Marius Thomas, who completed his Master’s thesis on spectroscopy in circular Rydberg atoms within the CiRQus team of Dr. Florian Meinert, has received the Best Talk Award at the 2026 Young Atom Opticians (YAO) conference.
The EuRyQa consortium has published a new white paper outlining the current state of the art and future strategic directions for neutral atom quantum computing in Europe.
In a new preprint, we propose local manipulation and spatio-temporal sculpting of the electronic matter wave of a Rydberg atom by a focused optical tweezer.
We are excited to invite you to a webinar that showcases our unified, modular quantum hardware orchestration platform atomiq on March 8th, 10am (CEST) …
The 837. WE-Heraeus-Seminar on ‘Quantum Science with Interacting Arrays of Rydberg Atoms and Molecules’ will take place in Bad Honnef July 27th – August 1st, 2025 …
Christian Hölzl was awarded second place in the ‘Quantum Future Award’ competition for his outstanding doctoral thesis …
In the CiRQus project, we have implemented laser-controlled interactions between a highly-excited circular Rydberg qubit and a second ionic core electron …
Philéas Thibault, master student in physics at the École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, has spent three months in our research group for a research internship on neutral atom quantum computing …
Christian Hölzl has successfully defended his doctoral thesis entitled “Realization of Alkaline-Earth Circular Rydberg Qubits in Optical Tweezer Arrays” …
‘The Quantum Länd’ team has filed a patent application for a whole set of important building blocks for future quantum computers, including a method for special optical tweezers for individual atoms, a vacuum-compatible electric field control and a novel concept for the realization of a fast qubit.