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Adriana Palffy-Buß has been appointed to a W2 professorship at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität of Würzburg starting from the first of April 2022. Adriana will lead a research group on x-ray quantum optics within the excellence cluster for "Complexity and Topology in Quantum Matter" (ct.qmat). ...

On January 27th, the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) initiative for the promotion of Quantum Sciences and Quantum Technologies in Bavaria, in which our Chair for Quantum Theory of FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg is a founding member, has been successfully established. Just one year after the Bavarian state gov...

Postdoc and PhD Positions in Quantum Computing and the Theory of Superconducting  Circuits at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg. The Theory of Quantum Technology Group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, lead by professor Michael J. Hartmann invites applications for postdoc and PhD positions in the theory and modeling...

Our PhD student Refik Mansuroglu was awarded with this year’s Ohm prize for his excellent master thesis "On the Kinematics, Spin and Statistics of Matter Fields in Loop Quantum Gravity" which he did at the Institute for theoretical physics III. This award is dedicated to the “support of young resear...

The iX magazine, a well-established format by the German Heise publishing company for a professional IT audience, was putting together a comprehensive introduction on quantum computing from a practical computing perspective as a special edition. It was release on 10th June 2021 (https://www.heise.de...

The paper "Quantum approximate optimization of non-planar graph problems on a planar superconducting processor", on which Michael Streif, a PhD candidate in the Michael J Hartmann theory group, is a co-author, was published in Nature Physics. In this work, Google’s Sycamore quantum processor was ...

The Quantum Technology and Quantum Dynamics Theory group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, lead by Professor Michael J. Hartmann invites applications for postdoc and PhD positions in the theory and modeling of superconducting quantum hardware.The positions will be part of the newly funded project GeQCoS (‚G...

  We are part of the new collaborative project GeQCoS to build a quantum processor based on superconducting qubits in Germany. See the FAU press release here. The project is funded by the German ministry for science and education (BMBF).

The "CRC 306 Quantum Cooperativity of Light and Matter" (QuCoLiMa), we are involved in, has been granted by DFG. We are looking forward to exciting collaborations. More details