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March 2023
Nicolò D'Anna's paper on our new technique for non-destructive X-ray imaging of quantum devices was published in Advanced Electronic Materials.
March 2023
Wenxiang Hu (PhD student) and Theo Wollschlegel (semester project) join the group.
February 2023
Faris Dizdarevic (master project) and Henry Bell (semester project) join the group.
October 2022
Andrin Doll (project scientist) and Adrian Rutschmann (master project) join the group.
October 2022
Our "Quantum Magnet Lunch" team has organised a two-day retreat to fly above the details of our daily routine and to revisit our overall vision.
September 2022
Congratulations Nicolò for the successful defense of your PhD on "Low-temperature magneto-transport and X-ray metrology of ultra-thin group V doping layers in silicon: platforms for quantum science and technology"!
September 2022
Adrian Beckert's crystal field paper was published in Physical Review B.
September 2022
A Swiss-French pulsed magnetic field retreat was held at PSI to discuss technical developments and upcoming commissioning/pilot experiments.
July 2022
Francesco Armand Pilon's strained germanium lasing paper was published in Physical Review Research.
July 2022
Congratulation and farewell to Alex Grimm for having been promoted to lead an independent group on Bosonic Quantum Information as a part of LNQ.
April 2022
Alessandro Bruno and Maël Clémence join the group as PhD students.
March 2022
Congratulations to the Cristallina team for achieving the "first light" milestone on 14.03.2021 - one day ahead of schedule.
March 2022
Tristan Kuttner joins the group for his MSc thesis.
February 2022
Our solution to produce coherent copies of X-ray pulses was published in PNAS.
January 2022
Congratulations Alex for scoring an ERC Starter Grant on coherent operation of a logical concatenated CAT qubit (COOLCCAT)!
January 2022
With the creation of the new Laboratories for X-ray Nanoscience & Technologies (LXN) and Nano & Quantum Technologies (LNQ) the group changes its name from Quantum Technologies (QT) to Quantum Photon Science (QPS).
November 2021
Finally again, the QT group organized a group outing and hiked across Lägern.
November 2021
Corinna Burri (PhD student) and Sandy Ekahana (postdoc) join the group.
October 2021
Simon Gerber's Colloquium paper was published in Reviews of Modern Physics.
October 2021
Tianyang Shen (PhD student) and Tristan Kuttner (semester project) join the group.
September 2021
Dr. Nelson Hua joins the QT and Quantum Criticality & Dynamics Groups as a PSI Fellow. Francesco Adinolfi and Aidan McConnell join the group as PhD students.
July 2021
Lise Hanson joins the group as summer student.
July 2021
Simon Gerber has been promoted to permanent leader of the QT group.
June 2021
Congratulations Adrian for the successful defense of your PhD on "Localized two-level systems in rare-earth fluorides"!
June 2021
Jan Ravnik’s quantum billiards paper was published in Nature Communications.
April 2021
Jan Ravnik’s ‘dynamical’ phase diagram paper was published in Nature Communications.
March 2021
Congratulations Francesco for the successful defense of your PhD on the "strained germanium laser"!
March 2021
Maël Clémence (MSc thesis), Hsueh-yu Kuo and Florian Zangl (semester projects), as well as Charpoan Kong (internship) join the group.
February 2021
Robert Kälin officially joins the group as technician of the Cristallina endstation.
January 2021
Alexander Steppke officially joins the group as project coordinator for the collaboration of the Cristallina-Q team and the Laboratory of Quantum Matter (LQM) of Prof. Johan Chang at the University of Zurich (UZH).
September 2020
Maël Clémence and Pratyush Anand join the group as semester students.
August 2020
Alexander Grimm’s Kerr-cat qubit paper was published in Nature.
August 2020
Adrian Beckert’s first paper as lead author was published in Optics Express.
June 2020
Leonie Müller joins the group as summer student.
November 2019
Alexander Grimm joins the group as new tenure-track scientist.
November 2019
PSI SiC activities have now been embedded in Dr. Christian David's X-ray optics group.
September 2019
Jan Ravnik joins the group as new Postdoc.
August 2019
Roksolana Kozak joins the group as new Postdoc.
July 2019
Maria del Mar Carulla Areste joins the group as new Postdoc.
July 2019
Bill Pedrini joins the group as new scientist and project leader of the Cristallina project.
July 2019
June 2019
Simon Gerber becomes the new interim leader of the QT group. Hans Sigg remains active in a senior advisor role.
May 2019
Congratulations Judith for the successful defense of your PhD!
April 2019
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
February 2019
Raphael Perrass joins the group part-time as technician for the low-temperature X-ray scattering projects.
January 2019
Guy Matmon joins the group as new tenure-track scientist.
Nicolò d'Anna joins the group as new PhD student.
April 2018
The QT group held its annual internal seminar in Hospental.
March 2018
Alexey Lyasota joins the QT Group as new Postdoc.
October 2017
Jakub Vonka joins the QT Group and the Laboratory for Neutron and Muon Instrumentation (LIN) as new Postdoc.
July 2017
Simon Gerber’s paper was published in Science.
Highly precise measurements of iron selenide show how electrons move in sync with atomic vibrations rippling through the quantum material. The experiments were carried out at the LCLS x-ray free-electron laser of the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and at Stanford University.
May 2017
Adrian Beckert joins the group as new PhD student.
The Symposium on Direct Band Gap Group 4 Photonics successfully took place at PSI.
February 2017
The QT group held its annual internal seminar at Rigi Kaltbad.
November 2016
Joe Martin Bailey joins the group as new Postdoc.
October 2016
Francesco Armand Pilon joins the group as new PhD student.
September 2016
Judith Wörle receives Best Student Poster Award at the ECSCRM 2016 in Chalkidiki, Greece.
July 2016
The Quantum Technology group under the lead of Dr. Hans Sigg is formed.