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Quantum Matter and Optics
Research groups in the Quantum Matter & Optics programme investigate electronic properties of matter and light-matter interactions with emphasis on quantum information.
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Quantum Matter and Optics
The quantum nature of matter and light has grown into a broad and fruitful research field for theorists and experimentalists alike. It combines foundational research with toward applications, the most well known of which is the quantum computer.
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Research in Physics, Quantum Matter and Optics (MSc)
The master’s specialisation Research in Physics, Quantum Matter and Optics at Leiden University offers a thorough experience on the front line of physics research with a practical training of communicative and computer skills. The programme focuses on Condensed Matter problems, such as Molecular Electronics,…
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Bouwmeester Lab (Quantum Optics and Quantum Information)
The research program of the QO group has three leading themes: Optical Physics, Quantum Optics, and Photon-Matter Interactions. We work mostly at the boundaries between these themes with entanglement as a bridging and binding agent.
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Martin van Exter Lab (Quantum Optics and Light-Matter Interaction)
Research in the van Exter lab focuses on quantum aspects of light and light-matter interaction. One of our long-term goals is to develop a reliable quantum memory, based on a single emitter in an open micro cavity.
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Dirk Bouwmeester
Science
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Stable single molecules for quantum optics and all-optical switches
Promotor: Prof.dr. M.A.G.J. Orrit
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Wolfgang Löffler Lab (Solid State and High Dimensional Quantum Optics)
Advancing the understanding of the interaction of light and matter on the single-quantum level is important for near-future quantum technologies but also to answer fundamental questions.
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Quantum Emitters
We study the dynamics of individual emitters in micro cavities.
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Seeking the boundaries of quantum mechanics
Bouwmeester
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Allan Lab (Understanding Quantum Matter)
We are a dynamic research group at the Leiden Institute of Physics. Our aim is to explore and understand quantum materials, including strange metals, high-temperature superconductors, and quantum critical electron matter.
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics with quantum dots in microcavities
Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-promotor: M.P. van Exter
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The quantum computer
The worldwide race to the quantum computer is in full swing. This computer can take on computing tasks that we can only dream of today, such as finding proteins that can be used as medicines in seconds flat. Leiden physicists have discovered how the Majorana particle can be used as a building block…
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Major NWO subsidies for research on dark matter and quantum experiments
Astronomer Koen Kuijken and physicist Tjerk Oosterkamp have each been awarded a major subsidy by NWO. The funding will allow them to construct new research facilities.
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Thinking about the quantum internet
Quantum computers deserve their own quantum internet. This is a network that dispatches information not in the form of bits - ones and zeros - but rather as qubits, just like in the quantum computer itself. In the view of Dirk Bouwmeester, a professor in Leiden’s Quantum Matter & Optics research group,…
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Algorithms for quantum software
Top scientists of three Dutch universities are working on software and systems for quantum computers. Researchers of the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS) and the Leiden Institute of Physics (LION) are developing new algorithms to make those super computers work. The coming years,…
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Applied String Theory: Explaining Quantum Matter with Black Holes
Schalm
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Cavity quantum electrodynamics with rare-earth ions in solids
Promotor: Prof.dr. D. Bouwmeester, Co-Promotor: M.J.A. de Dood
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Cryptography from quantum uncertainty in the presence of quantum side information
Promotor: Ronald Cramer, Co-promotor: Serge Fehr
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Cheianov Group (Quantum Many Body Physics in Condensed Matter and Ultracold Atomic Systems)
The research in my group addresses a range of topics related to quantum many-body physics.
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Methods to simulate fermions on quantum computers with hardware limitations
This thesis is a collection of theoretical works aiming at adjusting quantum algorithms to the hardware of quantum computers.
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Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing
This thesis covers various applications of topology in condensed matter physics and quantum information.
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On periodically driven quantum systems
Promotor: C. W. J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: J. K. Asboth
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Scattering and absorption in 2D optics
Scattering of light in the presence of nano-structured materials, i.e. with features in the order of the wavelength of the light or smaller, reveals details of how light interacts with matter at the nanoscale.
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Michel Orrit Lab (Single Molecule Optics)
Since the early 1990s, one can isolate the optical signal of a single molecule and single-molecule spectroscopy has quickly grown into an important research field.
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Quantum local asymptotic normality and other questions of quantum statistics
Promotor: R. Gill, Co-promotor: P. Massart
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Hydrodynamics and the quantum butterfly effect in Black Holes and large N quantum field theories
Why do black holes emit thermal radiation? And how does a closed quantum system thermalize?
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Master's application and admission
Find out how to apply for Research in Physics, Quantum Matter and Optics at Leiden University by following our step-by-step guide.
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De Dood Lab (Quantum Detection)
Our group explores the larger domain of quantum measurement. In particular we investigate two themes that are closely connected: The detection of specially prepared quantum states of light and understanding and characterizing quantum photon detectors.
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Predicting the future: Predictive control for astronomical adaptive optics
The field of exoplanet research is rapidly advancing through the development of new technology, observing techniques, and post-processing methods.
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Contact
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Career prospects
The Research in Physics, Quantum Matter and Optics specialisation is an excellent stepping stone for pursuing a PhD degree.
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Integer and fractional quantum hall effects in lattice magnets
Promotor: Prof.dr.ir. J.W.M. Hilgenkamp, Prof.dr. J. van den Brink
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Quantum optics for asylum seekers
The Clinical Epidemiology department at the LUMC has set up a series of lectures for asylum seekers. The series has become a huge success.
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Quantum dot microcavity control of photon statistics
During my PhD research, I studied the photon statistics of light emitted by a microcavity that contains a single quantum dot (QD) on resonance.
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Quantum to Classical
In Quantum mechanics, particles can be in multiple positions simultaneously. Yet, when a measurement is made, the particle is found only in one place. Technology has come to a point where we may design experiments that will tell us how.
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Research in Physics, Classical/Quantum Information (MSc)
This master’s programme combines Physics with Data Science. You will learn how physics has its own tricks to deal with big data and how techniques from machine learning and deep learning can be applied to classical and quantum data. The first focus of attention is on classical data, including data mining,…
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Expansions of quantum group invariants
In my research, we developed a method to distinguish knots. A knot is a mathematical depiction of the everyday knot that occurs in ropes and cords.
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Why Leiden University?
The Physics and Quantum Matter and Optics specialisation is one of the two programmes Leiden offers in experimental physics. The programme can be tailored to individual needs and interests.
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Quantum computation with Majorana zero modes in superconducting circuits
Promotor: C.W.J. Beenakker, Co-Promotor: A.R. Akhmerov
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Soft condensed matter
What are the mysteries behind soft condensed matter?
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Programme structure
The programme guarantees a thorough experience on the frontline of physics research with a practical training of communicative and computer skills.
- Jordi Tura Group (Applied Quantum Algorithms)
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Signatures of Majorana zero-modes in nanowires, quantum spin Hall edges, and quantum dots
Promotor: C.W.J. Beenakker, Co-promotor: M.T. Wimmer
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Probing quantum materials with novel scanning tunneling microscopy techniques
This thesis described the development of novel scanning tunneling microscopy techniques to investigate strongly correlated electronic states in quantum matter.
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Computational optimisation of optical projection tomography for 3D image analysis
Optical projection tomography (OPT) is a tomographic 3D imaging technique used for specimens in the millimetre scale.
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Sense Jan van der Molen Lab (Physics of Quantum Materials)
In our lab, we investigate the physics and material properties of low-dimensional systems.
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Cramer Group (Quantum and Society Lab)
The research group ‘Quantum and Society’ explores the boundary between quantum technology and science communication.
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Unravelling proteins by touch
How can we develop a new microscope that can distinguish individual atoms in proteins?