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Nodar in his home office
24.12.2020 by QuTech Blog Editors

Merry Christmas 2020!

‘Tis the time of Christmas again! Needless for us to say, this Christmas is an extra special one, just as the rest of this year. While for many of us 2020 will always be tied to a sense of loss in our memory, we do hope you have the chance to lift the spirits ...

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27.11.2020 by Wojciech Kozlowski

From research to industry and back again

by Wojciech Kozlowski When I completed my PhD back in 2016 and started my ...

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27.11.2020 by Anne-Marije Zwerver

Entanglement and Bell inequalities

by Anne-Marije Zwerver Bell inequalities There is this rather peculiar habit that I have: ...

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25.09.2020 by Johannes Borregaard

Some thoughts on the tower of Babel

by Johannes Borregaard I am not particularly schooled in religious scripture of any kind. ...

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11.09.2020 by Niels Bultink

A nightly physics adventure

” WA R N I N G : 5 FAU LT S F O U N D ! “ by Niels Bultink It was around 1:00 AM on a ...

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24.07.2020 by Christian Möhle

Kavli Warriors

by Christian Möhle In recent days my daily walk to the coffee machine has become ever more painful as Guan would spot me and start to yell at me ...

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09.07.2020 by Barbara Terhal

Poem: Betelgeuse & his little brother

by Barbara Terhal Barbara Terhal, faculty member at QuTech, wrote a poem about the tiny virus that holds the world in a firm grip these days, which we have ...

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22.05.2020 by QuTech Blog Editors

Quarantine puzzle

The days get sunnier, yet the working from home continues. Some labs over the world are closed. At QuTech we have the luck that the labs stayed open, although ...

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24.04.2020 by Christos Zachariadis

Fabricating a superconducting quantum processor in a cleanroom

by Christos Zachariadis Nowadays, quantum computers promise to be a revolutionary technology. As a result, quantum computing has become one of the hottest areas of research in the last ...

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05.03.2020 by Arian Stolk

Three ways to enjoy yourselves at the QuTech Uitje

by Arian Stolk CAUTION: This post will NOT contain any physics (ignoring any possible corny physics jokes)! That is right, no discussions about entanglement, (qu)-bits and/or crazy science in ...

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20.02.2020 by Matthew Sarsby

Cooling a Hot Photon Wind (part 1)

Combining low temperatures and high frequency signals is becoming ever more important in the development of quantum technologies. In QuTech for example transmon based devices use some signals in ...

Ytterby Mine
24.01.2020 by Sara Marzban

Have you ever been to Ytterby?

by Sara Marzban In this post I’m going to briefly describe the solid state system, namely rare-earth crystalline material, that the Tittel lab at Qutech is using to do ...