Petr Zapletal

Petr Zapletal, Ph.D.

Institute of Theoretical Physics
Chair of Theoretical Physics

Room: Room 02.771
Staudtstraße 7
91058 Erlangen

Short CV

2024 – Present MSCA postdoctoral fellow
Return phase: Institute for Theoretical Physics II, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
Host: Prof. Michael J. Hartmann
2023  – 2024 MSCA postdoctoral fellow
Outgoing phase: University of Basel, Switzerland
Host: Prof. Christoph Bruder
2020  – 2023 Postdoctoral researcher
Institute for Theoretical Physics II, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
Advisor: Prof. Michael J. Hartmann
2017  – 2020 PhD in Physics
University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Supervisor: Prof. Andreas Nunnenkamp
2014  – 2017 Master of Sciences in Physics
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany
Supervisor: Prof. Florian Marquardt
2011 – 2014 Bachelor in Physics and Mathematical Physics
Palacky University Olomouc, Czech Republic
Supervisor: Prof. Radim Filip

Petr is generally interested in the intersection of quantum optics, mesoscopic physics and condensed matter physics. During his PhD, he has focused on the interplay of dissipation and nonlinear dynamics in optomechanical and photonic systems, studying the dynamics of synthetic gauge fields for photons, lasing in topological photonic structures as well as the stabilization of non-Gaussian entangled quantum states in Kerr resonator arrays. He is currently investigating the simulation of quantum many-body physics on quantum computers, including quantum machine learning for the recognition of quantum phases of matter.

Publications on the arXiv and Google Scholar.

2023 – 2025 Hybrid quantum-classical neural networks for the characterization of noisy intermediate scale quantum computers
Global Postdoctoral Fellowship, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (EU Horizon Europe)