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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...
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 the 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: "Applications of...