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Michael Kastoryano is now Senior Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Michael Kastoryano - ML4Q PI in Focus Area 3 - will start his new appointment as Senior Research Scientist at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in March. He joined the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Cologne as an Assistant Professor in 2017. His...
ML4Q Conference 2020
Concluding the first funding year, ML4Q members and associated members met in Schleiden from Feb 5 to Feb 7. On the first day, progress in all four Focus Areas was introduced in two plenary session followed up by a poster slam session. Focus Area meetings were held on...
ML4Q in the NMWP magazine
The NanoMicroMaterialsPhotonics.NRW cluster magazine dedicates its first issue in 2020 to Quantum Technologies and reports on highlights from research and industry, politics and society as well as from the cluster and the association. Flip here through the issue and...
Hendrik Bluhm at the “Physikwoche 2020”
The RWTH Aachen invites at the beginning of each year talented high-school students to dive into the world of physics for a whole week. The “Physikwoche 2020” is taking place from 20.-24.01.2020 and will be focusing on light and related phenomena.In his lecture...
Irreversible splitting of light
In a combined effort of the research groups of Martin Weitz and Achim Rosch within Focus Area 4, new findings were published in Science. Kurtscheid et al. introduce a method of irreversibly, but coherently, populating a split state with photons by thermalizing the...
Hendrik Bluhm at the “Wissenschaftsnacht 2019”
The RWTH Aachen opened its doors in the night of November 8 and welcomed about 6000 visitors who participated in many science shows and demonstrations organized by different university institutes.ML4Q principal investigator, Hendrik Bluhm, held a lecture on quantum...
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David Gross on Google’s claim for quantum supremacy in an interview with Kölncampus Radio [Interview in German]
Listen to this interview with David Gross as he comments on Google’s latest claim on achieving a proof of quantum supremacy. Gross explains why the first quantum computer developed by Google could perform a calculation that is impossible for a standard computer, yet...
![Tommaso Calarco on Google’s claim for quantum supremacy in DER SPIEGEL [Article in German]](https://ml4q.de/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/20191023_Spiegel-Netzwelt-mit-Tommaso-400x250.png)
Tommaso Calarco on Google’s claim for quantum supremacy in DER SPIEGEL [Article in German]
In an interview with DER SPIEGEL, Tommaso Calarco comments on the latest news on Google’s quantum computer outperforming classical computers. As exciting as this development is from a scientific perspective, Calarco points out remaining huge challenges until useful...
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Frank-Wilhelm Mauch at the #heiseshow on the future of quantum computers [Video in German]
The #heiseshow talks to Frank Wilhelm-Mauch on the future of quantum computers, their potential as opposed to classical computers and breaking news on Google achieving a milestone proving quantum supremacy. Watch the video here!
ML4Q Journal Club on Quantum Supremacy
Join us at the ML4Q Journal Club to discuss Google’s latest announcement. How much holds true in Google’s claim for being able to proof quantum supremacy? David Gross and Mateus Araùjo will shed light on the theoretical background of Google’s quantum computing...
ML4Q in Berlin
The Research Center Jülich and the RWTH Aachen will join a roundtable organized by the Metropolitan Region Rhineland e.V. at the representative quarters of NRW (Landesvertretung des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen) in Berlin. The roundtable brings together politicians,...
ML4Q at the first Fall Meeting of the DPG
The German Physical Society (DPG) launched a new meeting format dedicated to a research theme identified by its three sections. The first DPG Fall Meeting addresses Quantum Science and its relation to Information Technologies.ML4Q is participating at the meeting as...