This year our Quantum Device Lab (@qudev , https://t.co/cF4jsoFdYJ) has completed its first 20 years at the Department of Physics (@ETH_physics) of @ETH Zürich, since six years we are also part of the Quantum Center, @ETHQuantumCntr, and since five years we co-run the @ETH_en Zürich - @psich_en Paul Scherrer Institut #Quantum Computing Hub.
One of the aspects for the whole team to be proud of is the many successes of our current and former lab members.
On the occasion of our lab's 20th anniversary, I give a shout out to former lab members who have moved on to graduate school, who now do postdocs, who started their own labs as faculty members, who have started companies, who have moved on to work in the quantum industry or in the tech industry.
Today, I start with the professors. There are quite a few of them. Check out the article linked below.
https://t.co/aRQ1aInxJP
Happy Canada Day from #IQC 🇨🇦
Did you know...? Back in 2016, our team at achieved a Guinness World Record by crafting the smallest national flag—at just 1.178 µm long (around one‑hundredth the width of a human hair!). It’s only visible under an electron microscope!
The quantum-information community has lost something rare and valuable: a great theorist, experimentalist, and human being, plus a founder of our community. Co-supervising a PhD student with Ray Laflamme, as an early-career PI, was like sharing a kitchen with Julia Child.
Academics will downplay the impact of industry on cutting edge research while writing python code using IBM’s libraries on a machine running Nvidia GPUs and posting it to GitHub…
Excellent news from Belgium, where they have just taken the first steps to scrapping the 2003 law on phasing out nuclear energy, and have instead "turned a law against nuclear power into a law FOR nuclear power."
The Quantum Cavity Optomechanics (QCOM) Group, led by Professor Bradley Hauer, work spans cavity optomechanics, superconducting circuits and #quantum sensing, with applications in metrology and quantum information processing.
#NEM2025#IQC
instead of investing billions of dollars to make quantum computers break cryptography, why don't we just get ourselves added to the national security group chat?
I drew this last November 26th knowing full well no self-respecting family newspaper in the country would be likely to print it. I was right. But given the events of this weekend, I’m gonna to let ‘er rip anyway.
#USA#Canada#tariffs@realDonaldTrump
"Oh, I'm a *pure* mathematician, I don't write code/do calculations/etc.."
"Oh, I'm a *theoretical* physicist, I don't do experiments/analyze data/etc.."
Etc.
These kinds of statements are typically uttered with an air of intellectual smugness. But what are they really? (1/6)