Hello. This is a recruitment advert for a project at the Centre for Quantum Technology (CQT) in Singapore. The project that will tackle theoretical topics related to Distributed QIP. We are looking for graduates, postdocs, and a senior postdoc for whom the annual salary may be 60,000+ euro
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About the CQT: The Centre for Quantum Technology is an alliance of research groups hosted at the National University of Singapore. It is headed by Director Artur Ekert with an Advisory Board including J. Ignacio Cirac, Atac Imamoglu, Michele Mosca, David J. Wineland and Umesh Vazirani.
In 2007 the Centre was selected as the first Research Centre of Excellence by the Singapore government. The Research Centre of Excellence status officially commenced in December 2007. The initial period of support is for five years, with funding of about 155 million Singapore dollars (over 100 million US dollars) in that period. It is therefore one of the most well supported entities of its kind in the world. Presently there are about 50 researchers involved. Read more
here.
Above: One concept for the architecture for a distributed device.
About the project: With the new Centre of Excellence status, the CQT is seeking to expand both its theoretical and its experimental efforts. One of the new projects on the theory side will a 3 year study on the distributed quantum information processing paradigm. In this approach, rather than allowing the physical qubits to interact directly instead they are be kept at fixed, well separated sites and simply subjected to a measurement. We will study topics ranging from the physics of the individual subsystems through to the properties of the large scale entangled states which one would aim to create. Therefore we are recruiting theorists from a variety of backgrounds, from those who have studied the physics of matter-optical systems though to those who are interested in the more abstract properties of entangled states such as graph states, their vulnerability to noise etc. We are seeking postdoctoral researchers at all levels of seniority (starting from those who are just completing their doctorates), and also students wishing to take a PhD working in this area. The positions will be Singapore based with opportunities to spend significant time in Oxford and/or London.
The project is lead by Kwek Leong Chuan, with fellow Singapore researchers Dagomir Kaszlikowski and Vlatko Vedral also involved. International collaborators include Simon Benjamin and Brendon Lovett at Oxford, Dan Browne and Sougato Bose at UCL London, and Dimitris Angelakis at Chania, Crete. We enjoy close collaboration with experimentalists working in this area.
Above: Monkeys live freely in the McRitchie Reservoir region.
Would you like Singapore? It's a small island just off the tip of the Malay peninsula, about one degree north of the equator. The island is an independent nation, and the city of Singapore itself covers much of the land. The population is about 4.7 million. Western visitors generally regard it as a "high tech" nation loosely comparable to Tokyo in the sophistication of its infrastructure, although of course it is far smaller and in fact much less crowded.
Environment and weather: Singapore is a tropical island, full of lush flora all year round. It is very humid by Western standards but visitors usually find that they adjust to this within a day or two. The typical temperature is 29 degrees, and this does not vary much over the year. So pretty much T-shirt weather all the time!
Language: English is spoken throughout Singapore. It's actually one of the four official languages, which reflect the diverse makeup of the population (Chinese, Indian, Malaysian, Indonesian, and Western).
Life in Singapore: There are all the activities you would expect of a large and vibrant city. The variety and affordability of the restaurants is second to none! In addition, Singapore is a great base from which to explore that entire region of the world.
Incidentally many of the researchers in the CQT are keen scuba divers, and frequently go on long weekend trips to explore the reefs and wrecks in the tropical waters around Malaysia.
A strict legal system? Singapore's reputation for strict laws is much exaggerated. In practice there is very little police presence, less than most Western cities. There are quite heavy fines for antisocial behaviour including littering, however in consequence the city is both clean and very safe. And the locals are proud of it.
More Details: To apply, simply send an
email with CV and publication list attached to Kwek Leong Chuan (phyklc@nus.edu.sg) and cc'ing Simon Benjamin (s.benjamin@qubit.org). Positions are "open until filled". In addition to standard postdocs, we are offering a leadership position suited to an individual with several years experience; the salary for this position may be in excess of S$120,000 (~60,000 euro) depending on seniority.
For suitable candidates, there is the option of a position held jointly at Singapore and a collaborating institution such as Oxford or London.