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ERC Advanced Grant for Carlo Beenakker to ‘braid’ Majorana fermions 29 March 2019
Theoretical physicist Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a €2m Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He will use this to try to create ...
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ERC Advanced Grants for two Leiden researchers 28 March 2019
The European Research Commission (ERC) has awarded Advanced Grants to two Leiden researchers. Joke Meijer will be researching the effect of the biolog...
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HTSM grant for physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp 19 December 2018
This header image was once elected Image of the Week by De Volkskrant and won second place in the LION Image Award. The research behind it is no less ...
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Where does the quantum world end? 30 August 2018
With his ice-cold nano force sensor, Tjerk Oosterkamp searches for the boundary between the quantum world and the everyday world. The Leiden physicist...
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Physicists demonstrate new method to make single photons 23 July 2018
Scientists need individual photons for quantum cryptography and quantum computers. Leiden physicists have now experimentally demonstrated a new produc...
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New practice tool for quantum computer coding: OpenFermion 28 March 2018
In a global effort, quantum computers are rapidly being developed. In the meantime, researchers have to learn how to write code for these devices, whi...
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Why does Ronald Mulder experience hardly any ice friction at 60 km/h? 12 February 2018
How can Ronald Mulder run his skates across an ice layer at 60 km/h? His skating blades get help from a lubricating layer of meltwater. In Leiden, phy...
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Sander Blok wins LION Image Award 2017 10 November 2017
Sander Blok has won the third edition of the annual LION Image Award. He created a colorful image of gold nanoparticles with a low-energy electron mic...
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Rubicon for ‘Artificial Sun’ 13 July 2017
Physicist Christopher Berg Smiet, who recently obtained his PhD in Leiden, has been awarded an NWO Rubicon. The grant allows him to conduct postdoctor...
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Peculiar particles show paradoxical behavior 23 May 2017
Theoretical physicists research a special class of particles; Weyl fermions. They have found them to exhibit paradoxical behavior, in contradiction to...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017
The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros 04 May 2017
The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...
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Light manipulated with large artificial atom 29 August 2016
Physicists have manipulated light with large artificial atoms, so-called quantum dots. Before, this has only been done so well with actual atoms. It i...
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MRI Machine at the Nanoscale Breaks World Records 14 July 2016
A new NMR microscope gives researchers an improved instrument to study fundamental physical processes. It also offers new possibilities for medical sc...
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Important Effect Observed in Development of Quantum Storage 28 April 2016
Rare-earth materials are prime candidates for storing quantum information, because the undesirable interaction with their environment is extremely wea...