Fields of Research

The fields of research covered by the IMPRS encompass different areas of physics, chemistry, mathematics & computer science, and material science, organised in four specialist subjects:

1. Atomic Physics and Quantum Optics
2. Solid State Physics and Material Science
3. Quantum Information Theory
4. Quantum Many-Body Physics

  

There are common, overarching scientific lines of research that unite several of the above fields, including: 

• Light-matter interfaces: cavity QED, large Coulomb systems, single emitters, non-classical light, quantum networks, and quantum repeaters.
• Information processing: quantum circuits, quantum memories, NMR, error correction, channels, algorithms, tomography, quantum control, topological quantum computation, decoherence, open systems.
• Communication: cryptography, multipartite entanglement, quantum repeaters, protocols.
• Many-body systems: ultracold quantum gases, atoms in optical lattices, quantum phases of matter, topological matter, quantum transport, quantum simulation, disordered systems, numerical methods, non-equilibrium quantum dynamics, and tensor network techniques.
• Quantum technologies: nanofabrication, quantum chip design, optoelectronic systems, quantum sensing.