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Mister Quantum Manifesto and the two body problem
Kilian Kirchgaßner writes about Tommaso Calarco in this enjoyable read portraying him as one of the most influential scientists in the field of quantum physics who likes to have his guitar within reach and who almost ended up as a primary school teacher. Tommaso...
New publication in Nature Communications
In a joint work between the Kroha group (core project 4.1), the Kirchner group (Zhejiang Institute of Modern Physics and Department of Physics, China) and the Lin group (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), new findings were reported in Nature Communications. The...
Tatjana Wilk in an interview with Science Business on Germany’s Covid-19 recovery fund
ML4Q as part of the Quantum Alliance reacted to the government’s COVID-19 recovery fund which dedicates 2 billion euros for research on quantum technologies with a press release which stressed the crucial role of the German universities in educating and training...
Yoichi Ando @ 1st PSI Condensed Matter Summer Camp 2020
Yoichi Ando will be speaking at the 1st PSI Condensed Matter Summer Camp 2020. The online workshop will focus on topological aspects in condensed matter. It will cover keynote lectures on topology, frustrated magnetism, topological band structures, 2D materials,...
Annual report 2019 now online
ML4Q set off in 2019 for a long collaborative journey. The cluster is currently involving over 150 members and associated members in our research programs and this number is constantly growing. Have a glimpse of how ML4Q makes use of the resources made available to...
Paper accepted for publication in Nature Communications
In Fedorova et al., Nature Communications published the latest results of the groups of Hans Kroha and Stefan Linden within Focus Area 4.1.
Betelgeuse and his small little brother
Wonderful lines by Barbara Terhal about the tiny virus that holds the world in its firm grip. Barbara's poem is published on the QuTech blog, Bits of Quantum, and discusses wonderfully how the biggest and smallest mysteries in our cosmos might be related and how we...
Not a chalk fanatic anymore
Lessons learned by ML4Q principal investigator Alex Altland on how not only teaching methods but his own view of teaching changed due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Read more on page 17 in the new issue of the Kölner Universitätsmagazin [article in German]. Also featured...
ML4Q @ Research in Germany Virtual Career Fair
ML4Q is participating as part of the Quantum Alliance at the virtual career fair for junior researchers organized by Research in Germany on 7 July 2020. Meet representatives from the Quantum Alliance, which unites Clusters of Excellence and research centers active in...
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch appointed Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute PGI-12 at Forschungszentrum Jülich
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch who has been a member of the cluster's advisory board has now accepted a joint appointment of the Saarland University and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. In his new role as Director of the Peter Grünberg Institute, Quantum Computing Analytics...
2 billions for quantum technologies
ML4Q as part of the Quantum Alliance salutes the government’s economic stimulus package which dedicates 2 billion euros for research on quantum technologies. The Alliance stresses the crucial role of the German universities in educating and training future quantum...
Tommaso Calarco invited by NMWP to talk about the second quantum revolution
The coordination office QT.NMWP.NRW which is dedicated to bring quantum technology scientists and industry in NRW together and foster know-how transfer in the region, invited Tommaso Calarco to give a seminar on the second quantum revolution. After a brief history of...