13 Jul 2022

PhD Defense of Kris Cerveny

Kris Cerveny successfully defended his PhD thesis "Quantum Transport Characterizations in Selective-Area Grown InGaAs Nanowire Networks", with Prof. Thomas Schäpers, Forschungszentrum Jülich and RWTH Aachan, Germany, and Dr. Lucas Casparis,…

06 Jul 2022

Swiss Nanoconvention 2022 Fribourg

Swiss Nanoconvention 2022 in Fribourg! https://swissnanoconvention.ch/2022/ Quantum Computing Session Spins in Silicon and Germanium organized by @nccrSpin Maud Vinet (CEA-LETI) Andrea Hofmann (@UniBasel) Niko Hendrickx (IBM Zurich…

04 Jul 2022

Spin Qubit 5 early registrat. extended to July 31, 2022

Spin Qubit 5 early registration extended to July 31, 2022! From Aug 1st, the registration fee increases. Conference: Sept 5-9, 2022, Pontresina, Switzerland 40+ confirmed invited speakers... Poster sessions and 200+ participants...…

27 Jun 2022

A Swiss Quantum Initiative

A Swiss Quantum Initiative! Our neighbors and competitors already started large scale programs: 2 billion in Germany, 1.8 billion in France, 615 million in Netherlands, etc... Swiss scientists are getting left behind! PIs and team leaders…

17 Jun 2022

Annual Meeting NCCR SPIN Pontresina Switzerland

Mon, Jun 13 to Wed Jun 15, the annual meeting of the NCCR SPIN took place in Pontresina, Switzerland. Great to bring together our community in a wonderful and stimulating location! 21 scientific talks, 37 posters with a flash intro, 2…

20 May 2022

EMP user meeting online

The meeting is bringing together the users of the European Microkelvin Platform (EMP) online and provides a stage for presenting access projects with broader exchange and discussions in the community. We tried to put together an exciting…

25 Apr 2022

Support for a Swiss Quantum Initiative

Quantum science and technology is a high-impact and strongly growing field with great potential to contribute profoundly to economic growth and society. There is rapid progress and increasing acceleration of quantum R&D in neighboring…

14 Apr 2022

April 14: World Quantum Day

April 14 is world quantum day! Official web-site: https://worldquantumday.org/ But what is Quantum? On our recent spin qubit platforms workshop, we asked NCCR SPIN researchers and got many interesting answers: watch the video. See also the…

04 Apr 2022

On arXiv: Identifying Pauli spin blockade using deep learning

Pauli spin blockade (PSB) is a great resource for spin qubit initialisation and readout even at elevated temperatures but it can be difficult to identify. We present a machine learning algorithm capable of automatically identifying PSB…

24 Mar 2022

Spin Qubit 5 Conference Sept 5-9, 2022, Pontresina, Switzerland

The 5th Conference on Spin-Based Quantum Information Processing (Spin Qubit 5) brings together world-leading researchers from the fields of solid state physics and spin-based quantum information processing to participate in a conference…

22 Mar 2022

Transistor qubits heat up

News and views Nature Electronics by Romain Maurand and Xavier Jehl (CEA Grenoble and Universite Grenoble Alpes). Hole spin qubits that operate at temperatures close to 4 K can be created in fin field-effect transistors similar to those…

13 Mar 2022

APS March Meeting 2022 Chicago

Micro Kelvin Nanoelectronics A24.00009 Heat leaks and noise in microkelvin electronics on a pulse-tube cryostat Omid Sharifi Sedeh A24.00012 Mikrokelvin electronics on a pulse-tube cryostat with a gate Coulomb blockade thermometer Christian…

04 Mar 2022

Published in Nature Electronics: A hole spin qubit in a finFET above 4 Kelvin

One of the greatest challenges in quantum computing is scaling. Classical nm-scale fin field-effect transistors (FinFETs) have scaled to billions of transistors on a silicon chip. Here, we operate a silicon FinFET as a hole spin qubit above…

05 Feb 2022

QSIT Arosa 2022: Jazz and Standing Ovation

The QSIT Arosa meeting 2022 marks the 11th and final meeting in this series. In addition to the winter school, the panel meeting, numerous scientific talks and the poster sessions, there was also a great jazz session and a standing ovation…

22 Jan 2022

NZZ Articles on CH exclusion from Horizon Europe

NZZ article with quotes from Dominik Zumbühl on the exclusion of Switzerland from the Horizon Europe research program after Switzerland stopped negotiations with the EU and walked away from the table. Another article appeared soon after,…