Tenure Track Assistant Professor in Solid-State and Molecular Quantum Emitters as Open Quantum Systems

Are you passionate about advancing the field of open quantum system theory? The Quantum Photonics in Low Dimensional Systems Group at DTU Electro is looking for an enthusiastic Assistant Professor to explore the fascinating world of solid-state and molecular quantum emitters coupled to phononic and photonic environments. 

Quantum emitters (QE) hosted in solid-state materials and molecules play an important role in quantum applications such as quantum sensing and metrology, as well as quantum information processing. Their quantum optical properties are impacted by their coupling to the environment. Understanding the dynamics of QEs coupled to vibrations in the surrounding material—the phonons, and with the electromagnetic field are crucial for the design of new efficient quantum light sources for future quantum applications. 

Responsibilities and qualifications

You will participate in a project team with several Postdocs and PhD students, which will design, fabricate, and characterize QEs. You will design and analyse realistic models of the QEs explored in our group. You will use master-equation methods and develop methods going beyond the master-equation approach, treating non-Markovian QE-environment interaction dynamics with Matrix Product Operator-based (MPO) methods. You will also work closely with our long-time collaborator Dr. Jake Iles-Smith from the University of Sheffield. 

Your overall responsibility is to set up the numerical simulations framework to be used in the analysis of QEs coupled to both electromagnetic and phononic environments. In a collaborative effort, the team will analyse and expand our existing models treating the dynamics of phonon-induced decoherence in solid-state and molecular QEs. These models will also help and guide the experimental efforts in our team. Additional responsibility includes the supervision of the PhD students working on the theory and the designs, and of MSc and BSc students associated with the project. You will be required to take courses to develop your teaching skills and to eventually be responsible for one or more full courses. Finally, you are expected to prepare research grant applications and attract external funding. 

Desired qualifications include: 

• Knowledge of quantum optics, cavity quantum electrodynamics and of quantum emitters in nanophotonic structures.
• Knowledge of decoherence processes in solids and their modeling
• Experience with numerical simulations of the electromagnetic field.
• Experience with Matlab, Python and/or a similar scientific programming language.
• Willingness to work in close collaboration with an internal project team consisting both of theoreticians and experimentalists. Willingness to supervise PhD, MSc and BSc students, to teach full courses and to write and submit research grant applications. 

You must be responsible for the teaching of courses. DTU employs two working languages: Danish and English. You are expected to be fluent in at least one of these languages, and in time are expected to master both. 

As formal qualification you must hold a PhD degree (or equivalent).

Application procedure

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