Quantum Computing: What Does the Computer of the Future Look Like?

Summary

The quantum computer is associated with hopes for a revolution in the digital world: It is expected to solve tasks that even the largest supercomputers today fail to tackle. By using quantum bits, it could become faster, more accurate, and more efficient than any existing computer.

But how does a quantum computer actually work? What challenges does research face? And what opportunities, but also risks, does it entail for politics, economy, and society?

These and other questions will be discussed by the director of the Walther Meißner Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BAdW), Stefan Filipp, the theoretical physicist Ronny Thomale, and the academy member and experimental physicist Laurens W. Molenkamp – and they would be delighted to discuss them with you! Thomale and Molenkamp are members of the Würzburg-Dresden Cluster of Excellence ct.qmat – Complexity and Topology in Quantum Materials.
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About the Speakers

Prof. Dr. Stefan Filipp is the director of the Walther Meißner Institute of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and holds the chair for Technical Physics at the Technical University of Munich.

Prof. Dr. Ronny Thomale holds the chair for Theoretical Physics I at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities awarded him the Karl-Heinz Hoffmann Prize in 2022.

Prof. Dr. Laurens W. Molenkamp holds the chair for Experimental Physics III at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg. He has been a full member of the BAdW since 2019.