Loughborough University is one of the top research-led public universities in the United Kingdom, ranked in the top 10 in each of the most recent national league tables. It is renowned for the excellence and relevance of the research in various areas of natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, sport and health sciences. The website of the Loughborough University is https://www.lboro.ac.uk/
Loughborough’s Department of Physics is proud of its tradition of leading research in condensed matter physics and quantum engineering. The recent core research themes include, but not limited by
DrAlexandreZagoskin(AZ) (Gender male) is a Reader in Quantum. He graduated magna cum laude from Kharkov State University (USSR) in 1980 and obtained his PhD in physics from the Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Engineering (Kharkov) in 1991. His experience includes work both in academia (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (Japan), University of British Columbia and University of Sherbrooke (Canada), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), Institute for Low Temperature Physics and Technology (USSR)) and industry (DWave Systems Inc., which AZ co-founded in 1999). In 2018 AZ was a Resident Fellow at Notre Dame Institute for Advanced Study (USA). AZ has authored over 100 research papers, mainly in high-impact journals, more than 20 US and EU patents and four books and book chapters, including the first monograph on quantum engineering (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and a textbook on quantum many-body theory (Springer, 1998; 2nd expanded edition, 2014), which was translated to Japanese (in 1999 and 2012) and reprinted in China (2008), and a popular science book “Quantum mechanics: A complete introduction (Hodder, 2015). AZ has experience supervising PhD students and PhD scientists.
AZ is one of the world’s leading experts in quantum theory of mesoscopic systems, including the theory of quantum information processing in superconducting structures. The research conducted by AZ and his collaborators resulted in the prediction or explanation of several effects (e.g., conductance oscillations in 3D point contacts, unusual Josephson effects in s-wave/d-wave Josephson junctions and restricted 2D Josephson junctions) and contributed to establishing the d-wave symmetry of superconducting order parameter in high- Tc superconductors. In the field of quantum engineering, the influential 2003 paper proposing qubit coupling through a nonlinear quantum bus strongly impacted the subsequent development of circuit quantum electrodynamics.
AZ has an outstanding record of successful collaborations with experimentalists: indicating for them new, promising directions of research. These have yielded such results as the continuous observation of Rabi oscillations in a flux qubit using a novel method (Rabi noise spectroscopy); observation of Landau-Zener tunnelling in a superconducting device; demonstration of quantum-optical phenomena in artificial atoms, which launched the research of circuit quantum electrodynamics in open transmission lines. The latter experiments were inspired by the pioneering proposal by AZ and co-authors of a novel class of artificial structures (quantum metamaterials).
The main research interests of AZ are currently in the field of developing quantum engineering, i.e. theory and design of macroscopic quantum coherent structures built from controllable “artificial atoms” (e.g., superconducting qubits) and making full use of their quantum properties. More specifically, it is the development of new theoretical approaches to characterization, design, simulation and optimization of extended quantum coherent structures, and applications of such structures to quantum imaging, sensing and communications.
Prof. Sergey Saveliev (SS) (Gender male), is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and Associate Dean (Research) of the School of Science at Loughborough University. He graduated cum laude from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute (Russia) in 1992 and obtained his PhD from the same institute in 1996. Until 1999 he was a research scientist at All-Russian Electrical Engineering Institute. In 1999-2002 SS was a Research Fellow at University of Tsukuba (Japan), and in 2002-2006 a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) (Japan). Since 2006 SS is employed at the Department of Physics, Loughborough University.
SS is a world class expert on quantum theory of metamaterials, memristors, neuromorphic nanodevices, NEMS and MEMS, THz superconducting electronics, and novel materials. His interests also include quantum computing, molecular rotors and interdisciplinary areas (such as psycho- and econophysics). SS published over 200 articles, a number of which in the top-impact journals, and has a patent, He successfully supervised postdocs and PhD students. SS has a worldwide collaborative network including researchers from top research institutions and universities in Japan, USA, EU and UK. SS and AZ closely and successfully collaborate in areas of their common interest for over a decade.
Dr. Alexander Balanov (AB) (Gender male) is a Senior Lecturer in Physics and Head of the Department of Physics at Loughborough University. He received his MSc (Physics) cum laude (1995) and PhD (Physics) (2000) from Saratov State University (Russia). He worked as a researcher at Saratov State (1995-2000), Lancaster University (UK, 200-2003), Technical University Berlin (Germany, 2003-2005) and University of Nottingham (UK, 2005-2007). Since 2007 AB is a Lecturer (since 2013 Senior Lecturer) at Loughborough University, Department of Physics. AB also has had several honorary visiting positions. AB’s research interests lie in the field of nonlinear and stochastic phenomena in physics, engineering and biology; in particular, nonlinear dynamics of classical and quantum systems. His current research interests focus on dynamical complexity and its control in quantum systems, solid state structures, and on THz applications of semiconductor nanostructures. AB has more than 200 peer reviewed publications, 4 book chapters and a book (A.G. Balanov, N.B. Janson, D.E. Postnov, and O. Sosnovtseva, “Synchronization: from simple to complex”, Springer 2009, 426 pp.) He has supervised several PhD students and postdoctoral researchers.
Patrick Navez (PN) (Gender male) is a Senior Researcher who obtained his PhD in Physics in 1995 at Université Catholique de Louvain. He worked in many universities and research centers across the Europe (Germany, Italy, England, Belgium, Greece, France, Austria) and in Canada.
Among many research topics during his career, he is currently focused on the following topics:
Quantum electrodynamic description of superconducting qubit array embedded in a microwave cavity
Development of a new many bodies approach for describing quantum lattice systems: Bose-Hubbard, Fermi-Hubbard, Heisenberg magnet models. It is based on the large coordination number expansion and allows to describe the quantum correlations existing in many physical systems (quantum phase transition, superconductivity, qu-bits, ….).
Better understanding the physical origin of superfluidity: why perpetual motion without friction exists in nature like liquid Helium, superconductivity, ultra-cold gas.
SQUIDs used as an accelerometer.
PN has more than 40 peer-reviewed publications in fields above.
Description of any significant infrastructure and/or any major items of technical equipment, relevant to theproposed work
Loughborough University has the High-Performance Computing service, a parallel computing cluster with 161 compute nodes, each having two six-core Intel Westmere Xeon X5650, reserved for research use. It provides powerful means for numerical simulation of multiqubit structures, essential for this project.
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The project SUPERGALAX celebrates the International Day on Women in Science!
Dr. Alice Meda
Researcher, participant of the SUPERGALAX project from the INRIM Team (Italy)
The
National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) is
the Italian research agency dedicated to the study of the fundamental
constituents of matter and the laws that govern them, under the
supervision of the Ministry of Education, Universities and Research
(MIUR). It conducts theoretical and experimental research in the
fields of subnuclear, nuclear and astroparticle physics. All of the
INFN’s research activities are undertaken within a framework of
international competition, in close collaboration with Italian
universities on the basis of solid academic partnerships spanning
decades. Fundamental research in these areas requires the use of
cutting-edge technology and instruments, developed by the INFN at its
own laboratories and in collaboration with industries. Groups from
the Universities of Rome, Padua, Turin, and Milan founded the INFN on
8thAugust 1951 to uphold and develop the scientific tradition
established during the 1930s by Enrico Fermi and his school, with
their theoretical and experimental research in nuclear physics. In
the latter half of the 1950s the INFN designed and built the first
Italian accelerator, the electron synchrotron developed in Frascati,
where its first national laboratory, LNF, was set up. During the same
period, the INFN began to participate in research into the
construction and use of ever-more powerful accelerators being
conducted by CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, in
Geneva. Today the INFN employs some 5,000 scientists whose work is
recognised internationally not only for their contribution to various
European laboratories, but also to numerous research centres
worldwide.
Website
of the National
Institute for Nuclear Physics: www.infn.it
Website
of the National Laboratory of Frascati (LNF): www.lnf.infn.it
Claudio
Gatti obtained his degree in Physics at Rome University “La
Sapienza” and the Ph.D. in Physics at Pisa University in 2003. He
is staff researcher at Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati (LNF) of INFN
the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics. His background is in
experimental Particle Physics. He collaborated with the KLOE and
ATLAS experiments. In ATLAS he was the Analysis Coordinator of the
Italian Community. He is now Local Coordinator of the LNF unit of
QUAX,
an INFN funded experiment searching for galactic axions. Recently, he
proposed a new experiment, KLASH, a large haloscope for
galactic-axion searches in the mass range 0.3-1 meV.
He is main proposer and National Coordinator of SIMP, an INFN funded
project aiming at detecting single microwave photons in experiments
for axion searches. He has been supervisor of several students for
their Laurea thesis, signed more than 700 referred papers and has
h-index 74.
Dr.
Carlo Ligi (gender male)
Physicist,
cryogenic engineer – Master degree in astrophysics (Univ. of Roma
Tre, Rome, 1999). Staff member of the cryogenic service of the
Accelerator Division at the Frascati Laboratories (INFN) since 2001.
Expert
on ultralow temperatures and cooling with dilution refrigerators. He
has been the cryogenic responsible of the RAP experiment (INFN-LNF),
head of the cryogenic group of the Super-B factory and responsible of
the wiring task in the cryogenic group of CUORE (INFN-LNGS), where he
also worked at the commissioning of the Dilution Refrigerator. Beside
this activity, he also worked on magnetic design of the steering
magnets for the SPARC accelerator and for the preliminary design of
the main dipoles of the DAFNE-2 projects. He participate to QUAX and
SIMP projects and is one of the proposer of KLASH. He published about
140 papers on international journals and conference proceedings.
Dr
Daniele Di Gioacchino (gender male)
Physicist
in Condensed Matter Physics (Univ.‘Sapienza’of Roma, 1984).
Permanent position as a staff scientist at the INFN-LNF in Research
Division since 1989. Expert in superconductivity, magnetism. He uses
‘He
liquid’
cryostats with superconducting magnets technique. Performed
researches devoted to realize superconducting accelerating bulk/thin
film cavities in Nb, NbZr and Nb3Sn, studied RF losses of
superconducting materials and realized Josephson junctions. He has
produced different gradiometers to measure the multi-harmonic A.C.
magnetic susceptibility as a function of the temperature, DC magnetic
field, AC frequencies using flux liquid helium cryostats to evaluate
flux dynamics (flux pinning states, flux flow) of superconducting
phases, moreover, it has also developed inserts for the electric
transport characterization of materials and devices in function of
the electric current and temperature in the high magnetic field. It
has been a ’national responsible’ of some INFN projects approved
by the National Commission V of the INFN named ‘PRESS-MAG-O’
(2005-2008), ‘MUEXC’ (2009-2012) and ‘SQUARE-1’ (2014-2015).
Since 2007, he has been responsible of a cryogenic laboratory for
magnetic characterization named ‘LAMPS’ in 2012 now merged into a
new cryogenic laboratory (COLD, cryogenic laboratory for detectors).
He
studied the possibility of producing a micro-magnetic SQUID
gradiometer with x-y-z-θ
movement to mapping magnetic microstructures in SNS superconducting
arrays between Nb micrometric islands, for future particle new
detectors. He has some publications on high IF magazines. He
collaborates to QUAX and SIMP and is one of the proposer of KLASH.
He
published about 150 papers on international journals and conference
proceedings.
Dr
David Alesini (gender male)
David
Alesini got is PhD in “Applied Electromagnetism and
Electro-physical science” at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”
in 2003 with a dissertation on “Beam Control and Manipulation with
Microwave Devices in Particle Accelerators”.
He
his staff of the Accelerator Division at LNF-INFN in Frascati where
his is head of the “Vacuum group” since 2009. Since 18 years he
is working on physics and technology of particle accelerators and, in
particular, on beam dynamics, beam coupling impedances, accelerators
operation, RF structures design, realization and test such as
injection/extraction kickers, RF deflectors and accelerating
structures.
He
proposed and designed several new devices now in operation in
different particle accelerators (CTF3 at CERN, DAFNE and SPARC at
LNF-INFN, FERMI in Trieste, PSI in Switzerland, Pegasus Lab at UCLA
in Los Angeles).
He
has been involved, mainly, in the INFN projects DAΦNE and SPARC at
LNF and CTF3 project at CERN. He has been Deputy Responsible of the
operation of the DAΦNE collider from 2006 to 2009 and, in the
framework of the ELI-NP Gamma Beam System, in construction in
Magurele (Bucharest, Romania), he is now responsible of the work
package on RF structures and LINAC Deputy Machine Leader.
In
2016 joined the QUAX project on axion research working in particular
on radiofrequency cavities for axion detection. He participate to the
SIMP project and is one of the proposer of KLASH.
In
the framework of the project AMICI oriented on technology transfer
and financed by the European Community (Call Horizon 2020 H2020
INFRAINNOV-2016-2017) he is the responsible of the work task on
“Identify existing good practises, and barriers to effective
engagement, between Industry and the Technological Infrastructures”.
He
published about 200 papers on international journals and conference
proceedings.
Dr. Giuseppe Ruoso
(gender male)
Giuseppe Ruoso is an
experimental physicist which activity in mainly dedicated to the
study of the quantum vacuum and the search for axions. He got his
Master Degree at the University of Trieste in 1991 with a laboratory
search for axion like particles by using optical techniques. In 1995
he received his PhD from the University of Padova by devising an
apparatus to study the magnetic birefringence of the vacuum as
predicted by Quantum Electrodynamics. After several years of postdoc
fellows with different institutions, he is a researcher of the
Laboratori Nazionali di Legnaro of INFN (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica
Nucleare) since 2002. His main achievements include the first and
only measurement of the Casimir effect in the plane parallel
configuration, improved limits on the coupling of the axion with the
photons, the best limit on the neutrality of matter (electron –
proton charge asymmetry), first realization of a cryogenic optical
frequency standard.
Currently he is
involved with the experiment QUAX for the search of dark matter axion
by exploiting the axion electron coupling, and with the experiment
PVLAS for the measurement of the magnetic birefringence of the
vacuum.
Dr. Giovanni
Carugno (gender male)
Giovanni Carugno
is an experimental physicist which activity in mainly dedicated to
the study of the quantum vacuum and the search for axions. He got his
Master Degree at the University of Roma “ La Sapienza” in 1986
with a laboratory search for heavy neutrino decay made at Cern and
Brokhaven National lab. In 1987 he received a fellowship from CERN
working on UA1 and ICARUS detectors mainly devoted to the study of
room temperature and cryogenic temperature detectors based on Liquid
TMP and Liquid Argon under the supervison of Prof C. Rubbia and M.
Ferroluzzi. Once researcher at INFN Padova Section he spend two years
at PSI as visitor scientist making an experiment on pion radiative
decay and one year at Cern and ENSPC in Paris with Professor Charpak
to develop a gamma camera for scintigraphic imaging purposes. Since
1990 is research at INFN Padova Section. His main achievements
include the first and only measurement of the Casimir effect in the
plane parallel configuration, improved limits on the coupling of the
axion with the photons, the best limit on the neutrality of matter
(electron – proton charge asymmetry), many detectors
realization for high energy physics investigations.
Currently he is involved
with the experiment QUAX for the search of dark matter axion by
exploiting the axion electron coupling, and with the experiment
Demiurgos for the measurement of very small energy release in matter.
Description
of significant
infrastructure
and
major items
of technical
equipment,
relevant
to
theSUPERGALAX
project
The
research team setup up a cryogenic laboratory (COLD, CryOgenic
Laboratory for Detectors) combining the experiences in
supeconductivity, cryogenics, bolometers, radiofrequency and particle
physics available at LNF, with the main focus on light dark matter
detection such as axions. The COLD laboratory is equipped with:
Vector Network Analyser up to 20 GHz (VNA up to 100 GHz are available
at the radiofrequency group of LNF); signal generators; low noise
amplifiers; low temperature thermomethers and gaussmeters with
readout electronics. LNF
acquired a dilution refrigerator-based cryogen-free cryostat, capable
to cool samples down to 8 mK and with a cooling power of 0.6 mW at
100 mK. The cryostat feature also a fast-insertion tube and has an
experimental space with dimensions d=500 mm and h=500 mm. It can host
a SC magnet to generate a magnetic field of ~10 T. Its delivery is
expected in spring 2019. In
this laboratory are present other cryostats: first, with temperature
control via a cold He flux from liquid helium. There are possible
different set-ups with 300K-4.2K temperature range, is present a NbTi
superconducting magnet with 0-8Tesla DC magnetic field amplitude,
experimental cylinder volume is 600cm3;
second, with manual dipping temperature control in liquid He bath in
the 300K-4.2K range, the experimental cylinder volume is 2400cm3;
third, a portable cryostat in 4.2K liquid He bath with 4 windows, to
radiation test experiments on electron DAFNE-Beam Test Facility (BTF)
line or UV-IR radiation. In particular, there are operative other
cryogenic systems for magnetic characterization and transport
properties to test materials and devices: 1) low frequency
AC multi-harmonic magnetic susceptibility in function of f(Hz),
Hac(Gauss),
Hdc(Tesla),
T(K); 2) AC and DC electrical resistance in function of T(K),
Hdc(Tesla);
3) I-V characteristics versus of T(K), Hdc(Tesla).
The group has experience in simulation of microwave systems in
particular with the ASNYS HFSS code available at LNF.
The
LNL Laboratory of INFN in Padova spans over different activities so
it is well standard equippement as high vacuum pumping systems and
vacuum chambers, two diluition refrigerator units, 5 liquid helium
dewar of different sizes. We cover a large range of EM frequency from
low frequency where we routinely operate a SQUID system up to
Microwave range with cryogenic electronic up to 40 GHz. We have 3
optical tables where we operate 10 laser system in CW mode covering
the frequency from 190 nm up to 1100 nm almost countinously with a
bandwidth of 100 MHz and we have 1 laser operating at fs pulse regime
with a rep. rate of 80 MHz and 2 psec laser operating at GHz rate
with pulses within a psec range. To make systematic study on
radiation matter interaction two electron guns at 100 Kev and
milliamp current are under our control.
The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
(KIT) is a public research university and one of the largest research
and education institutions in Germany. KIT is one of the leading
universities in the Engineering and Natural Sciences in Europe,
ranking sixth overall in citation impact. As part of the German
Universities Excellence Initiative KIT was accredited with the
excellence status in 2006. In the 2011, performance ranking of
scientific papers, Karlsruhe ranked first in Germany and among the
top ten universities in Europe in engineering and natural sciences.
The KIT partner group have
internationally established expertise in the field of experimental
low-temperature physics. During the last decade, the KIT group led
by Prof. A. Ustinov (PI) have focused on the investigation of
quantum-coherent dynamics of superconducting phase qubits, flux
qubits and transmons. They were first to demonstrate frequency
domain multiplexing readout of superconducting qubits back in 2011 -a
crucial step towards scalable quantum architecture. Another visible
and internationally established expertise of the KIT group is in
coherent manipulation of microscopic two-level defects in
superconducting qubits. More recent work relevant for this proposal
is the first implementation of a quantum metamaterial using 20
superconducting flux qubits.
Prof. Dr. Alexey
Ustinov
(Gender male), a principal investigator for the group, has been in
professor at KIT since 2008. His major field is experimental research
on superconducting quantum circuits. Alexey Ustinov and his group
have an internationally established expertise in the field of
experimental low-temperature physics, nonlinear dynamics of Josephson
junctions and arrays, high-frequency experiments with superconducting
devices, studies of macroscopic quantum effects in these structures,
and superconducting metamaterials. Alexey Ustinov has published over
300 papers in peer reviewed journals receiving over 5000 citations,
and has an h-index of 39. The research of his group has been funded
over the past years by the German Science Foundation (DFG),
Volkswagen Foundation, various funding programs from USA, Russia, and
the EU.
Description
of significant
infrastructure
and
major items
of technical
equipment,
relevant
to
theSUPERGALAX
project
The KIT partner group have
internationally established expertise in the field of experimental
low-temperature physics. During the last decade, the KIT group led
by Prof. A. Ustinov (PI) have focused on the investigation of
quantum-coherent dynamics of superconducting phase qubits, flux
qubits and transmons. They were first to demonstrate frequency
domain multiplexing readout of superconducting qubits back in 2011 -a
crucial step towards scalable quantum architecture. Another visible
and internationally established expertise of the KIT group is in
coherent manipulation of microscopic two-level defects in
superconducting qubits. More recent work relevant for this proposal
is the first implementation of a quantum metamaterial using 20
superconducting flux qubits.
The research team will
have all required infrastructure for the project. For sample
fabrication, we will use state-of-the-art clean room facilities that
are provided by the Nanostructure Service Laboratory (NSL) at KIT.
The NSL provides equipment for the fabrication and characterization
of nanostructures and operates an almost 210 m² clean room of ISO
classes 6 and 7. The large pieces of equipment (EBL, FIB, SEM) are
operated by skilled scientists and technicians who are also
responsible for providing introductory and training courses, for
supporting the users, equipment maintenance and NSL management. For a
sustained operation a usage fee is charged to the users to cover the
project-specific usage costs of clean room (monthly flat charge) and
equipment (hourly rate). At NSL we have full access to 50 kV
professional Jeol e-beam lithography system, multi-target Plassys
evaporation chamber that is ideal for shadow evaporation of qubit
Josephson junctions, wet benches, hot plates, reactive ion etching,
etc. At Physikalisches Institut of KIT, we have available optical
microscopes, bonding machines, resistance probe station to quickly
verify the parameters of custom-fabricated samples, in conjunction
with test measurements down to 300 mK temperature using two He3
cryostats. The group disposes of 4 dilution refrigerators which are
all equipped with GHz-bandwidth signal lines, magnetic shielding and
filters necessary for measurements of superconducting circuits
operated in the coherent quantum regime at millikelvin temperatures.
One of these cryostats (dry BlueFors BF-LD250) will accommodate
measurements for this project. This dilution cryostat is already
equipped with most of electronics to perform the described microwave
domain experiments. Most of the high-frequency devices are readily
available, including a vector network analyzer. The Physikalisches
Institut of KIT maintains a mechanical workshop capable of modifying
the existing and manufacturing new sample holders that we require for
this project. The employed low-noise electronics for timed triggering
of generators and data acquisition devices are custom-designed by the
group together with the electronic workshop of the Physikalisches
Institut. The institute’s helium liquefier station ensures the
constant availability of the cryogenic liquids required to operate
the dilution refrigerators.
The Italy’s National
Metrology Institute
(INRIM)
is the national metrology institute of Italy with the task of
carrying out and promoting scientific research in metrology, new
technologies and materials. INRIM carries out studies and researches
on the realisation of primary standards for the basic and derived
units of the International System of units (SI), assures the
maintenance of such standards, and, in addition, its main R&D
areas are in fundamental physical constants, materials,
nanotechnology and quantum information. Research on nanoscience and
materials is carried out at INRIM from both fundamental and
technological perspectives. Nanoscience explores matter behaviour on
scales of the same order of atomic and molecular sizes (from 1 to 100
nanometres), where the physical properties are totally different from
those on micro- and macroscopic scales, since phenomena are
controlled by quantum physics. Aiming to promote new techniques in
the area of metrology, sensing and imaging, unique measuring methods
are investigated that can go beyond the boundaries of the classical
systems using the specific characteristics of the optical quantum
states, as, in particular, the correlations linked to the state of
entanglement.
Website of the
Italy’s National
Metrology Institute: www.inrim.it
Researches
involved in the SUPERGALAX project
Giorgio
Brida
(Gender Male) is a Senior Researcher at INRiM. He graduated in
Electronic Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino in 1991, and he
received the Ph.D. degree in Metrology, from the Politecnico di
Torino in 1996. Since 1995 he is a staff researcher at IEN Galileo
Ferraris (INRiM from 2006) where he started his activity on classical
radiometry with cryogenic radiometer for the absolute spectral
responsivity calibration of photodetectors. His main field of
activity is the design of Silicon photodiodes with predictable
spectral responsivity, the characterization of single photon
detectors (SPAD, TES, SSPD e CCD) and single photon sources (SPS),
parametric down-conversion in non-linear crystals and color center in
diamonds. He is responsible for maintaining and disseminating the
optical primary standard scale of radiant power and spectral
responsivity. His current research interests includes the
metrological traceability from classical radiometry to SPS, quantum
enhanced measurement techniques and characterization of novel
nanophotonic devices. Since 2007 he contributed as Work-Package
Leader to the several European Metrology Research Project (EMRP):
qu-Candela,
Newstar,
SIQUTE,
MIQC,
MIQC2
and PhotoLED.
Alice Meda
(Gender Female) is a Research at INRiM. She graduated in Physics at
the Università degli Studi di Torino in 2003; she received the Ph.D.
degree in
Metrology, from the Politecnico di Torino in 2007. Her
most recent works regard, on the one side, the realization of
protocols in which one of two correlated beams (twin beams or thermal
light) is addressed to a target (a beam splitter or a faint object)
and the other will be used as an ancilla. She applied the idea to
different protocols: Sub Shot Noise quantum imaging, Ghost Imaging
and dynamics of Gaussian states. On the other side, her research
activity is devoted to the realization of a QKD Italian backbone for
the realization of a point-to-point QKD link between Torino and
Firenze and to the analysis of side channel attacks in QKD protocols.
Until March 2015,
she was the principal investigator of the Torino Research Unit for
the Italian three year project “FIRB 2010 -Futuro in Ricerca”
Light correlations for high precision innovative sensing (LICHIS) for
the design and development of innovative, high precision measurement
schemes based on the correlations (classical and entanglement)
existing between two or more beams of light. She has provided
important contribution to European projects (QuCandela, BRISQ2,
SIQUTE, MIQC, MIQC2) for quantum metrology, quantum communication and
quantum information technologies.
Emanuele Enrico
(Gender Male) is a Researcher at INRiM. He graduated in Physics of
Advanced Technologies in 2008 (Università degli Studi di Torino). In
2012 he obtained a Ph.D. in Metrology (Politecnico di Torino). From
2010 to 2016 he has been Technical Assistant for the Research
Institutions at the Italian National Institute of Metrological
Research (INRiM). In the former institution he has was responsible
for the realization of quantum devices based on nanostructured thin
film technologies with applications in sensors, quantum metrology and
the nano-photonics.
He has been guest researcher at the
National Enterprise for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (NEST) of the
Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa Italy, where he developed a reference
sample device for the generation of quantized electric current. To
date he is the author of 56 articles published in international
journals. E.E. has been invited speaker at numerous national and
international conferences,
he is referee for international journals, and has been tutors of many
under graduated and PhD students.
Since 2011, E.E. participates in 15
European and national projects as an expert partner in
nanofabrication for thin film devices and life science. He has been
workpackage leader of the “Fabrication” WP in the EMRP 2012
Microphoton project and “Impact” WP in EMPIR 2017 ParaWave. He
has been PI for 3 beamline projects at the ESRF (Grenoble) and for 1
NanoSIMS (Open University, UK) project in the framework of the
Europlanet 2020.
Dr. Mauro Rajteri
(Gender Male) is an Electronic Engineer (Politecnico di Torino, 1990)
with a PhD in Physics (Politecnico di Torino, 1996). From 1999 he is
a researcher at INRIM. His main fields of research are
superconducting materials and devices in particular as light
detectors from UV to IR. He is responsible of the laboratory on
“Innovative cryogenic devices”. During his activity, he developed
skills on measurement of superconducting materials and devices at
cryogenic temperatures. In the last years the research has been
focalized on the development of transition-edge sensors (TESs),
microcalorimeters with photon-number resolving capability operated in
a 3 He/ 4 He dilution refrigerator and in an Adiabatic
Demagnetization Refrigerator. He carried out activity on the optical
characterization of materials (by spectrophotometry and ellipsometry)
and antireflection coatings. He has been involved in research
projects for the Italian Space Agency ASI on superconductive
photodetectors and in many research project within the EC 7th
programme ERANET-plus and EMPR. He has been the coordinator of the
Piedmont Region research project E45 “Superconducting
transition-edge sensors for single photon counting” (2006-2009),
and “Evaluation of photon statistics with photon number resolving
detectors and correlated photon pair sources” Joint Projects for
the exchange of researchers within the Executive Programme
Italy-Japan 2009-2012). He has been responsible of the workpackage
“Optimised novel materials for high performance NEMS”, for the
European project EMRP-NEW08 “Metrology with/for NEMS (MetNEMS)”
(2012-2015).
He is the author of
more than 70 papers on international peer reviewed journals, he is
referee for international journals,
and has been tutors of
many under graduated and PhD students.
Description
of significant
infrastructure
and
major items
of technical
equipment
of the INRIM, relevant
to
theSUPERGALAX
project
The research team has
a long time experience in fabrication of thin film devices based on
NV color centers, Coulombic devices, Josephson junctions and
superconducting nanonwires. The research team has all necessary
technological equipment for a full cycle device fabrication starting
from photo mask realization up to final assembling of chips on chip
carrier:
Clean room facilities;
Variable-pressure Electron Beam
Lithography in a modified SEM-FIB – FEI Quanta3D FEG (beam up to 30
kV)
Laser writer system
for laser beam photolithography Heidlberg uPG-101;
Chemical hoods and storages for resist
preparation and development (spinner, hot-plate)
Chemical hood for lift-off processes
(ultrasonic bath)
Multi-pocket (6x,4cc) high vacuum
electron beam evaporator for high quality ultra-thin film (4->250
nm) deposition (normal metals and superconductors). Load-lock
equipped with ion milling system (Ar, O2 – Telemark XIAD 1kV) for
substrate cleaning and controlled gas inlet for tunnel junctions’
realization. Tiltable sample holder.
Ultra high vacuum
dc-magnetron multi target (Nb, Al) deposition system equipped with
load-look chamber.
Vacuum deposition
system for thermal evaporation of metallic (Cr, Au) thin films;
Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapour
Deposition (PECVD) for the growth of SiO2
dielectric films
Reactive Ion Etching with Ar, CF4,
O2
gases
Plasma Matrix (bDiscom) cleaner, N2,
Ar and O2
gases for resist descum and substrate cleaning
Wedge bonder, Al wire. Bump bonding and
ball bonding (Au) capabilities.
Wafer dicing: diamond scriber
Alpha Step Profilometer for thickness
step-height evaluation
Ellipsometer for dielectric thickness
evaluation
Optical microscope
The group has an
experience in experiments at ultra-low temperatures. The group is
equipped by
The
Ruhr-University Bochum (RUB) is one of the largest public
universities in Germany. The RUB is the university renowned on the
international scale by the fundamental research in material science
and quantum physics, as well as multidisciplinary applied research in
modern quantum electronics. The RUB group of the project is a part of
Institut für Theoretische Physics III (TP III) of the RUB. The
researchers of TP III have obtained over the last decades a large
number of fundamental scientific results in the field of
superconductivity, quantum many body theory, quantum physics of
low-dimensional systems, e.g. graphene, topological insulators.
The
RUB partner group (Prof. Ilya Eremin (PI) and Dr. Mikhail Fistul) has
a long established expertise in a theoretical study of coherent
quantum phenomena in various metallic, magnetic, semiconducting and
superconducting nanostructures under equilibrium or non-equilibrium
conditions. Last several years the RUB group has also concentrated on
the number of projects related to the analysis of the proximity
effects in heterostructures containing magnets and superconductors,
analyzed the properties of unconventional superconductors, studied
unconventional methods of quantum computing, i.e. Majorana fermions
or skyrmions.
Prof. Dr. Ilya M.
Eremin
(Gender male), was born in 1974 in Kazan, Russia. In 1996 he was
graduated in Physics from the Kazan University, Russia. After
obtaining his Ph.D. in Russian Federation at one of the leading
universities Kazan Federal (State) University in 1999 in the area of
Theoretical and Mathematical Physics, he moved to Germany first as
Alexander von Humboldt fellow with Karl Bennemann from the Free
University of Berlin and later as a long-term post-doctoral research
associate (Wi.Mi.) in the group of Felix von Oppen. In February 2005
he joined the Max-Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems in
Dresden (joint offer with TU Braunschweig) as a junior-professor. In
April 2010 he was appointed as a W2 Professor (tenured Associate
Professor) in Theoretical Physics (Condensed Matter theory) at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum. In January 2020 he was promoted to the full
(chair) professorship in Condensed Matter Theory at the
Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
The main scientific
interests
lie in the field of quantum many-body effects in application to solid
state systems both analytically and numerically. To be more precise
he is interested in the theoretical investigation of collective
effects in novel materials like strongly correlated low-dimensional
electronic, topologically non-trivial and magnetic systems. It
includes unconventional superconductivity phenomena, exotic
collective excitations in geometrically frustrated systems and their
topological properties, and application of these effects for novel
spintronics quantum computing devices as well as the effects out of
equilibrium. In his research, he is using modern methods of
theoretical physics, ranging from numerically based modeling
including the electronic corrections, and density matrix approaches
for non-equilibrium systems as well as more analytical quantum field
theory methods for effective theories including the renormalization
group and exactly solvable models.
Overall, he published
more than 150 research papers in the refereed journals such as
Physical Review B, Physical Review Letters, Nature, Nature
Communications, Nature Physics, New Journal of Physics, Europhysics
Letters and so on. He has established the research group at
Ruhr-University in Bochum. Presently he is supervising several Ph.D.
students (Dipl.-Phys. Jakob Böker, started Autumn 2016, Dipl.-Phys.
Dustin Altenfeld, started in 2014, Dipl. Phys. Fabian Lambert,
started in 2015, Dipl.-Phys. Marvin Müller, started in 2017, Samme
Dahir, started in 2018), and several Bachelor and Master students.
His current h-index is 39 (Google Scholar), 31 (WoS).
Dr. Mikhail V.
Fistul
(Gender male), was born in 1959 in Moscow, Russia. In 1981 he was
graduated from the Department of Theoretical Physics of Moscow Steel
and Alloys Institute (MISiS). In 1984 Dr. Mikhail Fistul has received
his Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the MISIS,
Russia. His scientific adviser was prominent Russian physicist Prof.
Lev Aslamazov. In 1984-1991 Mikhail Fistul kept various research
positions (Junior Researcher, Senior Researcher) at MISIS. From
1991-1997 he worked as the Research Associate at Purdue University,
IN USA. In 1998-2000 he worked at the University Erlangen- Nürnberg
as the recipient of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Up to now Dr. Mikhail Fistul kept various research/teaching
positions: 2000-2002-Research Associate, Max-Planck Institute for
Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden; 2002-2004- Visiting Professor,
University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen Germany; 2004-2016-
Researcher, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum (Germany), 2017- Research
Fellow, Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, Institute
for Basic Science (IBS), Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
In January 2019
Mikhail Fistul was appointed as a Professor in NanoScience at the
University of Science and Technology, Daejeon, Republic of Korea.
Mikhail Fistul has published more than 110 papers in leading
scientific journals, i.e. Nature (2), Nature Communications (3), ASC
Nano (1), Physical Review Letters (9), etc., his h-index is 26
(Google Scholar), 23 (WoS). He has given more than 80 talks on
various international conferences, workshops and seminars. Mikhail
Fistul was a scientific organizer of an international workshop
“Quantum effects in systems of nanocrystals (QEAN)” at the Lorenz
Center, Netherlands. He serves for many years as a referee for top
physical journals, i.e. Physical Review Letters, Physical Review
B(E), Journal of Physics, etc.
During his scientific
carrier Dr. Mikhail Fistul taught the advanced courses at University
Erlangen-Nuernberg (Erlangen,Germany), NUST MISiS (Moscow, Russia),
IBS PCS Daejeon (South Korea), namely, Physics
of Superconductors, Quantum phenomena in mesoscopic solid-state
systems, Introduction in solid state quantum computing, Spintronics,
Physical principles of quantum information and macroscopic quantum
phenomena, Superconducting circuits and qubits. These
courses were intended for graduate students specialized in
solid-state physics, quantum information. Dr. Mikhail Fistul has been
a co-adviser of Ph. D. students at various universities, e.g. Dr.
Alex Tartakovskii, (1990, NUST MISiS ) and Dr. N. Maleeva (2015, NUST
MISiS), Dr. M. Iontsev (2020, NUST MISiS), Dr. Samir Rajan, (1996,
Purdue University USA), Dr. A. Miroshnichenko (2001, MPI PCS Dresden
Germany), Dr. A. Kemp and Dr. M. Shuster (2004, University
Erlangen-Nuernberg, Erlangen Germany), Dr. S. Syzranov (2009, RUB,
Bochum Germany) and Dipl.-Phys. P. Volkov (2014, RUB , Bochum
Germany).
For his research on
the classical nonlinear and macroscopic quantum properties of
disordered interacting Josephson junctions Dr. Mikhail Fistul was
awarded the First National Award for Young Researchers (Russia-1986),
Humboldt Research Fellowship (Germany, 1998 and 2002), Professorship
through the “INNOVATEC” program in the field of
nanoscience (Germany, 2002) and the Merkator Professorship (Germany,
2004). He was a principal investigator of an international research
project “Quantum synchronization in systems of interacting
Josephson junctions” (Ministry of Education and Science, Russia
2013-2014). In 2016 he was a Visiting Professor, Project: “Collective
quantum coherent phenomena in superconducting quantum metamaterials”
(International Institute of Physics, Natal Brazil, 04-06.2016) and
Dr. Mikhail Fistul participated in international collaborative
projects “Collective phenomena in quantum matter” (NUST MISiS,
Russia 2014-2018), “Quantum metamaterials composed of
superconducting qubits” (Russian Quantum Center (RQC), 2016-2018).
The main scientific
interests of Dr. Mikhail Fistul are:
modelling and theoretical analysis of macroscopic coherent collective
quantum effects in systems of interacting superconducting qubits in
the presence of externally applied microwave radiation.
Areas of expertise
of Dr. Mikhail Fistul are:
the theoretical solid state physics, superconductivity, Josephson
junctions, and especially, the coherent quantum phenomena in the
transport of various (metallic, semiconducting, ferromagnetic and
superconducting) artificially prepared nanostructures.
Description
of significant
infrastructure
and
major items
of technical
equipment,
relevant
to
theSUPERGALAX
project
To implement the
theoretical part of the proposal in the field of detecting of low
power EWs with the network of interacting qubits (10-12 qubits) in
the presence of disorder and dissipation, the RUB science partner
will use the computer clusters already established at the TP III RUB:
several clusters of Titan X550 – Dual CPUs Intel Broadwell-EP Xeon
E5-2600 V4 Series Quad Tesla GPU Computing Server up to 44 Cores.
The National Research Council (CNR) is the largest public research institution in Italy, the only one under the Research Ministry performing multidisciplinary activities. Its structure include 7 scientific Departments among which the Department of Physical science and material technologies coordinates the physical-material area. The objectives of the Department include both the development of scientific thematic at the edge of knowledge and technological applications with significant economical outcomes. In the quantum science and technology field, the realization of devices for quantum sensing and information processing, with unmatchable characteristics, if compared to the classical systems has pivotal role.
The National Research Council (CNR) is the largest public research institution in Italy, the only one under the Research Ministry performing multidisciplinary activities. Its structure include 7 scientific Departments among which the Department of Physical science and material technologies coordinates the physical-material area. The objectives of the Department include both the development of scientific thematic at the edge of knowledge and technological applications with significant economical outcomes. In the quantum science and technology field, the realization of devices for quantum sensing and information processing, with unmatchable characteristics, if compared to the classical systems has pivotal role. Italian group of this project takes part of the Institute for superconductors, oxides and other innovative materials and devices (SPIN-CNR) of the CNR and the Institute of Nanoscience of the CNR (CNR-NANO). One of the main activities of the SPIN is micro/nano superconducting electronic devices (for quantum computation and other applications). The research activities of the CNR-NANO are centered on implementation of nanostructures and nanodevices. (for quantum computation and other applications). The CNR-ISASI has experience in measurements at very low temperatures down to millikelvin region to observe macroscopic quantum effects in Josephson devices and SQUIDs.
Researches
from the SPIN-CNR involved in the SUPERGALAX project
Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy –Project Coordinator-(Gender male), Italian Citizenship, was born in 1963 in Moscow, Russia, In 1986 he has graduated cum laude in Physics of Metals at the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute, Russia, and his Diploma has been declared equivalent to Italian Diploma in Physics. In 1991 Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy has received his Ph.D. in Physical and Mathematical Sciences from the Moscow Steel and Alloys Institute, Russia, which has been declared equivalent to Italian Doctor of Science. Academician, Prof. Alexey Abrikosov was a scientific supervisor of his Ph.D. activity. Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy is involved in the scientific activity since 1986, when his three years Ph. D. course begun, until now. After Ph. D. course, since 1989 he has continued his scientific activity at the Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (from 1991 – the Russian Academy of Sciences) of Moscow, Division of Physical Electronics, firstly as a permanent Researcher and from 1995 as a Senoir Researcher. Since 1997 till 2002 he has worked in Italy under different research grants and contracts of the National Institute for the Physics of Matter (INFM) and the Italian Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN). In 2002 he has become a Contract Researcher of the National Research Council (CNR) at the Institute of Cybernetics “Eduardo Caianiello” of the CNR. Since 2008, January 1, as a winner of the Italian public competition, he has received a permanent position of the National Research Council at the Institute of Cybernetics “Eduardo caianiello” of the CNR with qualification of Researcher. From January of 2014 till now Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy is a Researcher of the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices (acronym SPIN) of the National Research Council of Italy. Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy was a Scientific Supervisor of several graduate students and PhD students. Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy has published over 79 papers in peer reviewed journals and has an h-index of 13 (Google Scholar).
The main scientific interests of Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy are: Superconductivity, especially, weak superconductivity; physics of Josephson devices, such as radiation detectors, SQUID sensors and qubit; physics and technological aspects of the planar hybrid tunable THz metamaterial structures based on liquid crystal as tuning mechanism.
Actual scientific interests of Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy are: single X- and gamma –ray photon detector based on Josephson tunnel junction with trapped Abrikosov vortices; quantum coherence in Josephson devices including physics, material research and novel fabrication technologies for high coherence time superconducting qubits;
Areas of expertise of Dr. Mikhail Lisitskiy are: physics of detection mechanisms of nuclear (X – and gamma – rays, alpha particles) radiation based on Josephson tunnel junctions; fabrication techniques based on Al, Pb, Ta, Nb, and NbN as superconducting materials and AlOx, AlN and a-Si:H as insulation materials for realization of thin film superconducting devices including radiation detectors, SQUIDs, nano-SQUIDs, microwave lumped resonators and Josephson phase qubits; ultralow temperature charge –pulse measurements by 3He/4He-dilution refrigerator (up to 70 mK) of energy spectrum of X-ray and alpha-particle radiations by superconducting tunnel junction detectors; low temperature measurements (up to 4.2 K) of the transmissivity |S21| parameter of superconducting lumped LC resonators up to 40 GHz and experimental estimation of dielectric loss of insulation materials embedded in the resonators; ultralow temperature measurements by 3He/4He-dilution refrigerator (up to 20 mK) of Rabi oscillations and qubit spectroscopy of superconducting Josephson phase qubits.
Dr. MikkelEjrnaes (Gender male) was born the 1st November 1973 in AArhus (Denmark) and is now a permanent researcher at the National Research Counci (CNR) of Italy since 2009. From 2014 till now Dr. MikkelElrnaes is a Researcher of the Institute of Superconductors, Oxides and Other Innovative Materials and Devices (acronym SPIN) of the National Research Council. Dr. MikkelEjrnaes has co-authered 60 scientific publications and has an h-index of 12.
The scientific workMikkelEjrnaes has been focused on non-equilibrium phenomenon in superconducting nanostructures along with their physical properties and interaction with light, covering all aspects in this context e.g.:
-The role of the superconducting material from conventional strong-coupling to superconductor-ferromagnetic multilayers and high-temperature superconductors.
-The role of the connectivity of the superconductor on the nanoscale ranging from a simply connected region to advanced geometries exploiting parallel nanowires e.g. non-simply connected superconductors.
-Non-equilibrium phenomenon ranging from picosecond spontaneous fluctuations to the nanosecond dynamics of a moving normal-metal/superconductor phase boundary.
-Light – Superconductor interaction ranging from single photon detection with unconventional detectors design on the nanoscale to timing precision of the detection mechanism.
The areas of expertise of MikkelEjrnaes most relevant to this project are:
-Fabrication of nanoscale superconducting structures on a wide range of materials.
-Interaction of superconducting nanostructures with light.
-Extremely low noise cryogenic measurements.
-Advanced superconductor design, measurement techniques and data analysis for capturing and harvesting specific interesting physical effects.
-Experimental work with superconducting qubit structures.
Dr.Nassim Chikhi (Gender male)was born in Algiers, Algeria, in 1980. He received Engineer degree in electronicsspecialized in electronic instrumentation from University of science and technology HouariBoumediene (USTHB) Algiers, Algeria, in 2003. MSc of micro and nano technology from Liverpool University, UK, in 2008, and PhD in Novel Technologies for Materials, Sensors and Imaging from University of Naples “Federico II,” Naples, Italy in 2012.
From 2004 to 2009, research assistant at Centre for Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA) Algiers, Algeria. Working on neuronal network implementation on FPGA for ECG signal classification. Since 2009 focussed on Design, fabrication, and characterization of tunable& reconfigurable metamaterial based structures. From 2018, has a PostDoc position at the physics department of Naples University in collaboration with the CERN with main interest for the metamaterial as absorbers for trapped modes inside the collimators. From 2020 is a PostDoc of the SPIN-CNR in the SUERGALAX project.
Researches
from the CNR-NANO involved in the SUPERGALAX project
Marco Affronte (gender male) is Full Professor of Physics at University of Modena e Reggio Emilia (I) and senior associate member of CNR-NANO since 2006. After graduating in Physics (Laurea with full marks and honours at University of Florence I, 1987), he obtained his Ph.D. at EcolePolytechniqueFédérale de Lausanne (CH) in 1991 and worked at CNRS in Grenoble (F) in 1992 as Post Doc awarded by European Marie Curie individual fellowship. Since 2014. M.A. was Director of the PhD School in Physics and NanoScience at UNIMORE (2014-19). His background is on Solid State Physics and he worked on superconductivity, electronic transport and thermodynamic properties of materials, molecular magnetism. His interests are now focused on Nanomagnetism and Quantum Technologies in particular spintronics, graphene and on development of nano-devices and superconducting detectors working in quantum regime. M. A: was coordinator of 2 EU FET projects and member of the Steering Committee of several national and European projects. He serve(s/d) as project reviewer several National, EU and international agencies and member of evaluation panel for some of these (Eu-FET-ICT, French-ANR, Academy of Finland). Publications: more than 200 scientific articles, with more than 5800 citations, >50 invited/oral presentations at international conferences in last 10years and also to general public. (h-index=41WoS; ORCID ID: 0000-0001-5711-7822)
Alberto Ghirri (male, born in 1980, ORCID 0000-0001-7316-3765) is a permanent researcher at IstitutoNanoscienze – CNR in Modena, Italy. He has a background in experimental physics with more than 50 publications in international journals and h-index = 20. His studies are related to the fields of quantum magnetism,microwavesand hybrid quantum systems. In particular, he recently focused on the investigation of the coherent coupling between solid-states quantum systems, such as spin ensembles and semiconductor quantum dots, and microwave fields confined in a superconducting cavity.
Claudio Bonizzoni (male) obtained the PhD on Physics and Nanosciences (cum Laude) in 2018 at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. He was Post-Doctoral research fellow at the Department of Physics, Informatics and Mathematics in Modena in 2018 and 2019. He’s currently Post-Doctoral research fellow at IstitutoNanoscienze CNR in Modena. His main activity concerns spin qubits, investigation of coherent spin-photon coupling, superconducting resonant devices and spectroscopic techniques at microwave frequency and low temperatures. 9 publications (up to 2019. ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9649-2203).
Researches from the CNR-ISASI involved in the SUPERGALAX project
Dr. Berardo Ruggiero (Gender male), Italian Citizenship, was born on 1962 in Naples, Italy. He received the doctoral degree “cum laude” in Physics from the University “Federico II” of Naples, Italy, in 1988. Berardo Ruggiero has been researcher (1988-2001) and senior researcher (2002-2019) at the CNR-ISASI, where he is now Research Director and the Responsible of projects in the field of Science Quantum Technologies , as well as of cryogenic laboratory at low noise in the very low temperature region (1 K- 40 mK). He is the responsible of Scientific Projects between INFN Section Naples and ISASI CNR on Reduced graphene oxide on silicon-based structure as novel broadband photodetector (rGo-Photodetectors- 2020) and on Superconductivity Enhancement via Topology in Integrated Networks(SETIN – 2022). He has been responsible of Scientific European Projects on Nanotechnologies and national Projects on Superconducting Networks (FIRB, Commesse PRIN, Regione Campania L.41, and L.3.17, etc etc) as well as Commessa CNR “MIcro e Nano Dispositivi Strutturati per sensoristica superconduttiva e fotonica -MIND”, MD.P04.022 in CNR – Dipartimento Materiali e Dispositivi (2010-2013). B.R. is a member of “Consiglio di Istituto”(2019 up to now). B.R. has been contract professor in Physics at Department di Ingegneria of Università della Campania “Luigi vanvitelli” (from 2002 – 2017). He has also been the President of the Associazione MQC2 to enhance international scientific exchange in the fields of Physical Sciences, Mathematics and Natural sciences in general, with particular attention to modern physics, to quantum mechanics and to advanced computer science. The main scientific interests of Berardo Ruggiero can be characterized as the study (mainly experimental) of superconducting networks based on Josephson junctions and qubits. He has been member of the steering committee of International Workshops on Macroscopic Quantum Computing. In 2004 he has been co-author of the volume edited by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publisher, USA “Quantum Computing and Quantum Bits in Mesoscopic Systems” in particular with A.J. Leggett (2003 Physics Nobel Laureate). He is author of international volumes, more than 100 papers on referred journals. He is also author of national technogical patents and 130 contributions to international conferences.Actual scientific interests of Dr. Berardo Ruggiero are: Solid State Physics; Weak superconductivity based on the Josephson effect; Physics of Josephson devices, superconducting nanostructures, critical current fluctuations and electrodynamics of superconducting devices. Macroscopic quantum phenomena, Superconducting quantum bits, low noise measurements at ultra-low temperatures by using dilution refrigerators, dc and RF techniques.quantum coherence in Josephson devices including physics, material research and novel fabrication technologies for high coherence time superconducting qubits; Areas of expertise of Dr. Berardo Ruggiero are: macroscopic quantum coherence, quantum computing, superconducting qubits; transport properties in superconductor-based networks; phase dynamics in unconventional junctions,low temperature measurements (up to 4.2 K) ultralow temperature measurements by 3He/4He-dilution refrigerator (up to 20 mK) of Rabi oscillations and qubit spectroscopy of superconducting Josephson phase qubits.
Description of significant infrastructure and major items of technical equipment, relevant to the SUPERGALAX project
The research team has a long time experience in fabrication of thin film devices based on Josephson junctions and superconducting nanonwires. The research team has all necessary technological equipment for a full cycle device fabrication starting from photo mask realization up to final assembling of chips on chip carrier, namely:
Clean room facilities;
Laser writer system for laser beam photolithography Microtech LASERWRITER LW-2004;
Upgraded SEM FEI Quanta 600 adapted to electron beam with energy of 30 keV in modality of EBL (Electron Beam Lithography );
Laboratory of UV photolithography equipped by Karl Suss mask aligner, Standard Cost Effective Equipment Hotplate 1100;
High vacuum dc-magnetron multi target (Nb, Al, Si) deposition system equipped with a cryopump and with an additional load-look chamber. Both the RF source and the extractor ion source IQE 11/35 (SPECS Company, Germany) are mounted into the load-look chamber;
Vacuum deposition system Leybold for thermal evaporation both metallic (Pb, Au, Al) and insulation (SiO) thin films;
JUPITER II plasma system for reactive ion etching of thin films;
