Completely new type of microscopy based on quantum sensors

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TUM researchers invented an entirely new field of microscopy, nuclear spin microscopy. The team can visualize magnetic signals of nuclear magnetic resonance with a microscope, enabling extremely high-resolution optical imaging.

Quantum spaces shatter under strong interactions

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A quantum simulator with neutral atoms confirms surprising properties of thermalisation in two-dimensional quantum systems.

Philipp Preiss receives ERC Proof of Concept Grant

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The project FermiChem uses ultracold fermions in quantum simulations to solve complex problems in quantum chemistry.

First signs of stripe formation observed in cold-atom quantum simulator

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MCQST researchers observed extended and attractive correlations between hole dopants and indications of stripes opening up novel insights into exotic quantum phases.

Hans Hübl Appointed Adjunct Professor at TUM

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Recognition for many years of excellence in research and teaching.

360 Qubits in a crystal membrane

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Rare-earth metal erbium could play a key role in future quantum networks: MCQST researchers succeeded in spectrally resolving and individually controlling up to 360 erbium ions.

Quantum advantage in close sight: Quantum simulators show resilience to errors

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Theorists show that analogue quantum simulators can outperform classical computers in solving certain problems in many-body physics even in the presence of errors, bringing the quantum advantage closer to the near future.

Quantum cryptography goes microwave

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A team of researchers from MCQST partners, BAdW, TUM, and the University of Tokyo and Rohde & Schwarz demonstrated the successful realization of a quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol in the microwave regime. This significant achievement is highly relevant for modern communication systems.

Quantum register reaches 1200 neutral atoms in continuous operation

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A team from MCQST and MQV, led by MPQ groups in collaboration with start-up planqc, has succeeded in running a register of 1200 atoms continuously for over an hour – a breakthrough on the way to scalable quantum computers.

Quantum sensor technology for cancer monitoring wins Medical Valley Award

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TUM researchers have developed a diamond quantum sensor for optical MRI detection, aiming for clinical cancer monitoring with LMU Klinikum.

Detecting single photons with a ‘magic’ twist

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An international team successfully demonstrated the detection of individual photons in the infrared spectrum by using a magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.

Describing chaotic systems

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LMU researchers have found indications that it is possible to describe chaotic many-body systems of the quantum realm using a theory called fluctuating hydrodynamics.

Magnons bridge the gap

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A team of researchers demonstrated the transfer of spin information between two separated ferromagnetic metal strips harnessing magnetic excitations, providing a new avenue for spintronics.

Global quantum key encryption: Nano-Satellite QUBE launches into Space

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A team led by Harald Weinfurter will test, for the first time, newly developed quantum communication technologies using a very small satellite in space.

Doping a Quantum Magnet

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The groups of Annabelle Bohrdt and Fabian Grusdt have developed a scheme to implement doped, bosonic quantum magnets in tweezer arrays of Rydberg atoms or in cold, polar molecules.

Securely propagating entanglement at the push of a button

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Physicists at MPQ and MCQST use laser tweezers in optical resonators to create entanglement in a quantum network.

A „Quantum“ Insight

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The new special exhibition ‘Light and Matter’ makes quantum physics tangible.

A Glance at Edge Modes

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The Aidelsburger and Bloch groups recently observed and manipulated the peculiar states emerging at topological boundaries, the so-called edge modes. Results are featured in Nature Physics.

Graphs Go Quantum

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Quantum computers and quantum internet require entangled quantum bits, a recent major breakthrough is the first generation of two-dimensional "graph states”.

Quantum Systems Out of Equilibrium

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Researchers develop a novel tensor network approach to simulate the evolution of quantum many body systems over time

Twisted Bilayer Graphene’s Gallery of Phases

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The many phases of twisted bilayer graphene featured in an overview article in Physics Today.

Unveiling Secrets of Electron-Phonon Interactions

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A new study by an international team provides new insights into electron-phonon interactions occurring within bilayer graphene.

Chemistry Takes an Ultracold Turn

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Researchers create tetratomic supermolecules at a so far unprecedented low-temperature - a scientific breakthrough with implications for research into ultracold chemistry and quantum materials.

GALaQSci: Quantum Physics for Everyone!

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GALaQSci uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to playfully render the quantum world accessible.

Spin-Based Quantum Technology In a 2D Material

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Researchers made a significant milestone by using spin defects as optically active quantum bits (qubits) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), a well-known 2D material.

A miniature magnetic resonance imager made of diamond

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Quantum sensors make microscale NMR spectroscopy possible

Exciton Ensembles Manifest Coherence

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Exciting new results show that coherent light emission from excitons in a 2D-material structure could inspire new quantum-technology applications.

The Path to a Quantum Network

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Erbium atoms in silicon can be used to build quantum networks. Researchers have succeeded in taking an important step in this direction.

Advancing Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories with Ultracold Fermions

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A novel approach opens up new avenues for harnessing the capabilities of quantum simulators in the study of lattice gauge theories.

Magnons Prefer a Sense of Rotation Dancing the Waltz

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A team of researchers demonstrated nonreciprocal behavior of magnons in an insulating antiferromagnet, allowing the development of nonreciprocal magnonic devices.

Thouless Pumps: Unveiling the Remarkable Role of Topology in Quantum Systems

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A new review article sheds light on future directions for Thouless pumps and opens us new questions.

A 40-year journey towards understanding the Duffing oscillator

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The longstanding discrepancy between the classical and quantum description of the nonlinear Duffing oscillator finally resolved by studying the quantum dynamics of a model system consisting of a tunable nonlinear superconducting resonator.

Quantum Simulation: Chiral Spin Liquids and Non-Abelian Anyons

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New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.

Mimicking Quantum Chemistry: Analogue quantum simulation of pseudomolecules

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Theorists develop a simplified experimental concept that could enable the first quantum simulations of chemistry.

High-Temperature Superconductors Boost Next-Generation Quantum Technologies

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A team led by Dmitri Efetov demonstrate quantum detectors based on high-temperature (high-TC) superconductors.

Nanophysics: The Right Twist

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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.

A quantum switch for the world’s lightest mirror

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Physicists at MPQ have developed an optical mirror with a novel feature: a quantum switch consisting of a single atom.

Matchmaking atoms into a new molecular Fermi gas

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Researchers create a degenerate Fermi gas of molecules by leveraging a quantum phase transition for the first time.

Microwaves direct the interplay of waltzing molecules

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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.

Quantum simulator enables first microscopic observation of charge carriers pairing

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Researchers have monitored how, for the first time, holes (positive charge carriers) combined to form pairs in a solid-state model.

The Magic Angle

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LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene.

NISQ-Computer: Quantum entanglement can be a double-edged sword

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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.

Lifting the Invisibility Cloak - Characterising the Absorption of Light in Quantum Emitters

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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).

Quantum Sensing meets Lab-on-a-Chip

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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.

New Hardware for Quantum Networking

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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.

New Fur for the Quantum Cat

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New Fur for the Quantum Cat: Entanglement of many atoms in a quantum material discovered for the first time

Entangled Photons Tailor-Made

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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.

Nearly 17 Million Euros Funding for Quantum Lighthouse Projects

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Bavaria as a top location for quantum computing and quantum technologies.

A Roadmap for the Future of Quantum Simulation

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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.

Quantum Cryptography: Hacking Futile

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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.

A Nanokelvin Microwave Freezer for Molecules

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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.

Record Entanglement of Quantum Memories

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Researchers have entangled two quantum memories over a 33-kilometer-long fiber optic connection – a record and an important step toward the quantum internet.

Realizing the symmetry-protected Haldane phase in Fermi–Hubbard ladders

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MCQST researchers achieved a finite-temperature version of this topological Haldane phase using Fermi-Hubbard ladders in an ultracold-atom quantum simulator.

Topological phase detected in spin chains

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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.

Quantum Magnets in Motion

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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.

When quantum particles fly like bees

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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.

More efficiency for optical quantum gates

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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.

Fit for quantum: Around one million euros for teaching in quantum technology

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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."

Waves on circular paths

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Magnetic excitations for information transfer without heat loss

Foundation of the Munich Quantum Valley e.V.

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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.

Successful Quantum Teleportation at Microwave Frequencies

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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.

New materials for quantum technologies

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Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications

A Cold Pair of Mirrors Made Stable

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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.

Twisting elusive quantum particles

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Quantum processor provides insights into exotic states of matter

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tracking for quantum post

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

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.

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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Researchers have discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators.

A Modem for the Quantum Internet

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

Bavaria takes a Quantum Leap

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

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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Scientists have successfully completed a work that can explain a successful quantum simulation of certain properties of an ultra-flat semiconductor.

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

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An international team of 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.

On the Way to Quantum Networks

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An international team of physicists has 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 have experimentally confirmed a fifty-year-old prediction about the (in)separability of an electron's spin and electric charge using a specialized quantum simulator.

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.

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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MCQST physicists 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 group led by Prof. Harald Weinfurter, MCQST RU-D co-coordinator, is part of a new EU project on secure quantum communication.

New Toolkit for Photonics: Quantum Simulation by Light Radio

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Physicists from MCQSTb and 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 by MCQST members, has succeeded in placing light sources in atomically thin material layers with an accuracy of just a few nanometers.

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

Direct Observation of Giant Molecules

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Physicists at the MPQ achieved to form giant diatomic molecules and optically detect them afterwards by using a high-resolution objective.

Cluster of Excellence MCQST: 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.