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 […]
Quantum application lab will build a bridge between science and applications
Last week the Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the six partners of the Quantum Application Lab (QAL): University of Amsterdam (UvA), the Netherlands Organization for applied scientific research (TNO), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science (CWI), the Dutch collaborative ICT Organization for Dutch higher education and research (SURF), TU Delft (on […]
Is this the first physics problem that the quantum computer will solve?
In his PhD thesis, theoretical physicist Joris Kattemölle (QuSoft, CWI & UvA) proposes a physical problem that could be the first one for a quantum computer to solve. The problem cannot be solved by a classical computer, but a quantum computer with about one hundred quantum bits can. On Wednesday 30 June Kattemölle received a […]
Tremendous Boost for Quantum Research in the Amsterdam Ecosystem
Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation that was launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherland’s National Agenda for Quantum Technology (NAQT), has been awarded €615 million from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy to power the advancement of quantum technology. This gives a tremendous boost to quantum […]
Quantum Delta NL awarded 615 million euro from Netherlands’ National Growth Fund to accelerate quantum technology
Funds will be used to train 2,000 researchers and engineers to scale 100 start-ups and to host three corporate R&D labs in the Netherlands by 2027. Monday, April 12, 2021 (Delft, Netherlands): Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation, which launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherland’s National Agenda for Quantum […]
De strijd om de beste qubit – Spinnende elektronen en flitsende fotonen
Eind januari lieten onderzoekers van het Delftse QuTech en Microsoft weten dat ze toch niet zeker waren dat ze majoranadeeltjes hadden waargenomen. Ze trokken hun Nature-publicatie hierover terug, een tegenslag voor de Delftse onderzoekers en Microsoft. Dat de toekomst van de quantumcomputer nu onzeker is, zoals Bert Wagendorp schreef in zijn column in de Volkskrant, is echter te pessimistisch. Majorana’s […]
What is it like to research quantum computers and the quantum internet?
Postdoctoral researcher at QuSoft, Yfke Dulek, and Sophie Hermans (QuTech) have recorded an episode together for the podcast “Radio Swammerdam”. In this episode they talk about building quantum computers and the quantum internet, how to secure them, and what it’s like to conduct research in this field. On January 31, the interview was broadcast on the […]
Outsourcing computations to a quantum computer you can’t trust
Quantum computers hold great promise, but to what extent can we trust the outcome of these elusive machines? In her PhD thesis, Yfke Dulek investigates ways to delegate computations to a quantum computer, focussing on the question how trustworthy the outcomes will be. Her research could pave the way for creating security guarantees in quantum […]
Multiparty entanglement: when everything is connected
‘Entanglement’ is a ubiquitous concept in modern physics research: it occurs in subjects ranging from quantum gravity to quantum computing. In a publication that appeared in Physical Review Letters last week, UvA-IoP physicist and senior researcher at QuSoft, Michael Walter and his collaborator Sepehr Nezami shed new light on the properties of quantum entanglement – in particular […]
Students learn how to program for the quantum computer
In a bilingual course, high school students can learn how to program for quantum computers. Two researchers from the QuSoft (established by the University of Amsterdam and CWI) are using this new initiative to introduce students to the kind of mathematics taught at the University. “Alice has a robotic donkey that she wants to program […]
