News about Quantum physics

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute receive Villum Young Investigator grants

Two young researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute, Morten Kjærgaard and Charlotte Mason, are among the beneficiaries this year and their research reaches across the spectrum the smallest to the largest, i.e. from…

Major breakthrough: Copenhagen researchers can now achieve 'quantum advantage'

University of Copenhagen researchers have developed a chip that, with financial backing, could be scaled up and used to build the quantum simulator of the future. Their results are now published in Science Advances.

Lasse Stampe Frølich

Title: Controlling Single-Photon Generation With Nano-Mechanical Devices Supervisor: Leonardo Midolo

Caroline Munck Nielsen

Title: Dispersion Measurements and Frequency Comb Generation in A Si3N4 Microring Resonator Supervisors: Jorg Helge Muller, Asbjørn Arvad Jørgensen, Martin Romme Henriksen, Jan Westenkær Thomsen

Maria Skak Vestergaard Larsen

Title: Cold Strontium Atoms Coupled to an Optical Cavity Supervisors: Stefan A. Schaffer, Sofus L. Kristensen, Mikkel Tang, Jörg H. Müller, and Jan W. Thomsen

Freja Thilde Pedersen

Deterministic Single and Multi-Photon Sources with antum dots in Planar Nanostructures Supervisor: Peter Lodahl

Bastian Bakkensen

Title: Photon-Photon Interactions in Waveguides Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Physicists and chemists join forces to develop quantum simulators of the future

Two Centers of Excellence, the Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks and the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr Institute recently received a large grant from the Novo Nordisk Foundation’s Challenge Program to…

Albert Schliesser awarded fellowship at the Optical Society of America

Optical Society of America awards a number of scientists the honor of a fellowship. The award honors the individual new fellow and the contribution he/she has made to the field of optics and photonics or achievements…

Photon turnstile brings order to light

With the creation of a turnstile for light in glass fibers, quantum optics researchers from Germany, Denmark and Austria have succeeded in directly converting laser light in optical fibers into a single file of isolated…

Rodrigo A. Thomas

Optical spin-mechanics quantum interface: entanglement and back-action evasion Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Anton Lauenborg Andersen

Quantum Key Distribution and Entanglement Distribution with Satellite Links Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Cecilie Toftdahl Olesen

Efficient Generation of Pure and Indistinguishable Single Photons Supervisors: Peter Lodahl and Ravitej Uppu

Massimiliano Rossi

QUANTUM MEASUREMENT AND CONTROL OF A MECHANICAL RE SONATOR Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

Charles Marcus honoured with the H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal

The Society for the Dissemination of Natural Science is awarding an H.C. Ørsted Gold Medal in physics to Professor Charles Marcus.

Quantum entanglement realized between distant large objects

A team of researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have succeeded in entangling two very different quantum objects. The result has several potential applications in ultra-precise sensing and quantum communication and is…

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen collaboration yields promising material for quantum computing

Researchers at the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab and the University of Copenhagen, working closely together, have succeeded in realizing an important and promising material for use in a future quantum computer.

Extracting order from a quantum measurement finally shown experimentally

For more than a century, physicists have been aware of the link between the disorder in a system, and information obtained by measurement. Now, it has been demonstrated experimentally for the first time.

Young researcher talents get prestigeous career push

The ERC starting grant means a lot to me, as it provides an important step forward in my academic career, says Leonardo Midolo, Niels Bohr Institute.

Ryan Yde

Room temperature spin ensembles for precision measurements Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Polzik

Jacob Thornfeldt Hansen

Title: Motional Quantum States of Cesium Atoms Trapped Around a Nanofiber Supervisors: Prof. Eugene Polzik, Assoc. Prof. Jörg Helge Müller

Quantum research unifies two ideas offering an alternative route to topological superconductivity

Researchers from University of Copenhagen have discovered a new way of developing topological superconductivity that may provide a useful route toward the use of Majorana zero modes as the foundation of qubits for…

Quantum-entangled light from a vibrating membrane

Entanglement, a powerful form of correlation among quantum systems, is an important resource for quantum computing. Researchers from the Quantum Optomechanics group at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,…

Quantum technology in fibre-optic networks will protect against hacks

A new research project and nearly DKK 18 million (€2.4 million) from Innovation Fund Denmark will transform 15 years of quantum research at the University of Copenhagen into commercial products for unhackable encryption…