About Us

We are a novel junior team within the Peter Grünberg Institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich, a member of the Helmholtz Association. We offer world-class nanofabrication facilities through the Helmholtz Nanofabrication Facility at the Jülich Research Center, and state-of-the-art measurement solutions in our laboratory on the RWTH Aachen campus. Our local quantum ecosystem is rapidly expanding through large funding efforts by the state of NRW and the German federal government.

Open Positions

We have several open positions at the MSc, PhD and post-doctoral level. We are a young and diverse team and welcome applications from all backgrounds and demographics. Beyond conducting excellent scientific research, our goal is to provide a safe and sociable working environment where everyone can grow and develop according to their own goals and expectations while contributing to our team.

PhD students in our team will be employed by FZ Jülich, and will get their degree through RWTH Aachen, one of the most renowned technical institutions in Germany and Europe. We look for strong candidates with a background in quantum physics / quantum engineering / nano electronics, capable of carrying out research independently. At the same time, we seek candidates that complement our team and that are willing to work collaboratively in our team and with our external partners.

Post-doctoral researchers will be employed by FZ Jülich and will be offered highly competitive working conditions. On a longer timescale, FZ Jülich offers the perspective of employment as a permanent research scientist embedded in one of the many existing institutes, or as a junior team leader according to a tenure track model.

Master's Projects

Coherent Coupling of a Single Nuclear Spin to a Single Mechanical Mode

Can we directly couple a single nuclear spin to a single quantum mode of motion of a heavy mechanical oscillator and obtain an entangled state of both quantum objects? This modelling project seeks to answer this question at a theoretical and modelling level, to inform and hopefully trigger future experimental research projects.
16 Apr 2023
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Characterization and Optimization of High Frequency Components for Qubit Applications

You will work on novel, so far untested, coaxial cables in a dilution refrigerator, the key element for enabling solid state qubit research. We want to investigate their bandwidth, noise characteristics and power dissipation to evaluate them as a viable option for read-out lines for large spin qubit arrays.
16 Apr 2023
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Design and Maintenance of a Software Architecture for Cryogenic and Electronic Control of Quantum Experiments

You will be making a backbones package that we use to run all our experiments. You will be using existing software packages for smaller components and wrapping them with a convenient python program to allow for straightforward experiment design and monitoring.
16 Apr 2023
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Fabrication of Superconducting Resonators for Andreev Bound State Spectroscopy

In this project you will be fabricating coplanar waveguide and lumped element superconducting resonators to study novel Josephson junctions made of planar strained Germanium quantum wells. You will be responsible for optimising and characterising NbTiN thin films to be used for this purpose. We will be using the resonators to study interesting phenomena in the Andreev Bound State spectra arising from the high and anisotropic spin orbit coupling in the semiconductor weak link of the junction.
16 Apr 2023
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Internship Projects

Charge noise spectroscopy of interdiffused ohmic contacts in the vicinity of quantum dots

Spin qubits in germanium quantum wells exhibit great potential for building high quality qubits which have been demonstrated in dense 2D arrays. Investigating charge noise depending on the Ohmic contacts to the quantum well depending on geometrical parameters in quantum dot structures will be your task.
06 Oct 2023
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Planar Josephson Junctions in Strained Germanium

You will be measuring and analysing planar Josephson junctions made from strained Germanium. The project gives you experience with quantum transport measurements at mK
06 Oct 2023
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