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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).

A new Publication by Michael J. Hartmann and Frank Deppe in the german journal "Physik in unserer Zeit" introducing Google Quantum AI's Sycamore quantum processor.

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

Together with Dr. Daniel D. Scherer at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS Self-Learning Systems Group, we are offering three joint Master Thesis projects. Learning Shallow Quantum Algorithms Variational Quantum Circuits for Learning Distributions ...

New publication together with Google AI Quantum team and collaborators: "Quantum supremacy using a programmable superconducting processor” now published in Nature , see https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1666-5 For coverage, see also: Google AI blog by John Martinis and Sergio Boixo ...

  Postdoctoral Research Positions in Theory of Quantum Technologies and Quantum Dynamics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg.  The newly founded Quantum Technology and Quantum Dynamics Theory group at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, lead by Professor Michael J. Hartmann invites applications for o...

  Michael J. Hartmann will be working as a Visiting Faculty in the Google Quantum AI program for 12 month, starting January 2019.