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University of Copenhagen and MIT Join Forces for Transatlantic Research in Quantum Computing

Quantum computers have the potential to change the world. A new collaboration between Novo Nordisk Foundation Quantum Computing Programme at University of Copenhagen and Engineering Quantum Systems group at the renowned…

Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen new DNRF chairperson

The Danish Minister for Higher Education and Science, Christina Egelund, has appointed Professor Dorthe Dahl-Jensen as the new chairperson of the board of the Danish National Research Foundation.

Simon Kjær

Title: Optimization of the CAMEA Triple Axis Spectrometer based on MC-simulations Supervisor: Kim Lefmann

Katriona Mai Landau Gould

Ultra red galaxies in the distant universe: The first quiescent galaxies and their hidden progenitors Supervisors: Gabriel B. Brammer and Francesco Valentino

Magnus Staal Vigsø

Title: Dissipative Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics Supervisor: Jens Paaske

Tetyana Pitik awarded for the best PhD thesis in Danish astronomy 2024

Every year the Instrument Centre for Danish Astrophysics awards a prize for the scientifically most outstanding PhD thesis defended at a Danish university within the field of astronomy and astrophysics. For her work on…

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen receives the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award

Dorthe Dahl-Jensen, Professor at the section of Physics of Ice and Climate (PICE) at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen has been awarded the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.

DARK Summer Student Program

Join us in welcoming a diverse group of bright young minds to our summer student program, led by Professor Charles Steinhardt at DARK. This year, we are thrilled to host an inspiring mix of local and international…

Markus Nygaard Pedersen

Title: Understanding the Gatemon Supervisor: Karsten Flensberg

Yi Dai

Thesis: Unconventional superconductivity and the Hebel-Slichter peak of the kagome lattice Supervisor: Brian Møller Andersen

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NQCP LIFE We gathered in our backyard at Blegdamsvej to celebrate summer with an evening of classic Danish hotdogs, drinks, and some fun games.

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Oliver Liebe

Extensible 2×N Quantum Dot Arrays: Encoding Arrays of Spin Qubits Implemented Using Holes in a Germanium Heterostructure Supervisors: Anasua Chatterjee & Ferdinand Kuemmeth

Amalie Terese Jiao Paulsen

Title: Engineering A Single Fluxonium Qubit Supervisor: Morten Kjaergaard

Chaoyue Wang

Title: Implementation of Randomized Benchmarking Protocols on Superconducting Qubits Supervisors: Morten Kjaergaard, Jacob Hastrup

Jun Jia

Towards Minimal Quantum Noise - Conditional broadband quantum noise reduction with negative mass spin oscillators Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eugene S. Polzik

Our 2024 Summer Party

We celebrated summer by gathering for an evening of classic Danish hotdogs, hygge, and some fun games.

Johanna Malina Zeis

Title: Investigation of radiofrequency reflectometry in group-IV spin-qubit devices Supervisor: Ferdinand Kuemmeth

NQCP Team Up with NYU to Advance Quantum Material Research

We have embarked on a collaborative effort with New York University’s Center for Quantum Information Physics (CQIP), to develop superconductor and semiconductor materials.

Advancing Quantum Collaboration: From California to Copenhagen

In late May, we at NQCP had the pleasure of hosting a delegation of 11 esteemed quantum researchers from Berkeley Lab in California here in Copenhagen.

Invisible Galaxies, Through a Scientist’s Eyes

Glimpsing into the galaxies of the past: that is the daunting task that students from the University of Copenhagen have undertaken by analysing so-called Lyman-α emission.

James Webb discovers record-distant galaxy, again

With the confirmation of two galaxies seen around 300 million years after the Big Bang, we are now closer than ever before to the epoch of the formation of the first galaxies.

To Infinity and Beyond: A Visit to Caltech

Rodrigo Panosso Macedo was invited to visit Caltech this month, where his research program on a novel geometrical framework and numerical techniques for the field of black hole perturbation theory attracted significant…

Birth of universe’s earliest galaxies observed for first time

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, University of Copenhagen researchers have become the first to see the formation of three of the earliest galaxies in the universe, more than 13 billion years ago. The sensational…