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Deutsche Museum received one of Google's Sycamore quantum processors as an exhibit for a quantum computing milestone. Prof. Dr. Michael Hartmann, who worked in the Google team when the milestone experiment was finalized, explained the significance of the experiment in the handover press conference. ...

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).

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 ...