While information technology over the last 50 years has been based on conventional semiconductor electronics, future technologies – aiming to enhance the performance of computers, sensors and to secure data communication for the future internet – will use the quantum origins of nature.
This symposium highlighted the opportunities for the traditional semiconductor materials to remain the platform on which also the new quantum technologies will build on. The symposium, in part a celebration of the career of PSI Quantum Technologies group leader Hans Sigg, was held at ETHZ and included notable speakers both local and international, Gabriel Aeppli (PSI, ETHZ & EPFL), Jérôme Faist & Klaus Ensslin (ETHZ), Theo Rasing (RU Nijmegen), Giordano Scappucci (QuTech-TU Delft) and Klaus von Klitzing (MPI Stuttgart).
| Welcome | ||
| 9:00 | Gabriel Aeppli Hans Sigg, PSI | |
| Semiconductors and Quantum Technology | ||
| 9:05 | Yasin Ekinci PSI | Future of Semiconductor manufacturing |
| 9:30 | Klaus von Klitzing MPI-Stuttgart | Quantum applied: the new S.I. system of units |
| 10:00 | Jérôme Faist ETHZ | Light from Silicon: the intersubband way? |
| 10:30 -11:00 | COFFEE | |
| 11:00 | Klaus Ensslin ETHZ | Coupling spins to microwave photons |
| 11:30 | Ulf Gennser Université Paris-Sud |
Interactions in metallic quantum islands ajar: from heat blockade to electron teleportation. |
| Intermezzo | ||
| 12:00 | George Bruls Uni Frankfurt | A quantum leap in classical optics |
| 12:30 -13:30 | LUNCH | |
| 13:30 | Theo Rasing RU Nijmegen | An optical leap in quantum spintronics |
| 14:00 | Imaging and QT at PSI Lenny Rivkin, Hans Braun | |
| 14:10 | Anna Diaz PSI | Ptychography: more than just high resolution imaging |
| 14:35 | Simon Gerber PSI | PSI’s photon sources for investigation of solid state based coherent quantum control |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | COFFEE | |
| Quests for Germanium | ||
| 15:30 | Giovanni Isella POLIMI, Como | Intro: Ge-nesis |
| 15:40 | Giordano Scappucci QuTech-TU Delft | Quantum Computing with Germanium |
| 16:10 | Francesco Armand Pilon PSI | The Germanium Laser |
| 16:40 | Moritz Brehm Linz University | Defect engineering of Germanium |
| 17:10 | Closing | |
| Organisation | Hans Sigg, Gabriel Aeppli, Renate Bercher (PSI) | |