Center for Quantum Spintronics (QuSpin)
In September 2017 QuSpin received status as a Center of Excellence, funded by the Research Council of Norway and NTNU. The Research Council awarded ten research groups across all fields of science and humanities status as Centres of Excellence (SFF centres). The ten new centres will receive a total of NOK 1.5 billion over a ten-year period to carry out world-class research.
The principal goal of the center is to describe, characterize and develop recently identified quantum approaches to control electric signals in advanced nanoelectronics, conceptually different from those existing today. Our vision is to trigger a revolution in low-power information and communication technologies in an energy-efficient society.
Here you can read our Annual Report 2018
News
We are continuously looking for outstanding PhD and postdoc/researcher candidates to join us at QuSpin. Skilled and motivated candidates are encouraged to contact us.
August 2019
Vacancy
We are extending our research team with a new two-years PostDoc position
Application deadline August 31st, 2019
The PostDoc will develop theoretical models related to transport of spin and other degrees of freedom in magnetic insulators, topological insulators and superconductors.
Questions about the position can be directed to researcher Alireza Qaiumzadeh@ntnu.no
Upcoming PhD Defense
August 23rd, 2019
PhD Candidate Vetle Kjær Risinggård has submitted the following academic thesis as part of the doctoral work at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU): “Spin currents and torques via magnons, electrons, and Cooper pairs”.
Public trial lecture: Time: 23rd of August, 10.15 Place: H1, Main Building, NTNU Gløshaugen
Prescribed subject: Spin ice and magnetic monopoles
Public defence of the thesis: Time: 23rd of August, 13.15 Place: H1, Main Building, NTNU Gløshaugen
March 6th, 2019
QuSpin would like to congratulate our professor Dennis G. Meier with Det Kongelige Norske Videnskabers Selskabs scientific award to young researchers 2019.
The awards goes to Dennis G. Meier and Dave Kush. The award is NOK 75.000 to each and will be handed out March 8th. The award goes to young researchers in Norway who has documented extraordinary talent, and work, and who has achieved exceptionally good results within one’s scientific field.
March 6th, 2019
Our researcher Akashdeep Kamra is a chair of the Gordon Research Seminar on Spin Dynamics in Nanostructures 2019 that will take place in Switzerland this July.
This international conference provides a unique platform to young researchers for exchanging and discussing ideas at the cutting edge.
QuSpin is excited to financially support it and the concomitant nurturing of the future scientists globally.
More information about the research seminar
March 1st, 2019
QuSpin would like to congratulate our PhD candidate Jabir Ali Ouassou with having submitted his thesis, and completed his PhD defense. The title of the thesis is Manipulating superconductivity in magnetic nanostructures in and out of equilibrium. We wish him good luck in his new position as a researcher at the SINTEF Energy, the Department of Gas Technology.
September 14th, 2018
Arne Brataas, Alireza Qaiumzadeh Mathias Kläui and Rembert Duine from QuSpin with research article in Nature
QuSpin researchers have published a new paper in Nature. The work has been done together with researchers in Norway, Germany and the Netherlands.
Nature.com: Tunable long-distance spin transport in a crystalline antiferromagnetic iron oxide
September 7th, 2018
QuSpin would like to congratulate our PhD candidate Eirik Løhaugen Fjærbu with having submitted his thesis, and completed his PhD defense. The title of the thesis is Quantum Phenomena at Magnetic Insulator-Normal Metal Interfaces. We wish him good luck in his new position as a researcher at the Norwegiand Defence Research Establishment (FFI).
Events
UPCOMING EVENT
Quantum Spintronics 2019
International Workshop in Trondheim, September 25th and 26th, 2019
More info to follow.
QuSpin Collaboration Workshop 2019 Collaboration Workshop in Oppdal, Norway, March 13th - 15th 2019.
We gathered our research resources in picturesque surroundings at Bjerkeløkka, for in-depth collaborations. With nearly seventy people from QuSpin in Trondheim/Norway, from Mainz/Germany and Utrecht/the Netherlands. The days were filled with scientific talks, workshops and discussions, as well as skiing in the valleys around.
Quantum Spintronics 2018
International Workshop in Trondheim, October 4th and 5th 2018
We invited twenty speakers to our annual workshop. All leading researchers within their field. We had interesting talks and discussions, within both the theoretical and experimental research fields. Download program.
Photo: Thor Nilsen
Workshop June 19th 2018 _ Visit from CSRC (Beijing Computational Research Center) to NTNU
CSRC visited the SFFs QuSpin and Porelab, and a workshop was held. Download program here.
Photo: Tore Oksholen