About QUINST

Quantum mechanics is at the heart of our technology and economy - the laser and the transistor are quantum devices - but its full potential is far from being realized. Recent technological advances in optics, nanoscience and engineering allow experimentalists to create artificial structures or put microscopic and mesoscopic systems under new manipulable conditions in which quantum phenomena play a fundamental role.

Quantum technologies exploit these effects with practical purposes. The objective of Quantum Science is to discover, study, and control quantum efects at a fundamental level. These are two sides of a virtuous circle: new technologies lead to the discovery and study of new phenomena that will lead to new technologies.

Our aim is  to control and understand quantum phenomena in a multidisciplinary intersection of  Quantum Information, Quantum optics and cold atoms, Quantum Control, Spintronics, Quantum metrology, Atom interferometry, Superconducting qubits and Circuit QED and Foundations of Quantum Mechanics.

QUINST is funded in part as a “Grupo Consolidado” from the Basque Government (IT472-10, IT986-16, IT1470-22)  and functions as a network of groups with their own funding, structure, and specific goals.  

Latest events

Prof Wolfgang Belzig (University of Konstanz/Germany)

When and where

05/10/2018, 12:00 - 00:00

Description

Prof Wolfgang Belzig (University of Konstanz/Germany)

WHEN: time:  5 October, 2018,   12:00 noon
WHERE: Salon de Grados, Fac. de Ciencias & Tecnologia


ABSTRACT

Topology is providing new insight into condensed matter physics problems. Concepts like Chern numbers and their relation to physical phenomena have become very familiar, but actually, key quantities like the quantum geometric tensor, which provides a much deeper information about quantum states, remain experimentally difficult to access. Recently it has been shown that multiterminal superconducting junctions constitute an ideal playground to mimic topological systems in a controlled manner. Here, we theoretically study the spectrum of Andreev bound states in topological Josephson matter and demonstrate that the full 
information of the quantum geometric tensor of the ground state manifold can be extracted with  the help of microwave spectroscopy. In particular, we develop the concept of artificially polarized microwaves, which can
be used to obtain both the quantum metric tensor and the Berry curvature. The quantized integrated absorption provides a direct evidence of topological quantum properties of the Andreev states.

Authors: Raffael Klees, Gianluca Rastelli, Juan Carlos Cuevas and Wolfgang Belzig