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4 ML4Q associates join Pint of Science Germany 2021

4 ML4Q associates join Pint of Science Germany 2021

Update on May 20: It was a delightful evening with more than 70 guests who joined our "Quantenrevolution" session. We talked about transferring ideas from the lab to the industry and how a world trip after his PhD had an impact on David's choice to turn into an...

Call now open for the Federico Tonielli Award

Call now open for the Federico Tonielli Award

Federico Tonielli was a PhD student at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in the group of Sebastian Diehl. He passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in June 2020 at the age of 27. In his honor, the Federico Tonielli Award will be offered this year for the first time...

Midel Photonics receives 0.75 MEUR seed funding

Midel Photonics receives 0.75 MEUR seed funding

David Dung, Frederik Wolf, Christopher Grossert and Christian Wahl were successful in spinning-off methods used within Focus Area 4 to produce laser beam-forming components for industrial purposes. Now the startup was selected for the “EXIST Research Transfer” funding...

Quantum Alliance @ APS March meeting

Quantum Alliance @ APS March meeting

From March 15th to 19th, more than 10.000 international physicists, scientists and students attended the APS’s first virtual event of this magnitude. Under the umbrella of the initiative Research in Germany, the Quantum Alliance provided detailed information on the...

Köhl group realizes quantum network node

Köhl group realizes quantum network node

The group of Michael Köhl succeeded in implementing a special interface between light and matter. In npj Quantum Information they report the realization of a quantum network node using a trapped ion inside a fiber-based Fabry–Perot cavity. They show the generation of...

The story behind phyphox – check out our new blog post!

The story behind phyphox – check out our new blog post!

Winter semester 2015 | RWTH Aachen University | When Christoph Stampfer was about to hold his "Experimental Physics I" lecture for the first time, he thought that first year physics students should conduct many of the classical mechanics experiments by themselves -...

Welcome to our new ML4Q members

Welcome to our new ML4Q members

Four new members were elected in the Member's Assembly that took place during the ML4Q Annual Conference last week: Markus Müller, Jeremy Witzens, Frank Wilhelm-Mauch and Sebastian Hofferberth. Markus Müller joined RWTH Aachen and Forschungszentrum Jülich in 2019 as a...

ML4Q Conference 2021

ML4Q Conference 2021

As the cluster goes into its third year of funding, over 150 ML4Q members and associated members met online from Feb 24 to Feb 26. Progress in the core projects was reported in 4 joint Focus Area sessions as well as 34 poster contributions. Keynote lectures were given...

New paper in Nature Communications

New paper in Nature Communications

ML4Q researchers from the Ando lab and the group of Achim Rosch as well as cooperating partners from the Department of Physics at the University of Basel and the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Cologne have published a Nature Communications paper...

Our first podcast episode is now online – with Martino Calzavara

Our first podcast episode is now online – with Martino Calzavara

The first episode of ML4Q&A is out now! In order to introduce this new format, I thought it makes sense to quickly answer the most frequent questions before you start listening.   What is ML4Q&A? In our new podcast series ML4Q&A we want to give researchers...

New insights on twisted van der Waals materials in Nature Physics

New insights on twisted van der Waals materials in Nature Physics

Together with researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Structure and Dynamics of Matter in Hamburg, the Flatiron Institute, Columbia University, and the Max Planck - New York City Center for Non-equilibrium Quantum Phenomena, Dante Kennes published results on the...

ML4Q featured in RWTH Themen

ML4Q featured in RWTH Themen

The new issue of RWTH Themen is now online. The issue's focus lies on the profile area "Information and Communication Technology". ML4Q contributed two articles about the cluster's mission (pages 25-27) as well as growing networks in the region that enhance...

Tommaso Calarco elected to acatech

Tommaso Calarco elected to acatech

Tommaso Calarco, Director at the Peter Grünberg Institute, Institute Division "Quantum Control" (PGI-8), and Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cologne is a new full member of acatech - German Academy of Science and Engineering. He was elected,...

DPG Industry Talk with Dieter Meschede

DPG Industry Talk with Dieter Meschede

Yesterday Dieter Meschede was invited by the Industrie-Club Bremen to give the opening talk of the Bremen Industry Talks entitled Quantentechnologie - Kuriosität oder technologische Revolution? [Quantum technologies - curiosity or technological revolution?]. Meschede...

Corinna Kollath named APS fellow

Corinna Kollath named APS fellow

Corinna Kollath was nominated by the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular & Optical Physics to become an APS fellow. The APS Fellowship Program is a distinct honor signifying recognition by one's professional peers for outstanding original research and publication,...

New PRX Quantum paper on multiparty device-independent cryptography

New PRX Quantum paper on multiparty device-independent cryptography

ML4Q researchers led by Dagmar Bruss at HHU Düsseldorf have published recent results on multipartite device-independent (DI) protocols showing tight security proofs of DI conference key agreement and DI randomness generation protocols. Congratulations to all the...

Compact, stable and color-tunable – news from the ML4Q Fiber Lab

Compact, stable and color-tunable – news from the ML4Q Fiber Lab

In Optics Express, scientists led by Dieter Meschede report on building optical fiber filters that are not only extremely compact and stable, but also color-tunable. Optical resonators or filters are important components cutting out very narrow spectral lines from...

New Nature paper on competing magnetic orders

New Nature paper on competing magnetic orders

ML4Q researchers from Bonn have published a Nature paper on competing magnetic orders in a bilayer Hubbard model with ultracold atoms - congratulations to all the authors on their impressive results! Details can be found in the press release. Publication: Marcell...