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• Strongly interacting Fermi gases and superfluids
• Mesoscopic physics with cold atoms

Quantum engineering is a revolutionary approach to quantum technology. It encompasses both fundamental physics and the broad engineering skill-set necessary to meet the practical challenges of the future.

Our goal in the Centre for Quantum Photonics is to explore fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, as well as work towards future photonic quantum technologies by generating, manipulating and measuring single photons as well as the quantum systems that emit these photons.

The Centre spans the School of Physics and Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in the Faculties of Science and Engineering, and the Centre for Nanoscience and Quantum Information.

Quantum Communication
Quantum Sensing & Metrology
Quantum Computing

Quantum Engineering Technology Labs:
QET Labs delivers a radically new generation of machines that exploit quantum physics to transform our lives, society and economy:

Development of theoretical, methodological and numerical methods to study the structure and dynamics at very low energies of atoms and small molecules in gas phase, as well as their interactions with electromagnetic fields.

The research interests of the Quantum Dynamics (QD) group are quantum coherent dynamics in ultracold gases and plasmonic nanostructures. We investigate theoretically strongly correlated quantum many-body systems in the context of ultracold Fermi gases. The goal is to predict novel many-body phases and phenomena, especially related to superconductivity. Another focus area where we combine experiment and theory is quantum coherent phenomena in nanoplasmonics, with the goal of creating novel types of coherent nanoscale light sources.

QCD group carries out experimental research on silicon and superconducting quantum nanoelectronics. The main research goals include engineered quantum environments, single-electron pumps, and microwave photon detectors. In addition, QCD is known for its work on monopoles in ultracold atomic gases.

The superconducting quantum computer has very recently reached the theoretical thresholds for fault-tolerant universal quantum computing and a quantum annealer based on superconducting quantum bits, qubits, is already commercially available. However, several fundamental questions on the way to efficient large-scale quantum computing have to be answered: qubit initialization, extreme gate accuracy, and quantum-level power consumption.

QuProCS is a joint research project that is part of FET PROACTIVE QUANTUM SIMULATIONS, funded through the Horizon 2020 Programme of the European Union. We are a consortium of seven different institutions with longstanding theoretical and experimental expertise in quantum optics and many-body physics.