Scientific ties with Switzerland and Germany in Quantum Technologies

The proposal, developed in collaboration with researcher Yujeong Bae from EMPA (Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology), has received approximately $25,000 in funding for scientific exchange. The project aims to combine complementary capabilities of excellence: on the one hand, the experimental work of the Swiss group in Zurich, and on the other, the mathematical modeling and computational simulations carried out by the Argentine team at IMIT. The central objective is to design and study systems at the atomic and molecular scale for the development of future technologies based on quantum principles.

As part of this exchange, which will continue in September with Dr. Bae's visit to Argentina, Dr. Ferrón gave a lecture in Switzerland on the control of individual atoms using electric fields. The significant interest in his work also led to a special invitation to the renowned Max Planck Institute in Stuttgart, Germany. There, Dr. Ferrón, from IMIT, presented his results, toured laboratories with state-of-the-art infrastructure, and opened the doors to a new line of joint collaboration with Dr. Christian Ast's group.