08 January 2025
The United Nations has designated 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. At an opening event in Germany, Prof. Dr. Tommaso Calarco from Forschungszentrum Jülich will speak in a panel discussion about the future of quantum physics.
In 1925, quantum mechanics was formulated, which has since fundamentally changed our physical view of the world. One hundred years later, in 2025, quantum physics is influencing all areas of our daily lives - from science and technology to art and culture. The United Nations has therefore declared 2025 the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology and aims to use this initiative to raise awareness of the importance of quantum physics.
In Germany, the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physical Society) is taking the lead and will open the quantum year together with the Humboldt University of Berlin on 14 January 2025. As part of a panel discussion, the quantum physicist Prof. Dr Tommaso Calarco from Forschungszentrum Jülich will discuss the topic of quantum physics in the next hundred years with representatives from science, industry and politics. The opening event will also feature a lecture by Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Ketterle.
The event will be livestreamed: https://www.youtube.com/live/a2KesNYCR4A
Scientists at Forschungszentrum Jülich are also working on technologies based on quantum mechanical effects. The focus is on quantum computers and quantum materials. With JUNIQ, the Jülich UNified Infrastructure for Quantum computing, Jülich already has commercial and experimental quantum computing systems integrated into the HPC environment. These systems also include prototypes of quantum computers that are being developed in the pioneering research projects QSolid and OpenSuperQPlus.
