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PhD opening in NanoFront

I’m looking for a PhD student to work on linear quantum measurements with delays. Many thanks to NanoFront initiative!

More info:
Title
PhD position in quantum theory of dissipative measuring environments.
Research
Can we predict quantum jumps? A common opinion is that we cannot. Is this opinion correct? Full project description can be found here .
Job description
4 years phd position
Location
Kavli institute of Nanoscience, department of quantum nanoscience

Requirements
The applicant should bear MSc title in theoretical physics or its equivalent. Experience in condensed matter physics and quantum information theory is appreciated.
Conditions of Employment
When fulfilling a PhD position , you will get the status of junior scientist.
You will get a contract for 4 years. Your salary will be up to a maximum of 2,636 euro gross per month.The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.33%.
You are supposed to have a thesis finished at the end of your four year term.

Contact
Yuli V. Nazarov
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl

Please send your CV and recommendation letters

E-mail
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl

PhD opening

I’m looking for a PhD student to work on Majorana states in superconductors.

More info:
Title
PhD position in theory of superconductivity
Research
Theoretical study of properties of Majorana states in superconducting nanostructures in the presence of Coulomb interaction and its time-dependent dynamics. Close collaboration with experimental group of prof. L.P. Kouvenhoven. Full project description can be found here .
Job description
4 years phd position
Location
Kavli institute of Nanoscience, department of quantum nanoscience

Requirements
The applicant should bear MSc title in theoretical physics or its equivalent. Experience in condensed matter physics, superconductivity and quantum information theory is appreciated.
Conditions of Employment
When fulfilling a PhD position at the FOM foundation, you will get the status of junior scientist.
You will have an employee status and can participate in all the employee benefits FOM offers. You will get a contract for 4 years. Your salary will be up to a maximum of 2,636 euro gross per month.The salary is supplemented with a holiday allowance of 8% and an end-of-year bonus of 8.33%.
You are supposed to have a thesis finished at the end of your four year term with FOM.
A training programme is part of the agreement. You and your supervisor will make up a plan for the additional education and supervising that you specifically need. This plan also defines which teaching activities you will be responsible (up to a maximum of 10% of your time). The conditions of employment of the FOM-foundation are laid down in the Collective Labour Agreement for Research Centres (Cao-Onderzoekinstellingen), more exclusive information is available at this website under Personeelsinformatie (in Dutch) or under Personnel (in English).
General information about working at FOM can be found in the English part of this website under Personnel. The ‘FOM job interview code’ applies to this position.

Contact
Yuli V. Nazarov
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl

Please send your CV and recommendation letters

E-mail
y.v.nazarov@tudelft.nl

Forgiveness Sunday

This year, the Orthodox schedules differ significantly from more common ones. As matter of fact, I’ve just started with Great Lent. To start with this, there is a rite not to miss: ask forgiveness of everybody, and forgive as well.

So please forgive me, dear reader.

Cirprian Padurariu has defended his Ph.D. thesis with me on 18-2-2013.

We did four papers together. Leo Kouwenhoven, Yaroslav Blanter, Daniel Esteve, Leonid Gorelik, Jan Aarts ans Jan Zaanen were the commitee members. Ciprian will go to Grenoble for a post-doc position soon. Good luck, Ciprian!

Kick-off

meeting of a new European collaboration has taken place in Helsinki on 5-2-2013. Our project is called INFERNOS, and we want to make and investigate daemons – fortunately, little ones, preferrably, at nanoscale. More about the project.

Tomohiro Yokoyama

who visited me in Delft in course of our collaboration on spin-orbit effects in Josephson junctions, has got his Ph.D. degree on 31-12-2013. Congratulations! Today I have learned that he has also secured a post-doc job in RIKEN institute in Japan. This gives a chance to our futher collaboration.

Landry Bretheau

has sucsessfully defended his Ph.D. thesis in Saclay, a suburb of Paris on 1-2-2013. I was in the committee. A part of the thesis was the pioneering observation of doublet state of superconducting quasiparticles, http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1105.5039, 40 years after its theoretical prediction. Yet it has many parts, some even more fascinating… The discussion with the opponent could have been more smooth, yet Landry managed to stay within the restrictions of formal politness.

Remarkable thesis work. And it was first time in my life I tasted home-made foie gras.

Book out!

The text-book on Advanced Quantum Mechanics with my former student Jeroen Danon has been published recently in Cambridge University Press. I just got first copies.
Look here for details.

Synchronization rocks

As a late gift on occasion of Orthodox Christmas, the work of me and Alina Nriscu
(read here about) has been accepted for Physical Review Letters and will be published soon.

Inaugural speech prof. Pieternel Levelt

has taken place today. If I understood correctly, she mostly works at Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute and is in charge of important task: she monitors the trace gases in air with the aid of sattelite-based spectrometers and thereby watches the climate changes and air quality over the globe. Important job, this contibutes to unbelievable stability of her research: the plans are made till 2030.
It was a good lecture, and I’ve learnt a couple of funny things. The struggle to impove the quality of air can contribute to global warming if done without thinking: some trace gases help to cool. Air pollution is not limited to (compact) industrial regions: major ship routes are clearly seen on a map that shows NO2 concentration in athmosphere.

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