Quantum Computing and Devices (QCD)

Group members in the photo, back row (from left to right): Juha Salmilehto, Kuan Yen Tan, Pekko Kuopanportti, Timo Hänninen, Olli-Pentti Saira (also at PICOgroup), Philip Jones, Matti Partanen, Janne Kokkala, Tuomo Tanttu, and Jukka Huhtamäki; front row: Mikko Möttönen, Paolo Solinas, and Emmi Ruokokoski.

QCD news

Mar 6, 2012 Interviewed by the main national news paper Helsingin Sanomat about quantum cryptography. The article.

Feb 25, 2012 Interviewed by the main national news paper Helsingin Sanomat about the single atom transistor. The article.

Feb 1, 2012 Positions for summer jobs 2012 now open! Update on March 7, 2012: All the positions in Finland are filled but the one in Australia is still open!!! Apply by sending email directly to Mikko Möttönen.

Dec 1, 2011 See our cool video! This video was made on the ERC project launching in the beginning of 2012.

Nov 15, 2011, OPEN POSITIONS! Many post doctoral and PhD student positions are open in the renewed COMP including our group. Positions are mainly directed towards theoretical and computational work but also excellent experimentalists and especially researchers with strong theoretical background and true interest also in experiments are encouraged to apply. The dead line for the positions is passed already but we are constantly looking for excellent physicists!

Oct 6, 2011, PRESS RELEASE: EU grant for a basic component of the quantum computer

Oct 6, 2011, PRESS RELEASE: Ten Finnish researchers receive ERC funding. Our group leader, Mikko Möttönen, was one of the these researchers.

Nov 18, 2010, UMK NEWS: Measuring spin and spinning in the international networks

Oct 27, 2010, INTERVIEW: Tuleeko kvantti tietokone? (mp3). A radio interview on quantum computers on the primary national radio station YLE1

Oct 7, 2010, NATURE PUBLICATION: Single-shot readout of an electron spin in silicon, Nature (London) 467, 687 (2010)

Sep 27, 2010, PRESS RELEASES: Detector for the single-electron magnet discovered

Dec 3, 2009, PRESS RELEASE: Single-atom transistor discovered

Jul 14, 2009, PRESS RELEASE: Reaching for magnetic monopoles — an analogy for a point source of magnetic field found?

Jul 13, 2009, APS PYSICS SYNOPSIS: Making monopoles

Brief description of QCD and its research

The group Quantum Computing and Devices (QCD) was formed in October 2007 in the Academy of Finland Center of Excellence in Computational Nanoscience (COMP) and has already produced many significant scientific results. In addition to the group leader, there are post doctoral researchers, graduate students, and undergraduate students in the group working together on various research topics. If one is to describe the research in the group with a single term, it would be quantum physics. That is because we are not restricted to a single subject but rather keep an open mind and explore the most interesting and promising pathways to reach maximal productivity in our research. Thus the research topics vary from the very fundamental theory of quantum mechanics to applied and even experimental physics. The different subfields in our research are quantum information processing, Bose-Einstein condensates, and nanoelectronics.