News & Press

27 Feb 2024

Unveiling Secrets of Electron-Phonon Interactions

Press Release | News

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

23 Feb 2024

Cal-Bay Quantum School: Boosting Scientific Collaboration

News

BaCaTec funds a week-long summer school, promoting research and educational collaboration between Bavaria and California.

5 Feb 2024

Aisha Aqeel is Awarded Emmy Noether Grant

News | Scientific Awards

Asiha Aqeel is awarded 1.9 million euros in research funding through the German Research Council (DFG) Emmy Noether program.

2 Feb 2024

Chemistry Takes an Ultracold Turn

Press Release | Science News

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

29 Jan 2024

Amanda Young Featured in The UC Davis Newsletter

MCQST in Media | News | Munich Quantum Alumni

MCQST alumna, Amanda Young, has been featured in the UC Davis Mathematics Newsletter.

8 Jan 2024

Jad C. Halimeh Awarded Emmy Noether Grant

News | Scientific Awards

Jad C. Halimeh is awarded 1.5 million euros in research funding through the German Research Council (DFG) Emmy Noether program.

5 Jan 2024

GALaQSci: Quantum Physics for Everyone!

Press Release | News

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

14 Dec 2023

Monika Aidelsburger launches new research group at MPQ

News

The internationally renowned expert in controlled quantum systems launches the "Engineered Quantum Systems" research group at MPQ.

14 Dec 2023

Dmitri Efetov is awarded the Leibniz Prize

News | Scientific Awards

Dmitri Efetov obtains premier research award in Germany for his work on graphene.

8 Dec 2023

Quantum Minutes: How can drums help build the quantum internet?

News

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

24 Nov 2023

Spin-Based Quantum Technology In a 2D Material

Science News | Press Release

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.

21 Nov 2023

Stern Gerlach Medal for Immanuel Bloch

News | Scientific Awards

The award honours Immanuel Bloch's pioneering research on quantum simulations.

21 Nov 2023

Midterm Report: Fostering Collaborative Excellence

News

Report summarizing MCQST's achievements during its initial four years of activity.

21 Nov 2023

Vibrating Nanostrings

MCQST in Media | News

MCQST member and RU-E co-coordinator, Eva Weig discusses her work on developing new micrometer quantum systems in a new article in Research in Bavaria.

20 Nov 2023

Quantum internet: "The biggest problem is data loss"

Science News | News

Researchers around the world are working on a network which could connect quantum computers over long distances. Andreas Reiserer explains the challenges which have to be mastered and how atoms captured in crystals can help.

3 Nov 2023

Call for Applications: 2024 PhD Positions

News

Apply now for fully funded PhD fellowships in Quantum Science and Technology.

30 Oct 2023

PhD Survival Tips: Community & Job Search

News

MCQST & IMPRS-QST alumni and experienced students offer tips on how to survive and thrive in your PhD journey!

30 Oct 2023

Call for Applications: MCQST Postdoc Fellowships

News

Apply now for the START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship!

24 Oct 2023

A miniature magnetic resonance imager made of diamond

Press Release | News

Quantum sensors make microscale NMR spectroscopy possible

16 Oct 2023

Ignacio Cirac receives first La Vanguardia Prize

News | Scientific Awards

Ignacio Cirac received the first La Vanguardia Prize in the category "Innovation" - presented by the King of Spain.

4 Oct 2023

“Quantum computers will lead to previously unknown applications”

MCQST in Media | News

Barbara Kraus, head of the Chair of Quantum Algorithms and Applications at TUM and MCQST member, is featured in the "NewIn" series.

9 Sept 2023

Quantum Future Academy: Young Researchers Reunite in Munich

News

For the second part of the QFA 2023, students from Israel and Germany reunite in Munich to discover the local thriving quantum ecosystem.

11 Aug 2023

A Quantum Summer in Munich

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Summer Bachelor Program kicks-off: 16 students embarked on a one-month journey of quantum research and cultural exchange.

2 Aug 2023

MCQST Master's Awards 2022

News | Scientific Awards

The MCQST Master's Award recognizes the best Master's theses in quantum science and technology from the MCQST community.

26 Jul 2023

Exciton Ensembles Manifest Coherence

Science News | News

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

20 Jul 2023

MCQST PhD Awards 2022

News | Scientific Awards

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

26 Jun 2023

The Path to a Quantum Network

Press Release | Science News

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

Advancing Quantum Simulation of Lattice Gauge Theories with Ultracold Fermions

Press Release | Science News

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

8 Jun 2023

Magnons Prefer a Sense of Rotation Dancing the Waltz

Science News | Press Release

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

5 Jun 2023

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

Science News | Press Release

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

30 May 2023

A 40-year journey towards understanding the Duffing oscillator

Press Release | Science News

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

Quantum Simulation: Chiral Spin Liquids and Non-Abelian Anyons

Press Release | Science News

New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.

17 May 2023

Joannis Koepsell wins the Theodor Hänsch PhD Award 2022

News | Scientific Awards

Joannis Koepsell is awarded the Theodor Hänsch PhD prize from the LMU Faculty of Physics for his outstanding dissertation entitled “Quantum simulation of doped two-dimensional Mott insulators”.

4 May 2023

Mimicking Quantum Chemistry: Analogue quantum simulation of pseudomolecules

Press Release | Science News

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

24 Apr 2023

Immanuel Bloch honoured with “ZEISS Research Award”

News | Scientific Awards

Immanuel Bloch receives the award for his groundbreaking experimental research on quantum simulations with ultracold atoms.

19 Apr 2023

High-Temperature Superconductors Boost Next-Generation Quantum Technologies

Science News | Press Release

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

29 Mar 2023

Nanophysics: The Right Twist

Press Release | News

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.

13 Mar 2023

PhotonLab Wins Experiment of the Year

News

PhotonLab wins LeLa "Experiment of the Year" award for the experiment "Lecker im Licht".

10 Mar 2023

Quantum meets Engineering

MCQST in Media | News

Rudolf Gross and Fabian Kronowetter of WMI contribute with articles on Quantum Sensing and Quantum Radar to the Rohde & Schwarz journal "Neues".

10 Mar 2023

Physics meets Philosophy: Dialogues on the Foundations

News

Discussions between physicists and philosophers, exploring quantum gravity, cosmology, foundations of quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics.

2 Mar 2023

PhD Survival Tips: How to Navigate your PhD Journey

News

MCQST & IMPRS-QST alumni and experienced students offer tips on how to survive and thrive in your PhD journey!

24 Feb 2023

MCQST Scientists Awarded Poster Prizes at QIP2023

News | Scientific Awards

Two out of the four poster prizes at QIP2023 go to MCQST scientists.

22 Feb 2023

Quantum Future Academy 2023: Young researchers visit Israel

News

QFA2023 is a bi-national event, that offers students from Israel and Germany an exclusive insight into quantum technologies.

22 Feb 2023

A quantum switch for the world’s lightest mirror

Science News | Press Release

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

15 Feb 2023

Matchmaking atoms into a new molecular Fermi gas

Press Release | Science News

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

3 Feb 2023

Microwaves direct the interplay of waltzing molecules

Science News | Press Release

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.

26 Jan 2023

Alexander Högele awarded ERC Proof of Concept Grant

News | Scientific Awards

Alexander Högele and his team have been awarded the ERC Proof of Concept Grant for a project exploring novel photonic integrated circuits.

19 Jan 2023

Quantum simulator enables first microscopic observation of charge carriers pairing

Science News | Press Release

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

18 Jan 2023

The Magic Angle

Science News

LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene.

22 Dec 2022

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

Science News | Press Release

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

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

Science News | Press Release

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

Quantum Sensing meets Lab-on-a-Chip

Science News | Press Release

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.

29 Nov 2022

MCQST Scientist Receives 2022 Quantum Future Award

News | Scientific Awards

MCQST scientists recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.

31 Oct 2022

New Hardware for Quantum Networking

News | Press Release

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.

27 Oct 2022

Georgi Dvali wins ERC Synergy Grant

News | Scientific Awards

Georgi Dvali has been awarded the prestigious European Research Council Synergy Grant for a project at the interface of quantum physics and general relativity.

20 Oct 2022

Apply Now: MCQST Postdoc Fellowships

News

Call for Applications: START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship

10 Oct 2022

Viviana Villafañe Featured on "insideQuantum" Podcast

News

MCQST Distinguished Postdoc interviewed on podcast telling the human stories behind quantum

21 Sept 2022

Exploring new worlds

News | Scientific Awards

Physicist and MCQST Spokesperson Immanuel Bloch has been named Clarivate Citation Laureate for his pioneering research in the field of quantum simulation.

14 Sept 2022

Nathalie Picqué wins Falling Walls Award "Science Breakthrough of the Year"

News

MCQST Member Nathalie Picqué has been honored with Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 by the Falling Walls Foundation

5 Sept 2022

New Fur for the Quantum Cat

Science News | Press Release

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

1 Sept 2022

Precise Disorder

MCQST in Media | News

Dmitri Efetov's research on graphene featured in EINSICHTEN - The material graphene and a magic angle: physics with a new twist.

30 Aug 2022

Entangled Photons Tailor-Made

Science News | Press Release

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.

22 Aug 2022

Carolina Burger is the “Female Physicist of the Week”

News

Carolina Burger, PhD student in the Topology of Correlated Systems group at the TUM, is featured as “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG).

12 Aug 2022

How Start-up planqc Wants to Be the First to Build Quantum Computers with Thousands of Qubits

News

Can a start-up stand a chance against Google or IBM in the race for operable quantum computers? It certainly can, because so far it is not even clear which technology platform will prevail, and planqc from Munich is pursuing a different path than the tech giants.

12 Aug 2022

Exciting Times in Quantum Technologies

MCQST in Media | News

Prof. Immanuel Bloch and Dr. Thomas Renner discuss the cooperation of industry and science, which lasers and photonic solutions for quantum technology applications are currently in demand, and what developments we can expect to see in the future.

5 Aug 2022

Dmitri Efetov Receives the International Early Career Scientist Prize

News | Scientific Awards

Professor Dmitri Efetov has been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics by IUPAP.

4 Aug 2022

Nearly 17 Million Euros Funding for Quantum Lighthouse Projects

Press Release | News

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

4 Aug 2022

A Roadmap for the Future of Quantum Simulation

Science News | Press Release

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.

1 Aug 2022

Goldene Kreide Awarded to Rudolf Gross

News

Goldene Kreide awarded to Rudolf Gross for excellence in teaching.

28 Jul 2022

Quantum Cryptography: Hacking Futile

Press Release | Science News

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

A Nanokelvin Microwave Freezer for Molecules

Press Release | Science News

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.

21 Jul 2022

MCQST PhD Awards 2021

News | Scientific Awards

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

11 Jul 2022

Record Entanglement of Quantum Memories

Press Release | Science News

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

8 Jul 2022

Ignacio Cirac Receives Honorary Doctorate from the University of A Coruña

News | Scientific Awards

Through his pioneering work in the field of quantum information theory, Ignacio Cirac is considered one of the most influential scientists of our time.

7 Jul 2022

Dmitri Efetov: Quantum Physics and Graphene

MCQST in Media | News

MCQST Member Dmitri Efetov discusses his research on graphene in a new article in Research in Bavaria. The remarkable material graphene is a material made of carbon atoms in a one-atom-thick layer, which can exhibit exciting properties such as superconductivity

1 Jul 2022

Alice in Quantum Land!

News

With the new radio play series "Alice in Quantum Land", PhotonLab takes you on a fascinating journey into the mysterious world of quanta.

28 Jun 2022

Max Planck Scientists Found planqc to Build Highly Scalable Quantum Computer

News

Quantum computing startup planqc today announced a financing round of EUR 4.6 million to develop a highly scalable quantum computer operating at room temperature that is based on atoms trapped in optical lattices.

3 Jun 2022

START Fellow Jasmin Meinecke Featured in Re:publica Festival

Science News

Dr. Jasmin Meinecke and Dr. Libby Heaney presents an introduction to to quantum technologies and a deep-dive into artistic and ethical responses to groundbreaking advances in quantum computing.

31 May 2022

MCQST Member Receives 2022 Helmholtz Prize

News | Scientific Awards

Nathalie Picqué of MCQST receives the 2022 Helmholtz Prize for Applied Metrology with Edoardo Vicentini.

18 May 2022

Quantum Magnets in Motion

Press Release | Science News

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

When quantum particles fly like bees

Press Release | Science News

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

More efficiency for optical quantum gates

Press Release | Science News

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.

6 May 2022

Mikhail Lukin Explores the “New Frontier of Quantum”

News

The Harvard physicist will give a series of talks in Munich in May as MCQST Distinguished Lecturer

14 Apr 2022

World Quantum Day: Join Us in the Lab!

News

How do scientists make crystals that are only one atom thick? Join us for a virtual trip into the lab!

17 Mar 2022

ERC Advanced Grant for Nathalie Picqué

News | Scientific Awards

She is the first woman physicist in Germany in the field of atomic, molecular and optical physics to be awarded this renowned grant.

17 Mar 2022

MCQST Member Awarded ERC Grant

News | Scientific Awards

Prof. Phan Thành Nam has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.

14 Mar 2022

Award-winning Quantum Random Number Generator

News

The MPQ Photonlab is once again awarded with the LeLa Prize of the Federal Association of German School Labs, this time in the category “experiment of the year”.

14 Mar 2022

Quantum Minutes: Why Should You Care About Quantum Computing?

News

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

4 Mar 2022

Waves on circular paths

Press Release | Science News

Magnetic excitations for information transfer without heat loss

27 Jan 2022

Foundation of the Munich Quantum Valley e.V.

News | Press Release

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.

26 Jan 2022

How to Apply for a Master's or PhD Program in Germany

News

Learn how to apply for a graduate program in Munich: Germany's hub for quantum science and technology.

10 Jan 2022

Successful Quantum Teleportation at Microwave Frequencies

Press Release | Science News

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.

10 Jan 2022

Apply Now: MCQST Postdoc Fellowships

News

START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship

7 Jan 2022

New materials for quantum technologies

Press Release | Science News

Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications

17 Dec 2021

QST Master’s Student Receives Grant to Develop Open-Source Quantum Compiler

News

Varun Seshadri, a student in the QST Master’s program, along with two undergraduate students from Simon Fraser University, has received a grant from the Unitary Fund to develop a lattice surgery quantum error correction compiler

16 Dec 2021

A Cold Pair of Mirrors Made Stable

Press Release | Science News

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.

15 Dec 2021

Podcast Episode: Exzellent Erklärt

News

MCQST scientists featured in the new podcast "Exzellent Erklärt"

9 Dec 2021

Quantum Minutes: Was Hawking Wrong About Black Holes?

News

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

9 Dec 2021

Call for Applications: 2022 PhD Positions

News

Apply now for fully funded PhD fellowships in Quantum Science and Technology.

2 Dec 2021

Twisting elusive quantum particles

Press Release | Science News

Quantum processor provides insights into exotic states of matter

1 Dec 2021

Apply Now: Mentoring Program for Women

News

Master's students, PhDs, and Postdocs: Apply by 31. Dec!

12 Nov 2021

Immanuel Bloch Receives the Bavarian Maximilian Order

Press Release | Science News

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

9 Nov 2021

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

News

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

4 Nov 2021

A New Way to Fabricate Borophene Opens up Many Possibilities

Press Release | Science News

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

Novel quantum effect discovered in naturally occurring graphene

Press Release | Science News

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

1 Oct 2021

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

Press Release | Science News

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

1 Oct 2021

When soap bubbles turn to soup

Press Release | Science News

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.

28 Sept 2021

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

News

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

21 Sept 2021

Podcast Episode: Shaping the Future with Quantum

News

MCQST Member Monika Aidelsburger is a guest on the latest episode of "SiblersDenkräume", the podcast of Bavarian Science Minister Bernd Sibler.

6 Sept 2021

MCQST Scientists Receive 2021 Quantum Future Awards

News | Scientific Awards

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

2 Sept 2021

Quantum Minutes: Is a Perfect Cable Possible?

News

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

12 Aug 2021

Quantum Minutes: Quantum Cryptography - what is it really?

News

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

4 Aug 2021

MCQST PhD Awards 2020

News | Scientific Awards

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

29 Jul 2021

Supporting Independence in Quantum Research

MCQST in Media | News

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.

26 Jul 2021

Elegant quantum teleportation with only one single photon

Science News | Press Release

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.

15 Jul 2021

Monika Aidelsburger is the “Female Physicist of the Week”

News

Monika Aidelsburger, LMU Professor and MCQST Member, is featured as “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG).

30 Jun 2021

Professor Monika Aidelsburger wins Alfried Krupp Prize

News | Scientific Awards

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

17 Jun 2021

BMW supports new TUM endowed chair with 5.1 million euros

News

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

15 Jun 2021

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

News

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

25 May 2021

Revealing Einstein’s “spooky action” without destroying it

Science News | Press Release

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

3 May 2021

QIP2021: latest breakthroughs in theoretical quantum information

News

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.

29 Mar 2021

Tracking for quantum post

Press Release | Science News

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

15 Mar 2021

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

News

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

1 Mar 2021

Erbium dopants in nanophotonic silicon waveguides on the Optica cover

Science News | News

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

15 Feb 2021

Robert König wins ERC Consolidator Grant

News | Scientific Awards

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".

1 Feb 2021

A Bridge to the Quantum World

MCQST in Media

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

11 Jan 2021

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

Press Release | News

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

16 Dec 2020

Precession squared: The rise of pseudospin

Science News

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

15 Dec 2020

Looking into the unknown

News | MCQST in Media

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

20 Nov 2020

MCQST Researchers on Highly Cited Researchers 2020 List

Scientific Awards | News

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

5 Nov 2020

The dream of unlimited possibilities

News | MCQST in Media

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.

5 Nov 2020

A Modem for the Quantum Internet

Press Release | Science News

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

27 Oct 2020

A Smooth Transition in a Quantum Gas with Impurities

Science News

New Publication in Physics

13 Oct 2020

Janis Nötzel receives Best Paper Award at the CITS 2020

News | Scientific Awards

Janis Nötzel receives Best Paper Award at the CITS 2020 for the paper "Entanglement-Enabled Communication".

24 Sept 2020

The Return of the Spin Echo

Press Release | News

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

16 Sept 2020

Two ERC Starting Grants awarded to MCQST members

Scientific Awards | News

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

14 Sept 2020

Bavaria takes a Quantum Leap

Press Release | News

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

17 Aug 2020

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

MCQST in Media | News

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.

30 Jul 2020

The next Quantum Leap

News | MCQST in Media

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

30 Jul 2020

Martí Perarnau Llobet wins NJP Early Career Award

News | Scientific Awards

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

28 Jul 2020

Science Minister Bernd Sibler visits the Walther Meissner Institute

Press Release | News

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.

27 Jul 2020

Munich Takes the Lead in Quantum Science

News | MCQST in Media

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

20 Jul 2020

The world’s lightest mirror

Press Release | Science News

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

Driven topology

Science News | Press Release

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

Playing Pool with Excitons

Press Release | Science News

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.

9 Jun 2020

Interview with Professor Immanuel Bloch

News

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

20 May 2020

Prof. Phan Thành Nam is awarded EMS prize

News | Scientific Awards

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

11 Mar 2020

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

News

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

11 Feb 2020

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

Press Release | Science News

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.

27 Jan 2020

Setting the pace

MCQST in Media | News

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.

4 Nov 2019

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.

10 Oct 2019

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.

17 Sept 2019

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.

5 Sept 2019

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.

4 Sept 2019

OPENQKD: paving the way for secure quantum communication

Science News

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

29 Aug 2019

Bell Prize awarded to quantum computing pioneers

News | Scientific Awards

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.

13 Aug 2019

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.

2 Aug 2019

New Toolkit for Photonics: Quantum Simulation by Light Radio

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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

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.

26 Jul 2019

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.

12 Jul 2019

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?

14 Jun 2019

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.

29 May 2019

A Leap into the Continuum

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

24 May 2019

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.

24 May 2019

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.

7 May 2019

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.

1 Jan 2019

Cluster of Excellence MCQST: The huge potential of the minuscule

Press Release | News

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.

22 Dec 2018

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.

17 Oct 2018

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.

18 Mar 2018

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.

15 Mar 2018

A quadrillionth of a second in slow motion

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Observing and controlling ultrafast processes with attosecond resolution

9 Mar 2018

Size-driven quantum phase transitions

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A physical consequence of the undecidability of the spectral gap

6 Mar 2018

Light-steering of spin-polarized currents in topological insulators

News | Science News

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.

7 Feb 2018

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.

16 Jan 2018

Visit by Prof. Dan Stamper-Kurn

MQC Guests

Prof. Stamper-Kurn arrived in Munich in January 2018, where he is pleased to be hosted by the Bloch group and is honored to be a Distinguished Fellow of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

12 Dec 2017

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.

23 Nov 2017

Prof. Ignacio Cirac receives Max-Planck Medal from the German Physical Society

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The Max-Planck medal is the most prestigious award of the German Physical Society (DPG) for outstanding performances in the area of theoretical physics. It is given once a year to a brilliant scientist who is following in the tracks of Max Planck.

6 Jun 2017

Breaking Newton's Law

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Oscillation instead of free fall – Quantum interference leads to surprising results

29 Apr 2017

Shaken, but not stirred

News

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

16 Jan 2017

Quantum Nanotechnology: Lighting up ultrathin films

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A new method to characterize the valley index of transition metal dichalcogenides

1 Nov 2016

Observing the creation of quasiparticles in real-time

News

Quasiparticles in time-lapse

5 Jan 2016

New members at the Munich Quantum Center

News

We give a warm welcome to our new members: Norbert Schuch from MPQ, Matthias Punk from LMU, and Michael Knap and Robert König from TUM!

11 Jun 2015

NIM Conference on Resonator QED

News

Monday, August 3 – Friday, August 7, 2015 Literaturhaus München

10 Jun 2015

Seminar block on the Bethe Ansatz

News

Special ASC and TMP block course of 6 lectures on the Bethe Ansatz, taught by Dr. Robert Konik (Brookhaven) between June 15 and June 26.

6 Jun 2015

Long Night of Science in Garching Campus

News

The science campus Garching invites you to the "Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften" on the 27th of June 2015. The campus is one of Germany´s largest centres for research and education.

24 Apr 2015

Munich Quantum Center Workshop--UPDATED

News

The second event of the Munich Quantum Center will be held at the Walter Schottky Institute in Garching Forschungszentrum

16 Apr 2015

A “pin ball machine” for atoms and photons

News

A team of physicists from MPQ, Caltech, and ICFO proposes the combination of nano-photonics with ultracold atoms for simulating quantum many-body systems and creating new states of matter.

27 Mar 2015

Fascinating quantum transport on a surface

News

The surface of topological insulators conducts electricity exceptionally well. Nano-Initiative-Munich (NIM) scientists, belonging also to the Munich Quantum Center (MQC), now measured this with extremely high temporal resolution. They also could influence the direction of the surface currents with a polarized laser beam.

26 Mar 2015

Spanish Cellex Foundation endows ICFO-MPQ Research Fellows

News

The Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and ICFO- The Institute of Photonic Sciences sign a six years program agreement for cooperation in cutting edge research.

26 Mar 2015

How does order emerge?

News

Scientists from the MPQ, LMU, and the FUB analyse how fast order can appear in a quantum-mechanical system.

26 Mar 2015

The KIF-Prize 2014 for Dr. Anne Ersbak Bang Nielsen

News

Dr. Anne Ersbak Bang Nielsen, a young research scientist in the Theory Division of Professor Ignacio Cirac at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching near Munich), has received the Honorary Award of the Danish “Network for Women in Physics (KIF)”.

12 Mar 2015

Frequency combs in the molecular fingerprint region

News

Silicon nanowire optical waveguides dramatically broaden mid-infrared frequency comb spectra.

25 Feb 2015

Celebrating the international Year of Light at the TUM

News

On 20 December 2013, the UN General Assembly 68th Session proclaimed 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies (IYL 2015). The IYL 2015

22 Feb 2015

Summer School "Topological phases of matter"

News

2015 Arnold Sommerfeld School 31 August 2015 – 4 September 2015

9 Feb 2015

Professor Ignacio Cirac receives the Honorary Doctor from the University of Valencia

News

Professor Ignacio Cirac, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (Garching, near Munich) and leader of the Theory Division, has received the honorary title of a “doctor honoris causa” from the University of Valencia.

9 Feb 2015

Humboldt-Laureate Prof. Eugene Demler is being elected “Distinguished Scholar” at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics

News

Theoretical physicist Professor Eugene Demler from Harvard University is visiting the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Prof. Immanuel Bloch

21 Jan 2015

Magic numbers of quantum matter revealed by cold atoms

News

Scientists extract the topological number of an artificial solid subjected to extreme effective magnetic fields

2 Dec 2014

Possible read head for quantum computers

News

Graphene layer reads optical information from nanodiamonds electronically

11 Nov 2014

Popular Science paper "Simulated Quantum Worlds"

News

The group of Immanuel Bloch has made it on the cover image of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaften' (german Scientific American).

7 Nov 2014

17th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information: Topological Quantum Matter in Cold-Atom Setups

News

16th-17th April 2015, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching.

8 Oct 2014

Visualizing Operators of Coupled Spin Systems

News

The group of Steffen Glaser has developed a generalized Wigner-type approach to visualize abstract operators of quantum systems consisting of coupled spins.

2 Oct 2014

Measuring Millikelvin Temperatures with Quantum Dots

News

Alexander Högele and his team have used quantum dots to probe the thermal states of n-doped gallium arsenide (GaAs), a semiconductor that acts as an electron reservoir.

28 Sept 2014

Final proof for optimal encoding strategies in optical communication

News

MPQ theorist proves that Gaussian encoding guarantees minimum output entropy and hence ultimate capacity of optical communication channels.

26 Sept 2014

Munich Quantum Center Poster Day

News

On Tuesday 23th of September the MQC celebrated its inauguration with a Poster Day at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics.

1 Sept 2014

New Emmy-Noether research group

News

A newly established Emmy-Noether research group has joined the department E24 lead by Prof. Jonathan Finley at the Walter Schottky Institute.

31 Aug 2014

Atoms on the ladder

News

Rubidium atoms trapped in narrow optical lattices reveals a phase transition similar to the one found in superconductors.

30 Aug 2014

The N-photon gun

News

Our researchers and collaborators have proposed an ultimate method to control the light emission at the quantum mechanical level.

4 Aug 2014

Munich Quantum Center PhD poster day

News

The PhD poster day will gather all researchers from the MQC at the Max Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics.

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