Quantum Research Seminar Series

About the Quantum Research Seminar:

The Quantum Research Seminar (QRS) is a student-led monthly seminar series featuring talks from early career researchers in quantum science at KU. It takes place every second Friday of the month from 12-13 in Aud. 8 in HCØ. Free lunch is provided.

The goal of the QRS is to bring together the quantum community at KU and provide a space for PhDs and PostDocs to practice presenting their research to a wider audience within quantum sciences

Speaker: Clara Henke

Title: From single photons to collective quantum effects

Quantum optics lets us explore how light and atoms interact at the most fundamental level. Using photon correlation measurements, we can uncover the quantum state of light. I will present our recent experiments with semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) – artificial atoms- embedded in a photonic crystal waveguide. By measuring two- and three-photon autocorrelations, we reveal how light behaves when scattered from one or two quantum dots. Furthermore, by exciting two emitters from the top, we can observe both directional emission and directionality in photon statistics.

Bio: Clara Henke is a PhD student in the Quantum Optics section at NBI working with Peter Lodahl and Anders Sørensen. Her project is about studying fun effects arising from the interaction between multiple quantum emitters and light.

Speaker: Renato Olarte

Title: Vibronic Simulation on QPU

Simulating the vibronic (electronic and vibrational) structure of a molecule is… hard, for you, for me, for super computers too. What about using a quantum computer instead ? I will explain how to map a vibronic transformation into a quantum computer circuit capable of retrieving the vibronic details of absorption spectra.

Bio: Renato Olarte is a PostDoc in the Stephan Sauer team. He deals with quantum computing algorithms in real IBM quantum computers : theory, error correction and chemistry applications. He likes dancing and philosophy too.