De veelbelovende toepassingen van quantumcomputers zijn nog toekomstmuziek. Met Europees geld komt er binnenkort ook een in Amsterdam, om praktijkervaring op te doen. „In Nederland behoren we echt tot de wereldtop.”
Bron: Dorine Schenk, NRC, 6 november 2024
Het is de eerste stap richting een langgekoesterde droom: Nederlandse natuurkundigen hebben de eerste verbindingen gelegd voor een werkend quantuminternet in de Randstad. Ook in China en de VS zijn onderzoekers druk bezig met de aanleg van zo’n netwerk.
Source: George van Hal, Volkskrant, 31 oktober 2024
The quantum internet, once built, will bring us unbreakable encryption in daily communication, secure financial transactions, and so much more. Next to ultimate cybersecurity, it is the potential for so much more in particular that motivates Stephanie Wehner (QuTech, TU Delft) to lead the effort in creating the first prototype of the quantum internet.
We cordially invite you to attend the PhD thesis defences of René Allerstorfer on October 28th and Chen Yanlin on November 21st, 2024 in the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam.
QuSoft is delighted to announce that Professor Matthias Christandl has been appointed as the 2024 Turing Chair. A leading researcher in quantum information theory, Professor Christandl is visiting Amsterdam at various intervals between October 2024 and early 2025. His appointment as Turing Chair promises to foster a diverse range of academic activities, discussions, and collaborations, enriching the QuSoft and Amsterdam scientific communities.
He is hosted at QuSoft and CWI.
Wetenschapsjournalist Adriaan ter Braack en presentator Sander Denneman nemen de luisteraar mee op toegankelijke reis door Quantumland. Ze worden daarbij bij de les gehouden door quantum-expert Aletta Meinsma. Gemaakt door de Universiteit van Nederland i.s.m. Quantum Delta NL.
Researchers at QuTech developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group published their demonstration of hopping spins in Nature Communications and their work on somersaulting spins in Science.
Source: QuTech
Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods selected for this standardisation. Ducas is part of the Cryptology group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and is also professor of Mathematical cryptology at Leiden University.
Source: CWI and Leiden University, Mathematical Institute
In the coming years, TU Delft will invest in the renewal and improvement of the TU Delft Campus. One of the developments in this initiative is the new building for QuTech, the mission-driven quantum institute of TU Delft and TNO. On May 14, 2024, the final design was officially approved. This new building contributes to TU Delft’s ambition to have a CO2-neutral, circular, and climate-adaptive campus by 2030. The new building is expected to be operational by 2028.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an NWO Veni grant to Tim Coopmans. The grant (320 thousand euros for a three-year program) will allow him to search for promising methods for correcting errors in quantum computations. Currently Coopmans is employed by Leiden University and will start at EWI/QuTech (TU Delft) per 1 October as assistant professor.
De veelbelovende toepassingen van quantumcomputers zijn nog toekomstmuziek. Met Europees geld komt er binnenkort ook een in Amsterdam, om praktijkervaring op te doen. „In Nederland behoren we echt tot de wereldtop.”
Bron: Dorine Schenk, NRC, 6 november 2024
Het is de eerste stap richting een langgekoesterde droom: Nederlandse natuurkundigen hebben de eerste verbindingen gelegd voor een werkend quantuminternet in de Randstad. Ook in China en de VS zijn onderzoekers druk bezig met de aanleg van zo’n netwerk.
Source: George van Hal, Volkskrant, 31 oktober 2024
The quantum internet, once built, will bring us unbreakable encryption in daily communication, secure financial transactions, and so much more. Next to ultimate cybersecurity, it is the potential for so much more in particular that motivates Stephanie Wehner (QuTech, TU Delft) to lead the effort in creating the first prototype of the quantum internet.
We cordially invite you to attend the PhD thesis defences of René Allerstorfer on October 28th and Chen Yanlin on November 21st, 2024 in the Agnietenkapel, University of Amsterdam.
QuSoft is delighted to announce that Professor Matthias Christandl has been appointed as the 2024 Turing Chair. A leading researcher in quantum information theory, Professor Christandl is visiting Amsterdam at various intervals between October 2024 and early 2025. His appointment as Turing Chair promises to foster a diverse range of academic activities, discussions, and collaborations, enriching the QuSoft and Amsterdam scientific communities.
He is hosted at QuSoft and CWI.
Wetenschapsjournalist Adriaan ter Braack en presentator Sander Denneman nemen de luisteraar mee op toegankelijke reis door Quantumland. Ze worden daarbij bij de les gehouden door quantum-expert Aletta Meinsma. Gemaakt door de Universiteit van Nederland i.s.m. Quantum Delta NL.
Researchers at QuTech developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may enable efficient control of large semiconductor qubit arrays. The research group published their demonstration of hopping spins in Nature Communications and their work on somersaulting spins in Science.
Source: QuTech
Three quantum-safe cryptography methods have been standardised for worldwide use since this week. Léo Ducas co-designed the two primary PQC methods selected for this standardisation. Ducas is part of the Cryptology group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) and is also professor of Mathematical cryptology at Leiden University.
Source: CWI and Leiden University, Mathematical Institute
In the coming years, TU Delft will invest in the renewal and improvement of the TU Delft Campus. One of the developments in this initiative is the new building for QuTech, the mission-driven quantum institute of TU Delft and TNO. On May 14, 2024, the final design was officially approved. This new building contributes to TU Delft’s ambition to have a CO2-neutral, circular, and climate-adaptive campus by 2030. The new building is expected to be operational by 2028.
The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an NWO Veni grant to Tim Coopmans. The grant (320 thousand euros for a three-year program) will allow him to search for promising methods for correcting errors in quantum computations. Currently Coopmans is employed by Leiden University and will start at EWI/QuTech (TU Delft) per 1 October as assistant professor.
Vakantiekamp Wiskunde is niet populair onder scholieren. Maar wel bij de deelnemers aan de wiskundekampen in Heino. Ze buigen zich over mathematische problemen en doen een workshop Parabool borduren of Creatief met statistiek. „Mijn moeder was van: jij hebt geen vrienden, ga maar naar wiskundekamp.”
Many of today’s quantum devices rely on collections of qubits, also called spins. These quantum bits have only two energy levels, the ‘0’ and the ‘1’. However, spins in real devices also interact with light and vibrations known as bosons, greatly complicating calculations. In a new publication in Physical Review Letters, researchers in Amsterdam demonstrate a way to describe spin-boson systems and use this to efficiently configure quantum devices in a desired state.
Source: UvA/IoP news by Jans Henke.
On 17 May, Stacey Jeffery (CWI, QuSoft, UvA) holds her inaugural lecture as a professor by special appointment of Quantum Information at the University of Amsterdam on ‘Quantum algorithms are a (random) walk in the park’.
Christian Schaffner participates in a consortium that has received a Gravity Grant from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. It is the research project 'Challenges in Cyber Security', which is led by Tanja Lange of Eindhoven University of Technology and has been rewarded 21.5 million for a 10-year program. TU/e, VU, RU and CWI are the other consortium partners.
How do we know what a quantum computer is good for when it hasn't been built yet? That's what PhD candidate Casper Gyurik investigated by combining two terms you often hear: quantum computing and machine learning.
‘I try to improve machine learning techniques using quantum,’ Gyurik summarises his research.
Source: Leiden University
Tic tac toe, but with quantum effects. That makes learning the principles of quantum technology a piece of cake. This is the aim of a new start-up founded by researcher Evert van Nieuwenburg: QuantumPlayed. ‘Quantum is all around us and everyone should be able to learn about it.’
25 leerlingen van het Bonhoeffer College uit Castricum hebben vijf weken lang tijdens de wiskunde D lessen gewerkt aan het programmeren van een quantumcomputer in Quantum Quest.
Na het doorlopen van de vijf Quests - die werden opgestuurd en van feedback voorzien door studenten - zijn de 5- en 6-VWO leerlingen warm onthaald op het CWI om ook daadwerkelijk in de quantumcomputer van de UvA te gaan.
Op 14 maart, de dag dat Albert Einstein geboren werd en Stephen Hawking overleed, vindt het eerste Gala van Quantum en Samenleving plaats. Om alvast in de stemming te komen, praten quantumfysici Julia Cramer en Ronald Hanson over de vorderingen aan het quantumfront aan de hand van vijf onderwerpen.
Bron: Jim Jansen, New Scientist
The 2024 Physica Prize was awarded to UvA-IoP and QuSoft researcher Florian Schreck. Schreck receives the prize for his work on Bose Einstein condensates and their applications, such as building a coherent and continuous atom laser. The prize will be awarded during the annual FYSICA conference in Eindhoven on 12 April.
“The second Quantum Technology call was a great success. The successful proposals are spread across various areas of expertise and of application of quantum technology, and they all feed into the three catalyst projects of Quantum Delta NL. Both the quality of the proposals and the success rate are very high. This is very motivating for the researchers and will significantly increase their involvement with QDNL.” says Servaas Kokkelmans.