ML4Q&A with Steven Koester – listen to our first external guest from the Global Quantum Leap program!

We are excited to have our first external guest on the show. Steven Koester, Professor of Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, is joining us mainly as the Director of the Global Quantum Leap...

Frank Wilhelm-Mauch @ Highlights der Physik in Kiel

Frank Wilhelm-Mauch hält Vortrag bei den Highlights der Physik in Kiel Am 26. September war ML4Q Mitglied, Prof. Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, zu Gast bei den Highlights der Physik in Kiel. In seinem Vortrag sprach er über mögliche Anwendungen von Quantencomputern,...

Michael Buchhold co-authors a Nature Physics paper on a Hubbard exciton fluid in Mott insulators

Michael Buchhold co-authors a Nature Physics paper on a Hubbard exciton fluid in Mott insulators A Hubbard exciton fluid in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator is the title of a paper arising from a cooperation between ML4Q member, Michael Buchhold...

Postdoc Appreciation Week

It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...

Postdoc Appreciation Week – meet Guo-Yi

It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...

Summary

About ML4Q

“Matter and Light for Quantum Computing” (ML4Q) is a Cluster of Excellence established in 2019 within the Excellence Strategy of the German federal and state governments. In ML4Q, scientists from the universities of Cologne, Aachen and Bonn as well as Forschungszentrum Jülich come together to spearhead quantum computing research.

ML4Q at a glance (download link)
A brief introduction to the Excellence Strategy (video link)

Science

The aim of ML4Q is to develop new computing and networking architectures using the principles of quantum mechanics. Computing and networking power beyond anything classically imaginable would make quantum computers powerful tools in key areas such as materials design, pharmaceutics, or artificial intelligence. Quantum communication could be made effectively secure.
ML4Q builds on and expands the complementary expertise in the three key research fields (solid-state physics, quantum optics, and quantum information science) at the partner institutions in order to develop the best hardware platform for quantum information technology, and provide comprehensive blueprints for a functional quantum information network.