The TUM campus will soon be enriched by a jewel.
The new center for quantum engineering celebrated its topping-out ceremony.
The federal and state governments are investing 41 million euros here.
Garching – The Free State is investing a total of 300 million euros in quantum research in order to be at the forefront of this future technology.
41 million of this will flow into the new Center for Quantum Engineering (ZQE) in Garching alone, which has now celebrated its topping-out ceremony.
Quantum technology deals with the smallest, indivisible units that cause physical interactions.
Due to their special properties, light and energy components can be used for various applications.
This is how quantum technology brought about semiconductor electronics, the laser and the Internet, and is used for microchips and in medical technology.
For Markus Blume, Minister of State for Science and Art, the topping-out ceremony for the new center for quantum technology on the TUM campus was therefore a "special milestone in Bavaria's high-tech agenda" and in the TU location as the "engineering foundry for made in Germany “.
In the coming year, 100 scientists from the fields of physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, mathematics and computer science are to move into and work together in the 41 million euro building, the cost of which will be shared by the state and federal government.
It is an independent institution headed by the physicist Christian Pfleiderer as executive director.
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Praising the new building: Christian Pfleiderer, Managing Director of the ZQE, Science Minister Markus Blume (CSU) and TUM President Thomas Hofmann (right, from left).
© Gerald Fortsch
In concrete terms, the researchers in the new laboratory and research building with a usable area of around 2500 square meters will deal with solid-state-based realizations of quantum technologies: hybrid quantum components and circuits, functional quantum materials and the modeling of complex quantum systems.
Networking with industrial partners is also being promoted in a targeted manner in order to make research results usable in practice.
TUM President Thomas Hofmann sees the ZQE as a place where strengths are bundled, as a place where knowledge is exchanged, where excellence is created.
Munich is the cradle of quantum physics, even if professors keep leaving the Bavarian workplace.
"It takes talent and ideas, that's where the TU is successful," said Hofmann.
Here is the space for new ideas and technologies.
"We don't need to hide behind London, Zurich or Berkeley." The digital industry has lost Germany.
“But we need to take the step into engineering, i
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