January 20, 2025

Integrated photonics meet electron microscopy

The transmission electron microscope (TEM) can image molecular structures at the atomic scale by using electrons instead of light, and has revolutionized materials science and structural biology. The past decade has seen a lot of […]

A quantum wake-up call for European CEOs

By Anika Pflanzer, Wolf Richter, and Henning So, McKinsey Several recent breakthroughs in research on quantum computing and its industrial applications have reinforced its tremendous potential. The demonstration of large-scale quantum computers,1 research on noise-free quantum computation,2 and the implementation […]

Scientific highlights 2021

Many publications by Max Planck scientists in 2021 were of great social relevance or met with a great media response. We have selected 12 articles to present you with an overview of some noteworthy research […]

Quantum theory needs complex numbers

An international team of researchers shows through a concrete theoretical experiment that the prediction by standard complex quantum theory cannot be expressed by its real counterpart and ratifies its need of complex numbers. Their results […]

Theory Seminar: Protecting Trapped Ions Against Faults

Prof. Marko Cetina (Duke University Department of Physics and University of Maryland Department of Physics):I will present our results on the fault-tolerant preparation, measurement, rotation, and stabilizer measurement of a Bacon-Shor logical qubit using 13 […]