Quantum research

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17DEC 2025
FAU news
Making quantum computers less prone to errors
FAU professor Christopher Eichler is developing quantum processors that can detect and correct computing errors more efficiently. The ERC is now funding this project with €2.7 million.
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21OCT 2025
FAU news
QuNET achieves another milestone
Foundation for a future quantum network – quantum channels tested in flight It is not easy to send individual photons from an aircraft in a targeted manner, capture them in a ground station, and also detect them. Researchers have now succeeded in doing exactly that: They even measured various quantum channels between an aircraft and […]
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11AUG 2025
FAU news
Global quantum encryption: small satellites as quantum key generators
First test drive for quantum modules on the small satellite QUBE, developed in collaboration with FAU The QUBE research mission, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and involving researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), will use small satellites to test newly developed quantum communication technology in space for the first time. […]First test drive for quantum modules on the small satellite QUBE, developed in collaboration with FAU The QUBE research mission, funded by the Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space (BMFTR) and involving researchers from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), will use small satellites to test newly developed quantum communication technology in space for the first time. […]
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04AUG 2025
FAU news
Erlangen Regional Computing Center: Information security thanks to quantum encryption
Research project at FAU’s Regional Computing Center exploring QKD for campus network environments. A new research project at the Erlangen Regional Computing Center (RRZE) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) aims to encrypt data using random quantum states to avoid unauthorized data access, thereby increasing the security of sensitive information. In view of the current geopolitical situation, […]Research project at FAU’s Regional Computing Center exploring QKD for campus network environments. A new research project at the Erlangen Regional Computing Center (RRZE) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) aims to encrypt data using random quantum states to avoid unauthorized data access, thereby increasing the security of sensitive information. In view of the current geopolitical situation, […]
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12MAR 2025
FAU news
Quantum physics: Where quantum theory and the theory of relativity meet
Physicist at FAU is dedicated to one of the most important questions in physics. Physics has a problem – their key models of quantum theory and the theory of relativity do not fit together. Now, the German Research Foundation is funding physicist Dr. Wolfgang Wieland from Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) as part of the Heisenberg Program […]
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10MAR 2025
FAU news
Quantum mechanics: hypercomplex, or “just” complex?
Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this question in their research. Exactly 100 years ago, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan formulated quantum mechanics and revolutionized our understanding of physics. […]Today, physicists are still asking themselves whether quantum mechanics needs hypercomplex numbers. FAU researchers Ece Ipek Saruhan, Prof. Dr. Joachim von Zanthier and Dr. Marc Oliver Pleinert have been investigating this question in their research. Exactly 100 years ago, Werner Heisenberg, Max Born and Pascual Jordan formulated quantum mechanics and revolutionized our understanding of physics. […]
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09JAN 2025
FAU news
Project funding: Quantum computers in pocket size
A quantum computer the size of a smartphone – researchers at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) are investigating how this could become reality. Physicist Prof. Dr. Vojislav Krstić and his team of researchers are focusing on developing quantum bits (Qubits) that work on the basis of topological isolators, a class of materials that have increasingly become the […]
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15JUL 2024
Research
When quantum physics takes the bar by storm
The terms “Wenz”, “Solo” and “Sie” are as much part of a Bavarian pub as the beer tap and the regulars’ table. It’s where you’ll often see groups of (usually) four players huddled over their playing cards trying to be the first to get 60 points at the traditional card game known as “Schafkopf”. FAU […]
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18OCT 2023
Research
Milestone: Miniature particle accelerator works
Particle accelerators are crucial tools in a wide variety of areas in industry, research and the medical sector. The space these machines require ranges from a few square meters to large research centers. Using lasers to accelerate electrons within a photonic nanostructure constitutes a microscopic alternative with the potential of generating significantly lower costs […]
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15SEP 2023
FAU news
An anniversary symposium
The Chair of Applied Physics is one of the longest standing of its kind in Germany and is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year. To mark the occasion, the Chair, which has been a global center for silicon carbide research since the late 1980s, is organizing an international symposium on the topic of “Silicon carbide […]
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03AUG 2023
Research
New Distinguished Professorship of Applied Quantum Technologies
“Anyone who might have dared to suggest controlling a single photon, let alone an electron, 20 years ago would have been considered to have lost touch with reality,” states quantum engineer Professor Roland Nagy. Today, researchers like him and his team at FAU are even able to use the effects of such subatomic particles at […]
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31JUL 2023
Research
One step closer to highly secure quantum communication
Researchers from Jena, Berlin, Erlangen-Nuremberg and Wessling have successfully distributed quantum keys between two points using a combination of free-space and fiber links under everyday conditions. On a heterogeneous test bed in Jena, they achieved key rates in the kilobit range per second in daylight. The experiment was implemented as part of the QuNET initiative, […]
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