Thomas Karg

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Research Scientist Quantum Transduction

Bio

Dr. Thomas Karg has been a permanent Research Scientist at IBM Research Europe - Zurich since August 2023. His research interests include cavity optomechanics, cavity electro-optics and nonlinear integrated photonics. He aims to realize efficient quantum transducers between microwave and optical photons for future room-temperature optical links between superconducting quantum computers.

Thomas Karg studied Interdisciplinary Sciences at ETH Zurich and obtained his BSc on real-time feedback control of a superconducting qubit in 2012, and his MSc on preparation and transport of ultracold atoms in 2014. In 2020, he received a PhD from the University of Basel for his experimental and theoretical work on light-mediated interactions between remote quantum systems. He demonstrated strong coupling and two-mode thermal noise squeezing between an atomic spin ensemble and a nanomechanical membrane oscillator, separated by 1 m and interfaced only by a laser beam in a loop geometry. In 2021, he joined IBM Research Europe - Zurich as a postdoctoral researcher, focusing on microwave-optical transduction using gallium phosphide optomechanical crystals and barium titanate integrated photonics.

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