Whether beer, coffee beans, yogurt or lubricating oil: A device small enough to fit into one hand can measure the shelf life of substances. The idea: To bring this technology to the food industry. As a start-up, this spin-off from the University of Stuttgart will receive funding from the EXIST research transfer program of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK).

Physicist Christian Schneider has been awarded one of the European Research Council's coveted Consolidator Grants. His project focuses on a special group of so-called two-dimensional materials and their optical properties.

The DLR Quantum Computing Initiative (DLR QCI) of the German Aerospace Center has selected IQM Quantum Computers (IQM), a global leader in superconducting quantum computers, to develop quantum embedding algorithms for the simulation of materials science systems.

Scientists at the University of Würzburg and the German national metrology institute (PTB) have carried out an experiment that realizes a new kind of quantum standard of resistance. It’s based on the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect.

For controlling prosthetics, the body’s signals must be detected to move the artificial limb. At the moment, implanting electrodes is the most common technique but this is invasive and electrodes can deteriorate or move position. A completely different approach is now developed by the multidisciplinary consortium QHMI in Stuttgart, Germany, using quantum sensors to detect the incredibly small and fast nerve signals. The ultrasensitive quantum magnetometers will be carried outside the body measuring the neural signals through the skin. At this stage, the scientists are using Spectrum Instrumentation’s ultrafast digitizers (M5i.3357) and Arbitrary Waveform Generators (M4x.6631) to characterize the signals and to finally design the required Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs).

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Joins IQST as a New Partner.

Scientists have discovered an exciting new approach to generating clean hydrogen energy using a remarkable class of crystals that harness the quantum properties of electrons. This breakthrough isn't just a scientific curiosity — it represents a potential leap forward in renewable energy technology. The new catalyst could make hydrogen production faster, more efficient, and more economically viable, bringing us closer to a clean energy future. The research, conducted by scientists from the Max Planck Institute and the Weizmann Institute of Science, demonstrates how cutting-edge quantum physics can solve real-world energy challenges.

Q.ANT, the leading startup for photonic computing, today announced the launch of its first commercial product – a photonics-based Native Processing Unit (NPU) built on the company’s compute architecture LENA – Light Empowered Native Arithmetics. The product is fully compatible with today’s existing computing ecosystem as it comes on the industry-standard PCI-Express. The Q.ANT NPU executes complex, non-linear mathematics natively using light instead of electrons, promising to deliver at least 30 times greater energy efficiency and significant computational speed improvements over traditional CMOS technology. Designed for compute-intensive applications such as AI Inference, machine learning, and physics simulation, the Q.ANT NPU has been proven to solve real-world challenges, including number recognition for deep neural network inference.

For a wide variety of emerging quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communications and quantum computing, quantum entanglement is a prerequisite. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Science of Light (MPL) have now demonstrated a particularly efficient way in which photons can be entangled with acoustic phonons. The researchers were able to demonstrate that this entanglement is resilient to external noise, the usual pitfall of any quantum technology to date. They published their research in Physical Review Letters.

Quantum technology can bring us computers that can solve complex problems quickly, but currently the devices are still large and susceptible to failure. To accelerate their development, the German Agency for Innovation in Cyber ​​Security announced a competition with an ambitious goal: to develop the first mobile quantum computer. The project is in the penultimate phase, in which three applicants are already implementing their concepts. This includes the Innsbruck-based company ParityQC, which will develop a mobile quantum computer with the Australian-German company Quantum Brilliance. The contract value for the three applicants is 35 million euros.