Dear QSIT members
The next QSIT Lunch Seminar will take place on Thursday December 6, 2012, at 12:00 noon in the room HPF G6, ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich.
There will be two talks of 30 minutes duration jointly presented by two collaborators from different research groups.
At 13:00 pm free pizza is offered to the participants.
Exorcising the Maxwell Demon: Understanding the Interplay Between Work and Entropy in Quantum Systems
Philippe Faist
Institute for Theoretical Physics, ETH Zurich
Electron Waiting Times in Mesoscopic Transport
Christian Flindt
Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève
Abstracts: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/lunchseminar/december2012
Please register for your free pizza at the following link by Tuesday Dec 4, 12:00 noon
https://ethz.doodle.com/6vrpwe8aahpsixw4
If you have suggestions on topics or speakers, or would like to present recent results of your research, please send your information to Andreas Wallraff or Ilona Blatter.
With best regards,
Andreas Wallraff Ilona Blatter
Professor for Solid State Physics QSIT Coordinator
QSIT Seminar
qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
Sandra Künzel
NCCR QSIT (Finances)
HPF E 17
8093 Zurich
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Dear all
Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar.
With best regards,
Sandra Künzel
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Date: Friday Nov 30, 2012
Time : 14:30
Place: ETH Science City, HPF G 6
Host: Andreas Wallraff
Observation of the single photon Kerr effect and deterministic Schrödinger-cat creation in QED
Gerhrad Kirchmair
Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
abstract: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/talks/abstract_Kirchmair
QSIT Seminar
qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
Sandra Künzel
NCCR QSIT (Finances)
HPF E 17
8093 Zurich
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Anfang der weitergeleiteten E-Mail:
> Von: Sorin Paraoanu <sorin.paraoanu(a)aalto.fi>
> Datum: 20. November 2012 21:39:45 MEZ
> An: undisclosed-recipients:;
> Betreff: Ph.D. position available
>
> Dear Colleague,
>
> We have a Ph.D. opening in the field of quantum engineering with superconducting devices
> in my group at Aalto University in Helsinki.
>
> I would be grateful if you could bring this to the attention of potentially
> qualified students at your university.
>
> Please find attached the announcement - feel free to distribute/post.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sorin Paraoanu
> O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory,
> Aalto University, Finland
Matthias Christandl
Institute for Theoretical Physics
ETH Zurich
http://www.itp.phys.ethz.ch/people/christandl/index
Dear all
Please be informed about the following QSIT Seminar.
With best regards,
Sandra Künzel
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Date: Tuesday Nov 20, 2012
Time : 16:15
Place: ETH Science City, HPF G 6
Host: Ferdinand Brennecke / Tilman Esslinger
Synthetic gauge fields in cavity/circuit QED
Jonas Larson
University of Stockholm
abstract: http://www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch/news/talks/abstractLarson
QSIT Seminar
qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
Sandra Künzel
NCCR QSIT (Finances)
HPF E 17
8093 Zurich
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Dear all
Please be informed about the following joint QC2/QSIT Seminar.
With best regards,
Sandra Künzel
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Date: Monday Nov 19, 2012
Place: Uni Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, Lecture Hall 1
Time: 16:15
Host: Philipp Treutlein
Fractional quantum Hall effect with Rydberg atoms
Michael Fleischhauer
Universität Kaiserslauten, Germany
Details at: http://www.physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/cms.htm
QSIT Seminar
qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
Sandra Künzel
NCCR QSIT (Finances)
HPF E 17
8093 Zurich
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Dear all
please be informed about the following PhD conference organized by PhD students from ETHZ and EPFL.
With best regards,
Ilona Blatter
> Dear QSIT member,
>
>
> The ETH and EPFL student chapters of OSA (Optical Society of America) are jointly organizing the 13th iteration of the IONS (International OSA Network of Students) conference in Europe. The conference attracts PhD students and interested Master students in optics from all over the world to discuss their research and is generously supported by QSIT. Our invited speakers are Prof. P. Russell (Max Planck Institute, Erlangen) and Prof. J. Tisch (Imperial College London). There will be a QSIT sessions where you can present your research. The conference takes place Jan 9 -12 2013 at ETH and EPFL. The first day is at ETH, the second day at EPFL. The social day will be organized in Zurich and includes a city tour, conference lunch and an excursion to a chocolate factory. You can find more information about the conference here:
> http://www.ions-project.org/index.php?id=4&topic=ions13
>
> We have a few spots left and would be very happy to receive your registration as soon as possible, but no later than Sunday, Nov 18. Please use the following link to the registration form (note that there is no registration fee):
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFk4LVI…
>
>
> The professional development session is open to all PhD students and does not require registration. Jean-luc Doumont will talk about "How to work efficiently during your PhD" and it takes place on Jan, 10 at ETH at 13:00-14:30.
>
>
> We hope to see you at IONS-13!
> Best regards,
> Mena Issler
> ETH Zürich
> Institute of Quantum Electronics
> HPT G 3
> Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 16
> 8093 Zürich
> SWITZERLAND
>
> Phone: +41 44 633 21 44
> Fax: +41 44 633 13 59
> E-Mail: isslerm(a)phys.ethz.ch
>
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ETH Zurich
Dr. Ilona Blatter
NCCR QSIT Coordinator
Laboratory for Solid State Physics
HPF E 17
Schafmattstrasse 16
8093 Zurich
ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 44 633 36 06
Dear all
Please be informed about the following AMP Colloquium.
The AMP (Akademischer Mittelbau am Physikdepartement) represents the PhD students and Postdocs in the Physics Department of ETH.
With best regards,
Ilona Blatter
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Date: Thursday, November 15, 2012
Time: 17:15 (Apéro at 17:00 and afterwards)
Place: HIT E51
Host: AMP
Microwave and Optical Measurement Schemes for Nano-Scale Devices
Gabriel Puebla-Hellmann
Quantum Device Lab, ETH Zurich
Abstract and further information: www.amp.ethz.ch/colloquium/TalkII_2012
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ETH Zurich
David Oehri
Institute for Theoretical Physics
HIT K23.3
Wolfgang-Pauli-Str. 27
8093 Zurich
SWITZERLAND
doehri(a)itp.phys.ethz.ch
www.itp.phys.ethz.ch
phone +41 44 633 31 03
Dear all
Please be informed about the following joint QC2/QSIT Seminar.
With best regards,
Sandra Künzel
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Date: Monday Nov 12, 2012
Place: Uni Basel, Klingelbergstr. 82, Lecture Hall 1
Time: 16:15
Host: Richard Warburton
Frontiers in the Atomistic Modeling of the Excited States of Nanostructures
Gabriel Bester
Max Planck Institut for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany
Details at: http://www.physik.unibas.ch/dept/pages/de/events/cms.htm
QSIT Seminar
qsit-seminar(a)phys.ethz.ch
ETH Zurich
Sandra Künzel
NCCR QSIT (Finances)
HPF E 17
8093 Zurich
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Dear all
Please be informed about the following seminar organized by Matthias Troyer and his group.
With best regards,
Ilona Blatter
>> From: Alexey Soluyanov <soluyanov(a)itp.phys.ethz.ch>
>> Subject: Seminar on Tuesday, November 6
>> Date: November 5, 2012 2:52:51 PM GMT+01:00
>> To: itp-Schulthess(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-sigrist(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-renner(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-christandl(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-spaldin(a)phys.ethz.ch, itp-troyer(a)phys.ethz.ch
>>
>> There will be a seminar tomorrow (details below), November 6 at 10:30 am in HIT K 52.(ETH Science City)
>> Everyone is invited.
>>
>> Speaker: Roman M. Lutchyn (Microsoft Station Q)
>>
>> Title: Majorana fermions in semiconductor/superconductor heterostructures
>>
>> Abstract:
>> The exploration of topological phases of matter is one of the main challenges in condensed matter physics. Among the exciting recent developments in this direction are the discoveries of the new phases of matter with many intriguing properties such as topological insulators and superconductors. In my talk, I will focus on topological superconductors and discuss how to realize spinless p-wave superconductivity in the laboratory by exploiting the properties of an interface between a semiconductor and an s-wave superconductor. I will show that a topological superconducting state emerging in such a system supports Majorana zero-energy modes. The unique properties of Majoranas can be exploited for implementing fault-tolerant quantum computation schemes that are inherently decoherence-free.
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ETH Zurich
Dr. Ilona Blatter
NCCR QSIT Coordinator
Laboratory for Solid State Physics
HPF E 17
Schafmattstrasse 16
8093 Zurich
ilona.blatter(a)phys.ethz.ch
www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch
Phone: +41 44 633 36 06