Magnetic and superconductive materials

Magnets are ubiquitous in modern life: they are key components in sensors, actuators, motors, appliances, computers, cars. PaRMa is the home of the SMFI Dept. expertise in magnetism. Theorists, material scientists and experimental physicists join efforts on the following main topics.

Quantum computers will exploit quintessential quantum mechanical phenomena like superposition states and entanglement to outperform even the best conceivable classical supercomputer. We study possible physical implementations of the qubits, the basic units of a quantum computer, and we develop system-specific quantum algorithms. We also use the prototype IBM quantum computers.