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New cross-site paper on chaotic fluctuations in superconducting transmons
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...
Great kick-start of ML4Q Concepts seminar series
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...
David Gross at the Karl Rahner Akademie
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...
Midel Photonics awarded 3rd prize for business pitch after a 10-week-incubation by High-Tech.NRW
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...
Congratulations to David Wierichs on his first author publication!
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...
ML4Q Concepts seminar series starting in December
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...
Yoichi Ando among the Highly Cited Researchers 2020 in Physics
ML4Q is proud to announce that the cluster´s Spokesperson, Professor Yoichi Ando, has been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant influence in their...
Achim Rosch receives the Max Delbrück Future Prize 2020
In acknowledgement of his excellent research in the last 6 years, Achim Rosch has been awarded the Max-Delbrück-Zukunftspreis 2020. With this award, the University of Cologne supports outstanding faculty members in Natural Sciences. See the full list of award winners...
Two papers by David DiVincenzo to be included in the 50th Anniversary Milestone collection of Physical Review A
As part of the celebrations of Physical Review A's 50th anniversary, the journal is highlighting a collection of milestone papers. The collection contains papers that have made important contributions to atomic, molecular, and optical physics and quantum...
Registration open to join “Condensates of Light 2020”
Martin Weitz, ML4Q site representative at the University of Bonn, is one of five organizers of the three-day workshop Condensates of Light. This year the workshop is taking place online from December 9 to December 11. Registration is now open! About the workshop...
ML4Q @ STEM Virtual Career Fair
ML4Q is once again participating as part of the Quantum Alliance at the STEM virtual career fair for junior researchers organized by Research in Germany on 7 July 2020. Meet representatives from the Quantum Alliance, which unites Clusters of Excellence and research...
ML4Q @ QA Community Event
The first community event organized by the Quantum Alliance brought together more than 100 scientists working in Germany's Cluster of Excellence in Quantum Science and Technology. Postdocs and PhD students from ML4Q, MCQST, ct.qmat, QuantumFrontiers, IQST,...
Call now open for ML4Q’s Undergraduate Internship Research Program
ML4Q Research School is glad to announce its new Undergraduate Research Internship Program. Physics students interested in quantum science and technologies can get the chance to acquire hands-on experience during an 8-12 weeks long research stay iin one of our groups...
Tommaso Calarco joins the round table discussion @ European Quantum Week
It is an exciting week for the quantum community and parallel to the Berlin Science Week, the European Quantum Week is organized by the European Quantum Flagship, with the collaboration of the European Commission, as an online multi-modular event. The program...
ML4Q now partner in the NSF-funded “Global Quantum Leap” project led by the University of Minnesota
ML4Q has joined a newly funded project led by the University of Minnesota which aims to accelerate the discovery of next generation computing and communications systems by creating a "network of networks". The project, which is called Global Quantum Leap (GQL) and...
Congratulations to Marvin Jansen on his first publication!
Marvin M. Jansen, PhD student in the group of Alexander Pawlis at PGI-9 of the Forschungszentrum Jülich, successfully published his findings in ACS Appl. Nano Mater. His work entitled "Phase-Pure Wurtzite GaAs Nanowires Grown by Self-Catalyzed Selective Area...
Community event for PhD students and postdocs
ML4Q is glad to announce the upcoming networking event for the quantum science community in Germany. Take the opportunity to get an overview of the broad scope of quantum research in Germany. Interact with PhD students and postdocs from other quantum research...
First blog article now online!
How do you start a blog? By writing on how hard it is to start a blog! We are glad that Christian Dickel (Ando lab) encouraged some of our scientists to be part of this communication effort. He wrote the first blog article sharing some thoughts on writing in science,...
Mister Quantum Manifesto and the two body problem
Kilian Kirchgaßner writes about Tommaso Calarco in this enjoyable read portraying him as one of the most influential scientists in the field of quantum physics who likes to have his guitar within reach and who almost ended up as a primary school teacher. Tommaso...
New publication in Nature Communications
In a joint work between the Kroha group (core project 4.1), the Kirchner group (Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, China) and the Lin group (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), new findings were reported in Nature Communications. The...
Tatjana Wilk in an interview with Science Business on Germany’s Covid-19 recovery fund
ML4Q as part of the Quantum Alliance reacted to the government’s COVID-19 recovery fund which dedicates 2 billion euros for research on quantum technologies with a press release which stressed the crucial role of the German universities in educating and training...
Yoichi Ando @ 1st PSI Condensed Matter Summer Camp 2020
Yoichi Ando will be speaking at the 1st PSI Condensed Matter Summer Camp 2020. The online workshop will focus on topological aspects in condensed matter. It will cover keynote lectures on topology, frustrated magnetism, topological band structures, 2D materials,...
Annual report 2019 now online
ML4Q set off in 2019 for a long collaborative journey. The cluster is currently involving over 150 members and associated members in our research programs and this number is constantly growing. Have a glimpse of how ML4Q makes use of the resources made available to...
Paper accepted for publication in Nature Communications
In Fedorova et al., Nature Communications published the latest results of the groups of Hans Kroha and Stefan Linden within Focus Area 4.1.
Betelgeuse and his small little brother
Wonderful lines by Barbara Terhal about the tiny virus that holds the world in its firm grip. Barbara's poem is published on the QuTech blog, Bits of Quantum, and discusses wonderfully how the biggest and smallest mysteries in our cosmos might be related and how we...
Not a chalk fanatic anymore
Lessons learned by ML4Q principal investigator Alex Altland on how not only teaching methods but his own view of teaching changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more on page 17 in the new issue of the Kölner Universitätsmagazin [article in German]. Also featured...
ML4Q @ Research in Germany Virtual Career Fair
ML4Q is participating as part of the Quantum Alliance at the virtual career fair for junior researchers organized by Research in Germany on 7 July 2020. Meet representatives from the Quantum Alliance, which unites Clusters of Excellence and research centers active in...
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch appointed Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute PGI-12 at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch who has been a member of the cluster's advisory board has now accepted a joint appointment of the Saarland University and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. In his new role as Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute, Quantum Computing Analytics...
2 billions for quantum technologies
ML4Q as part of the Quantum Alliance salutes the government’s economic stimulus package which dedicates 2 billion euros for research on quantum technologies. The Alliance stresses the crucial role of the German universities in educating and training future quantum...
Tommaso Calarco invited by NMWP to talk about the second quantum revolution
The coordination office QT.NMWP.NRW which is dedicated to bring quantum technology scientists and industry in NRW together and foster know-how transfer in the region, invited Tommaso Calarco to give a seminar on the second quantum revolution. After a brief history of...