Welcome to Munich Quantum Valley

From 8 to 11 October 2024, the members of Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) met in Eichstätt for their internal Annual Meeting. In numerous presentations and discussions, the progress of the individual sub-projects and their contribution to the overall project were intensively debated and the focus was sharpened on the future.

A research team from Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ), in collaboration with the start-up planqc, has achieved a breakthrough on the way to scalable quantum computers. They assembled a quantum register of 1200 atoms and were then able to operate it continuously for over an hour.

On 3 October, Munich Quantum Valley, in collaboration with the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, took part in the campus-wide Open Day at the Garching research campus. The flow of visitors continued until the end of the event.

As part of the 'Munich Quantum Valley' Lighthouse Project IQ-Sense, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have developed a new method for the optical detection of MRI signals using diamond-based quantum sensors. In collaboration with the Hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, the researchers now want to make their method applicable for clinical use in the field of cancer monitoring, for which they have received the Medical Valley Award.

Last week, Quantum Diamonds hosted the official launch of its new device. The start-up from the Munich Quantum Valley ecosystem presented its new, high-resolution quantum microscope to an invited audience of investors and supporters from industry and academia at its facilities in Werk 1 of Munich's Werksviertel.