France-Stanford Center - Undergraduate Internship Quantum Computing
Sponsored by
Stanford Global Studies
France-Stanford Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Funding:
See maximum funding amount and funding details below
Open To:
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Summer
Applications closed
Applications closed on February 26, 2020
Approximate Offer Date:
Sunday, March 15, 2020
LIRMM – Laboratory of Informatics, Robotics, and Microelectronics of Montpellier is a 350-person cross-faculty research entity of the University of Montpellier and the CNRS. LIRMM research activities cover a broad range of topics, including: design and verification of integrated, mobile and communicating systems, modeling of complex systems, research on algorithms, bioinformatics, human-machine interaction, robotics, database, distributed systems, AI, knowledge engineering and more. Since 2008, LIRMM has been involved in more than 40 EU projects). LIRMM obtained A+ during the HCERES 2010 & 2014 evaluations. In addition, LIRMM has chosen health, agriculture and environmental sciences as priority domains of application for its research in Informatics and Robotics. In 2020, LIRMM and Stanford University will partner under the International Research Laboratory program from CNRS to facilitate staff and student exchanges as well as supporting existing and future scientific collaborations in the next 4 to 8 years. Existing collaborations cover different fields of research from computer science to robotics and have already accomplished great scientific outcomes in: (i) Underwater robotics, (ii) Medical robotics, (iii) Semantic Web.
Eligibility and Requirements:
In comparison to the physics that governs the operation of today's computers, quantum mechanics allows a different means of processing, storing and communicating information to enable powerful technologies not possible with classical logic. As these devices are scaled-up, operating them will require an autonomous means of controlling, interacting and reading out large numbers of qubits in parallel, a task that will be met by combining both quantum and classical devices. Considering the scale-up of these quantum platforms, the development of new system architectures, circuits, devices, materials and techniques comprising the quantum-classical interface are key to realizing quantum technology. During this internship, the candidate will perform quantum circuit simulations using IBM Qiskit (https://qiskit.org) platform and further develop a quantum computer-aided design (QCAD) framework to allow simulation of different quantum technologies (i.e. trapped ions, silicon qubits). As a first step, we will experiment with the quantum device and circuit simulators available from IBM QisKit. Secondly, we will focus on the development of the models for the interface of quantum and classical devices to investigate various scales of quantum circuits.