News about Quantum physics

Microsoft and University of Copenhagen are building the world’s first, scalable quantum computer in Lyngby

Minister of Higher Education and Science, Tommy Ahlers (V) is cutting the ribbon today when the Microsoft Quantum Materials Lab opens in Lyngby in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of…

David Cirauqui Garcia

OPTOMECHANICAL QUANTUM MEMORY FOR PHOTON STORAGE Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Official opening of Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q)

The official opening of the new Center of Excellence, Center for Hybrid Quantum Networks (Hy-Q) was celebrated on September 17 in Festauditoriet at the Faculty of Science.

Jesper Nygård appointed professor of experimental solid-state physics

The University of Copenhagen has appointed Jesper Nygård from the Niels Bohr Institute to a new professorship in experimental solid-state physics.

Christian Zhou Raahauge

Cavity Enhanced Molecular Clocks and Their Applications Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mathias Bouchacourt

Towards Continuous Cavity-Enhanced Spectroscopy on Cold Atoms Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Mikkel Tang

Modeling Lasing in a Thermal Strontium Ensemble Supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Thorsten Bæk and Ryan Yde

Optical magnetometry - Exploration of an optical caesium vapor magnetometer and the possibilities for unshielded measurements Supervisor: Kasper Jensen

Carlos F. D. Faurby

DIPOLE-DIPOLE INTERACTION ANALYSIS IN COUPLING OF LIGHT TO SUPERCONDUCTING QUBITS Supervisors: Anders S. Sørensen and Sumanta K. Das

Michael Zugenmaier

Towards a room temperature single photon source based on atomic vapour Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Charles Marcus elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences

Congratulations to Charles Marcus on being elected member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Charles Marcus is a professor and Center Director of the Center for Quantum Devices at the Niels Bohr…

From musician to professor of quantum physics

Peter Krogstrup Jeppesen has had a meteoric career in a complex area of research and after only a relatively short period of time in the world of physics, and he can now call himself a professor of quantum physics.

Eugene Polzik receives ERC Advanced Grant for the second time, this time for 16.2 million DKK

Since the ERC Advanced Grant was established ten years ago in 2008, 50 of these special grants have been awarded to Danish researchers. Eugene Polzik is the first researcher from Denmark who has been awarded this grant…

Anton L. Andersen

The Effect of Different Potentials for Paul Traps and it’s Application as a Quantum Simulator Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Anders Simonsen

Sensitive electro-optical transduction Through resonant electro- and optomechanics Supervisor: Prof. Eugene Polzik

Christoffer Bo Møller

Quantum Back-Action Evasion in a Hybrid Spin-Optomechanical System Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Luca Dellantonio

Looking for mechanical hiccups & High dimensional mdi–QKD Supervisor: Anders S. Sørensen

Michael Zugenmaier

Towards a room temperature single photon source based on atomic vapour Supervisor: Prof. Eugene S. Polzik

Tommaso Pregnalato

Deterministic quantum photonic devices based on self-assembled quantum dots Supervisors: Professor Peter Lodahl & Assistant Professor Nir Rotenberg

Vincent Elfving

Quantum Information Processing with Quantum Optical Systems Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Johann Sebastian Kollath-Bönig

Cavity-based quantum memory for light with inhomogeneously coupled atoms Supervisor: Anders Søndberg Sørensen

Mark Rudner receives the Niels Bohr Institute’s teaching award 2017

At the Niels Bohr Institute's annual kick-off meeting on January 25, 2018, the Jens Martin Prize was awarded to Mark Spencer Rudner for his education at the bachelor's degree "Condensed Matter Physics 1 (CMP1)".

Adam S. Knorr & Ida L. Stoustrup

Locking an Optical Cavity using a Microcontroller Academic supervisor: Jan W. Thomsen

Qubits put into reverse

A group of scientists at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, has figured out how to make spin qubits perform controlled backward rotations. This has never been shown before.