Quantum Technologies

Program abbreviation: KT
Program code: P0533D110034
Course duration: 4 years

Research field characteristics

Doctoral program Quantum Technologies is a multidisciplinary program that targets the education of top experts engaged in the research and scientific-technical practice in the fields of quantum technologies, especially quantum physics, information and communications, quantum optics, lasers, solids, nanomaterials, nanostructures and advanced characterization and modeling methods. Linking together the individual research areas distinguishes the doctoral program from already existing doctoral programs of closer physical and technical orientation, and opens up the possibility of a highly specialized education in the field of quantum technologies for students coming not only from the Czech Republic but also from abroad.
A unique feature of the new doctoral program is the emphasis on synergies between the highly specialized fields of quantum science. Study in the program will be closely linked with scientific-research activities of the research groups at FNSPE CTU in Prague and the collaborating institutions (particularly institutes of ASCR).

Graduate´s Profile

Doctoral program Quantum Technologies provide scientific education to talented students who have a solid educational foundation in the master's programs focusing on theoretical and applied physics, applied mathematics and computer science, physical electronics, physics and engineering of solids and materials characterization, and further extends and depends this foundation – on an interdisciplinary basis – onto more advanced and / or specific disciplines.
Graduate students of the program will be equipped with a deep theoretical knowledge of physics, mathematics and computer science, as well as specialized skills in the areas of quantum physics, quantum information theory, physics of solids and surfaces, optics and photonics, lasers, mathematical modeling, and preparation and characterization of nanostructures. Top experts for the newly emerging area of quantum technologies will recruit from graduates of the doctoral program, with application both in academia and the corporate basic and applied research and development of quantum technologies in the Czech Republic and the EU.
Based on our experience with education of students in different fields of modern physics, the commercial sector is likely to look for our graduates in such areas of research as quantum computers and quantum cryptography, development of special quantum generators and optical components, development of high-temperature superconductors and development of advanced functional materials and technologies. We also expect our graduates to succeed in the academic sphere, particularly in the departments and institutes of physics at technical and science universities.