Frank Koppens

Curriculum Vitae

Name: Frank Henricus Louis Koppens

Address: 42A Linden Ave, #1

Zip code+city: 02138 MA, Somerville

Place and date of birth: Deurne, 27-June-1976

Nationality: Dutch

Phone: ++1 857 544 7651

E-mail: f.koppens@esac.climbing.nl

Education and research history

Jan \'08 – present

Postdoctoral fellow at Harvard university

Quantum optics and optoelectronics at the nanoscale

03-Oct ‘07 PhD in nanoscience and quantum computation (Cum Laude)

Title: Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

(online version http://repository.tudelft.nl/)

Quantum Transport group, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft

Promotor: Leo Kouwenhoven, Supervision: Lieven Vandersypen

’02-’03 Management traineeship, NUON. Projects:

• Modelling of a gas power plant

• Financial analyst in the department of energy sourcing and trading

’94-‘01 Master of physics, University of Technology Eindhoven (Cum Laude)
Projects:

- Masters project in collaboration with Océ Technologies B.V.

Development of a new technology to characterize defects in piezo elements via impedance spectroscopy

- International project at “The International School of Photonics”,

Cochin, India

Feasibility of photo-acoustic spectroscopy on semiconductor quantum wells

- Internship in the group “Theoretical atomic physics and quantum electronics”

Quantum mechanical description of three-particle collisions, relevant for Bose-Einstein-Condensation

- Certificate management of technology at the TUE

600 hrs. program with a wide variety of management courses (logistics, law, marketing, entrepreneurship etc.)

‘88-‘94 High school (VWO), College Asten-Someren

Prizes/fellowships

• Best student presentation award at APS March meeting 2007

• Harvard IQSE fellowship

Training and Courses

’05-‘06

• Casimir Phd-course Mesoscopic physics

• Casimir Phd-course Quantum computation and control

’02-‘03

• Training Strategy and vision (1 day)

• Communication training (2 days)

• Covey training “effective leadership” (2 days)

• TopTech training Delft: “Energy, introduction of market and techniques” (2 days)

• Training “Myers Briggs Typing Index” (1 day)

Hobby’s/sports

Alpinism, rock climbing, bouldering

Computer skills

MS-Windows, MS Office, Matlab, Simulink, Maple, Mathematica, LaTe, Turbo Pascal, Labview

Languages

Dutch: native

English: fluent

German: basic

French: basic

Presentations, talks and media

International conferences and meetings

Invited talks

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

Frontiers in Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop

Basel, January 2008

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dotInternational Symposium on Advanced Nanodevices and Nanotechnology

Waikoloa, Hawaii, December 2007

• Spin qubits in quantum dots

71^st annual Meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and DPG, Regensburg, March 2007

• Coherent control and read-out of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

Colloquium Control of quantum correlations in tailored matter

Stuttgart, November 2006

• Spin qubits in quantum dots

Göttinger Physikalisches Kolloquium, October 2006

• Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

28^th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS),

Vienna, July 2006

• Spin qubits in quantum dots

UK Compound Semiconductors 2007, Sheffield, July 2006

• Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

4^th International Conference on Quantum Dots (QD2006), Chamonix, May 2006

Contributed talks

• Control and detection of singlet-triplet mixing in a random nuclear field

Spintech III, Awaji, Japan, August 2005

• Control and detection of singlet-triplet mixing in a random nuclear field

Quantum Physics of Nature & 6th European QIPC Workshop, Vienna, May 2005

Poster presentations

• Spin-dependent transport in few-electron lateral coupled double quantum dots

Frontiers of Nanoscale Science and Technology Workshop, Harvard University, Boston, October 2004

Invited Seminars

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

IQC Waterloo, October 2007

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

IQSE seminar, Harvard University, Boston, May 2007

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

IBM Watson Research Centre, Yorktown, March 2007

• Coherence and control of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

UCSB, Santa Barbara, March 2007

• Spin qubits in quantum dots

Walter Schottky Institute (Abstreiter,Finley), Munich, December 2006

• Spin qubits in quantum dots

Nanophysics Group (Kotthaus), Munich, December 2006

• Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

Nanophysics group (Ensslin), ETH Zurich, June 2006

• Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

Quantum Photonics group (Atac Imamoglu), ETH Zurich, June 2006

• Control and detection of singlet-triplet mixing in a random nuclear field

Condensed matter theory group (Daniel Loss), University of Basel, May 2005

Newspaper and radio

• Van Bit naar Qubit, Computable 3 november 2006

• Basler Idee Umgezetst, Basler Algmeine Zeitung 2006

• Einen Schritt naeher zum quantencomputer Die Welt, 21 augustus 2006

• Vat op één elektron, NRC Handelsblad 19 augustus 2006

• Natuurkudigen uit delft temmen het elektron, De Volkskrant 17 augustus 2006

• Radio interview for BNR Nieuwsradio (http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/news/BNR_Interview_Niels.wav)

• Radio interview for Deutschlandfunk  

(http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/news/Interview_Deutschlandfunk.mp3)

• Radio interview for Radio 1: Noorderlicht  

(http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/news/Noorderlicht.wav)

• Radio interview for Radio 1:Teleac Wetenschap \'s avonds

(http://qt.tn.tudelft.nl/news/WetenschapAvond.wav)

Publications

1. Coherent control of a single spin with electric fields

K.C. Nowack*, F.H.L. Koppens*, Yu. V. Nazarov, L.M.K. Vandersypen

Science 318, 1430 (2007)

*These authors contributed equally to this work

2. Spin-echo of a single electron spin in a quantum dot

F.H.L. Koppens, K.C. Nowack and L.M.K. Vandersypen

Physical Review Letters (in print)

3. Universal phase shift and power law decay of driven single spin oscillations

F.H.L.Koppens, D. Klauser, W.A. Coish, K.C. Nowack, D. Loss, L.M.K. Vandersypen

Physical Review Letters 99, 106803 (2007)

4. Detection of single electron spin resonance in a double quantum dot
   F. H. L. Koppens, C. Buizert, I. T. Vink, K. C. Nowack, T. Meunier, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
   Journal of Applied Physics 101, 081706 (2007)

5. Experimental Signature of Phonon-Mediated Spin Relaxation in a Two-Electron Quantum Dot

T. Meunier, I. T. Vink, L. H. Willems van Beveren, K-J. Tielrooij, R. Hanson,

F. H. L. Koppens, H. P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, L. P. Kouwenhoven,

L. M. K.Vanderypen
Physical Review Letters 98, 126601 (2007)

6. Driven coherent oscillations of a single electron spin in a quantum dot
   F. H. L. Koppens, C. Buizert, K. J. Tielrooij, I. T. Vink, K. C. Nowack, T. Meunier, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
   Nature 442, 766 (2006)

7. Control and Detection of Singlet-Triplet Mixing in a Random Nuclear Field
   F. H. L. Koppens*, J. A. Folk*, J. M. Elzerman, R. Hanson, L. H. Willems van Beveren, I. T. Vink, H. P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
   Science 309, 1346-1350 (2005)

*These authors contributed equally to this work

8. Nondestructive measurement of electron spins in a quantum dot
   T. Meunier, I. T. Vink, L. H. Willems van Beveren, F. H. L. Koppens, H. P. Tranitz, W. Wegscheider, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
   Phys. Rev. B 74, 195303 (2006)

9. Single-shot readout of electron spins in a semiconductor quantum dot
   R. Hanson, L.H. Willems van Beveren, I.T. Vink, J.M. Elzerman, F.H.L. Koppens,
   L.P. Kouwenhoven, & L.M.K. Vandersypen
   Physica e-low-dimensional systems & nanostructures, 34, 1-5 (2006)

10. High fidelity measurement of singlet-triplet states in a quantum dot
    T.A.Y. Meunier, K.J. Tielrooij, I.T. Vink, F.H.L. Koppens, H.P. Tranitz,
    W. Wegscheider, L.P. Kouwenhoven, & L.M.K. Vandersypen
    Physica status solidi b-basic research, 243, 3855-3858 (2006)

11. Spin filling of a quantum dot derived from excited-state spectroscopy
    L. H. Willems van Beveren, R. Hanson, I. T. Vink, J. M. Elzerman, F.H. L. Koppens, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
    New Journal of Physice 7, Solid State Quantum Information (2005)

12. Single-shot readout of electron spins in a semiconductor quantum dot
    R. Hanson, L. H. Willems van Beveren, I. T. Vink, J. M. Elzerman, F.H. L. Koppens, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
    Proceedings Electronic Properties of Two-Dimensional Systems (EP2DS) (2005)

13. Single-Shot Readout of Electron Spin States in a Quantum Dot Using Spin-Dependent Tunnel Rates
    R. Hanson, L. H. Willems van Beveren, I. T. Vink, J. M. Elzerman, W. J. M. Naber, F.H. L. Koppens, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen
    Phys. Rev. Letters 94, 196802 (2005)

Popular

1. Grip op de spin van één enkel electron

F. H. L. Koppens, L. P. Kouwenhoven, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, januari 2007

2. Een elektronspin omdraaien met elektrische velden

K.C. Nowack, F. H. L. Koppens, Yu. V. Nazarov, and L. M. K. Vandersypen

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Natuurkunde, 2008