Welcome to Munich Quantum Valley

On 28 April, the start-up Qlibri invited the public to its lab space in downtown Munich as part of the event series "MQV-Einblicke – Quantenwissenschaften vor Ort erleben". In three laboratories, the young team informed the interested guests about the production of highly specialized optical micro-resonators and their applications in microscopy and in quantum sciences and quantum technologies.

From 20 to 24 April 2026, Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) was represented as an exhibitor at the Hannover Messe. Visitors were invited to the booth to learn about Bavaria as a hub for quantum research and technology.

On 23 April 2026, 14 girls aged 14 to 16 took part in the Munich Quantum Valley Girls’Day program, which was held this year in collaboration with and at the Center for Nanotechnology and Nanomaterials at the Walter Schottky Institute (WSI). Through experiments and a lab tour, the participants gained a comprehensive insight into research on two-dimensional materials and were able to perform various tasks that are part of the researchers’ daily work at WSI.

MQV member Prof. Ignacio Cirac, Director at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), has been awarded the 2026 ICTP-IBM Richard Feynman Prize in Quantum Computing. The award was presented today, Tuesday, 21 April, during a formal ceremony.

Yesterday, the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (OHM) celebrated the inauguration of its new cleanroom laboratory in the presence of Markus Blume, Bavarian State Minister of Science and the Arts.

In a recently published paper, MQV researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München establish the strontium fine-structure qubit as a promising candidate for near-term error-corrected quantum computers.

On 14 April 2026, the Bavarian Industry Association (vbw), in cooperation with Munich Quantum Valley (MQV), hosted a special event on quantum computing at the Bayerisches Haus der Wirtschaft. Representatives from politics, research, and industry examined the fundamentals of quantum computing from various perspectives and highlighted Bavaria’s strengths as a hub for this pivotal future technology.