Department of Physics
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The Department of Physics heads NCCR SPIN for development of silicon-based quantum computer.
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9.1 million euros COFUND grant for 39 EUCOR PhD students in Quantum Physics

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23 Sep 2024 / Research, People

Daniel Loss to receive the 2024 Jan Czochralski Award

12 Sep 2024 / News, Research

Swiss Quantum Initiative: federal government to promote quantum research projects in Basel

10 Sep 2024 / People

Paolo Colciaghi wins SPS Award for his PhD thesis

Events

Alter Hörsaal, 1.22

Host:
Martino Poggio

Exploring three dimensional spin systems - and beyond

Dr. Claire Donnelly of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden

22 Nov 2024

13:15

Physik, Seminar room 4.1

Majorana zero modes in artificial Kitaev chains

Greg Mazur (University of Oxford)

22 Nov 2024

15:15 - 16:30

Neuer Hörsaal 1, Foyer EG

Host:
P. Potts

Colloquium

CANCELLED : The quantum limits of precision and timekeeping : CANCELLED

Speaker: Marcus Huber

22 Nov 2024

16:15

Physik, Seminar room 4.1

The Weyl-Mott point: an isolated topological Green's function zero

Chris Hooley (University of Coventry)

25 Nov 2024

16:15 - 17:15

Neuer Hörsaal 1

Host:
Phillipp Treutlein

Towards new parameter regimes in the quantum control of clamped and levitated micromechanical motion

Witlef Wieczorek, Chalmers University, Sweden

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Department of Physics

The Departement of Physics of the University of Basel is a center for international top-level research in the fields of nano and quantum physics, and cosmology and particle physics. Our students benefit from the excellence in research that offers them an outstanding range of courses supervised by highly talented assistants and renowned professors.

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