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Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen third in VERSEN Master Thesis Award22 February 2019PhD candidate Lieuwe Vinkhuijzen received the VERSEN Master Thesis Award 3rd prize for his master’s thesis on quantum computing. ‘A forward-looking th...
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Chemical bond versus electromagnetic waves21 December 2018Vibrating carbon monoxide molecules adsorbed at the surface of a salt crystal stop moving after a few milliseconds. Scientists now discovered this is ...
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Prominent physicist Maldacena gives Ehrenfest Colloquium19 November 2018On November 21, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena gives the Ehrenfest Colloquium. Maldacena is known worldwide as the inventor of AdS/CFT correspon...
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Livestream: Sean Carroll gives Ehrenfest Colloquium25 September 2018On Wednesday September 26th, theoretical physicist Sean Carroll will give an Ehrenfest colloquium. It is part of a lecture series that has been runnin...
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Where does the quantum world end?30 August 2018With 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 photons23 July 2018Scientists need individual photons for quantum cryptography and quantum computers. Leiden physicists have now experimentally demonstrated a new produc...
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Sense Jan van der Molen appointed as Professor Physics of Condensed Matter11 June 2018As of 1 June, Leiden University has appointed Sense Jan van der Molen as Professor Physics of Condensed matter. He investigates the unique electronic ...
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Serge Fehr appointed as Professor Quantum information theory08 June 2018As of 1 June, Serge Fehr has been appointed as Professor Quantum information theory at the Leiden Mathematical Institute (MI). Fehr is employed by Cen...
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New quantum computer design to predict molecule properties28 May 2018The standard approach to build a quantum computer with Majoranas as building blocks is to convert them into qubits. However, a promising application o...
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Physicists send identical photons through optical fiber28 March 2018Leiden physicists have created a light source that emits individual particles in an identical state through optical fibers. Using this setup, their me...
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New practice tool for quantum computer coding: OpenFermion28 March 2018In 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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NWO Projectruimte for physicists Schalm and Zaanen16 March 2018NWO has awarded a €392k Projectruimte grant to physicists Koenraad Schalm and Jan Zaanen to study ‘strange metals’. These materials are alleged to fol...
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Black holes with ‘dreadlocks’ offer insight into quantum matter06 November 2017Physicists understand little about quantum matter, which is a building block of future quantum computers. Theorists have now discovered that black hol...
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Dutch Theoretical Physics reviewed as excellent27 October 2017The Dutch Research School for Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) has received excellent ratings from an independent international committee. The DRSTP is a s...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing08 May 2017The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...