Post-doc position: quantum microwave to optics interface (M/F)

id="offer-description" class="ecl-u-type-heading-2 ecl-u-mt-none ecl-u-mb-l">Offer Description The agent will participate in the development of a device for the conversion and entanglement of microwave/optical fields. This project aims at developing a microwave-optical quantum interface to be used as a key element in future quantum technologies. Such an interface will for example permit long-distance transfer of microwave quantum information, which is not possible without conversion in the optical domain. The realization of this project will make possible the optically-mediated entanglement of distant microwave qubits (superconducting qubits or spin qubits). This will support the scalability and the connectivity of quantum-computing architectures by opening an interface between microwave qubits and silicon photonics. The main tasks of the agent will be to design, fabricate (clean room work) and characterize electro-opto-mechanical devices at cryogenic temperatures (tens of mK). The devices will be hybrid, composed of silicon substrates but also superconducting and piezoelectric materials. The agent will also be in charge of developing an experimental bench to carry out these measurements, in particular the optical part. The agent will be located at Institut Néel. It will be co-supervised by two permanent researchers. The Institut NEEL is one of the largest French national research institutes for fundamental research in condensed matter physics enriched by interdisciplinary ac