4 Dec 2025
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A research team at TUM has discovered an exceptionally large exciton in an atomically thin WSe₂ semiconductor, involving up to twenty interacting particles—far more than the usual electron–hole pair. The discovery opens a new frontier in quantum many-body physics.
25 Nov 2025
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MCQST researchers are developing methods for the direct observation of novel many-body systems.
25 Nov 2025
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An exhibition exploring the quantum world, featuring 20 artistic positions, popular-science talks, and various offerings that foster dialogue between science, art, and the public.
21 Nov 2025
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Prof. Steffen Glaser and Dr. Dennis Huber of TUM, developed a precise mapping between quantum physics and spheres, making quantum phenomena visible.
12 Sept 2025
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A research team with MCQST members, Frank Pollmann and Michael Knap, shows a successful new approach for reach of out-of-equilibrium matter.
24 Jun 2025
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The goal of the QUICK³ is to make fast and secure communication possible, as well as to test a fundamental law of quantum mechanics.
13 Jun 2025
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TUM and Yale physicists demonstrate a new way to manipulate quasiparticles —quantum objects often used to study cutting-edge quantum technology concepts.
10 Jun 2025
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For the first time, scientists have realised the Mott-Meissner quantum phase – implemented in an unprecedentedly large system.
2 Jun 2025
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A team led by MCQST member Dmitri Efetov has shown that two graphene layers twisted at an angle to each other behave like heavy-fermion metals. This opens up possibilities for the development of new applications.
30 Apr 2025
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A team of researchers discovered that the average time electrons can travel before scattering—known as their "lifetime"—can vary in a periodic fashion when exposed to strong magnetic fields. The results were highlighted in Advanced Physics Research.
24 Feb 2025
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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.
6 Feb 2025
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A quantum simulator with neutral atoms confirms surprising properties of thermalisation in two-dimensional quantum systems.
5 Feb 2025
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The project FermiChem uses ultracold fermions in quantum simulations to solve complex problems in quantum chemistry.
9 Jan 2025
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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.
16 Dec 2024
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Recognition for many years of excellence in research and teaching.
22 Nov 2024
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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.
31 Oct 2024
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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.
16 Oct 2024
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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.
16 Oct 2024
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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.
7 Oct 2024
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TUM researchers have developed a diamond quantum sensor for optical MRI detection, aiming for clinical cancer monitoring with LMU Klinikum.
19 Sept 2024
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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.
18 Sept 2024
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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.
11 Sept 2024
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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.
15 Aug 2024
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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.
25 Jul 2024
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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.
10 Jul 2024
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Physicists at MPQ and MCQST use laser tweezers in optical resonators to create entanglement in a quantum network.
18 Jun 2024
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The new special exhibition ‘Light and Matter’ makes quantum physics tangible.
10 Jun 2024
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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.
23 May 2024
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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”.
25 Apr 2024
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Researchers develop a novel tensor network approach to simulate the evolution of quantum many body systems over time
10 Apr 2024
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The many phases of twisted bilayer graphene featured in an overview article in Physics Today.
27 Feb 2024
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A new study by an international team provides new insights into electron-phonon interactions occurring within bilayer graphene.
1 Feb 2024
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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.
5 Jan 2024
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GALaQSci uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to playfully render the quantum world accessible.
24 Nov 2023
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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.
24 Oct 2023
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Quantum sensors make microscale NMR spectroscopy possible
26 Jul 2023
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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.
26 Jun 2023
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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.
15 Jun 2023
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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.
8 Jun 2023
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A team of researchers demonstrated nonreciprocal behavior of magnons in an insulating antiferromagnet, allowing the development of nonreciprocal magnonic devices.
5 Jun 2023
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A new review article sheds light on future directions for Thouless pumps and opens us new questions.
30 May 2023
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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.
24 May 2023
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New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.
4 May 2023
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Theorists develop a simplified experimental concept that could enable the first quantum simulations of chemistry.
19 Apr 2023
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A team led by Dmitri Efetov demonstrate quantum detectors based on high-temperature (high-TC) superconductors.
29 Mar 2023
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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.
22 Feb 2023
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Physicists at MPQ have developed an optical mirror with a novel feature: a quantum switch consisting of a single atom.
15 Feb 2023
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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.
19 Jan 2023
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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.
18 Jan 2023
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LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene.
22 Dec 2022
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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.
11 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
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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.
31 Oct 2022
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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.
5 Sept 2022
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New Fur for the Quantum Cat: Entanglement of many atoms in a quantum material discovered for the first time
30 Aug 2022
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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.
4 Aug 2022
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Bavaria as a top location for quantum computing and quantum technologies.
4 Aug 2022
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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.
28 Jul 2022
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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.
28 Jul 2022
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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.
11 Jul 2022
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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.
22 Jun 2022
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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.
2 Jun 2022
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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.
18 May 2022
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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.
13 May 2022
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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.
13 May 2022
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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.
25 Mar 2022
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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."
4 Mar 2022
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Magnetic excitations for information transfer without heat loss
27 Jan 2022
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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.
10 Jan 2022
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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.
7 Jan 2022
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Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications
16 Dec 2021
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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.
2 Dec 2021
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Quantum processor provides insights into exotic states of matter
4 Nov 2021
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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.
13 Oct 2021
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International research team led by University of Göttingen finds atomically-thin carbon generates its own magnetic field
1 Oct 2021
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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.
15 Sept 2021
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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.
26 Jul 2021
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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.
17 Jun 2021
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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.
11 Jun 2021
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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.
25 May 2021
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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.
29 Mar 2021
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A detector detects photons transporting qubits without destroying the quantum information.
1 Mar 2021
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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.
11 Jan 2021
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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.
16 Dec 2020
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Researchers have discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators.
5 Nov 2020
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Physicists at MPQ have developed an efficient modem for the future quantum internet.
14 Sept 2020
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120 million euros for the development of quantum sciences and technologies (QST) in Bavaria.
21 Jul 2020
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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.
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
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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.
15 Jun 2020
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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.
11 Feb 2020
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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.
21 Jan 2020
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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.
13 Jan 2020
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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.
4 Nov 2019
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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.
23 Oct 2019
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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.
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 Sept 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 Sept 2019
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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.
3 Sept 2019
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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.
1 Aug 2019
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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.
31 Jul 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.
12 Jul 2019
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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?
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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MCQST physicists develop a new method to carry computations in quantum field theory.
23 May 2019
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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.
1 Jan 2019
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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.