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.

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.

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.

Quantum advantage with shallow circuits

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MQC member Robert König and collaborators from IBM and the University of Waterloo present the first unconditional separation between analogously defined classical and quantum complexity classes.

MCQST starting in January 2019

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The "Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology" is approved by the DFG as a Cluster of Excellence.

Synopsis: ARPES with Cold Atoms

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A numerical study outlines how to perform measurements on cold atoms that mimic angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy studies of solids.

A quadrillionth of a second in slow motion

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Observing and controlling ultrafast processes with attosecond resolution

Size-driven quantum phase transitions

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A physical consequence of the undecidability of the spectral gap

Light-steering of spin-polarized currents in topological insulators

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Topological insulators are a fascinating group of materials. A spin-polarization occurs, as soon as an electric current flows in the material. MQC scientist Prof Dr Alexander Holleitner and his cooperation partners measured this now for the first time optically at room temperature.

Light controls two-atom quantum computation

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MPQ scientists realize mathematical operations with a quantum gate between two trapped atoms that is mediated by photons.

Long-lived storage of a photonic qubit for worldwide teleportation

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MPQ scientists achieve long storage times for photonic quantum bits which break the lower bound for direct teleportation in a global quantum network.

The Rydberg constant and proton size from atomic hydrogen

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Shaken, but not stirred

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Physicists create quantum system, which is robust to mixing by periodic forces