Internship

During the first year (second semester), students are provided with a valuable opportunity to immerse themselves in a research group from the host university or partners with a first short internship that typically spans two or three months.

Following this, during the second year, students engage in their master thesis project, which they can pursue in an academic research lab (only if affiliated with the consortium) or at a company anywhere in the world.

Examples of internships:

First-year internships

University of Porto
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  • Department of Informatics Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
    • Quantum Optimization Algorithms
    • Designing and Implementing Quantum Algorithms
    • Quantum-based Approach for the Minimal Hitting Set Problem in Fault Diagnosis
Paris-Saclay
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  • Light, Mater, Interfaces Laboratory (LuMIn) / Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
    • Fibered Quantum Nonlinear Interferometer
    • Characterization of functionalized nanodiamonds
    • Quantum Cramér-Rao Limit in nano-optomechanical coupling
    • Characterization of nanoscale photonic sources of correlated photons
  • Laboratory of Solid-State Physics (LPS)
    • Quantum Transport on Nanoparticles, Nanowire and Nanosheets of Perovskites
    • Doping MoS2 into the superconducting state
  • Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (C2N)
    • Twin-photons generation in semiconductor nanophotonic structures
    • Silicon photonic devices for photon pair sources
    • Photovoltaic effect on ferroelectric memory devices
    • Generation of entangled photon states
    • Trapping surface plasmons in a geometric potential (Collab. Paris-Cité)
  • Institut d'Optique
    • Develop a platform dedicated to single photon source characterization
    • Exploring the Anderson transition in ultracold atoms in laser speckle disorder potential
  • Télécom Paris
    • Optical realisation of pseudo-random quantum states
Companies & start-ups
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  • QUANDELA
    • Single-photon source fabrication and characterization
    • Quantum Machine Learning on a photonic chip
    • Duantum photonic integrated circuits
    • Analyzing lossy channels of high Q (Quality factor) micropillar
    • Boson sampling
  • Pascal
    • Quantum computing with cold neutral atoms and laser analysis

Second-year internships

Paris-Saclay University
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  • Laboratory of Solid-State Physics (LPS)
    • Prediction of charge density wave states under biaxial strain
    • Triplet Superconductivity in doped-MoS2
  • Centre for Nanosciences and Nanotechnology (C2N)
    • Optomechanical neuron
    • Photonic sources for entanglement-based quantum networks
    • Theoretical study of the switching mechanism in ferroelectrics 2D materials
    • Mid-infrared photonics : thermal behaviour of ring resonators and polarization management
    • A spin-photon interface for quantum entanglement & quantum logic operations
  • Institut d'Optique
    • Exploiting single-atom-resolved distributions to quantify many-body correlations
  • École Polytechnique
    • Condensed matter, Topological material, Quantum transport, Cavity quantum electrodynamics
    • Advances in Photon-Counting and Homodyne Experiments for Quantum High Harmonic Generation
    • Mid-infrared photonics : thermal behaviour of ring resonators and polarization management
  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de la Matière Condensée (LPTMC)
    • Partition function of the extended string-net model of Hu, Geer and Wu
  • Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques (LPTMS)
    • Exploring topological quantum conductors made of cavity quantum materials
    • Non-Unitary Quantum Many-Body Dynamics (Collaboration Collège de France)
  • CEA Saclay (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission)
    • Attosecond light pulses for the study of spin dynamics
  • Collaboration Sorbonne/ONERA
    • Untrusted node QKD : strategies to overcome free-space channel impairments
  • Collaboration UPSaclay / Univ. Paris Cite
    • Phase-Space Representation of Open Quantum Many-Fermion Dynamics
  • Université d'Evry
    • Probing fundamental physics with H2+
  • LuMIn
    • Towards wide-field quantum sensing of neuron electrical activity
Sapienza University
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  • QuantumLab
    • Hybrid Photonics Platform for Quantum Information Processing
Toronto University
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  • Multi-Frequency Interferometry and Its Application to Optical Ranging
  • Creating Heralded Entanglement of a Highly Squeezed all Fibered Telecom Source
  • Quantum Algorithms for Pathfinding
  • Thermal state preparation by repeated interactions at and beyond the Lindblad limit
  • Towards an Optimally Distributed Quantum Fourier Transform Circuit
  • Phonon Chirality
University of Porto
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  • Super-resolution on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum
Companies & start-ups
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  • QUANDELA
    • Compiler for Hybrid Qbit Encoding
  • Thalès
    • Development of Laser Architectures for Multiplexed Quantum Memories and Rydberg- based RF Sensing
Associated partners
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  • Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO)
    • New high-efficiency SPDC source
    • Spatio-temporal exciton transport in 2D layers and membranes
  • International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)
    • Interaction-free quantum imaging and computation

Internship offers