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Monolithic ion trap for experiments with 2 dimensional ion crystals

Monolithic ion trap for experiments with 2 dimensional ion crystals

2D Crystals Experiment, AG Roos

Testing a high power 532nm laser

Testing a high power 532nm laser

Ferlaino group

Superconducting Qubits Coupled to a Coplanar Waveguide

Superconducting Qubits Coupled to a Coplanar Waveguide

Kirchmair group

A beam of Lithium atoms undergoing transverse laser cooling

A beam of Lithium atoms undergoing transverse laser cooling

Grimm group

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“String breaking” observed in 2D quantum simulator

An international team led by Innsbruck quantum physicist Peter Zoller, together with the US... Read Full Article
Photo: David Jordan

Two new faces

On Tuesday evening, experimental physicist Hannes Bernien and theoretical physicist Hannes Pichler... Read Full Article
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IQOQI Dissertation Prize 2024 for Yusuf Karli

Experimental physicist Yusuf Karli, a former PhD student in the research group of Gregor Weihs,... Read Full Article
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Arfor Houwman danced the best

Arfor Houwman from Francesca Ferlaino's team turned his research topic into a music video and won... Read Full Article

In the News

Physics World Weekly Podcast: 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics

Helgoland: leading scientists reflect on 100 years of quantum physics and look to the future

physicsworld: Schrödinger cat states like it hot

Superpositions persist at temperatures up to 1.8 K – practically oven-like by quantum standards

Research Groups

BernienLab: Quantum Science Atom-by-Atom

Foto of Hannes Bernien
The BernienLab studies quantum science by assembling large quantum systems using individual atoms trapped in optical tweezers. This platform is ideally suited to both explore fundamental questions,... Read more …

Ferlaino Lab - Dipolar Quantum Gases

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The research team led by Francesca Ferlaino focuses on the study of dipolar quantum phenomena, using strongly magnetic atomic species. In 2012, the group has created the first Bose-Einstein... Read more …

Grimm Lab - Ultracold Atoms and Quantum Gases

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The research group led by R. GRIMM investigates ultracold particle systems consisting of optically trapped quantum gases at temperatures close to absolute zero. Because of their superb experimental... Read more …

Kirchmair Lab - Superconducting quantum circuits

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Gerhard Kirchmair’s research group works on superconducting circuits and their application for quantum computation and simulation. Superconducting Josephson junctions are used to realize the quantum... Read more …

Pichler Group - Quantum Science Theory

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The research group led by Hannes Pichler studies quantum optical systems, quantum many-body physics and quantum information. The group aims at laying the theoretical foundations for next generation... Read more …

Emeritus Research Groups

Blatt Lab - Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy

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The research group led by Rainer Blatt investigates quantum processes in a system of few ions held in ion traps. The experiments aim at achieving complete control over all quantum degrees of freedom in... Read more …

Zoller Group - Quantum Optics

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Wittgenstein awardee Peter Zoller studies topics in the fields of theoretical quantum optics and atomic physics as well as quantum information and condensed matter theory. His main focus is on... Read more …

Most Recent Preprints

Fabrication and characterization of vacuum-gap microstrip resonators C. Schlager, R. Albert, G. Kirchmair arXiv:2503.07431
High-fidelity entanglement and coherent multi-qubit mapping in an atom array A. Senoo, A. Baumgärtner, J. W. Lis, G. M. Vaidya, Z. Zeng, G. Giudici, H. Pichler, A. Kaufman arXiv:2506.13632 Show Abstract
Neutral atoms in optical tweezer arrays possess broad applicability for quantum information science, in computing, simulation, and metrology. Among atomic species, Ytterbium-171 is unique as it hosts multiple qubits, each of which is impactful for these distinct applications. Consequently, this atom is an ideal candidate to bridge multiple disciplines, which, more broadly, has been an increasingly effective strategy within the field of quantum science. Realizing the full potential of this synergy requires high-fidelity generation and transfer of many-particle entanglement between these distinct qubit degrees of freedom, and thus between these distinct applications. Here we demonstrate the creation and coherent mapping of entangled quantum states across multiple qubits in Ytterbium-171 tweezer arrays. We map entangled states onto the optical clock qubit from the nuclear spin qubit or the Rydberg qubit. We coherently transfer up to 20 atoms of a -ordered Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger (GHZ) state from the interacting Rydberg manifold to the metastable nuclear spin manifold. The many-body state is generated via a novel disorder-robust pulse in a two-dimensional ladder geometry. We further find that clock-qubit-based spin detection applied to Rydberg and nuclear spin qubits facilitates atom-loss-detectable qubit measurements and Rydberg decay detection. This enables mid-circuit and delayed erasure detection, yielding an error-detected two-qubit gate fidelity of in the metastable qubits as well as enhanced GHZ state fidelities in analog preparation. These results establish a versatile architecture that advances multiple fields of quantum information science while also establishing bridges between them.
Fast and Error-Correctable Quantum RAM F. Cesa, H. Bernien, H. Pichler arXiv:2503.19172v1 Show Abstract
Quantum devices can process data in a fundamentally different way than classical computers. To leverage this potential, many algorithms require the aid of a quantum Random Access Memory (QRAM), i.e. a module capable of efficiently loading datasets (both classical and quantum) onto the quantum processor. However, a realization of this fundamental building block is still outstanding, since existing proposals require prohibitively many resources for reliable implementations, or are not compatible with current architectures. Moreover, present approaches cannot be scaled-up, as they do not allow for efficient quantum error-correction. Here we develop a QRAM design, that enables fast and robust QRAM calls, naturally allows for fault-tolerant and error-corrected operation, and can be integrated on present hardware. Our proposal employs a special quantum resource state that is consumed during the QRAM call: we discuss how it can be assembled and processed efficiently in a dedicated module, and give detailed blueprints for modern neutral-atom processors. Our work places a long missing, fundamental component of quantum computers within reach of currently available technology; this opens the door to algorithms featuring practical quantum advantage, including search or oracular problems, quantum chemistry and machine learning.
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