✨ Eine Quanten-Lichtquelle reist durch #Europa & bringt #Physik zum Funkeln: Das Projekt QuanTour von @heindeltobias.bsky.social (#TUBerlin) & Prof. Dr. Doris Reiter (@tu-dortmund.de) erhält die Lise-Meitner-Medaille des
@iop.org für herausragende #Wissenschaftskommunikation! 🥇👇

✨ A quantum light source travels across #Europe and makes #Physics sparkle: The project QuanTour by @heindeltobias.bsky.social (#TUBerlin) & Prof. Dr. Doris Reiter (@tu-dortmund.de) has been awarded the Lise Meitner Medal by @iop.org for outstanding #ScienceCommunication! 🏅
ℹ️(in German)⬇️

Great Special Issue @nanophotonics-j.bsky.social!

👉 Review Article: Telecom single-photon sources www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

👉 Article: Fiber-pigtailed sources generating indistinguishable photons at GHz 🕘-rates www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

🙏 to my team + all collaborators!

🤩 Join the World Quantum Day Event at Urania in Berlin upcoming Monday, April 14!

We‘ll celebrate the return of our quantum light source after its year-long roundtrip within „QuanTour“ through Europe 🎯+⚛️+🇪🇺=🥳

#QuanTour #QTorch #SUPERquantum
@worldquantumday.bsky.social

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⚛️ Taming the Invisible in the Quantum world ⚛️

Please welcome this week's curator - Anna Musial all the way from Poland!

Check out the conversation b/w @pranoti.bsky.social & Anna on of Under the Microscope podcast🎧🎙️

#SciComm 🧪 #Physics💡#podcast 👩‍🔬 🔬
@thesciencetalk.bsky.social

Daniel A. Vajner, Koray Kaymazlar, Fenja Drauschke, Lucas Rickert, Martin von Helversen, Hanqing Liu, Shulun Li, Haiqiao Ni, Zhichuan Niu, Anna Pappa, Tobias Heindel
Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14993

📰 „QuanTour illuminates Europe with single photons“ - A News&Views Article in Light:Science&Applications by Fei Ding:

👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great coverage on our #Outreach & #OpenScience project #QuanTour 👍

#QTorch #SUPERquantum
@thesciencetalk.bsky.social
@natureportfolio.nature.com

🥳 Our work „Exploring photon-number-encoded high-dimensional entanglement from a sequentially excited quantum three-level system“ is published at Optica Quantum @OpticaWorldwide 🦋+ ⚛️ =🎉

👉 doi.org/10.1364/OPTI...

🤩 Happening right now… ⚛️
The official opening of the „International Year of Quantum Science & Technology“ at the @unesco.org @unesco.bsky.social headquarter in Paris 🇫🇷

And #QuanTour is of course part of it at the booth of the German Physical Society 🤗

Proud to be part of the German delegation 🙏

Just returned from #PhotonicsWest @spie.org in beautiful San Francisco! 🇺🇸🌉
Presented our work on Atomically-thin Single-photon Sources for Quanum Communication:
nature.com/articles/s4169…

Always with me on board:
The famou#QuanTourur sticker 😁

Happy new #Quantum Year 2025! ⚛️

Our work on Fiber-pigtailed Quantum Dot Single-photon Sources Delivering Indistinguishable Photons at GHz Clock-rates is out at Nanophotonics @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 🥰

👉 doi.org/10.1515/nano...

Huge congrats to Lucas and the entire author team! 👏

📰 Our work on „High Purcell Enhancement in Quantum-Dot Hybrid Circular Bragg Grating Cavities for GHz Clock Rate Generation of Indistinguishable Photons“ is published @acspublications.bsky.social 🎯

Congrats to Lucas and all coauthors for this great piece of work 👍

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Merry Christmas! 🎄🧑‍🎄🎅

🎄Just in time for X'Mas 🎁

Single-Photon Advantage in Quantum Cryptography Beyond QKD 🥳

We experimentally implemented for the first time a quantum coin flipping protocol using single-photon states and demonstrate a quantum advantage compared to weak coherent pulses!

👉 arxiv.org/html/2412.14...