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30.10.2024 Quantum Internet

A rudimentary quantum network link between Dutch cities

An international research team led by QuTech has demonstrated a network connection between quantum processors over metropolitan distances. Their result marks a key advance from early research networks in the lab towards a future quantum internet. The team developed fully independently operating nodes and integrated these with deployed optical internet fibre, enabling a 25 ...

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24.10.2024 Qubit Research

NWO Vidi grant for Christian Andersen for Andreev spin qubits

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an NWO Vidi grant to Christian Andersen. ...

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18.09.2024 Qubit Research

TU Delft Excellence Fund supports Anasua Chatterjee

Dr Anasua Chatterjee receives support from TU Delft Excellence Fund to bring her expertise ...

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25.07.2024 Quantum Computing

Spin qubits go trampolining

Researchers at QuTech developed somersaulting spin qubits for universal quantum logic. This achievement may ...

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19.07.2024 Awards

NWO Veni Grant for Tim Coopmans: Sherlock Holmes meets quantum noise

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded an NWO Veni grant to Tim Coopmans. The grant (320 thousand euros for a three-year program) will allow him to search for ...

Photo montage: Co-authors Bas and Qing demonstrate protection of Majoranas to a local perturbation. Trying to push one of the Majoranas leaves its partner happily unaffected!
12.06.2024 Qubit Research

A route to scalable Majorana qubits

Researchers at QuTech have found a way to make Majorana particles in a two-dimensional plane. This was achieved by creating devices that exploit the combined material properties of superconductors ...

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12.06.2024 Organization

Final design QuTech building approved

In the coming years, TU Delft will invest in the renewal and improvement of the TU Delft Campus. One of the developments in this initiative is the new building ...

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30.05.2024 Organization

Annual Report 2023

We are proud to present the annual report for 2023. Together, we’re not just moving forward; we’re building momentum, bit by bit, towards our mission of creating the quantum ...

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24.05.2024 Organization

NWO Summit Grant to investigate fundamental quantum limits

A research consortium from TU Delft and Leiden University receives an NWO Summit Grant of 35 million euros, as a long-term support and to continue their prominent role internationally. ...

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16.05.2024 Awards

Lieven Vandersypen appointed as KNAW member

Scientific director at QuTech Lieven Vandersypen is appointed as member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (Dutch: KNAW), together with 16 others. On Monday 30 September, ...

Drawing depicting a secure quantum underground network
09.04.2024 Quantum Internet

QuTech and Eurofiber run quantum cryptography on existing fiber in an open testbed

QuTech and Eurofiber, together with QuTech spin-out Q*Bird and other partners, have installed a proof-of-concept quantum communication system between locations in the Utrecht area. The testbed shows that it ...

Picture of control screens Quantum Inspire in the QuTech lab. Picture by Marc Blommaert
18.03.2024 Quantum Computing

Dutch quantum ecosystem upgrades integrated quantum computer for the cloud

QuTech has united with four quantum companies in the HectoQubit/2 consortium to build full superconducting quantum computing systems to be made publicly available through QuTech’s Quantum Inspire cloud platform. ...