News about Quantum physics

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…

CHIRAG MURENDRANATH PATIL

Experiments on Glide-Symmetric Photonic-CrystalWaveguides Supervisor: ALBERT SCHLIESSER

Eugene S. Polzik Named Recipient of the 2020 Herbert Walther Award

The Optical Society (OSA) and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesell¬schaft (DPG) have named OSA Fellow Eugene S. Polzik, the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, the 2020 recipient of the Herbert Wather Award.…

Professor Charles Marcus awarded the Industrial Award 2019 from The Danish Academy of Natural Sciences

This year’s recipient of the Industrial Award is Charles Marcus, Professor at the Niels Bohr Institute and Scientific Director of Microsoft Quantum – Copenhagen.

Anders Søndberg Sørensen awarded Optical Society of America Fellow

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…

Junxin Chen

Quantum Correlations Generated by a Soft-Clamped Membrane-in-the-Middle System Academic supervisor: Prof. Dr. Albert Schliesser

The Niels Bohr Institute to Research Particle with Great Potential in the Construction of the Quantum Computer

Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute and Lund University have with a European Research Council Synergy Grant, become able to do the necessary fundamental research needed for affirming the potential the researchers…

Yeghishe Tsaturyan

Ultracoherent soft-clamped mechanical resonators for quantum cavity optomechanics

Quantum Alchemy: Researchers use laser light to transform metal into magnet

Pioneering physicists from the University of Copenhagen and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore have discovered a way to get non-magnetic materials to make themselves magnetic by way of laser light.

Martin Romme Henriksen

Optical Frequency References

Stefan Alaric Schäffer

Cavity-enhanced optical clocks Supervisor: Prof. Jan W. Thomsen

Eva María González Ruiz

Study of InGaAs quantum dots as single-photon sources for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Pol Llopart Mirambell

Fidelity characterization of spin-photon entangled states Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019

Professor Peter Krogstrup receives Elektroprisen 2019, annually awarded by The Danish Society of Engineers, IDA. Peter Krogstrup is professor in quantum physics at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen,…

Elvira Caroline Jarmbæk Jacobsen

The effect of dephasing in waveguide QED Supervised by: Anders Søndberg Sørensen and Sumanta Kumar Das