Research Areas: Overview
Each PhD thesis relates to at least 2 out of the 4 initiating research groups. Thus to each project there will be a main supervisor, and associate supervisor from another Munich group and a partner abroad forming your individual QCCC-thesis advisory board.
Concrete examples of PhD projects include the following categories (upon application, you may express your preferences of interest in these fields):
1. Quantum Control and Experimental Realisation
joint projects of Prof. Glaser's and Prof. Cirac's group with partners
in Harvard, Innsbruck, Waterloo, Melbourne on optimal steerings of
quantum models on spin and pseudo-spin systems, Josephson elements, ion
traps, SQUIDs etc.
2. Quantum Information Theory and Multi-Party Entanglement
joint projects of Prof. Rempe's, Prof. Weinfurter's and Prof. Glaser's
group with partners in Madrid on entangled ordered systems.
3. Linear Optical Quantum Computation
joint projects of Prof. Rempe's, Prof. Weinfurter's and Prof. Cirac's
group with partners at Imperial College London and University of
Cambridge (UK) on optical quantum gates, state mapping, teleportation
and entanglement.
4. Controlling Individual Atoms in Cavities
joint projects of Prof. Rempe's and Prof. Weinfurter's group with
partners in Innsbruck, ICFO Barcelona, Imperial College London and
University of Cambridge on addressing single atoms in cavities.
5. Quantum Cryptography
joint project of Prof. Weinfurter's and Prof. Rempe's group with
partners in Geneva and Erlangen on prototypes for secure quantum
communication designed for industry production.