2025 – International Year of Quantum Science and Technology

Are you interested in quantum physics but can't find a good way to get started? Then the PhotonLab cordially invites you to join them in their student lab!

On 22 and 23 February, Munich Quantum Valley will take part in the Quantum Weekend at the Deutsches Museum. Explore the fascinating world of quantum physics, learn about quantum technologies and their relevance for society, and celebrate with us the 2025 International Year of Quantum!

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Ivo Sachs (LMU) will talk about the journey towards a consistent quantum mechanics, starting from Heisenberg's and Schrödinger's complementary approaches to quantum mechanics and von Neumann's mathematical framework.

Are you interested in quantum physics but can't find a good way to get started? Then the PhotonLab cordially invites you to join them in their student lab!

What does a quantum optics lab look like from the inside, and how do you capture single atoms with lasers? How researchers achieve this and how they use it to investigate exciting phenomena in chemistry or materials science, you can find out on 19 March 2025 at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics.

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Harald Lesch (LMU) will talk about the role of quantum mechanics in the universe as a whole.

This year, Munich Quantum Valley is once again taking part in Girls'Day and, together with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, is giving a group of girls the opportunity to get to know careers in IT or physics and to find out about the tasks of a data center and its contribution to the development of quantum computing.

Are you interested in quantum physics but can't find a good way to get started? Then the PhotonLab cordially invites you to join them in their student lab!

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Andreas Tittl (LMU) will provide an introduction to the fascinating world of the connection between quantum physics and nanophotonics.

How could quantum computers make our society more sustainable? And what technological challenges do we still need to overcome to make quantum computers stable and reliable? Answers to these exciting questions and a guided tour through a real quantum computer lab will be given by researchers from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität on 29 April 2025.

This year, we are collaborating with the Pint of Science festival to bring quantum science and technology to a local Munich pub.

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Johannes-Geert Hagmann (Deutsches Museum) will trace selected highlights of the development of laser physics and quantum optics from a historical perspective, thus creating a link between the history and the present of quantum physics.

How do you control the qubits of a superconducting quantum computer – which like it freezing cold at around -273 degrees Celsius – without disturbing these sensitive computing units? And how do you generate these freezing temperatures? All this and more, you can find out on 26 May 2025 at the Fraunhofer Institute for Electronic Microsystems and Solid State Technologies.

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As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Stefan Heusler (Universität Münster) will explain that quantum physics forms the basis for a wide range of technologies, why quantum physics is like a cat ready to pounce into the unknown, which questions are still unresolved even after 100 years, and which applications of quantum technologies are already on the horizon.

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Dominik Bucher (TUM) will introduce the world's smallest sensor, which just happens to be a defect in the structure of a diamond, and discuss its potential applications, including the analysis of new materials and improving the resolution of current magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for examining individual cells.

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As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Johannes Zeiher (MPQ) will illustrate how the work at MPQ provides insights into this fascinating microscopic world by using lasers to cool, control and detect individual atoms.

As part of the event series "Physik Modern" at the Faculty of Physics LMU Munich, Harald Weinfurter (LMU) will give an insight into the possibilities and current challenges in the field of quantum cryptography.