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:

Variational solution of the superconducting Anderson impurity model and the band-edge singularity phenomena Teodor Ilicin, Rok Zitko SciPost Phys. 19, 006 (2025) (PDF)

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)

Openings: We are looking for qualified post-doc candidates for joining SQUASH, the Slovenian quantum science hub. The first call is now open (deadline Aug 30, 2025). If you are interested in pursuing research on quantum devices, impurity physics or correlated electron systems in our group, please contact me!

Events: WQD 2025: World Quantum Day and IYQ 2025: International year of quantum science and technology