PhD Scholarship: Coupling electron and hole spin qubits in silicon with Diraq and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) (Future Leaders in Quantum Computing Program).
This PhD Scholarship offers a generous stipend of A$41,753 per year (2025 rate) for up to 4 years. Open to domestic and international students.
All modern silicon chips use both negatively charged electrons and positively charged holes to operate. This CMOS technology is critical to low power silicon chips. However silicon holes are very different to electrons – they have much richer spin physics due the strong intrinsic spin orbit interaction. This has led to tremendous recent interest in the use of silicon holes for spin and superconducting quantum information applications.
The aim of this PhD project is to work with Australian company, Diraq, to study silicon chips that exploit the high speed of hole spin qubits and the long coherence times of electron spin qubits to deliver fast, highly coherent silicon qubit architectures.
Devices for this project will be fabricated at the ANFF-UNSW clean-rooms, as well as in industry foundry facilities. Measurements will be performed using helium-3 cryostats and dilution refrigerators at the University of New South Wales. Theoretical support will be provided by collaborators at UNSW and the USA. Regular meetings with collaborators will underpin the project. See www.phys.unsw.edu.au/qed for more information.
This scholarship is funded and delivered by the ARC Training Centre for Future Leaders in Quantum Computing, in partnership with Sydney Quantum Academy.
This project is delivered in partnership with Diraq and the University of New South Wales.
About Diraq
Diraq's mission is to deliver utility-scale, fault-tolerant quantum computers using existing silicon chip manufacturing to enable practical, commercial applications and transform industries like finance, pharmaceuticals, and materials discovery. They aim to scale their silicon-based quantum processors to millions or billions of qubits on a single chip, making quantum computing more cost-effective and accessible for mass deployment.
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About Sydney Quantum Academy
Sydney Quantum Academy is a unique partnership between four world-leading universities – Macquarie University, UNSW Sydney, the University of Sydney and University of Technology Sydney. We are generously supported by the NSW Government.
Our vision is a quantum-ready Australia. We are building a diverse workforce, raising awareness, promoting cross-sector collaboration, and developing future specialists, entrepreneurs, and leaders in quantum technologies.
