Research interests: superconducting devices, quantum impurities, renormalization group techniques, cold atoms, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, quantum technologies, quantum communications, computational physics and computer algebra, FPGAs and RFSOCs, random number generators.

Recent publications:

Correlation between two distant quasiparticles in separate superconducting islands mediated by a single spin Juan Carlos Estrada Saldaña, Alexandros Vekris, Luka Pavešič, Rok Žitko, Kasper Grove-Rasmussen, Jesper Nygård Nat. Commun. 15:3465 (2024) (PDF)

Direct manipulation of a superconducting spin qubit strongly coupled to a transmon qubit Marta Pita-Vidal, Arno Bargerbos, Rok Žitko, Lukas J. Splitthoff, Lukas Grünhaupt, Jaap J. Wesdorp, Yu Liu, Leo P. Kouwenhoven, Ramón Aguado, Bernard van Heck, Angela Kou, Christian Kraglund Andersen Nat. Phys. 19, 1110 (2023) (PDF)

Spin-orbital Yu-Shiba-Rusinov states in single Kondo molecular magnet Hui-Nan Xia, Emi Minamitani, Rok Žitko, Zhen-Yu Liu, Xin Liao, Min Cai, Zi-Heng Ling, Wen-Hao Zhang, Svetlana Klyatskaya, Mario Ruben, Ying-Shuang Fu Nat. Commun. 13, 6388 (2022) (PDF)

Events: WQD 2024: World Quantum Day

Radio: Frekvenca X: Prvi koraki do kvantne premoči (VAL 202, Jan 2021, three-part podcast, Slovenian language)
Part 2: Teleportacija? Tudi to je mogoče! Part 3: Varne komunikacije in nevaren nadzor

TV: “(Spre)govori znanost – Kvantne tehnologije prihodnosti: Smo na pragu nove revolucije? (AKTV - 11.5.2023, Slovenian language)