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Immanuel Bloch Receives the Bavarian Maximilian Order

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Minister-President Markus Söder awards MCQST Speaker Immanuel Bloch the "Bavarian Nobel Prize"

First Graduate of Master's in QST Program Completes Degree in Only One Year

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Sirui Lu graduates from new Master’s program in Quantum Science and Technology (QST) of LMU and TUM in only one year

A New Way to Fabricate Borophene Opens up Many Possibilities

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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.

Novel quantum effect discovered in naturally occurring graphene

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International research team led by University of Göttingen finds atomically-thin carbon generates its own magnetic field

Quantum Physics for Everyone: Silke Stähler-Schöpf and Berit Körbitzer in Interview

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Silke Stähler-Schöpf and Berit Körbitzer share why they believe education on quantum science and technology is for everyone

When soap bubbles turn to soup

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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.

Quantum Minutes: Is a Perfect Cable Possible? - A Quantum Scientist Explains

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In this new series, scientists open up their labs to curious minds to reveal the fascinating quantum research at MCQST.

Angela Merkel and Markus Söder express their support for the Munich Quantum Valley initiative

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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.

MCQST Scientists Receive 2021 Quantum Future Awards

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Three finalists from MCQST recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.

Quantum Minutes: Quantum Cryptography - what is it really?

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In this new series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.

MCQST PhD Awards 2020

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The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.

Supporting Independence in Quantum Research

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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.

Elegant quantum teleportation with only one single photon

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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.

Professor Monika Aidelsburger wins Alfried Krupp Prize

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MCQST members and LMU experimental physicist Monika Aidelsburger receives a research prize worth 1 million euros for her work on quantum optics.

BMW supports new TUM endowed chair with 5.1 million euros

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Industrial application of quantum computers - We are excited to see the local quantum community and infrastructure continuously growing with exciting collaborations.

Science in 360°: "High Precision Spectroscopy" lab tour

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Experience science in 360°: Derya Taray takes us through an imersive tour of the High Precision Spectroscopy lab at MPQ.

QUANTisch for beginners

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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.

Revealing Einstein’s “spooky action” without destroying it

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Physicists at MPQ and MCQST have developed a novel photonic instrument to non-destructively reveal the entanglement of two distant atomic qubits.

QIP2021: latest breakthroughs in theoretical quantum information

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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.

Tracking for quantum post

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A detector detects photons transporting qubits without destroying the quantum information.

Science in 360°: "Single atoms in crossed optical fiber cavities" lab tour

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Experience science in 360°: Dominik Niemitz takes us through an imersive tour of the CavityX lab at MPQ.

Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides on the Optica cover

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"Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides" publication by a team of MPQ and MCQST researchers is featured on the cover of Optica.

Robert König wins ERC Consolidator Grant

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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".

A Bridge to the Quantum World

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Featured on the Research in Bavaria website: Monika Aidelsburger shares input on her exciting research and benefits of working in MCQST.

Munich Quantum Valley – a leap forward for quantum science and technology

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Bavaria's leading scientists and universities kick off a new research initiative to promote quantum science and develop new quantum technologies.

Precession squared: The rise of pseudospin

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A team of researchers including MCQST members have discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators.

Looking into the unknown

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Unlocking the unsolved mysteries of physics and chemistry by using quantum simulators - interview with Monika Aidelsburger and Immanuel Bloch in Chip magazine.

MCQST Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2020 List

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MCQST is delighted to announce that three of our academics have been named on the annual Highly Cited Researchers™ 2020 list from Clarivate.

The dream of unlimited possibilities

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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.

A Modem for the Quantum Internet

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Physicists at MPQ have developed an efficient modem for the future quantum internet.

A Smooth Transition in a Quantum Gas with Impurities

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New Publication in Physics

The Return of the Spin Echo

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A research team from Garching and Vienna discovered a remarkable echo effect - it offers exciting new possibilities for working with quantum information.

Two ERC Starting Grants awarded to MCQST members

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MCQST members, Fabian Grusdt and Dominik Bucher, have won prestigious ERC Starting Grants.

Bavaria takes a Quantum Leap

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120 million euros for the development of quantum sciences and technologies (QST) in Bavaria.

Tatjana Wilk on Germany's quantum push in Science | Business

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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.

The next Quantum Leap

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Rudolf Gross on the advantages of quantum computers and Germany's challenges with "deep tech" in Focus magazine.

Martí Perarnau Llobet wins NJP Early Career Award

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Congratulations to Martí Perarnau Llobet for winning the "NJP Early Career Award".

Science Minister Bernd Sibler visits the Walther Meissner Institute

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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.

Munich Takes the Lead in Quantum Science

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Interview with Rudolf Groß in Digitale Welt on the Munich quantum landscape.

Quantum Advantage with Noisy Shallow Circuits

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An international team of researchers proves that imperfect devices can provide a quantum advantage by showing that noisy quantum computers can outperform classical machines.

The world’s lightest mirror

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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.

Driven topology

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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.

Playing Pool with Excitons

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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.

Interview with Professor Immanuel Bloch

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Immanuel Bloch talks about taking on the role of managing director at the MPQ and the future of quantum optics.

Prof. Phan Thành Nam is awarded EMS prize

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The prize is awarded in recognition of excellent contributions in mathematics.

Summer Student Program 2020 is cancelled

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MCQST Summer Program is unfortunately cancelled due to the worldwide impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

IQM expands in Germany - Subsidiary in Munich to drive quantum hardware-software co-design

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IQM is growing! IQM expands to Germany for quantum hardware-software co-design under the lead of Enrique Solano in Munich

Parametric Instabilities of Interacting Bosons in Periodically Driven 1D Optical Lattices

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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.

Setting the pace

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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.

Norbert Schuch wins his second ERC grant

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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.

On the way to quantum networks

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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.

Divorce in a one-dimensional world

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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.

Lukas Knips wins the Quantum Futur Award

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Lukas Knips is awarded the Quantum futur Award for best PhD thesis.

Making synthetic gauge fields quantum

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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.

START Fellows at MCQST: Fabian Grusdt & Jasmin Meinecke

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We are excited to introduce our new START Fellows.

The quantum internet is within reach

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An international team headed by physicists from TUM has experimentally implemented secure quantum communication in the microwave band in a local quantum network.

Modelling the molecular architecture

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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.

Simulating fundamental interactions with ultracold atoms

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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.

First pictures of magnetic polarons taken in Garching

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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.

OPENQKD: paving the way for secure quantum communication

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The LMU Experimental Quantum Physics group led by Prof. Harald Weinfurter is part of a new EU project on secure quantum communication.

Michael Knap receives the prestigious ERC Starting Grant

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Michael Knap, TUM professor of Collective Quantum Dynamics and MCQST member, receives the prestigious ERC Starting Grant for his CosQuanDyn project.

Bell Prize awarded to quantum computing pioneers

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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.

Otto Hahn Medal for excellent junior researchers

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Otto Hahn Medal: Max Planck Society awards Johannes Zeiher as an excellent junior researcher.

New Toolkit for Photonics: Quantum Simulation by Light Radio

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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.

Light in the nanoworld

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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.

Ignacio Cirac receives honorary doctor of the UBA

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The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Ignacio Cirac in July.

Monika Aidelsburger receives Princess Therese of Bavaria Prize

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Prof. Monika Aidelsburger is awarded for her outstanding work.

IQM secures €11,5M for Quantum Computing

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Quantum Computing startup secures €11,5M in seed funding from international investors.

Which one is the perfect quantum theory?

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For some phenomena in quantum many-body physics several competing theories exist. But which of them describes a quantum phenomenon best?

Immortal quantum particles

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New research shows that so-called quasiparticles can decay and reorganize themselves again and are thus become virtually immortal.

A Leap into the Continuum

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Garching physicists develop a new method to carry computations in quantum field theory.

Direct observation of giant molecules

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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.

Prof. Ignacio Cirac receives Micius Quantum Prize

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Ignacio Cirac, Director at the MPI of Quantum Optics and head of the Theory Division receives this honor for his work on quantum computing.

A Bridge to the Quantum World

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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.

The huge potential of the minuscule

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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.