NIST PREP Postdoc Associate in Experimental Quantum Network Metrology

This position is part of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Professional Research Experience Program (PREP). NIST recognizes that its research staff may want to collaborate with researchers at academic institutions on specific projects of mutual interest and, therefore, requires those institutions to be recipients of a PREP award. The PREP program involves staff from a wide range of backgrounds conducting scientific research across various fields.

Individuals in this position will perform technical work supporting the collaboration's scientific research.

Research Title: Experimental Quantum Network Metrology, Physicist The work will entail:

The candidate will work on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland, within the Quantum Information Groups (QIG) Quantum Communication and Networking Project, and work with experts at NIST in the field of quantum information, our collaborators in academia and industry, and will have the opportunity to make use of cutting-edge equipment, such as photon-number resolving detectors and extremely high-quality single-photon sources and will be part of and work on the ongoing effort to develop new measurement science and devices for quantum networks, including sources, detectors, memories, transducers, metrology, and protocols. U.S. citizenship is preferred.

U.S.

Citizen

Preferred

Key responsibilities will include but are not limited to:

• Work with NIST researchers, academia, and industry to develop and test QN components.

• Develop methods and protocols for verification and validation of entanglement links using entangled states of light within the (metropolitan) quantum network testbed.

• Synchronization of network nodes to sub-10 ps levels on metropolitan scales.

• In-situ characterization of fiber-links, e.g. polarization, optical path length, loss, noise, etc.