Adaptive quantum optics

Monitoring the safety of a fibre-optic network with quantum measurements and a quest to seek the mysterious Majorana particles in so-called Josephson junctions. These are the two projects from the University of Twente that receive funding from NWO in collaboration with QuantumDelta NL with resources from the ‘National Growth Fund’ programme.

The Adaptive Quantum Optics group at the University of Twente is looking for a two-year postdoctoral researcher in integrated photonic quantum information processing.

A quantum processor working with light, photons, developed at the University of Twente, becomes an ever stronger ‘toolbox’ for doing quantum experiments. The latest version not only has more inputs and outputs, it can also be fed by a photon source that is able to produce identical photons. Physical experiments, sometimes counterintuitive ones, are now possible. Can a system, for example, show quantummechanic and thermodynamic behavior at the same time? Reinier van der Meer defends his PhD thesis on this, on 24 February.

Home sweet home! After his 6-month internship abroad at Harvard University, Frank Somhorst returned to the University of Twente. This internship resulted in successfully completing his master's degree in Applied Physics, specializing in adaptive quantum optics, which he proudly obtained cum laude.