The Baugarten Stiftung has facilitated a strong start to the “Quantum Engineering Initiative”. This pioneering commitment to the ETH Zürich Foundation enables two pieces of high-tech laboratory equipment to be acquired, representing the next vital step in the production of scalable basic elements in quantum physics systems.

We demonstrated exchange interactions, superradiant states and subradiant states for two qubits placed two centimeters apart in an open one-dimensional space, as published in Science online.

An ERC Advanced Grant was awarded to Andreas Wallraff by the European Research Council (ERC) for the project "Superconducting Quantum Networks". The newly received Grant follows up the ERC Starting Grant that he won in 2009.

A paper on the realization of a deterministic quantum teleportation protocol realized using superconducting electronic circuits has been puplished in Nature.

Our letter in which we performed and completely characterized Hong-Ou-Mandel interference at microwave frequencies is published online in Nature Physics.

Our paper describing the first experimental realization and characterization of non-abelian geometric transformations in a superconducting circuit appeared in Nature online.

Physicists of nine international universities, including the group of Prof. Andreas Wallraff, have established the research network “ScaleQIT” with the aim of advancing the building of a quantum computer, equipped with powerful computer chips from superconductors. The project has been granted 4.5 Million Euros by the European Union Seventh Framework Programme.

Andreas Wallraff wins this year’s Max-Rössler Prize in recognition of his outstanding research at the interface of information technology and quantum physics. The award comes with 200,000 Swiss francs as prize money.