Emanuele Distante
visits the VQCC.

On May 2 and 3, 2024, Dr. Emanuele Distance from The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) visited the VQCC and gave a talk on “Single atoms in optical cavities: A platform for distributed quantum computing”. 

Emanuele studied Physics at the University of Milan, and did his Master thesis at the Denmark Technical University under the supervision of Prof. Ulrik Andersen and Prof. Matteo Paris working on quantum metrology. After that, he completed his PhD in 2017 at ICFO under the supervision or Prof. Hugues de Riedmatten, being his work focused on quantum memories with cold atomic Rydberg ensembles. He then won the CELLEX ICFO-MPQ Marie Curie Co-founded scholarship to carry out one year of postdoctoral research at ICFO and one year at the MPQ within the division of Prof. Gerhard Rempe. After this scholarship, he continued his career at MPQ as Post-doctoral researcher and, since 2023, he started as a Research Fellows at ICFO with the support of La Caixa Postdoctoral Junior Leader to build a novel experiment based on ordered array of neutral atoms in an optical cavity. This novel platform has many applications, ranging from quantum computing to quantum networks as well as fundamental studies of quantum mechanics.