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
Scientific Awards
Congratulations to Martí Perarnau Llobet for winning the "NJP Early Career Award".
28 Jul 2020
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
An international team of researches proves that imperfect devices can provide a quantum advantage by showing that noisy quantum computers can outperform classical machines.
20 Jul 2020
Press | Science News
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
Press | News
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.
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
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
Science News | 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
Press
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
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
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
News | Press
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
Press | News
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
Blog | News
We are excited to introduce our new START Fellows.
24 Oct 2019
Press
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
Press | News
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
Press
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
Press
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
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
The European Research Council (ERC) has announced that seven of its prestigious ERC Starting Grants will be awarded to scientists at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) this year. The research led by Prof. Michael Knap, Principal Investigator within MCQST, is among the awarded projects.
29 Aug 2019
News | Scientific Awards
The Bell Prize recognizes the most significant contributions 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 | News
Physicists from the MPI of Quantum Optics and CSIC developed a new principle for quantum simulators in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide.
1 Aug 2019
Press | News
An international team headed up by Alexander Holleitner and Jonathan Finley, physicists at TUM, 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
Together with other LMU scientists, Prof. Aidelsburger is awarded for outstanding work.
15 Jul 2019
News
Quantum Computing startup secures €11,5M in seed funding from international investors.
12 Jul 2019
Press | News
For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best?
14 Jun 2019
Press | News
New research shows that so-called quasiparticles can decay and reorganize themselves again and are thus become virtually immortal.
29 May 2019
Press | News
Garching physicists develop a new method to carry computations in quantum field theory.
24 May 2019
Press | News
Physicists at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics (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.
22 Oct 2018
Press | News
Monika Aidelsburger uses a special type of optical lattice to simulate quantum many-body phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible to experimental exploration.
27 Sep 2018
Press | News
The new cluster of Excellence MCQST 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.