Fink Group
Quantum Integrated Devices
The Fink group’s research is positioned between quantum optics and mesoscopic condensed matter physics. The team studies quantum physics in electrical, mechanical, and optical chip-based devices with the goal to advance and integrate quantum technology for simulation, communication, metrology, and sensing.
One of Fink’s goals is to develop a microchip-based router that will be able to convert a microwave signal to an optical signal with near unity efficiency. With such devices, the Fink group seeks to perform quantum communication with superconducting circuits and telecom wavelength photons. In one project, the group uses a qubit to create a single photon state. With the router, this microwave photon is converted into an optical photon, which can then be transmitted over long distances using low-loss optical fiber. The Fink group will also use this technique to entangle microwave and optical photons – an important step toward realizing worldwide quantum networks. Another direction is to develop higher quality qubits by using new electrical circuit elements called geometric superinductors which help suppress charge fluctuations that can wash out the quantum information stored on-chip.
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Team
Current Projects
Quantum electro- and optomechanics | Quantum microwave photonics | Ultra-high impedance physics for hardware protected qubits | Multi-qubit quantum electrodynamics | Resonant nonlinear optics
Publications
Rueda Sanchez AR. 2021. Frequency-multiplexed hybrid optical entangled source based on the Pockels effect. Physical Review A. 103(2), 023708. View
Hease WJ, Rueda Sanchez AR, Sahu R, Wulf M, Arnold GM, Schwefel HGL, Fink JM. 2020. Bidirectional electro-optic wavelength conversion in the quantum ground state. PRX Quantum. 1(2), 020315. View
Zemlicka M, Kopčík M, Szabó P, Samuely T, Kačmarčík J, Neilinger P, Grajcar M, Samuely P. 2020. Zeeman-driven superconductor-insulator transition in strongly disordered MoC films: Scanning tunneling microscopy and transport studies in a transverse magnetic field. Physical Review B. 102(18), 180508. View
Peruzzo M, Trioni A, Hassani F, Zemlicka M, Fink JM. 2020. Surpassing the resistance quantum with a geometric superinductor. Physical Review Applied. 14(4), 044055. View
Barzanjeh S, Pirandola S, Vitali D, Fink JM. 2020. Microwave quantum illumination with a digital phase-conjugated receiver. IEEE National Radar Conference – Proceedings. RadarConf: National Conference on Radar vol. 2020, 9266397. View
Career
since 2021 Professor, IST Austria
2016 – 2021 Assistant Professor, IST Austria
2015 – 2016 Senior Staff Scientist, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2012 – 2015 IQIM Postdoctoral Research Scholar, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
2011 – 2012 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
2010 PhD, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Selected Distinctions
2018 Fritz Kohlrausch Award
2017 ERC Starting Grant
2012 IQIM Postdoctoral Prize Fellowship
2010 ETH Medal for Outstanding Dissertation
2009 CSF Award at the QSIT Conference on Quantum Engineering