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.
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.
12 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 Sep 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.
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
12 Nov 2021
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Minister-President Markus Söder awards MCQST Speaker Immanuel Bloch the "Bavarian Nobel Prize"
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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Silke Stähler-Schöpf and Berit Körbitzer share why they believe education on quantum science and technology is for everyone
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.
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.
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.
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.
5 Nov 2020
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Physicists at MPQ have developed an efficient modem for the future quantum internet.
24 Sep 2020
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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.
14 Sep 2020
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120 million euros for the development of quantum sciences and technologies (QST) in Bavaria.
28 Jul 2020
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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.
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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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.
11 Feb 2020
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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.
21 Jan 2020
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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.
13 Jan 2020
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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.
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.
24 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 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
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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.
2 Aug 2019
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Physicists from MPQ and CSIC developed a new principle for quantum simulators, in which quantum bits can exchange light quanta via a waveguide.
1 Aug 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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Garching physicists develop a new method to carry computations in quantum field theory.
24 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.