Ansari's Research group 

Moh'd Ansari - Principal Investigator (PI)

• Office 1: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Building 04.8 / Room: 243

• Office 2: RWTH Aachen, Institute for Quantum Information, Modulbau Physik / Room: MBP2 115

• Email: [m.ansari]   -AT-   [fz-juelich.de]

Alwin van Steensel - PhD student at RWTH Aachen

"I'm interested in quantum thermodynamics and in my Ph.D. project, I'm calculating quantum effects in entropy production of thermodynamic processes. For example in the operation of a quantum heat engine, which is a large part of my focus. But in principle, I find any fundamental physics greatly interesting and enjoyable to learn about."

• Office: Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Peter Grünberg Institute (PGI), Building 04.8 / Room 267

• Email: [a.van.steensel]   -AT-   [fz-juelich.de]

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Zhongyi Jiang - PhD student at RWTH Aachen

"I am working on superconducting qubit theory. Quantum computation is an exciting field and I am glad I am a part of it. There are many promising and potentially world-changing applications of quantum computations. In the meanwhile, there are also fundamental physics questions related to it, such as the interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is my goal to develop new theories, methods and models for making better qubits and I hope along the way I can explore the mysterious and wonderful quantum world!  Apart from physics, I like to go swimming, travel around, watch series and meet new people! Let's be friends!"

• Office: RWTH Aachen, Institute for Quantum Information, Modulbau Physik / Room: MBP2 114

• Email:  [zh.jiang]  -AT-   [fz-juelich.de]

Stefania Symeonidou - BSc student, RWTH, AAchen, Germany [Defended Sep 2023] ----> Moved to Erasmus Masters of science position at Italy/RWTH, Aachen

"Within the scope of my bachelor thesis, I was studying the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE), developed with the help of PennyLane’s quantum chemistry library. My focus was on exploring molecular structures and energy landscapes for the molecules H2 , LiH, BeH2, and H2O."

• Thesis title: The Variational Quantum Eigensolver in Quantum Chemistry with PennyLane

• Thesis and Book can be downloaded from Theses page

• Email:    [stefania.symeonidou]  -AT-  [rwth-aachen.de]

Jiaqi Ai - Masters student at RWTH Aachen, Germany [Defended July 2023]

"I'm currently focusing on Hamiltonian Active Learning (HAL), optimizing the process of measuring a Hamiltonian on a device. The goal is to understand and improve the algorithm and have it performed on the real quantum computer."

• Thesis title: Hamiltonian Active Learning in Quantum Superconducting Systems

• Thesis and Book can be downloaded from Theses page.

• Email:    [jiaqi.ai]  -AT-   [rwth-aachen.de]

Tobias Kempe - Master's student at RWTH university [Defended July 2023] ---> Now Business Development at Urban Ray 

"My Master's project focuses on the analysis and optimization of quantum annealing methods to better understand their usefulness in solving hard optimization problems. This allows me to combine my interests in real-world problem solving with leveraging natural quantum processes instead of classical approaches to find global minima in highly-dimensional functions."

• Thesis title: Intermediate State Prediction in the Formation of Topologically Associated Chromatin Domains using Quantum Annealing  

• Thesis and Book can be downloaded from Theses page.

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Arne Schlabes - Master student at RWTH Aachen [Defended 2022] ---> Now PhD student in our group

" I am currently working on my master thesis on Quantum Error Correction. The surface code is the underlying topic and I am interested in how it can be modified and improved as well as implemented."

• Thesis title: Operation and Gates of the Kerr-Cat Qubit

• Thesis can be downloaded from Theses page.

• Email: [arne.schlabes]   -AT-   [rwth-aachen.de]

Manabputra - Masters student at NISER india [Defended July 2021] ---> Moved to a PhD position at Syracuse University, USA

"Currently, I am working in Quantum computation with superconducting qubits. My goal is to make a model for a larger number of qubits, which suppresses unwanted interactions at the Hamiltonian level, go achieve better predictability of the outcomes. My research interests include long-range quantum entanglement, quantum information and computation. I have experience with quantum algorithms, quantum systems simulations and theoretical study of quantum information. My hobbies include astronomy, photography and a little bit of robotics."

• Thesis title: A Hamiltonian scheme for multiple superconducting qubits

• Thesis can be downloaded from Theses page

• Email: [manabputra]   -AT-   [niser.ac.in]

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Pia Döring - Masters student at RWTH Aachen [Defended in April 2021] ---> Moved to Accenture Industry X, Munich, Germany

"In September 2020, I finished my Master thesis with Mohammad Ansari, in which we investigated two aspects of quantum machine learning. First, we applied the Variational Quantum Eigensolver (VQE) to a quantum chemistry problem. As a second approach, we considered quantum neural networks (QNNS) and their learning abilities. Now I am interested to extend our theoretical research of QNNs to the computation of quantum neural networks on current quantum devices. Additionally, we aim to further understand the workings of QNNs."

• Thesis title: Aspects in Quantum Machine Learning for Chemistry and Neural Networks, 

• Thesis can be downloaded from Theses page

• Email: [pia.doering]   -AT-   [rwth-aachen.de]

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