FIT Research School

Future Information Technologies - FIT

The FIT research school provides a network for young researchers working in the field of Future Information Technologies (FIT) within the research division Quantum and Functional Materials.

Research focus

This research school performs fundamental research in various different subject areas of relevance to information technologies. The research takes a long-term approach, from the study of new materials, phenomena and methods in condensed matter physics, to developing an understanding of novel physical processes, and how these can be manipulated and assessed for their potential for applications. A central theme of the school is the investigation of topological quantum systems such as exotic spin states with fractional excitations or topological (crystalline) insulators. For example, quantum computers require qubits that are long-lived and stable against decoherence. Such properties can arise in topological systems where competing and frustrated particles emerge in the absence of broken symmetries.

The research school bundles these topics and offers a standardised structure and a scientific environment for doctoral researchers working on topics relevant to future information technologies. It brings together doctoral researchers and supervisors from the whole division who approach these scientific problems from a range of different theoretical and experimental techniques so that the graduates can draw on a wider pool of knowledge and expertise than is available within their research group alone.