Semiconductor Quantum Bits

Fritz Henneberger currently occupies the Chair of Photonics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. His research comprises semiconductor lasers, photonic materials and nanostructures, as well as elementary excitations and their dynamical interactions in semiconductors. He is a recipient of the Heinrich-Hertz Award of the Germany Physical Society. Henneberger has been a staff member of the Ioffe Institute, Leningrad, for several years. He has been a visiting professor at the Optical Science Center, University of Arizona, USA, and Kyoto University, Japan.

Oliver Benson did his PhD at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. He worked as postdoc at Max-Planck-Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching, as Lynen-fellow (Alexander-von Humboldt Foundation) at Stanford University, USA, and as head of a junior research group (Emmy-Noether program of DFG) at the Universität Konstanz. Since 2001 he heads the Nano Optics group at Humboldt-Universität Berlin. His main research concerns quantum optics, single photon optics, and quantum information as well as scanning probe techniques.