Curriculum vitae

Research experience

  • Since 2019: Senior postdoctoral reseacher, Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia.
  • 2017–2019: Postdoctoral researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Erlangen, Germany.
  • 2013–2017: Ph.D. research assistant, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
  • 2012–2013: M.Sc. research assistant, Department of Optics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia.

Education

  • 2013–2017: Ph.D., Theoretical Physics, Leibniz University Hannover, Germany.
    Dissertation: Novel approaches to optomechanical transduction
  • 2011–2013: M.Sc., Optics and Optoelectronics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia.
    Thesis: Transformations of continuous-variable entangled states of light
  • 2011–2012: Exchange studies, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.
  • 2008–2011: B.Sc., Optics and Optoelectronics, Palacký University Olomouc, Czechia.
    Thesis: Numerical simulation of dynamics of quantum systems using stochastic wave-function method

Teaching

  • 2013–2014, summer semester: Introductory Quantum Mechanics
    I was responsible for designing and correcting computer exercises for this undergraduate course.

Publications

Peer-reviewed articles

Preprints of all my articles are freely available on my arXiv page.

  1. I. Pietikäinen, O. Černotík, S. Puri, R. Filip, and S. M. Girvin, Controlled beam splitter gate transparent to dominant ancilla errors, Quantum Science and Technology 7, 035025 (2022). Open access.
  2. F. Bemani, O. Černotík, L. Ruppert, D. Vitali, and R. Filip, Force sensing in an optomechanical system with feedback-controlled in-loop light, Physical Review Applied 17, 034020 (2022).
  3. A. K. Chauhan, O. Černotík, and R. Filip, Stationary Gaussian entanglement between levitated nanoparticles, New Journal of Physics 22, 123021 (2020). Open access.
  4. I. Pietikäinen, O. Černotík, and R. Filip, Combining Floquet and Lyapunov techniques for time-dependent problems in optomechanics and electromechanics, New Journal of Physics 22, 063019 (2020). Open access.
  5. O. Černotík and R. Filip, Strong mechanical squeezing for a levitated particle by coherent scattering, Physical Review Research 2, 013052 (2020). Open access.
  6. O. Černotík, A. Dantan, and C. Genes, Cavity electrodynamics with frequency-dependent reflectors, Physical Review Letters 122, 243601 (2019).
  7. O. Černotík, C. Genes, and A. Dantan, Interference effects in hybrid cavity optomechanics, Quantum Science and Technology 4, 024002 (2019). Open access.
  8. O. Černotík, S. Mahmoodian, and K. Hammerer, Spatially adiabatic frequency conversion in optoelectromechanical arrays, Physical Review Letters 121, 110506 (2018).
  9. O. Černotík and K. Hammerer, Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement of superconducting qubits using optomechanical transducers, Physical Review A 94, 012340 (2016).
  10. O. Černotík, D.V. Vasilyev, and K. Hammerer, Adiabatic elimination of Gaussian subsystems from quantum dynamics under continuous measurement, Physical Review A 92, 012124 (2015).
  11. O. Černotík and J. Fiurášek, Transformations of symmetric multipartite Gaussian states by Gaussian local operations and classical communication, Physical Review A 89, 042331 (2014).
  12. O. Černotík and J. Fiurášek, Displacement-enhanced continuous-variable entanglement concentration, Physical Review A 86, 052339 (2012).

Preprints

  1. A. K. Chauhan, O. Černotík, and R. Filip, Tuneable Gaussian entanglement in levitated nanoparticle arrays, arXiv:2206.07366 (2022).
  2. O. Černotík, I. Pietikäinen, S. Puri, S. M. Girvin, and R. Filip, Swap-test interferometry with biased ancilla noise, arXiv:2112.02568 (2021).

Popular science articles

  1. O. Černotík, How to build internet for quantum computers, Quantum Views 2, 9 (2018).

Presentations

Invited talks

  1. Ancilla-error-transparent swap tests in circuit quantum electrodynamics, Charles University in Prague, Czechia, 27 May 2021.
  2. Improved optomechanical interactions for quantum technologies: from hybrid membranes to optical levitation, Joint Quantum Institute, University of Maryland, College Park (MD), USA, 8 October 2019.
  3. Improved optomechanical interactions for quantum technologies: from hybrid membranes to optical levitation, Yale Quantum Institute, Yale University, New Haven (CT), USA, 4 October 2019.
  4. Novel approaches to optomechanical transduction, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Denmark, 18 April 2018.
  5. Quantum networks with superconducting circuits and optomechanical transducers, IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria, 10 November 2016.
  6. Quantum force sensing with optomechanical transducers, Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Erlangen–Nuremberg, Germany, 19 July 2016.
  7. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement with optomechanical transducers, Department of Optics, Palacký Unviersity Olomouc, Czechia, 23 September 2015.
  8. Hybrid quantum systems: Interfacing optical, electrical, and mechanical degrees of freedom, student seminar of the Department of Optics, Palacký Unviersity Olomouc, Nová Lhota, Czechia, 14 September 2015.
  9. Transformations of continuous-variable entangled states of light, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 8 July 2013.

Contributed talks

  1. Swap-test interferometry with biased ancilla noise, APS March Meeting, Chicago (IL), USA, 17 March 2022.
  2. Gaussian control and readout of levitated nanoparticles via coherent scattering, APS March Meeting (online), 16 March 2021.
  3. Controlling the motion of levitated particles by coherent scattering, APS March Meeting (online), 3 March 2020.
  4. Interference effects in cavity optomechanics with hybridized membranes, APS March Meeting, Boston (MA), USA, 6 March 2019.
  5. Novel approaches to optomechanical transduction, APS March Meeting, New Orleans (LA), USA, 16 March 2017.
  6. Novel approaches to optomechanical transduction, DPG Spring Meeting (AMOP section), Mainz, Germany, 10 March 2017.
  7. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement of superconducting qubits using optomechanical transducers, Quantum Interfaces with Nano-opto-electromechanical devices, Erice, Italy, 1 August 2016.
  8. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement of superconducting qubits using optomechanical transducers, Gordon Research Seminar Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura (CA), USA, 5 March 2016.
  9. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement of superconducting qubits using optomechanical transducers, DPG Spring Meeting (AMOP section), Hannover, Germany, 3 March 2016.
  10. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement using optomechanical transducers, Les Houches summer school Quantum optomechanics and nanomechanics, Les Houches, France, August 2015.
  11. Entangling distant superconducting qubits using nanomechanical transducers, DPG Spring Meeting (AMOP section), Heidelberg, Germany, 26 March 2015.

Conference posters

  1. Swap-test interferometry with biased ancilla noise, SuperQuLAN workshop on Superconducting Quantum Networks, Vienna, September 2022.
  2. Microwave entanglement created using swap tests with biased noise, 737th WE-Heraeus seminar Advances in Scalable Hardware Platforms for Quantum Computing, Bad Honnef, Germany, January 2021. Presented online.
  3. Gaussian states and gates for a levitating particle, 699th WE-Heraeus seminar Levitated Optomechanics, Bad Honnef, Germany, July 2019.
  4. Interference effects in doped cavity optomechanics, Current trends in open and nonequilibrium quantum optical systems, Erlangen, Germany, July 2018.
  5. Cavity optomechanics with variable polarizability mirrors, Gordon Research Conference Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura (CA), USA, February 2018.
  6. Spatially adiabatic frequency conversion in opto-electro-mechanical arrays, Frontiers of Circuit QED and Optomechanics, Klosterneuburg, Austria, February 2018.
  7. Measurement-induced long-distance entanglement of superconducting qubits using optomechanical transducers, Gordon Research Conference Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura (CA), USA, March 2016.
  8. Entangling distant superconducting qubits using nanomechanical transducers, 576th Wilhelm & Else Heraeus Seminar Designed Quantum States of Matter, Bad Honnef, Germany, December 2014.
  9. Transformations of continuous-variable entangled states of light, 11th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop, Znojmo, Czechia, June 2014.
  10. Transformations of continuous-variable entangled states of light, DPG Spring Meeting (AMOP section), Berlin, Germany, March 2014.
  11. Displacement-enhanced continuous-variable entanglement concentration, 22nd International Laser Physics Workshop, Prague, Czechia, July 2013.

Service

I am an active referee for various journals, including Physical Review Letters, PRX Quantum, Physical Review A, Quantum Science and Technology, New Journal Physics, Optics Letters, and Optics Express. A verified record of my peer-review activities can be found on my Publons profile.

Awards