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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...
Kathrin Dorn on InstaLive in an interview with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation
In an interview with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on Instagram Live, Kathrin Dorn talked about quantum computers, how they are supposed to work and why they promise an advantage over classical computers. Kathrin is an associated member of ML4Q and currently working...
Was ist eigentlich Quantencomputing? The Konrad Adenauer Foundation interviews David DiVincenzo
David DiVincenzo was interviewed by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation on the fundamentals of quantum computing. In a 4-part publication, the Foundation highlights the basic concept of this future technology, possible applications, societal implications and provides...
Alexander Altland and Tommaso Calarco @ WDR5 Quarks Wissenschaft und mehr
Alex Altland and Tommaso Calarco were guests in WDR5 Quarks - Wissenschaft und mehr on March 30 where they explained the principle of quantum computer and elaborated on current challenges in research and development. In a quite straight-forward statement (00:25...
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
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...
New paper in Science – A new phase transition in the Bose-Einstein condensate now observed
ML4Q researchers from the groups of Martin Weitz and Johann Kroha in Bonn have published a Science paper on their new observation of a new phase transition of a photon Bose-Einstein condensate. 10 years after discovering the Bose-Einstein condensate, the researchers...
New insights into multipartite quantum communication published in Physical Review Research
ML4Q PhD student, Giacomo Carrara, published his first paper related to his work supervised by Gláucia Murta in the group of Dagmar Bruß. The group investigates the role of entanglement for the generalization of quantum key distribution to the multipartite scenario....
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
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!
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
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
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...
A new superconducting circuit could accelerate the realization of a fault-tolerant quantum computer
New theoretical work from the group of David DiVincenzo proposes a scheme to circumvent the necessity of active qubit stabilization and enable highly efficient hardware for future large-scale quantum processors. Congratulations to the authors! Together with colleagues...
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...
50 years “Die Maus” – all Cologne Clusters of Excellence congratulated
On Sunday, March 7, 1971, the first Sendung mit der Maus was broadcast. Over the last 50 years, more that 2200 episodes were produced by the WDR in Cologne explaining - not only to children - how everyday objects are manufactured and how they function. Die Maus has...
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
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
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, 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
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 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
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
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...
Emmy Noether Junior group leader Martin Kliesch joins the network of associated members of ML4Q
We are glad to welcome Martin Kliesch as junior professor at Heinrich Heine University and associated member of our cluster. Martin is leading the Quantum Technology group within the Emmy Noether funding program of the DFG. After completing his PhD studies in the...
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...