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Artificial Intelligence learns faster with quantum technology 09 March 2021An international collaboration, including Leiden physicist and computer scientist Vedran Dunjko, showed that quantum technology can speed-up the learn...
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NWA funding for communications research on quantum computing 22 December 2020Leiden physicist Julia Cramer receives 50 thousand euros in funding for 'Let's talk about quantum', a research project on communication about quantum ...
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Shell works with Leiden and VU researchers on quantum computer algorithms for chemistry 26 May 2020Shell cooperates with theoretical physicists and chemists of Leiden University to research how quantum computer algorithms can help simulate complex m...
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1.3 million euros to catch quantum collapse 24 February 2020Leiden physicists Tjerk Oosterkamp and Dirk Bouwmeester have received a 1.3 million euro Science-Groot grant from NWO to catch a mystery at the core o...
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The Netherlands as an international centre for quantum technology 17 September 2019State secretary Mona Keijzer received the National Agenda on Quantum Technology from Robbert Dijkgraaf on 16 September. With this agenda, Dutch knowle...
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Cum laude physicist Tom O’Brien to research quantum chemistry by quantum computers 20 June 2019With defending his thesis ‘Applications of topology to Weyl semimetals and quantum computing’, the Leiden theoretical physicist Tom O'Brien has gained...
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ERC Advanced Grant for Carlo Beenakker to ‘braid’ Majorana fermions 29 March 2019Theoretical physicist Carlo Beenakker has been awarded a €2m Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC). He will use this to try to create ...
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New quantum computer design to predict molecule properties 28 May 2018The standard approach to build a quantum computer with Majoranas as building blocks is to convert them into qubits. However, a promising application o...
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New practice tool for quantum computer coding: OpenFermion 28 March 2018In a global effort, quantum computers are rapidly being developed. In the meantime, researchers have to learn how to write code for these devices, whi...
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Dutch Theoretical Physics reviewed as excellent 27 October 2017The Dutch Research School for Theoretical Physics (DRSTP) has received excellent ratings from an independent international committee. The DRSTP is a s...
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Major Expansion Leiden Quantum Computing 08 May 2017The 18.8 million euro NWO Zwaartekracht grant for quantum software which Amsterdam, Delft and Leiden landed collectively, means for Leiden University ...
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Developing quantum software with a grant of 18.8 million euros 04 May 2017The first larger quantum computers will soon be available. These computers need new software. Researchers at Leiden University have been awarded a Gra...
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Students are programming with qubits 14 March 2017Students of the Leiden University master Computer Science are the first students in the world that have been educated in programming with a quantum co...
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Light on the quantum computer 17 November 2016Physicist Martin van Exter works with light at nanoscale, at the forefront of nanocomputer research. But as Director of Education he also has a vision...
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Bernard van Heck Wins Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 04 October 2016Bernard van Heck has won the Christiaan Huygens Prize 2016 for his Leiden PhD research on electrical circuits for quantum computers. On behalf of the ...