On September 1, 2021, the first episode of the podcast of Germany’s Clusters of Excellence was released: “Exzellent erklärt (excellenty explained) – cutting-edge research for all”. This month the first episode on quantum science was released, featuring the Munich Cluster of Excellence MCQST. Our ML4Q episode has been shortly recorded and is planned to be published next March. So stay tuned.

The episode hosts Prof. Harald Weinfurter and Prof. Kai Müller who are conducting research in the field of quantum communication. After the introduction of some basics of quantum physics, they explain the principle behind quantum key distribution and quantum cryptography.