by Marian Barsoum | Dec 15, 2020 | 2020, Articles
Three cluster members joined efforts to discuss chaotic fluctuations in superconducting transmons. In their recent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.05923), the authors from the groups of Simon Trebst, Alexander Altland and David DiVincenzo investigate the possibility...
by Marian Barsoum | Dec 15, 2020 | 2020, Events
More that 120 cluster members and associated members joined in the first talk of the newly launched ML4Q Concepts seminar series. The first talk was given by Fabian Hassler who gave an introduction of Majorana fermions and their application potential in quantum...
by Marian Barsoum | Dec 10, 2020 | 2020, Events, News, Videos
Yesterday David Gross gave a lecture on quantum computers at the Karl Rahner Akademie in Cologne. Karl Rahner was a Jesuite priest and theologian who is considered to be one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He is known for...
by Marian Barsoum | Dec 3, 2020 | 2020, Prizes, Transfer
David Dung, Frederik Wolf and Christian Wahl were successful in spinning-off methods used within Focus Area 4 to produce laser beam-forming components for industrial purposes. The entrepreneurial team of Midel Photonics which combines scientific as well as business...
by Marian Barsoum | Nov 27, 2020 | 2020, Articles
Avoiding local minima in variational quantum eigensolvers with the natural gradient optimizer is the title of a recent publication in Focus Area 3.2. In the paper, David Wierichs (PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics Cologne), Christian Gogolin...
by Marian Barsoum | Nov 26, 2020 | 2020, Events, News
The first ML4Q Concepts seminar series will kick off in December and will have its first focus on Majorana fermions. ML4Q Concepts is designed to be the communication hub of the cluster and, at the same time, a think tank on quantum information science and...
