​Researchers from the Taminiau lab at QuTech created a time crystal, a novel exotic quantum phase of matter, using a quantum computer based on diamond. Together with a simultaneous experiment by Google (preprint), the results shed new light on the physics of out-of-equilibrium quantum systems. The team reports their findings today in Science.

Collaboration with Element Six, Francisco Machado and Norman Yao.








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An artist’s impression of the discrete time crystal made at QuTech. A chain of connected spins is locked in a phase where they periodically invert their state. Image credit Joe Randall and Tim Taminiau, QuTech.

Conor has defended his PhD and was awarded cum laude. Congrats Conor!!

​​NWO announced today that QuTech’s Mohamed Abobeih will receive a Rubicon grant. The Rubicon programme gives young, highly promising researchers the opportunity to gain international research experience.

Mohamed will use the fellowship to join the group of Mikhail Lukin at Harvard in the near future.

Congrats Mohamed!

On Monday the 12th of April, Maarten has defended his PhD thesis with great success. Congratulations Maarten and best of luck with your new adventures. 

Today, Mohamed has successfully defended his thesis after a fascinating discussion with his committee.  Congratulations to Dr. Mohamed on a job well done!

As you can see on the photos the COVID pandemic changes everything.

Our paper on the atomic-scale imaging of a large nuclear spin cluster has been awarded the prestigious and biennial Kavli Delft Publication Prize. Congrats Mohamed, Joe, Conor and all co-authors.

"Researchers at QuTech, a collaboration of TU Delft and TNO, have developed a new magnetic quantum sensing technology that can image samples with atomic-scale resolution. It opens the door towards imaging individual molecules, like proteins and other complex systems, atom by atom. The team reports on their results today in Nature."

Article in Nature
Press release QuTech
​Press release TuDelft 

Video explaining the paper

The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Tim Taminiau. The grant (1.5 million euros for a five-year program) will allow him to pursue ground-breaking ideas for the next generation of quantum computing.

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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