The symposium on Quantum Technologies organized jointly by the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW) and the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) was a big success. It took place in the premises of BAdW in the Munich Residence with more than 300 participants. An additional audience of more than 300 followed the symposium in the livestream. Rudolf Gross, the Scientific and Managing Director of Munich Quantum Valley, led through the program.
Quantum technologies have the potential to have a profound impact on science, society and the economy. But where do quantum technologies stand today? And in which application could they bring the greatest benefits in the future? This and more will be the subject of the symposium organized by the BAdW in cooperation with MQV on 12 April 2024 from 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm in the Munich Residence. Further information on the program and registration can be found on the BAdW website.
The Munich Quantum Valley has compiled a public report to provide an overview of its activities within 2023 to the public. As part of the Bavarian Hightech Agenda, MQV succeded in establishing a vivid quantum ecosystem providing broad quantum education, excellent research, technology transfer, and innovative applications. "We are proud of what we have achieved in the past year by joining forces in the Bavarian quantum ecosystem and I would like to thank all MQV members for their support in assembling the report", MQV Scientific Director Rudolf Gross points out.
The magnetoelastic coupling of magnetic and elastic excitations enables the generation of elastic waves carrying angular momentum. In a quantum picture, this corresponds to a resonant conversion of magnons to chiral phonons and vice versa. WMI researchers realize this conversion process using a simple and versatile experimental platform consisting of a metallic magnetic thin film on a crystalline substrate. These findings allow us to study the impact of crystal symmetry on angular momentum transport by phonons and investigate phononic birefringence.
Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information processing and quantum communication applications. Researchers at WMI have proposed and analyzed a new scheme for distributing a large amount of entanglement between multiple nodes of a quantum network, while at the same time using only a minimal amount of experimental resources. Moreover, the proposed protocol has a built-in multiplexing mechanism, which can be used to entangle more and more qubits within a fixed amount of time.
Matthias Althammer was granted the Venia Lengendi in Experimental Physics from the Technical University of Munich. Matthias Althammer joined WMI in 2013 and is Senior Staff Scientist sine 2015. He submitted his Habilitation Thesis entitled Pure Spin Currents in Magnetically Ordered Insulators in 2021 and completed the habilitation process in the same year. Meanwhile he received the Venia Legendi in Experimental Physics. We are very happy that Matthias is strengthening the WMI teaching team, as offering high quality lectures and seminars is key for attracting talented students to WMI. Congratulations to Matthias and all the best for his teaching career!
