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MINT Fans und Teens aufgepasst! Hast Du schon mal was von Quantencomputern gehört? Vielleicht bist Du auch schon einigen verrückten Phänomenen der Quantenphysik im Unterricht begegnet? Oder auch noch nicht? Am Quanteen Day 2022 wollen wir uns der Faszination...
First podcast episode on quantum science on Exzellent erklärt
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...
Nature Reviews Physics: Oliver Breunig and Yoichi Ando review opportunities of topological insulator devices
Topological insulators hold promise as a platform for unique quantum phenomena. However, realizing these phenomena experimentally requires sophisticated devices. In a Technical Review in Nature Reviews Physics, ML4Q spokesperson Yoichi Ando and ML4Q associated member...
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch talks at “Quantum Weihnacht” about prospects of industrial use cases for quantum computing
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 ML4Q member, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, to join the online event "A Quantum Christmas". The event...
New insights in thin topological insulator films published in Advanced Quantum Technologies
Several scientists around ML4Q members, Bert Voigtländer, Stefan Tautz and Detlev Grützmacher, at Forschungszentrum Jülich have succeeded in taking an important step towards the realization of novel electronic components. Using a special four-tip scanning tunneling...
Topologically interesting through a bit more of Manganese – new publication in Advanced Materials
In a coordinated work with Gunther Springholz (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) and Oliver Rader (Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin for Materials and Energy), ML4Q member Markus Morgenstern at RWTH Aachen published the results of recent work on ferromagnetic topological...
Yoichi Ando on the list of Highly Cited Researchers 2021
ML4Q is proud to announce that the cluster´s Spokesperson, Professor Yoichi Ando, has been once again named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2021 list from Clarivate. The highly anticipated annual list identifies researchers who demonstrated significant...
New podcast episode with Dagmar Bruss
ML4Q&A continues featuring theoretical physicists in ML4Q. In the third episode, Kathrin Dorn (PhD student, Egger group) speaks to Dagmar Bruss, professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physcs III in Düsseldorf. They talk about Dagmar's passion about quantum...
New publication in Physical Review X by the Diehl group
Effective Theory for the Measurement-Induced Phase Transition of Dirac Fermions The recent discovery of a novel type of phase transition - driven by the competition between a quantum system’s internal evolution and its external observation - has sparked significant...
OpenSuperQ project film just released
In the last few years, quantum computing has been elevated from a basic research concept towards a viable cloud quantum computer, which will be affecting people’s everyday lives in multiple ways. The European research project OpenSuperQ is building a quantum computer...
ML4Q Professor Erwann Bocquillon officially appointed at University of Cologne
Erwann Bocquillon was appointed by the University of Cologne to start his ML4Q professorship as of October 1st. He will join the Institute of Physics II and will focus in his research on topological quantum computing architectures. Erwann is moving to Cologne after...
Call now open for ML4Q’s undergraduate internship program 2022
ML4Q Research School is glad to announce its 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 in...
From Google back to Europe and Academia
As a newly appointed PGI Director, Rami Barends transitioned this summer from Google to Jülich in order to expand the internationally outstanding research on new computer technologies at Jülich and put quantum computer architectures into practice. At Google, Barends...
Results of joint work between the Kennes and Trebst groups published in Nature Communication
ML4Q researchers from Aachen (Kennes group) and Cologne (Trebst group) have published with colleagues from Hamburg and the US a Nature Communications paper on the collective behavior of twisted bilayer MoS2 in the presence of interactions. In the study, the authors...
New paper in Quantum Science and Technology
In their recent publication, David DiVincenzo and Cica Gustiani report on new findings concering blind oracular quantum computation (BOQC) schemes. They present an optimized BOQC scheme which possesses the same security as BOQC and is runnable with minimal physical...
Annual report 2020 now online
Our journey continues as the cluster grows to involve almost 200 members and associated members. Despite – or rather because of the shift to video-conferencing – cross-group collaborations intensified and brought forth more than 20 joint publications. Flip through the...
Anne Matthies is this week’s “Physikerin der Woche”
ML4Q associated member Anne Matthies is featured by the German Physical Society (DPG) this week in Physikerin der Woche. Since January 2018, the working group on equal opportunities of the DPG highlights weekly women in physics in Germany or German women in physics...
New publication: Spin-valley coupling in single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dots
The 2D Materials and Quantum Devices Group published new results on low-energy single-electron spectra in bilayer graphene quantum dots. Publication: Banszerus, L., Möller, S., Steiner, C. et al. Spin-valley coupling in single-electron bilayer graphene quantum dots....
Tommaso Calarco speaks to Der Standard on the potential of quantum computing
Following his participation in a plenary session on Quantum Computing at the Alpbach Technology Symposium, Tommaso Calarco was interviewed by the Austrian Der Standard on the potential of Quantum Computing and how it can affect developments in Artificial Intelligence...
Alex Altland awarded the Albertus-Magnus-Lehrpreis
Congratulations to Alexander Altland for winning the Albertus Magnus Teaching Award for the Department of Physics at the Universtity of Cologne in the winter semester 20/21. The award is given each semester by the students of the individual departments to lecturers...
ExzellentErklärt – the podcast of Germany’s Clusters of Excellence goes online
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". The podcast on current scientific topics reflects the research diversity of the...
Podcast with Frank Wilhelm-Mauch on Quantum Computers
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch was invited to speak about quantum computers in the Resonator podcast, the research podcast of the Helmholtz Association. In a two-hour-chat with Holger Klein, Frank talks about the principle of quantum computing, the quantum supremacy...
Finally in person – postdocs and PhD students discuss science and more in Westerwald
It was a long debate whether to stick with the online format or try to meet in person. We are glad we took the risk for the latter. The many lunch and coffee breaks, discussion groups, poster sessions, outdoor networking activities, Git and coding workshops and of...
Pascal Cerfontaine first winner of the Quantum Futur Award for best PhD thesis
Congratulations to Pascal Cerfontaine for winning the Quantum Futur Award 2021 (BMBF)! His pitch on August 26 convinced the jury to award him the first prize for best PhD project which is endowed with 6.000 Euro. His PhD thesis is entitled: "High-Fidelity Single- and...
Science on the run – Kathrin Dorn talks about Schrödinger’s Cat at Soapbox Science
ML4Q associated member Kathrin Dorn joined the Soapbox Science event in Cologne this weekend. The international Soapbox Science event celebrates its 10th anniversary this year with 45 events in 15 countries. The goal is to bring science to the people and challenge...
Fulbright-Cottrell Award for outstanding teacher-scholars goes to Simon Stellmer
In acknowledgement by his scientific community on both sides of the Atlantic for the quality and innovation of his research programs and academic leadership skills, Simon Stellmer was awarded the Fulbright-Cottrell Award 2021. The award is granted by the...
Science Advances: Reappearance of first Shapiro step in narrow topological Josephson junctions
Science Advances: Reappearance of first Shapiro step in narrow topological Josephson junctions The state of a topological quantum bit is defined by the arrangement of two Majorana zero modes in space and time. In condensed matter, these quasiparticles thatconstitute...
ML4Q Technology Day 2021
For the first time, ML4Q partnered with QT.NMWP.NRW to bring together ML4Q’s early career scientists with experts from the corporate world on the ML4Q Technology Day 2021. Company representatives from Elmos, Eleqtron, Fraunhofer ILT, IDQ, E.ON, Pasqal, Rigetti and...
Ars legendi faculty prize for excellent teaching 2020 goes to Christoph Stampfer, Sebastian Staacks and Heidrun Heinke
Congratulations to Christoph Stampfer, Sebastian Staacks and Heidrun Heinke on the ars legendi faculty prize for excellent teaching in physics in 2020! If you are interested to know more about Christoph Stampfers group, then visit his institute website.If you are...
New podcast episode with David Gross
ML4Q&A continues featuring theoretical physicists in ML4Q. In the second episode, Chris Dickel is talking to David Gross, professor in Cologne and vice spokesperson of the ML4Q cluster. David’s research interests lie on the application of rigorous mathematical...