innsbruck, Austria
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Tobias Donner
Tuesday, May 11, 2020 - 14:00
scheduled Zoom meeting
Quantum fluids of light in semiconductor lattices : emulating condensed matter physics
Jacqueline Bloch - Paris Saclay University, CNRS, France
QSIT Seminar, abstract
Host: Géraldine Haack
Tuesday, May 11, 2021 - 10:00
scheduled Zoom meeting
Coupled parametric oscillators: Coherent Ising machines and beyond
Marcello Strinati - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Oded Zilberberg
Wednesday, April 21, 2021 - 10:00
scheduled Zoom meeting
Quantum simulations with quantum computers on the cloud
Emanuele G. Dalla Torre - Bar-Ilan University, Israel
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Oded Zilberberg
Tuesday, March 23, 2021 - 09:30
scheduled Zoom meeting
Seeing bizarre topological effects in synthetic materials
Jian-Hua Jiang - Soochow University, China
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Oded Zilberberg
Wednesday, March 3, 2021 - 14:00
scheduled Zoom meeting
Spatio-temporal control of correlations with non-local dissipation
Jamir Marino - Johannes-Gutenberg University, Germany
QSIT/Quantum Center, ETH Zurich Seminar, abstract
Host: Oded Zilberberg