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Heimspiel in Lauffen am Neckar surprises with overwhelming public interest
On December 14, 2023, "Physik made in Lauffen" took place in the town hall of Lauffen am Neckar... ... as part of the nationwide event series "Heimspiel Wissenschaft".With around 200 citizens, the event attracted significant public interest... ... encompassing both...
New podcast episode with Julian Schmitt
In the podcast's last episode in 2023, Chris talks to ML4Q member, Julian Schmitt, leader of the junior research group “Quantum fluids of light” at the University of Bonn. Julian recently received an ERC Starting Grant, the ML4Q Independence Grant. In 2022 he...
A Tale of Three Papers: Julian Schmitt looks back on his scientific journey over the past four years
Julian Schmitt looks back on his scientific journey over the past four yearsA Tale of Three Papers Julian Schmitt looks back on his scientific journey over the past four years Explore the world of quantum optics and photon Bose-Einstein condensates as we...
René Otten and Christian Gogolin on current developments at “Ein Quantum Weihnacht”
René Otten and Christian Gogolin on current developments at "Ein Quantum Weihnacht" The coordination office QT.NMWP.NRW which is dedicated to bring quantum technology scientists and industry in NRW together and stimulate know-how transfer in the region, invited ML4Q...
ML4Q members explain the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics
ML4Q members explain the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and Physics Two members of our cluster will be explaining this and next week the background of this year's Nobel prize in Chemistry and Physics. Both talks will be held in German. Within the "Die RWTH erklärt...
This month in Physical Review X: Quantum computers to test for the first time Jarzynski’s equality for many interacting particles
Quantum computers to test for the first time Jarzynski’s equality for many interacting particles Joint efforts including the Luitz (Bonn) and Rizzi (Cologne/Jülich) Groups yield results published in Physical Review X earlier this month Statistical mechanics is...
Grant Sanderson @ Bonn Physics Colloquium: Where Physics and Math collide
Full house at the Bonn Physics Colloquium: Grant Sanderson talks about where Physics and Math collide On Friday, November 17, 2023, the University of Bonn had the enormous pleasure of hosting Grant Sanderson, author of the mathematics youtube channel...
Qubit fractionalization induced by coherent errors and weak measurements
Qubit fractionalization and emergent Majorana liquid in the honeycomb Floquet code induced by coherent errors and weak measurements Use the slider to read the story of this paper as Simon Trebst summarizes it in 6 images: In quantum error correction,...
One year after the ML4Q Young Investigator Award – an interview with Andrea Bergschneider and Annika Kurzmann
One year after the ML4Q Young Investigator Award An interview with Andrea Bergschneider and Annika KurzmannLast November, the cluster awarded six early-career researchers the ML4Q Young Investigators Award, recognizing their noteworthy contributions to ML4Q. This...
Satellite-Based Quantum Key Distribution in the Presence of Bypass Channels
ML4Q associated member and Independence Grant Fellow, Frederico Grasselli (Bruss group, HHU Düsseldorf) co-authored a paper which was published on November 1st in PRX Quantum. In the joint work, the authors explore the security of discrete- and continuous-variable QKD...
Silvia Pappalardi awarded the Di Braccio Prize by the Italian Academy of Science
Silvia Pappalardi awarded the Di Braccio Prize by the Italian Academy of Science ML4Q Professor, Silvia Pappalardi, was awarded last November the Di Braccio Prize by the Italian Academy of Science (Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei). The prize is dedicated to...
Daqing Wang joins the University of Bonn as ML4Q Professor for Experimental Quantum Physics
Daqing Wang joins the University of Bonn as ML4Q Professor for Experimental Quantum Physics Daqing Wang was appointed by the University of Bonn to start his ML4Q professorship as of October 1st, 2023. He is now establishing his group at the Institute of Applied...
Quanteen Day 2024 – melde Dich jetzt an!
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 2024 wollen wir uns der Faszination...
„Heimspiel Wissenschaft“ mit Anne Matthies – neue Veranstaltungsreihe lädt zum Gespräch über aktuelle Forschung ein
„Heimspiel Wissenschaft“ mit Anne Matthies – neue Veranstaltungsreihe lädt zum Gespräch über aktuelle Forschung ein Schrödingers Katze tritt in Soltau auf: Am 12. Oktober spricht Physikerin Anne Matthies um 19 Uhr in der Bibliothek Waldmühle Soltau mit...
Quantenphysik begeistert rund 40 Familien bei Türen auf mit der Maus in der Kölner Physik
Annika lud in den Hörsaal ein, wo sie ihre Schatzkiste auspackte...... und Graphen präsentierte!... dabei erklärte sie was 2D Materialien sind...... und wie man 2D Graphen präparieren kann...Im Labor für Topologische Materie...... zeigt Jakob den Reinraum, wo...
ML4Q&A with Steven Koester – listen to our first external guest from the Global Quantum Leap program!
We are excited to have our first external guest on the show. Steven Koester, Professor of Nanotechnology in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Minnesota, is joining us mainly as the Director of the Global Quantum Leap...
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch @ Highlights der Physik in Kiel
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch hält Vortrag bei den Highlights der Physik in Kiel Am 26. September war ML4Q Mitglied, Prof. Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, zu Gast bei den Highlights der Physik in Kiel. In seinem Vortrag sprach er über mögliche Anwendungen von Quantencomputern,...
Michael Buchhold co-authors a Nature Physics paper on a Hubbard exciton fluid in Mott insulators
Michael Buchhold co-authors a Nature Physics paper on a Hubbard exciton fluid in Mott insulators A Hubbard exciton fluid in a photo-doped antiferromagnetic Mott insulator is the title of a paper arising from a cooperation between ML4Q member, Michael Buchhold...
Postdoc Appreciation Week
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – meet Guo-Yi
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Meet Renu
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – meet Andrea
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Meet Arnau
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Meet Kristof
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Postdoc Appreciation Week – Meet Daniel
It's Postdoc Appreciation Week! This week the global scientific community celebrates the Postdoc Appreciation Week (PAW) which was started in 2009 in the US by the National Postdoctoral Association to recognize the significant contributions postdocs and...
Annual Report 2022 now online
The Annual Report 2022 is now online! One of the central topics in this report is the midterm evaluation the cluster underwent in 2022 in order to ensure optimal project alignment and progress. This evaluation provided a valuable opportunity to assess the program’s...
Today on arXiv: Joint work by the Trebst group together with IBM Quantum on Nishimori transition
Today on arXiv: Joint work by the Trebst group together with IBM Quantum on Nishimori transition Update: The preprint was published on November 15 in Phys. Rev. Lett.Nishimori’s Cat: Stable Long-Range Entanglement from Finite-Depth Unitaries and Weak...
Topological states of light and matter in systems with trivial band structures
Topological states of light and matter in systems with trivial band structures Topological states of light and matter don't always require complicated lattice band structures. In their joint work, ML4Q members Julian Schmitt and Stefan Linden were able to...
Conference key agreement in a quantum network
ML4Q associated member and Independence Grant Fellow, Frederico Grasselli (Bruss group, HHU Düsseldorf) co-authored a paper which was published a few days ago in npj Quantum Information. The publication is a collaboration with Alexander Pickston, Joseph Ho,...