🔍 Layered semiconductors are attracting growing interest for quantum technologies  such as photonics, sensing, and spin-based devices. So far, most research has focused on artificially engineered materials . In contrast, natural layered materials  - like talc - have been largely overlooked, even though they offer several important advantages. 🌿 Talc and related silicate materials have a wide, direct bandgap, very few optically active defects, and a low density of nuclear sp

Trisha Roy, Aalto University PhD Researcher 1. Could you briefly introduce yourself, your PhD research focus, and how you became involved in this project? I’m a first-year PhD student at Aalto University in the MSP group, working on quantum reservoir computing for time-series prediction. In simple terms, I try to make a quantum circuit predict the future of chaotic systems - and then I study exactly when and why it starts failing. My current focus is on how tunable non-Cliffo

🔬 A new paper in npj Computational Materials  reports a major step forward in accurately modelling colour centres  - atomic-scale defects that are central to many quantum technologies . 👥 Zsolt Benedek, Ádám Ganyecz, Anton Pershin, Viktor Ivady and Gergely Barcza🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41524-025-01813-0 💎 Colour centres in semiconductors such as diamond play a key role in quantum sensing and quantum information. However, describing their electronic states accur

Dr. Wendy Otieno, Loughborough University Postdoc Researcher 1. What first sparked your interest in quantum research, and how did it lead you to join the QRC-4-ESP project?   Numerically solving Schrödinger’s equation for quantum systems like particles in finite and infinite potential wells first sparked my interest in quantum research. Through this process, I developed a deep appreciation for the elegant yet challenging mathematical structures that underpin quantum systems.

From 18–22 August 2025, young researchers from across Europe gathered at Aalto University, Finland, for the Summer School on New...

A new study published in Applied Physics Letters explores how tiny defects in silicon carbide (SiC) - called divacancies - could shape...

Alexandre Zagoskin recently gave the talk «  Towards the qualitative theory of large quantum coherent structures  » at the 3rd...

As part of the Horizon Europe-funded QRC-4-ESP  and QUEST projects, administrative staff and researchers from ELTE, Budapest, recently...

The QRC-4-ESP  partners would like to extend a big thank you  to ELTE  for their outstanding hosting  of last week’s consortium meeting...

🎥  Exciting News!  🌍✨ We are thrilled to announce the release of the QRC-4-ESP project video ! 🚀💡 Learn how this groundbreaking...

The QRC-4-ESP project partners met yesterday at the Université de Montpellier to discuss the advances made over the past eight months and...

Moein Ivaki, Achilleas Lazarides, and Tapio Ala-Nissila have now released a preprint of their paper "Quantum Reservoir Computing on...