Institute for Quantum Information (IQI)

Founded in 2011, the institute pursues a variety of topics in both practical and fundamental quantum information science. Solid state quantum information processing devices, either based on spins or superconductors, are a real possibility for the future. Our theoretical work seeks to find improved ways for these qubits to function and to work together in a system. These goals motivate very fundamental studies in a diverse set of areas, including many-body physics, the theory of quantum error correction codes, the theory of quantum control, and quantum computational complexity.

The Institute has both theoretical and experimental directions.  It functions within the larger research environment of condensed matter theory and experiment at the department of physics of the RWTH Aachen.  It is also closely tied to the department of theoretical nanoelectronics at the Forschungszentrum Juelich, under the umbrella of the Juelich-Aachen Research Alliance (JARA).