Quantum Impact on Societal Security (QISS) opens various new positions
A consortium, led by prof. De Haro of the University of Amsterdam, received a 9M euro grant to study the social impact that quantum computers will have on cybersecurity and cryptography. The research consortium, named Quantum Impact on Societal Security (QISS), consists of various leading partners, such as QuSoft, Rathenau Institute, De Nederlandsche Bank, ABN-AMRO, and […]
Eternal matter waves, Amsterdam physicists build an atom laser that can stay on forever
Imagining our everyday life without lasers is difficult. We use lasers in printers, CD players, pointers, measuring devices, and so on. What makes lasers so special is that they use coherent waves of light: all the light inside a laser vibrates completely in sync. Meanwhile, quantum mechanics tells us that particles like atoms should also […]
QSC 7th General Assembly June 2022
On Friday June 24, Amsterdam will host the 7th QSC General Assembly, organized by Lisa Kohl (CWI, Amsterdam) and Vedran Dunjko (LIACS, Leiden). You may expect exciting presentations from Arghavan Safavi-Naini, Koen de Boer, Kenneth Goodenough, Alex Urech and Benno Broer, from fundamental mathematics to experimental quantum optics. Gilles Brassard and Jens Eisert will both give a key note. 10.00 – 10.30: Registration and Coffee 10.30 – 10.40: […]
Large NWA grant for research into the social impact of quantum secure cryptography
16 May 2022, source UvA The arrival of quantum computers will have major societal consequences, especially in the field of cybersecurity. A new consortium led by Sebastian De Haro of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, the Institute of Physics of the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft has received a grant of over 900,000 […]
Quantum Delta NL awarded 228 Million Euro for second phase of its programme to Accelerate Quantum Technology
Great news reaches us on World Quantum Day: The National Growth Fund Committee green-lit Phase 2 of our seven year programme! €228 million will be unlocked for scaling up our current activities, further realising campus development across the Netherlands and launching a €15 million Seed Fund. On 9 April 2021, the following press release was […]
Quantum Application Lab now open to explore the advantages and business opportunities for quantum computing
Organizations that want to investigate how quantum computing can benefit their business are invited to connect to the knowledge and technical infrastructure offered by the Quantum Application Lab (QAL) now. QAL is a newly formed public-private R&D partnership that offers a unique team of scientists, researchers, engineers, application developers, software and hardware specialists in a […]
Harry Buhrman in podcast episode of BNR Eye Openers
The quantum computer is coming! A computer that is many times faster and smarter than the best supercomputers we know today. The applications for the quantum computer are often still unclear, but one thing is certain: as a company it is best to prepare yourself now. You can listen to our director Harry Buhrman in […]
Kinks, skinks and supersymmetry
Supersymmetry is symmetry of nature that is often hypothesized to exist among elementary particles. In a new paper that appeared in Physical Review Letters this week, physicists from the University of Amsterdam and QuSoft propose a setup where supersymmetry can also be observed between lumps of energy in a material – so-called kinks and skinks. […]
QuSoft researchers propose new quantum architecture
Physicists from the University of Amsterdam have proposed a new architecture for a scalable quantum computer. Making use of the collective motion of the constituent particles, they were able to construct new building blocks for quantum computing that pose fewer technical difficulties than current state-of-the art methods. The results were recently published in Physical Review […]
PhD Defence Farrokh Labib: “Quasirandomness in quantum information theory”
On Wednesday, January 26, Farrokh Labib will defend his thesis on “Quasirandomness in quantum information theory”. Farrokh’s dissertation contributes to a large international research program that is trying to map out how information can be processed on quantum systems and when this has or does not have advantages over ‘classical’ information processing. This is important […]