Internship/Stage - Hardware Engineering - Quantum Optics

at  Thales

Location: Tubize, Belgium
Thales people architect solutions at the heart of the defence-security continuum. Interoperable and secure information and telecommunications systems for defence, security, and civil operators, are based upon innovative use of radiocommunications, networks, and cybersecurity. We are ground breaking new digital technologies such as 4G/5G mobile communications, cryptography, cloud computing and big data for use in physical protection systems, and critical information systems.
Thales Belgium SA, Belgium competence center of Thales, is a company located on 2 sites, one in Tubize (near Brussels) and the other one in Herstal (near Liège). Thales Belgium, which employs more than 280 collaborators, is specialized in the design, development and supply of critical information systems for customers in the sectors of Defense, Security (including Cyber) and Aerospace.

This document outlines the proposal for a six-month internship opportunity at Thales Belgium (TBE) in the Hardware Department. The purpose of this internship is to provide a framework of the activities to be carried out, define the goals, and set the expectations for the student and the company. More precisely, the Hardware Department at Thales Belgium is seeking exceptional students in Physics to join our team for a six-month internship. This internship will focus on improving a Python code [1] used for simulating several complex phenomena related to Rydberg physics in alkaline earth atoms. The intern will be involved in enhancing the code to simulate:

• Alkali Rydberg States and Stark Maps: Computation of highly-excited atomic states and their energy shifts under external electric fields.
• Pair-State Interactions for Alkaline Earths: Modeling the interactions between pairs of Rydberg atoms, which is crucial for understanding entanglement and other quantum effects.
• Perturbative van der Waals C6 Calculations: Calculations within manifolds of energy-degenerate states to understand long-range interatomic forces.
• Inter-Species Pair-State Calculations: Simulating interactions between different types of atoms in Rydberg states to explore multi-species systems.
• Sensitivity analysis : Simulating the sensitivity of Rydberg atom based sensors to electromagnetic fields.

• Alkali Rydberg States and Stark Maps: Computation of highly-excited atomic states and their energy shifts under external electric fields.
• Pair-State Interactions for Alkaline Earths: Modeling the interactions between pairs of Rydberg atoms, which is crucial for understanding entanglement and other quantum effects.
• Perturbative van der Waals C6 Calculations: Calculations within manifolds of energy-degenerate states to understand long-range interatomic forces.
• Inter-Species Pair-State Calculations: Simulating interactions between different types of atoms in Rydberg states to explore multi-species systems.
• Sensitivity analysis : Simulating the sensitivity of Rydberg atom based sensors to electromagnetic fields