Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

European Initiatives

Collaborations with Major European Organizations

• Partner 1: ENS Lyon

• We are pursuing our interdisciplinary work about quantum control from theoretical aspects in direct collaboration with existing experiments (ENS Lyon) with the group of Benjamin Huard, former member of the QUANTIC team. Joint papers are published and underway. We are in particular working on the proper combination of two model reduction techniques in their experimental context: adiabatic elimination and Rotating-Wave Approximation. An ANR-JCJC project has been deposited by Alain Sarlette on this subject, with Benjamin Huard as external supporting collaborator.

• Partner 2: University of Padova

• Alain Sarlette has been pursuing a fruitful collaboration with the group of Francesco Ticozzi on dynamical systems aspects of quantum systems. Common work on the theory of quantum random walks is being finalized and we are working out a concrete plan about next possible steps.

• Partner 3: Ghent University.

• A. Sarlette is collaborating with applied mathematicians interested in quantum control at his former institution UGent (Dirk Aeyels, Lode Wylleman, Gert De Cooman) in the framework of thesis co-supervisions. Two students are in their last year PhD, in particular Simon Apers is finalizing a thesis centered around Quantum Walks, also in collaboration with Partner 2. A master student in applied physics has started an internship in 2017.