ICMM’s Gloria Platero, awarded the APS Fellowship

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Gloria Platero, Research Professor at the Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM) at the Spanish Research Council (CSIC), has been awarded the APS Fellowship by American Physical Society. The APS Council has pointed out her “key theoretical physics contributions to the development of novel quantum circuit functionalities and protocols required to implement quantum information applications in real systems”.

Platero’s scientific work belongs to the fields of Quantum Simulation and Computation, within the research area of Quantum Technologies. The central topic of her research deals with the theoretical analysis of quantum transport in semiconductor quantum dots, one of the pillars in the development of quantum technologies as a potential platform for a quantum computer.

Over the years, she has investigated the manipulation of charge and spin qubits in quantum dots with ac electric or magnetic fields (Floquet engineering) in order to implement quantum operations, and also for long-range transfer of quantum states in quantum dot arrays. Recently, her work was devoted to analyzing the feasibility of semiconductor quantum dot arrays as quantum simulators of complex systems, in particular of topological low dimensional lattices. She also investigates the properties of low dimensional topological lattices and the role of the edge states for the transfer of quantum information with topological protection.

APS Fellowship Program

The APS Fellowship Program was created to recognize members who may have made advances in physics through original research and publication or made significant innovative contributions in the application of physics to science and technology. They may also have made significant contributions to the teaching of physics or service and participation in the activities of the Society, according to the APS webpage.

Fellowship is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers. Each year, no more than one-half of one percent of the Society’s membership (excluding student members) is recognized by their peers for election to the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society.

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