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Excited to start a new chapter for QLab. Norbert Linke takes over as the new Director, working to make quantum technology accessible for researchers, entrepreneurs, and educators. QLab - Quantum for all!

Under the guidance of Dr. Franz Klein, 12 students from UMD and UDC spent seven weeks working on a variety of quantum computing projects. The projects included applying quantum cellular automata to neuron data, using quantum circuits for image processing, solving routing problems with quantum algorithms like VQE and QAOA, and exploring quantum games. The internship gave students hands-on experience with real quantum hardware and software.

In their study "Quantum computing universal thermalization dynamics in a (2+1)D lattice gauge theory", Niklas Mueller, Tianyi Wang, Or Katz, Zohreh Davoudi, and Marko Cetina leveraged a cutting-edge ion-trap quantum computer to experimentally probe the complex process of thermalization in a lattice gauge theory. The analysis focuses on the entanglement spectrum of the strongly-correlated quantum many-body system.

The study, "Classifying two-body Hamiltonians for Quantum Darwinism" by Doucet and Deffner analyzes criteria under which system-environment interactions lead to quantum Darwinism—the process by which an objective, classical reality emerges through the environment's redundant encoding of a quantum system's information. Theoretical arguments and numerical simulations suggest that classical objectivity, where multiple observers can agree on a system's state, is the rule in the quantum world, not the exception.