Ivan Rojkov
Postdoctoral Fellow
Research Areas:
Quantum optics, circuit QED, quantum error correction, quantum many-body physics
Research Type:
Theorist
Biographical Sketch:
I received a Bachelor’s degree in Physics from EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland) and a Master’s degree from ETH Zurich (Zurich, Switzerland). In July 2025, I obtained a Ph.D. in Physics at ETH Zurich in the group of Prof. Jonathan Home (Trapped Ion Quantum Information group).
Research:
My research lies at the interface of theoretical quantum optics and quantum information science, with a focus on fault-tolerant quantum information processing. I want to understand how environmental interactions shape quantum systems and to develop strategies that either harness or suppress dissipation to protect and manipulate quantum information. During my Ph.D., I focused on few-body problems related to quantum stabilization, quantum error correction, error characterization, and the implementation of quantum gates in spin and bosonic systems. My work combined general theoretical frameworks with experimentally verifiable schemes, developed in close collaboration with the Trapped Ion Quantum Information group. At Yale, I aim to extend this expertise to nonlinear quantum many-body dynamics for quantum information processing, working with Profs. Steve Girvin and Shruti Puri, and plan to continue collaborating with experimentalists, now from the Yale Quantum Institute.
Education:
Ph.D. 2025, ETH Zurich
Advisor:
Steven Girvin