Research Areas
Quantum computing represents a revolutionary way to process information and to learn about our world. The basic idea is to prepare a set of quantum bits (qubits) in a well defined state and to transform this state by making qubits interact in controlled ways, thereby overcoming the intrinsic limitations of classical devices dealing with information encoded only with classical bits. While this technology is still in its early days, quantum information processors are being developed (e.g. in our project aQCess) to become indispensable tools for high-performance scientific computing, quantum chemistry, material science, mathematics, optimization, machine learning, and presumably other, yet undiscovered applications.
Quantum Computing
Over the past decades strong light-matter interactions occurring in cavities or nanostructures have emerged as a way to manipulate material properties. The possibility to engineer new states of matter thanks to the coupling to vacuum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field has attracted considerable interest across the fields of quantum information, solid state physics, quantum chemistry and material science.
Light-Matter Interactions
Exotic and unexpected states of matter and new material properties emerge when quantum effects play a dominant role.
Quantum matter
Engineered quantum devices are mesoscopic physical systems which leverage quantum effects for new and improved functionality.