Tutorial Speakers

Pr Yiwen Chu,  ETH Zurich

 After doing my undergraduate studies at MIT, I moved down the street to Harvard, where I did my PhD studying quantum optics with nitrogen-vacancy centers in the group of Prof. Mikhail Lukin. Wanting to try out a different quantum system, I worked on circuit QED as a postdoc in the group of Prof. Rob Schoelkopf at Yale. Through collaborations with the group of Prof. Peter Rakich (also at Yale), I also added quantum acoustics and optomechanics to my repertoire.

There are many types of quantum systems being explored as platforms for creating, storing, and transporting quantum information. In our group, we are working on connecting some of them together and developing hybrid quantum devices. We focus on a variety of solid state and optical quantum objects, including superconducting microwave circuits, mechanical resonators, color centers in diamond, and visible/infrared light. Each of these systems has its own special talent when it comes to processing quantum information, which you can read more about below. By combining them, we hope to build more sophisticated quantum machines that can do more than the individual components alone. Along the way, we'll learn about how to get this diverse group of objects to work well together while preserving their unique useful properties. Moreover, exploring physics at the interface of very different quantum degrees of freedom often leads to new phenomena and perspectives. We hope to gain a better understanding of the quantum world through our work.

Pr Christian Degen,  ETH Zurich

Christian Degen, born 1976 in Zurich, Switzerland, received a diploma in physics from the ETH Zurich in 2001 and a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the same institution. His doctorate, carried out under the advisement of Prof. Beat H. Meier, included the development of solid-state NMR spectroscopy and its application to study fundamental phenomena in spin physics. In 2006 he then joined the team of Dan Rugar at the IBM  working on ultrasensitive force detection and nanoscale MRI imaging. In 2009, he was appointed tenure track assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is professor of physics at ETH Zurich since 2011.

 Our group has active research activities in quantum sensing and nanomechanics. We both develop sensitive measurement tools for sensing weak forces and magnetic fields, and apply them to various phenomena in condensed matter physics, magnetic resonance, and spintronics. We are also interested in quantum and parametric techniques that push the limits of measurements.

Dr Anne Louchet-Chauvet,  CNRS-Institut Langevin

 Anne Louchet-Chauvet received the physics M.Sc. degree from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France, and the Ph.D. degree in 2008 from Université Paris-Sud (Orsay, France). Between 2008 and 2010 she was a post-doc successively at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen (Denmark) and at LNE-SYRTE (Paris, France). She joined the CNRS in 2010 at Laboratoire Aimé Cotton (Orsay), before moving to Institut Langevin (Paris) in 2019. Her research interests include classical information processing using spectral holeburning and photon echoes in rare-earth ion-doped crystals, including spectral analysis of optically-carried RF signals, time reversal, and filtering.

Dr Yann Louyer,  Université de Bordeaux

Dr Laure Mercier de Lépinay,  Aalto University

 Laure Mercier de Lépinay is a postdoctoral research fellow at Aalto University, Finland. She obtained her physics Ph.D. in 2017 from Institut Néel in Grenoble and her M.Sc. from École Normale Supérieur de Lyon, France. Her research focuses on experimental optomechanics in the quantum regime and sensitive force measurement using both microwave and optical techniques.

Pr Ilaria Zardo,  Basel University