4 Dec 2024
News | Awards
Michael Knap and Andreas Reiserer, Professors at TUM, and Matthias Althammer, group leader at the Walther-Meißner-Institute have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants!
4 Dec 2024
News | Awards
Michael Knap and Andreas Reiserer, Professors at TUM, and Matthias Althammer, group leader at the Walther-Meißner-Institute have been awarded the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grants!
22 Nov 2024
News | Press Release | Science
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.
15 Nov 2024
News | Awards | Outreach
The German Physical Society honours the head of the PhotonLab for her exceptional work in bringing physics to the public.
14 Nov 2024
News | Outreach
Make way for science! Together with the other three Munich Excellence Clusters, we hosted our first-ever Science Slam. Here are the highlights!
6 Nov 2024
News | Awards
MCQST member, Jonathan Finley, aims to create innovative computer chips that integrate photonics and electronics, paving the way for transformative advancements in quantum computing.
4 Nov 2024
News
Join the MCQST: Apply now for the START & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowships!
4 Nov 2024
News | Outreach
Dive in into the world of quantum physics with hands-on experiments in the PhotonLab!
31 Oct 2024
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | Press Release | Science
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.
9 Oct 2024
News | International
The Waterloo-Munich Workshop brought our communities closer together, fostering scientific exchange and strengthening our international ties.
7 Oct 2024
Science | Press Release | News | Awards
TUM researchers have developed a diamond quantum sensor for optical MRI detection, aiming for clinical cancer monitoring with LMU Klinikum.
20 Sept 2024
News
The first edition of the Quantum Talents Munich Symposium celebrated excellent research by early-career scientists over the course of two inspiring days.
19 Sept 2024
Press Release | Science | News
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
News | Press Release | Science
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.
12 Sept 2024
News | Awards
MCQST member Christian Schilling received the Hans G. A. Hellmann Prize 2024 for his outstanding scientific contribution on the geometry of reduced density matrices and the N-representability problem.
11 Sept 2024
News | Press Release | Science
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.
5 Sept 2024
News | Awards
MCQST member, Jad Halimeh aimes to advance current concepts of quantum simulation, particularly for higher-dimensional gauge theories.
23 Aug 2024
News | Alumni
Former MCQST Distinguished Postdoc fellows, Lea Boßmann and Amanda Young awarded for significant contributions to mathematical physics.
21 Aug 2024
News | Science
Mari Carmen Bañuls, co-coordinator of the RU-B Quantum Simulation research unit, is a physicist and a computer scientist. Her scientific career began in particle physics, and she is now developing algorithms for quantum simulations at MPQ.
21 Aug 2024
Outreach | News
MCQST is partner in Quanten(t)räume project, which offers insights into quantum research, expert Q&A, and participation outreach for eveyone.
15 Aug 2024
Science | News | Press Release
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
Outreach | News
The PhotonLab at the MPQ released the third episode of its popular radio play series for young and old.
25 Jul 2024
Press Release | Science | News
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.
24 Jul 2024
Outreach | News
Together with Deutsches Museum, we hosted the opening of the joint exhibition, which delves into the captivating interplay between light and matter.
17 Jul 2024
Awards | News
Andreas Gritsch wins the Nano Innovation Award for the creation of a novel experimental platform for quantum networks.
10 Jul 2024
Press Release | News
Physicists at MPQ and MCQST use laser tweezers in optical resonators to create entanglement in a quantum network.
5 Jul 2024
Outreach | News
Monika Aidelsburger and Fabian Grusdt talk about quantum simulation on the "Exzellent Erklärt" podcast.
1 Jul 2024
News | Awards
The prize, named after the Nobel Prize winner and pioneer of laser spectroscopy, honours particularly outstanding and ground-breaking dissertations in the field of physics.
19 Jun 2024
News
Adam Kaufman will use the prestigious award for a research stay at the Aidelsburger group.
18 Jun 2024
Press Release | News | Outreach
The new special exhibition ‘Light and Matter’ makes quantum physics tangible.
12 Jun 2024
News | Awards
The MCQST Master's Award recognizes the best Master's theses in quantum science and technology from the MCQST community.
12 Jun 2024
News
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
10 Jun 2024
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Press Release | Science
Quantum computers and quantum internet require entangled quantum bits, a recent major breakthrough is the first generation of two-dimensional "graph states”.
14 May 2024
News | Science | Awards
With the funding, the researchers take on one of the central challenges of modern physics today – the creation and investigation of unconventional superfluids.
12 May 2024
Awards | News
Membership in the NAS is a prestigious honour, with new members elected based on outstanding contributions in their respective research fields.
25 Apr 2024
News | Press Release | Science
Researchers develop a novel tensor network approach to simulate the evolution of quantum many body systems over time
22 Apr 2024
News | Awards
In the project H-SPECTR, scientists aim to measure the energies of selected transitions in the hydrogen atom with unprecedented precision.
18 Apr 2024
News
Dr. Bañuls, MCQST RU-B co-coordinator, is launching her own W2 research group at MPQ.
15 Apr 2024
Awards | News
Nora Brambilla has been awarded the ERC Advanved Grant for her “EFT-XYZ” project, aimed at investigating new forms of matter.
13 Apr 2024
News | Outreach
Three researchers took center stage at the MCQST Xamas Party offering insights into their research.
10 Apr 2024
News | Press Release | Science
The many phases of twisted bilayer graphene featured in an overview article in Physics Today.
21 Mar 2024
News
Aisha Aqeel, junior group leader at MCQST and TUM, is featured as “Female Physicist of the Week” by the German Physical Society (DPG).
20 Mar 2024
Awards | News
His work on the principles and applications of quantum physics, such as in quantum information theory or the simulation of complex many-body systems, as well as his overall scientific achievements would contribute to revolutionising the world as we know it today, explained the university. It is the ninth honorary doctorate that Ignacio Cirac has been awarded to date.
20 Mar 2024
News | Science
Qlibri's receives up to €2.5 Million European Innovation Council (EIC) transition grant for their QlibriNANO project.
27 Feb 2024
News | Science | Press Release
A new study by an international team provides new insights into electron-phonon interactions occurring within bilayer graphene.
23 Feb 2024
News | International
BaCaTec funds a week-long summer school, promoting research and educational collaboration between Bavaria and California.
5 Feb 2024
News | Awards
Asiha Aqeel is awarded 1.9 million euros in research funding through the German Research Council (DFG) Emmy Noether program.
1 Feb 2024
Science | Press Release | 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
News | Alumni
MCQST alumna, Amanda Young, has been featured in the UC Davis Mathematics Newsletter.
8 Jan 2024
News | 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
News | Outreach | Press Release
GALaQSci uses augmented reality and artificial intelligence to playfully render the quantum world accessible.
14 Dec 2023
News
The internationally renowned expert in controlled quantum systems launches the "Engineered Quantum Systems" research group at MPQ.
14 Dec 2023
News | Awards
Dmitri Efetov obtains premier research award in Germany for his work on graphene.
8 Dec 2023
News | Outreach
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
News | Science | 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
News | Awards
The award honours Immanuel Bloch's pioneering research on quantum simulations.
21 Nov 2023
News | Outreach
Report summarizing MCQST's achievements during its initial four years of activity.
21 Nov 2023
News | MCQST in Media
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
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
News
Apply now for fully funded PhD fellowships in Quantum Science and Technology.
30 Oct 2023
News
MCQST & IMPRS-QST alumni and experienced students offer tips on how to survive and thrive in your PhD journey!
30 Oct 2023
News
Apply now for the START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship!
24 Oct 2023
News | Science | Press Release
Quantum sensors make microscale NMR spectroscopy possible
16 Oct 2023
News | Awards
Ignacio Cirac received the first La Vanguardia Prize in the category "Innovation" - presented by the King of Spain.
4 Oct 2023
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
News | International
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
News
Summer Bachelor Program kicks-off: 16 students embarked on a one-month journey of quantum research and cultural exchange.
2 Aug 2023
News
The MCQST Master's Award recognizes the best Master's theses in quantum science and technology from the MCQST community.
26 Jul 2023
News | Science | Press Release
Exciting new results show that coherent light emission from excitons in a 2D-material structure could inspire new quantum-technology applications.
20 Jul 2023
News
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
26 Jun 2023
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Science | Press Release
A novel approach opens up new avenues for harnessing the capabilities of quantum simulators in the study of lattice gauge theories.
8 Jun 2023
News | Press Release | Science
A team of researchers demonstrated nonreciprocal behavior of magnons in an insulating antiferromagnet, allowing the development of nonreciprocal magnonic devices.
5 Jun 2023
News | Science | Press Release
A new review article sheds light on future directions for Thouless pumps and opens us new questions.
30 May 2023
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Science | Press Release
New study suggests pathway toward investigating chiral spin liquids.
17 May 2023
News | 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
News | Science | Press Release
Theorists develop a simplified experimental concept that could enable the first quantum simulations of chemistry.
24 Apr 2023
News | Awards
Immanuel Bloch receives the award for his groundbreaking experimental research on quantum simulations with ultracold atoms.
19 Apr 2023
Science | Press Release | News
A team led by Dmitri Efetov demonstrate quantum detectors based on high-temperature (high-TC) superconductors.
29 Mar 2023
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Outreach | Awards
PhotonLab wins LeLa "Experiment of the Year" award for the experiment "Lecker im Licht".
10 Mar 2023
News | Science
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
News | Outreach
Discussions between physicists and philosophers, exploring quantum gravity, cosmology, foundations of quantum mechanics, philosophy of physics.
2 Mar 2023
News
MCQST & IMPRS-QST alumni and experienced students offer tips on how to survive and thrive in your PhD journey!
23 Feb 2023
News | Awards
Two out of the four poster prizes at QIP2023 go to MCQST scientists.
22 Feb 2023
News | International
QFA2023 is a bi-national event, that offers students from Israel and Germany an exclusive insight into quantum technologies.
22 Feb 2023
News | Science | 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
News | Science | Press Release
Researchers create a degenerate Fermi gas of molecules by leveraging a quantum phase transition for the first time.
3 Feb 2023
News | Science | 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
News | 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
News | Science | 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
News | Science | Press Release
LMU physicists have uncovered mysterious properties of twisted trilayer graphene.
22 Dec 2022
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | Science | 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
News | Awards
MCQST scientists recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.
31 Oct 2022
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | 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.
19 Oct 2022
News
Call for Applications: START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship
10 Oct 2022
News | Outreach
MCQST Distinguished Postdoc interviewed on podcast telling the human stories behind quantum
21 Sept 2022
News | 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
News | Outreach | Awards
MCQST Member Nathalie Picqué has been honored with Science Breakthrough of the Year 2022 by the Falling Walls Foundation
5 Sept 2022
News | Science | Press Release
New Fur for the Quantum Cat: Entanglement of many atoms in a quantum material discovered for the first time
1 Sept 2022
News | MCQST in Media
Dmitri Efetov's research on graphene featured in EINSICHTEN - The material graphene and a magic angle: physics with a new twist.
30 Aug 2022
News | Press Release | Science
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
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
News | Science
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
News | Outreach
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
News | Awards
Professor Dmitri Efetov has been awarded the Early Career Scientist Prize in Semiconductor Physics by IUPAP.
4 Aug 2022
News | Press Release
Bavaria as a top location for quantum computing and quantum technologies.
4 Aug 2022
Science | Press Release | News
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
News | Awards
Goldene Kreide awarded to Rudolf Gross for excellence in teaching.
28 Jul 2022
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
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
News
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
11 Jul 2022
Science | Press Release | 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
News | 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
News | MCQST in Media
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
News | Outreach
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
News | Science
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.
22 Jun 2022
Science | Press Release | News
MCQST researchers achieved a finite-temperature version of this topological Haldane phase using Fermi-Hubbard ladders in an ultracold-atom quantum simulator.
3 Jun 2022
Outreach | 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
News | Awards
Nathalie Picqué of MCQST receives the 2022 Helmholtz Prize for Applied Metrology with Edoardo Vicentini.
18 May 2022
News | Press Release | Science
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
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Outreach
The Harvard physicist will give a series of talks in Munich in May as MCQST Distinguished Lecturer
14 Apr 2022
News | Outreach
How do scientists make crystals that are only one atom thick? Join us for a virtual trip into the lab!
17 Mar 2022
News | 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
News | Awards
Prof. Phan Thành Nam has received a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council.
14 Mar 2022
Outreach | Awards | 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
News | Outreach
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
News | Science | Press Release
Magnetic excitations for information transfer without heat loss
27 Jan 2022
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
News | Outreach
Learn how to apply for a graduate program in Munich: Germany's hub for quantum science and technology.
10 Jan 2022
News | Science | Press Release
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.
9 Jan 2022
News
START Fellowship & Distinguished Postdoc Fellowship
7 Jan 2022
News | Press Release | Science
Solids with special symmetries for quantum and spintronics applications
17 Dec 2021
News | Awards
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
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Outreach
MCQST scientists featured in the new podcast "Exzellent Erklärt"
9 Dec 2021
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
News
Apply now for fully funded PhD fellowships in Quantum Science and Technology.
2 Dec 2021
News | Science | Press Release
Quantum processor provides insights into exotic states of matter
30 Nov 2021
News
Master's students, PhDs, and Postdocs: Apply by 31. Dec!
12 Nov 2021
News | Awards
Minister-President Markus Söder awards MCQST Speaker Immanuel Bloch the "Bavarian Nobel Prize"
8 Nov 2021
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
News | Science | Press Release
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
News | Science | Press Release
International research team led by University of Göttingen finds atomically-thin carbon generates its own magnetic field
1 Oct 2021
Outreach | News | MCQST in Media
Silke Stähler-Schöpf and Berit Körbitzer share why they believe education on quantum science and technology is for everyone
1 Oct 2021
Science | Press Release | 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
News | Outreach
In this new series, scientists open up their labs to curious minds to reveal the fascinating quantum research at MCQST.
21 Sept 2021
News | Outreach | MCQST in Media
MCQST Member Monika Aidelsburger is a guest on the latest episode of "SiblersDenkräume", the podcast of Bavarian Science Minister Bernd Sibler.
6 Sept 2021
News | Awards
Three finalists from MCQST recognized for outstanding work with high relevance to the field of quantum technology.
2 Sept 2021
News | Outreach
In this series, scientists open up their laboratories and workspaces to curious minds to discover the fascinating research undertaken within MCQST.
12 Aug 2021
News | Outreach
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
News
The MCQST PhD Award honors the best PhD theses in quantum science and technology selected from the MCQST community.
29 Jul 2021
News | MCQST in Media
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
News | Science | 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
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
News | 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
News | Press Release
Industrial application of quantum computers - We are excited to see the local quantum community and infrastructure continuously growing with exciting collaborations.
15 Jun 2021
News
Experience science in 360°: Derya Taray takes us through an imersive tour of the High Precision Spectroscopy lab at MPQ.
25 May 2021
News | Press Release | Science
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
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
News | Science | Press Release
A detector detects photons transporting qubits without destroying the quantum information.
15 Mar 2021
News | Outreach
Experience science in 360°: Dominik Niemitz takes us through an imersive tour of the CavityX lab at MPQ.
1 Mar 2021
News | Science | Press Release
"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
News | 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
News | 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
News | Press Release
Bavaria's leading scientists and universities kick off a new research initiative to promote quantum science and develop new quantum technologies.
16 Dec 2020
Science | Press Release | News
Researchers have discovered an exciting method for controlling spin carried by quantized spin wave excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators.
15 Dec 2020
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
News | Awards
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
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
News | Science | Press Release
Physicists at MPQ have developed an efficient modem for the future quantum internet.
27 Oct 2020
News | Science
New Publication in Physics
13 Oct 2020
News | Awards
Janis Nötzel receives Best Paper Award at the CITS 2020 for the paper "Entanglement-Enabled Communication".
24 Sept 2020
News | Outreach | Science
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
News | Awards
MCQST members, Fabian Grusdt and Dominik Bucher, have won prestigious ERC Starting Grants.
14 Sept 2020
News | Press Release
120 million euros for the development of quantum sciences and technologies (QST) in Bavaria.
17 Aug 2020
News | MCQST in Media
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
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
News | Awards | Alumni
Congratulations to Martí Perarnau Llobet for winning the "NJP Early Career Award".
28 Jul 2020
News | Science
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
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Interview with Rudolf Groß in Digitale Welt on the Munich quantum landscape.
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.
9 Jun 2020
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Immanuel Bloch talks about taking on the role of managing director at the MPQ and the future of quantum optics.
20 May 2020
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The prize is awarded in recognition of excellent contributions in mathematics.
11 Mar 2020
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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
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.
27 Jan 2020
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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
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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
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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.
29 Aug 2019
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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
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Otto Hahn Medal: Max Planck Society awards Johannes Zeiher as an excellent junior researcher.
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.
25 Jul 2019
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The University of Buenos Aires (UBA) has awarded an honorary doctorate to Professor Ignacio Cirac in July.
15 Jul 2019
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Prof. Monika Aidelsburger is awarded for her outstanding work.
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.
24 May 2019
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.
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.
7 May 2019
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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
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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.
22 Dec 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Observing and controlling ultrafast processes with attosecond resolution
9 Mar 2018
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A physical consequence of the undecidability of the spectral gap
6 Mar 2018
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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.
7 Feb 2018
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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
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
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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
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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
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Oscillation instead of free fall – Quantum interference leads to surprising results
29 Apr 2017
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Physicists create quantum system, which is robust to mixing by periodic forces
16 Jan 2017
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A new method to characterize the valley index of transition metal dichalcogenides
5 Jan 2016
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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
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Monday, August 3 – Friday, August 7, 2015 Literaturhaus München
10 Jun 2015
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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
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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
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The second event of the Munich Quantum Center will be held at the Walter Schottky Institute in Garching Forschungszentrum
16 Apr 2015
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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
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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
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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
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Scientists from the MPQ, LMU, and the FUB analyse how fast order can appear in a quantum-mechanical system.
26 Mar 2015
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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
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Silicon nanowire optical waveguides dramatically broaden mid-infrared frequency comb spectra.
25 Feb 2015
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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
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2015 Arnold Sommerfeld School 31 August 2015 – 4 September 2015
9 Feb 2015
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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
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Theoretical physicist Professor Eugene Demler from Harvard University is visiting the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division of Prof. Immanuel Bloch
21 Jan 2015
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Scientists extract the topological number of an artificial solid subjected to extreme effective magnetic fields
2 Dec 2014
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Graphene layer reads optical information from nanodiamonds electronically
11 Nov 2014
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The group of Immanuel Bloch has made it on the cover image of 'Spektrum der Wissenschaften' (german Scientific American).
7 Nov 2014
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16th-17th April 2015, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching.
7 Oct 2014
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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
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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
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MPQ theorist proves that Gaussian encoding guarantees minimum output entropy and hence ultimate capacity of optical communication channels.
26 Sept 2014
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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
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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
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Rubidium atoms trapped in narrow optical lattices reveals a phase transition similar to the one found in superconductors.
30 Aug 2014
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Our researchers and collaborators have proposed an ultimate method to control the light emission at the quantum mechanical level.
4 Aug 2014
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The PhD poster day will gather all researchers from the MQC at the Max Planck Insitute for Quantum Optics.