This page features scientific news, press releases, scientific awards, press reviews, and other news and announcements from MCQST.
11 Jun 2021
Press Release | News
In the joint project QUANTA, the Deutsches Museum along with Fraunhofer ISI, MCQST, PhotonLab, the TUM School of Education and IQM are developing 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
News
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.
1 Mar 2021
Science News
"Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides" publication by a team of MPQ and MCQST researchers is featured on the cover of Optica.
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
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
Press Release | 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
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
Press Release | Science News
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
Press Release | Science 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 Release | Science News
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
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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
Press Release | Science News
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 | 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
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 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. This week, the prize which is well known and highly regarded amongst physicists, was awarded to two great pioneers of quantum science and technology: Ignacio Cirac and Peter Zoller.
13 Aug 2019
News | Scientific Awards
Otto Hahn Medal: Max Planck Society awards Johannes Zeiher as an excellent junior researcher.
2 Aug 2019
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Physicists from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) developed a new principle for quantum simulators in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide.
1 Aug 2019
Press Release | Science News
An international team headed up by Alexander Holleitner and Jonathan Finley, MCQST members and 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
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
Press Release | Science 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
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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
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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
News | Scientific Awards
Monika Aidelsburger uses a special type of optical lattice to simulate quantum many-body phenomena that are otherwise inaccessible to experimental exploration. She has now been awarded an ERC Starting Grant to pursue this work.
27 Sep 2018
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.