Our proposal "Quantum microscopy: A new tool for future technologies" has been accepted (NWO website).  We will investigate scanning probe magnetic imaging based on defects in diamond with a multi-disciplinary team that includes Toeno van der Sar (Delft), Richard Norte (Delft), Tjerk Oosterkamp (Leiden), TNO, Applied Nanolayers BV and Leiden Spin Imaging BV.


​NWA: Connecting science and society.

The Dutch government has recently increased its investment in research and innovation. Part of this extra funding is intended for the NWA research programme that NWO is realising on behalf of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. The overarching aim of this programme is to improve the connection between science and society. The need to structurally strengthen this connection is widely felt and supported. To achieve this aim, the NWA programme will encourage research relevant for society, facilitate knowledge sharing via interdisciplinary and knowledge-chain-wide collaboration, and proactively involve societal partners in the formulation, setting up and realisation of the research. The dialogue between science and society will be further fuelled by targeted communication and outreach activities and by the active involvement of citizens in science and research (e.g. through citizen science and co-creation). In addition, the programme will contribute to the sustainability and innovativeness of routes and networks.­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­
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Mohamed wins the LATSIS2019 diamond photonics poster prize! Congrats! Click here for the corresponding paper. 

Tim gives his take on a recent breakthrough paper on the Dutch radio. Click here for the radio interview. In the paper, published today in Science, the authors demonstrate that single NV centers can be read out through the electrical current they generate. This provides an alternative to the traditional optical readout, with the potential for better integration is small electronics devices. Fun fact: one of the authors is Takashi, who now joined our team at QuTech. 

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​Julia wins the NWO Minerva prize for our error correction paper. Congratulations Julia!

The prize will be given to Julia at the Veldhoven conference.

​Our group is awarded a Vidi grant by NWO worth 800 k€ to investigate ​fault-tolerant quantum error correction with spin qubits in diamond. Such fault tolerance is essential for large-scale quantum information processing. 

​Here is a list of all the accepted proposals.

Julia becomes the first PhD graduate of the group. Congratulations Julia! 

On the right: Julia, her paranymphs, and the commitee (Fedor Jelezko, Barbara Terhal, Koen Bertels, Lieven Vandersypen, Ronald Hanson and Tim Taminiau). 

Below: Julia presenting here work before the PhD defense.

Our paper on protecting logical quantum states in subspaces formed through the quantum Zeno effect is published in Nature Communications. The work explores protecting multiple logical entangled qubits from environmental noise and provides an opportunity to study the interplay between frequent quantum measurement and correlated noise such as non-Markovian noise.

See the press release and these selected news articles (Tweakers, PhysOrg) for more.   

​The Bell paper wins the Kavli publication prize for the best publication of the Kavli Institute of Nanoscience Delft of the last two years. Congratulations Bas and all co-authors! 


On the right: Kavli directors Cees Dekker and Lieven Vandersypen hand over the Kavli publication prize to the present authors (left to right: Raymond Schouten, Raymond Vermeulen, Tim Taminiau, Ronald Hanson, Bas Hensen). The prize consists of 3000 Euros and a cool statue.  

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