This page features scientific news, press releases, scientific awards, press reviews, and other news and announcements from MCQST.
29 Mar 2023
Press Release | News
Stacked layers of ultrathin semiconductor materials feature phenomena that can be exploited for novel applications. A team led by LMU physicist Alexander Högele has studied effects that emerge by giving two layers a slight twist.
13 Mar 2023
News
PhotonLab wins LeLa "Experiment of the Year" award for the experiment "Lecker im Licht".
10 Mar 2023
MCQST in Media | News
Rudolf Gross and Fabian Kronowetter of WMI contribute with articles on Quantum Sensing and Quantum Radar to the Rohde & Schwarz journal "Neues".
10 Mar 2023
News
The "Dialogues on the Foundations", are a series of meetings between physicists and philosophers, where they explore quantum gravity, cosmology, foundations of quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics, and much more.
2 Mar 2023
News
MCQST & IMPRS-QST alumni and experienced students offer tips on how to survive and thrive in your PhD journey!
24 Feb 2023
News | Scientific Awards
Two out of the four poster prizes at QIP2023 go to MCQST scientists.
22 Feb 2023
News
QFA2023 is a bi-national event, that offers students from Israel and Germany an exclusive insight into quantum technologies.
22 Feb 2023
Science News | Press Release
Physicists at MPQ have developed an optical mirror with a novel feature: a quantum switch consisting of a single atom.
15 Feb 2023
Press Release | Science News
Researchers create a degenerate Fermi gas of molecules by leveraging a quantum phase transition for the first time.
3 Feb 2023
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The existence of so-called super molecules has long been predicted theoretically. Now, Max Planck researchers managed for the first time to create the conditions for proving these exotic entities.
26 Jan 2023
News | Scientific Awards
Alexander Högele and his team have been awarded the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for a project exploring novel photonic integrated circuits.
19 Jan 2023
Science News | Press Release
Researchers have monitored how, for the first time, holes (positive charge carriers) combined to form pairs in a solid-state model.
18 Jan 2023
Science News
LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene.
22 Dec 2022
Science News | Press Release
Theorists at MPQ have investigated the effects of error propagation on the quality of computations of classical optimisation problems on NISQ computers in a recent work.
12 Dec 2022
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Researchers demonstrated that the minute light absorption of atomic defects in a 2D material can be made visible using a tailored optical resonator (cavity).
7 Dec 2022
Science News | Press Release
Researchers demonstrate that solid-state quantum sensors can be interfaced with microfluidics without compromising either technology, thus enabling novel capabilities within lab-on-a-chip devices.
29 Nov 2022
News | Scientific Awards
MCQST scientists recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.
31 Oct 2022
News | Press Release
Researchers demonstrated that individual atoms in a thin crystalline slab can be resolved and individually controlled using light of a precisely adjusted color. This will enable the exchange of quantum information between them in order to create extended quantum networks.
27 Oct 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Georgi Dvali has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of quantum physics and general relativity.
20 Oct 2022
News
Call for Applications: START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship
10 Oct 2022
News
MCQST Distinguished Postdoc interviewed on podcast telling the human stories behind quantum
21 Sep 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Physicist and MCQST Spokesperson Immanuel Bloch has been named Clarivate Citation Laureate for his pioneering research in the field of quantum simulation.
14 Sep 2022
News
MCQST Member Nathalie Picqué has been honored with Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 by the Falling Walls Foundation
5 Sep 2022
Science News | Press Release
New Fur for the Quantum Cat: Entanglement of many atoms in a quantum material discovered for the first time
1 Sep 2022
MCQST in Media | News
Dmitri Efetov's research on graphene featured in EINSICHTEN - The material graphene and a magic angle: physics with a new twist.
30 Aug 2022
Science News | Press Release
Physicists at MPQ have managed to entangle more than a dozen photons efficiently and in a defined way; thus creating a basis for a new type of quantum computer.
22 Aug 2022
News
Carolina Burger, PhD student in the Topology of Correlated Systems group at the TUM, is featured as “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG).
12 Aug 2022
News
Can a start-up stand a chance against Google or IBM in the race for operable quantum computers? It certainly can, because so far it is not even clear which technology platform will prevail, and planqc from Munich is pursuing a different path than the tech giants.
12 Aug 2022
MCQST in Media | News
Prof. Immanuel Bloch and Dr. Thomas Renner discuss the cooperation of industry and science, which lasers and photonic solutions for quantum technology applications are currently in demand, and what developments we can expect to see in the future.
5 Aug 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Professor Dmitri Efetov has been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics by IUPAP.
4 Aug 2022
Press Release | News
Bavaria as a top location for quantum computing and quantum technologies.
4 Aug 2022
Science News | Press Release
Leading researchers in quantum science have published a perspective article on the future of quantum simulation, a special form of quantum computing, in the current issue of Nature.
1 Aug 2022
News
Goldene Kreide awarded to Rudolf Gross for excellence in teaching.
28 Jul 2022
Press Release | Science News
An international team led by Harald Weinfurter has successfully implemented an advanced form of quantum cryptography for the first time. Encryption is more secure against hacking attempts.
28 Jul 2022
Press Release | Science News
Researchers at MPQ have developed a new method to cool gases of polar molecules to near absolute zero. This paves the way for studying quantum effects of exotic forms of matter.
21 Jul 2022
News | Scientific Awards
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
11 Jul 2022
Press Release | Science News
Researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection – a record and an important step toward the quantum internet.
8 Jul 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Through his pioneering work in the field of quantum information theory, Ignacio Cirac is considered one of the most influential scientists of our time.
7 Jul 2022
MCQST in Media | News
MCQST Member Dmitri Efetov discusses his research on graphene in a new article in Research in Bavaria. The remarkable material graphene is a material made of carbon atoms in a one-atom-thick layer, which can exhibit exciting properties such as superconductivity
1 Jul 2022
News
With the new radio play series "Alice in Quantum Land", PhotonLab takes you on a fascinating journey into the mysterious world of quanta.
28 Jun 2022
News
Quantum computing startup planqc today announced a financing round of EUR 4.6 million to develop a highly scalable quantum computer operating at room temperature that is based on atoms trapped in optical lattices.
3 Jun 2022
Science News
Dr. Jasmin Meinecke and Dr. Libby Heaney presents an introduction to to quantum technologies and a deep-dive into artistic and ethical responses to groundbreaking advances in quantum computing.
2 Jun 2022
Press Release | Science News
In a special arrangement of atomic spins, Max Planck physicists have measured the properties of the so-called Haldane phase in an experiment. To do so, they used a quantum mechanical trick.
31 May 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Nathalie Picqué of MCQST receives the 2022 Helmholtz Prize for Applied Metrology with Edoardo Vicentini.
18 May 2022
Press Release | Science News
For the first time, researchers have succeeded in observing a new transport phenomenon in spin chains under the microscope - with surprising results: the movement in the quantum world resembles certain phenomena known from everyday life like the shape of coffee stains on a tablecloth.
13 May 2022
Press Release | Science News
A quantum system consisting of only 51 charged atoms can assume more than two quadrillion different states. Calculating the system's behavior is a piece of cake for a quantum simulator. Researchers from TUM have now shown how these systems can be described using equations from the 18th century.
13 May 2022
Press Release | Science News
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics succeeded in massively improving the performance of a component that is crucial to optical quantum systems.
6 May 2022
News
The Harvard physicist will give a series of talks in Munich in May as MCQST Distinguished Lecturer
14 Apr 2022
News
How do scientists make crystals that are only one atom thick? Join us for a virtual trip into the lab!
25 Mar 2022
News | Press Release
The universities in Augsburg, Bayreuth, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Munich, Regensburg, and Würzburg will each receive 144,000 euros for their physics departments from the Hightech Agenda Bayern funds – State Minister of Science Blume: "Bavaria is a top location internationally for quantum technologies."
17 Mar 2022
News | Scientific Awards
She is the first woman physicist in Germany in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics to be awarded this renowned grant.
17 Mar 2022
News | Scientific Awards
Prof. Phan Thành Nam has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
14 Mar 2022
News
The MPQ Photonlab is once again awarded with the LeLa Prize of the Federal Association of German School Labs, this time in the category “experiment of the year”.
14 Mar 2022
News
In the Quantum Minutes video series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.
4 Mar 2022
Press Release | Science News
Magnetic excitations for information transfer without heat loss
27 Jan 2022
News | Press Release
In the presence of Bavaria’s Minister-President Dr. Markus Söder, the Bavarian Science Minister Bernd Sibler and the Director General of the Bavarian Ministry for Economic Affairs, Dr. Sabine Jarothe, the founding document was signed at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities today by the presidents of the partner universities and scientific organizations.
26 Jan 2022
News
Learn how to apply for a graduate program in Munich: Germany's hub for quantum science and technology.
10 Jan 2022
Press Release | Science News
A team headed by physicists from the Walther-Meißner-Institute has experimentally implemented quantum teleportation based on propagating microwave signals between distant locations, while preserving the fragile quantum nature of teleported states.
10 Jan 2022
News
START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship
7 Jan 2022
Press Release | Science News
Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications
17 Dec 2021
News
Varun Seshadri, a student in the QST Master’s program, along with two undergraduate students from Simon Fraser University, has received a grant from the Unitary Fund to develop a lattice surgery quantum error correction compiler
16 Dec 2021
Press Release | Science News
A team of scientists from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and attocube systems AG have engineered a Fabry-Pérot cavity at cryogenic temperatures under closed-cycle cooling conditions. The results have been published in PRX Quantum.
15 Dec 2021
News
MCQST scientists featured in the new podcast "Exzellent Erklärt"
9 Dec 2021
News
In this series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.
9 Dec 2021
News
Apply now for these PhD Programs in Quantum Science and Technology
2 Dec 2021
Press Release | Science News
Quantum processor provides insights into exotic states of matter
1 Dec 2021
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Master's students, PhDs, and Postdocs: Apply by 31. Dec!
12 Nov 2021
Press Release | Science News
Minister-President Markus Söder awards MCQST Speaker Immanuel Bloch the "Bavarian Nobel Prize"
9 Nov 2021
News
Sirui Lu graduates from new Master’s program in Quantum Science and Technology (QST) of LMU and TUM in only one year
4 Nov 2021
Press Release | Science News
Researchers at TUM and UniBw M have developed a novel method to synthesize borophene using a molecular precursor – the first time a one-atom-thick mono-elemental material other than graphene has been created by an easily scalable approach.
13 Oct 2021
Press Release | Science News
International research team led by University of Göttingen finds atomically-thin carbon generates its own magnetic field
1 Oct 2021
Press Release | Science News
Silke Stähler-Schöpf and Berit Körbitzer share why they believe education on quantum science and technology is for everyone
1 Oct 2021
Press Release | Science News
With the help of high-resolution microscopy, scientists at MPQ successfully observed the transformation of a metal of magnetic polarons into a normal Fermi liquid.
28 Sep 2021
News
In this new series, scientists open up their labs to curious minds to reveal the fascinating quantum research at MCQST.
21 Sep 2021
News
MCQST Member Monika Aidelsburger is a guest on the latest episode of "SiblersDenkräume", the podcast of Bavarian Science Minister Bernd Sibler.
16 Sep 2021
News
Visiting the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching near Munich, they learn about the current state of quantum research and its prospects for the future.
6 Sep 2021
News | Scientific Awards
Three finalists from MCQST recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.
2 Sep 2021
News
In this series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.
12 Aug 2021
News
In this new series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.
4 Aug 2021
News | Scientific Awards
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
29 Jul 2021
MCQST in Media | News
Discover the unique experiences of three of our excellent START fellows, as they share on their cutting-edge work in quantum science and technology, on the START Fellowship program, as well as their path to independence in an article published on Research in Bavaria webpage.
26 Jul 2021
Science News | Press Release
Scientists at MPQ succeed for the first time in teleporting quantum information encoded in an atomic qubit to a laboratory 60 meters away using just one single photon as a resource.
15 Jul 2021
News
Monika Aidelsburger, LMU Professor and MCQST Member, is featured as “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG).
30 Jun 2021
News | Scientific Awards
MCQST members and LMU experimental physicist Monika Aidelsburger receives a research prize worth 1 million euros for her work on quantum optics.
17 Jun 2021
News
Industrial application of quantum computers - We are excited to see the local quantum community and infrastructure continuously growing with exciting collaborations.
15 Jun 2021
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Experience science in 360°: Derya Taray takes us through an imersive tour of the High Precision Spectroscopy lab at MPQ.
11 Jun 2021
Press Release | News
QUANTA sets out to develop new ways and means to make the basic principles, opportunities, and uses of quantum technology accessible to a wider audience.
25 May 2021
Science News | Press Release
Physicists at MPQ and MCQST have developed a novel photonic instrument to non-destructively reveal the entanglement of two distant atomic qubits.
3 May 2021
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QIP 2021 was hosted by TUM and MCQST. The meeting featured exciting talks on the latest developments and breakthroughs in theoretical quantum information science and discussions of the state-of-the-art in industry in a new, virtual format.
29 Mar 2021
Press Release | Science News
A detector detects photons transporting qubits without destroying the quantum information.
15 Mar 2021
News
Experience science in 360°: Dominik Niemitz takes us through an imersive tour of the CavityX lab at MPQ.
1 Mar 2021
Science News | News
"Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides" publication by a team of MPQ and MCQST researchers is featured on the cover of Optica.
15 Feb 2021
News | Scientific Awards
Robert König, TUM professor and MCQST member, receives one of the prestigious Consolidator Grants from the European Research Council (ERC) for his project "Enhanced quantum information processing targeting the near term".
1 Feb 2021
MCQST in Media
Featured on the Research in Bavaria website: Monika Aidelsburger shares input on her exciting research and benefits of working in MCQST.
11 Jan 2021
Press Release | News
Bavaria's leading scientists and universities kick off a new research initiative to promote quantum science and develop new quantum technologies.
16 Dec 2020
Science News
A team of researchers including MCQST members have discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators.
15 Dec 2020
News | MCQST in Media
Unlocking the unsolved mysteries of physics and chemistry by using quantum simulators - interview with Monika Aidelsburger and Immanuel Bloch in Chip magazine.
20 Nov 2020
Scientific Awards | News
MCQST is delighted to announce that three of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate.
5 Nov 2020
News | MCQST in Media
Featured in Süddeutsche Zeitung: Prof. Rudolf Gross and Prof. Stefan Filipp on strengthening Munich's position at the forefront of the global race to develop quantum computers.
5 Nov 2020
Press Release | Science News
Physicists at MPQ have developed an efficient modem for the future quantum internet.
27 Oct 2020
Science News
New Publication in Physics
13 Oct 2020
News | Scientific Awards
Janis Nötzel receives Best Paper Award at the CITS 2020 for the paper "Entanglement-Enabled Communication".
24 Sep 2020
Press Release | News
A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect - it offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.
16 Sep 2020
Scientific Awards | News
MCQST members, Fabian Grusdt and Dominik Bucher, have won prestigious ERC Starting Grants.
14 Sep 2020
Press Release | News
120 million euros for the development of quantum sciences and technologies (QST) in Bavaria.
17 Aug 2020
MCQST in Media | News
In an article for Science|Business, Dr. Tatjana Wilk shares insight on current and future QST research, as well as on Germany's potential in developing quantum technologies.
30 Jul 2020
News | MCQST in Media
Rudolf Gross on the advantages of quantum computers and Germany's challenges with "deep tech" in Focus magazine.
30 Jul 2020
News | Scientific Awards
Congratulations to Martí Perarnau Llobet for winning the "NJP Early Career Award".
28 Jul 2020
Press Release | News
WMI directors Stefan Filipp and Rudolf Gross welcomed Science Minister Bernd Sibler on the Garching campus for an insight into the current and future research priorities of the institute and its role in the field of quantum technologies.
27 Jul 2020
News | MCQST in Media
Interview with Rudolf Groß in Digitale Welt on the Munich quantum landscape.
21 Jul 2020
Science News | Press Release
An international team of researchers proves that imperfect devices can provide a quantum advantage by showing that noisy quantum computers can outperform classical machines.
20 Jul 2020
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Physicists at MPQ succeed at engineering an optical mirror made of only a few hundred atoms. It is the lightest one in the world and even imaginable.
10 Jul 2020
Science News | Press Release
LMU pysicists together with an international team succeeded in realizing a novel genuine time-dependent topological system with ultracold atoms in periodically-driven optical honeycomb lattices.
15 Jun 2020
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The junior theory research group led by Richard Schmidt at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Hamburg and ETH Zurich has successfully completed a work that can explain a successful quantum simulation of certain properties of an ultra-flat semiconductor.
9 Jun 2020
News
Immanuel Bloch talks about taking on the role of managing director at the MPQ and the future of quantum optics.
20 May 2020
News | Scientific Awards
The prize is awarded in recognition of excellent contributions in mathematics.
26 Mar 2020
News
MCQST Summer Program is unfortunately cancelled due to the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
11 Mar 2020
News
IQM is growing! IQM expands to Germany for quantum hardware-software co-design under the lead of Enrique Solano in Munich
11 Feb 2020
Press Release | Science News
An international team headed by LMU and MPQ physicists report on observations of collective modes in the early-stage dynamics of ultracold bosons in shaken one-dimensional optical lattices by monitoring the momentum distribution of the cloud.
27 Jan 2020
MCQST in Media | News
Interview with experimental physicists Immanuel Bloch and Harald Weinfurter on the advent of the quantum computer, the impending quantum revolution, and its practical implications, such as secure cryptography and diamond-based magnetometers.
22 Jan 2020
Scientific Awards | News
One of the coveted ERC Consolidator Grants is awarded to MCQST member, Norbert Schuch, who can now continue his research on complex quantum systems for at least another five years.
21 Jan 2020
Press Release | Science News
Physicists at LMU, together with colleagues at Saarland University, have successfully demonstrated the transport of an entangled state between an atom and a photon via an optic fiber over a distance of up to 20 km – thus setting a new record.
13 Jan 2020
Press Release | Science News
Scientists at MPQ have experimentally confirmed a fifty year old prediction about the (in)separability of an electron's spin and electric charge using a specialised quantum simulator.
5 Dec 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Lukas Knips is awarded the Quantum futur Award for best PhD thesis.
4 Nov 2019
Science News | Press Release
New realistic scheme for quantizing synthetic gauge fields for neutral atoms in optical lattices opens new perspectives for quantum simulations of lattice gauge theories on larger scales.
31 Oct 2019
We are excited to introduce our new START Fellows.
24 Oct 2019
Science News | Press Release
An international team headed by physicists from TUM has experimentally implemented secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a local quantum network.
10 Oct 2019
Science News | Press Release
New approach for the simulation of quantum chemistry - a global team of scientists developed the first blueprint for precisely calculating the molecular chemistry using an analogue quantum simulator.
17 Sep 2019
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An international team of physicists succeeded in engineering key ingredients to simulate a specific lattice gauge theory using ultracold atoms in optical lattices.
5 Sep 2019
Science News | Press Release
Physicists from MPQ and LMU München succeeded for in photographing the magnetic structure around a mobile charge carrier within a crystal latticeusing a quantum simulator.
4 Sep 2019
Science News
The LMU Experimental Quantum Physics group led by Prof. Harald Weinfurter is part of a new EU project on secure quantum communication.
3 Sep 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Michael Knap, TUM professor of Collective Quantum Dynamics and MCQST member, receives the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his CosQuanDyn project.
29 Aug 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller, pioneers of quantum science and technology, are awarded the highly regarded Bell Prize. The award recognizes the most significant contributions made to the fundamentals of quantum mechanics.
13 Aug 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Otto Hahn Medal: Max Planck Society awards Johannes Zeiher as an excellent junior researcher.
2 Aug 2019
Press Release | Science News
Physicists from MPQ and CSIC developed a new principle for quantum simulators, in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide.
1 Aug 2019
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An international team, headed by MCQST members, has succeeded in placing light sources in atomically thin material layers with an accuracy of just a few nanometers.
26 Jul 2019
News | Scientific Awards
The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Ignacio Cirac in July.
15 Jul 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Prof. Monika Aidelsburger is awarded for her outstanding work.
15 Jul 2019
News
Quantum Computing startup secures €11,5M in seed funding from international investors.
12 Jul 2019
Science News | Press Release
For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best?
14 Jun 2019
Science News | Press Release
New research shows that so-called quasiparticles can decay and reorganize themselves again and are thus become virtually immortal.
29 May 2019
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Garching physicists develop a new method to carry computations in quantum field theory.
24 May 2019
Science News | Press Release
Physicists at the MPQ achieved to form giant diatomic molecules and optically detect them afterwards by using a high-resolution objective.
7 May 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Ignacio Cirac, Director at the MPI of Quantum Optics and head of the Theory Division receives this honor for his work on quantum computing.
1 Jan 2019
Press Release | News
The new research network aims to create the basis for quantum technology 2.0, which will give access to secure modes of communication, innovative information processing systems and highly sensitive detectors.