Doctoral Researcher in quantum-inspired tensor network machine learning solvers for super-moiré van der Waals materials
About this role
Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 13 000 students, 400 professors and close to 4 500 other faculty and staff working on our dynamic campus in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community's diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community.
At the Department of Applied Physics, our pioneering research in physical sciences creates important industrial applications that hold great technological potential. Our research focuses on Materials physics, Quantum technology, Soft & living matter, and Advanced energy solutions. Topics extend from fundamental research to important applications. We educate future generations of research and development professionals, data specialists, technology experts, inventors, and scientists for industry and society.
We are looking for a Doctoral Researcher for Quantum-inspired tensor network machine learning solvers for super-moiré van der Waals materials.
Moiré van der Waals superlattices provides an ideal platform to engineer emergent quantum states, including correlated and topological phases. Super-moiré structures enable hierarchical length scales and quasiperiodic potentials, requiring modeling techniques capable of handling extremely large system sizes. In this project, we develop algorithms based on active-learning tensor-network tight-binding strategies that enable simulations of ultra-large aperiodic systems at unprecedented scales, both in equilibrium and out of equilibrium. The project will enable us to study collective modes, including excitons and plasmons, in topological and correlated states in super-moiré van der Waals heterost