Catch Quantum on Film! 🎬 In the Ether: A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology at ArtScience Museum has a film programme, which includes the short film Harakiri directed by CQT's Dagomir Kaszlikowski. Complimentary and Ticketed Screenings available: buff.ly/e9yzlB3

CQTians were a part of Quantum Conversations at ArtScience Museum on 20 Sept! @valerioscarani.bsky.social gave opening remarks for the symposium, Alexander Hue gave a Quantum 101 talk and Dagomir Kaszlikowski spoke candidly on a panel on art and science as a quantum scientist and filmmaker.

CQT is proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural Alice Prizes, which are presented to women researchers at CQT. Congratulations to Lirandë Pira Lim En Teng, Shruti Pikle, and Tina Shariat! www.cqt.sg/highlight/20...

🚨Job alert🚨 CQT Principal Investigator Gao Weibo is hiring Research Assistants and Fellows for projects on integrated quantum photonics devices, quantum key distribution and quantum sensing. Interested candidates can contact Weibo directly. Weibo's group page: www1.spms.ntu.edu.sg/~weibogroup/...

We’ve collaborated with ArtScience Museum on the Quantum Science Fair, part of their In the Ether festival! See some of the technologies that we’re building in our labs and meet our scientists through interactive videos. The festival is open till 31 Oct! www.cqt.sg/highlight/20...

Congratulations to Jasper Phua who successfully defended his thesis! 👏👏👏 Jasper's thesis was on "Algorithm Based Characterization Of A Single Ion Qudit" and he was advised by Principal Investigator Manas Mukherjee.

CQT's @marcotomamichel.bsky.social has received the NRF Investigatorship for his project, “Information Theory at the Quantum Frontier”, which will further his research in the mathematical foundations of quantum information theory. buff.ly/QrAJWkn

📣 Call for registration! Get early bird pricing to join us at the 9th International Conference on Quantum Techniques in Machine Learning in Singapore this November by signing up now at buff.ly/OgODXqd

Congratulations to CQT Principal Investigator @marcotomamichel.bsky.social who has been awarded the prestigious National Research Foundation (NRF) Investigatorship. He receives support for a five-year programme of research starting in August 2025. buff.ly/QrAJWkn

In the Ether–A Festival of Quantum Science and Technology is now open at the ArtScience Museum!✨The festival runs till 31 October and features scientific contributions from CQT, including artefacts and video interviews with our scientists. www.marinabaysands.com/museum/event...

We warmly welcome Barry Sanders who will be speaking on "Superposing coherent states for fun and profit" for our September colloquium this Thursday! Find the abstract here: buff.ly/WmwUmNk

We end the week with a successful PhD defence by Victor Avalos! Congratulations 🍾 👏 Victor's thesis was on "Control and Detection of 6Li40K Ground State Molecules" and he was advised by Principal Investigator Kai Dieckmann.

CQT Colloquium by Andrzej Grudka now online: ✨ "Absolutely Maximally Entangled States: Their Relation to Quantum Error Correction and the Effect of Noise": www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA5w...

Two recordings of our our Computer Science seminars are now online: ▪️"Sum-of-squares spectrum amplification and applications" by Guang Hao Low: bit.ly/3I3g1UT ▪️"How to use quantum computers for biomolecular free energies" by Matthias Christandl buff.ly/kEJXXjL

On the Quantum Economy Podcast, CQT Director José Ignacio Latorre and Anders Indset discussed a vision of our quantum future—where technological progress is matched by philosophical depth and human understanding. www.youtube.com/watch?v=abRu...

In 1763, Thomas Bayes proposed a new approach to calculate probabilities. CQT's @valerioscarani.bsky.social and co-authors Ge Bai and Francesco Buscemi have now updated his ideas to deliver a quantum Bayes' rule. Our story: www.cqt.sg/highlight/20...

Congrats to Harshank Shrotriya for successfully defending his thesis! 👏 He was advised by Principal Investigator Kwek Leong Chuan and his thesis was on "Quantum Nonlocality: Manifestations and Applications". Next, Harshank plans to continue at CQT as a Research Fellow. See you around Dr Shrotriya!

🥂 A successful thesis defence by Zhang Xingjian! 🎂👏 Congrats! His thesis was on "Deployed Quantum Key Distribution With A Room-temperature Telecom Single Photon Source" and he was advised by Principal Investigator Alexander Ling. Find more info about CQT's PhD programme here: www.cqt.sg/students/

Over the weekend, we were at @sciencecentresg to show how we keep things cool ❄️ CQT's Zhili Chen, May Chee Loke, Ling Chen, Mansi Somani and Alexander Hue presented on superconductivity. This demo is part our efforts for #IYQ2025. We'll be back at Science Centre on 27 September!

Light, mirrors and lenses: Angela Baiju is fascinated by optics. She shares about her experience as a PhD student working in quantum in Singapore 🇸🇬 "It's quite vibrant, you get to do a lot of things." Read more about Angela's experience in this interview:

Look, that's us 🤗 In his National Day Rally speech on 17 Aug, 🇸🇬 Prime Minister Lawrence Wong singled out quantum computing as one frontier technology to which Singapore is applying a long-term approach. We're proud to have played a part in Singapore's quantum story since 2007.

We're having a colloquium this Thursday! Welcome to Boris Korzh from the University of Geneva who will be speaking on "High-speed SNSPDs for qubit rate scaling in quantum networks". Find the abstract here: www.cqt.sg/colloquia/

As part of our commitment to public engagement during #IYQ2025, we were at NLB Singapore's STEAM Lab on 15 and 16 August. We brought along a demonstration on polarisation 🔆 and cipher puzzles 🔑. Kudos to our volunteers for giving their time to talk to our visitors!

Here's a chance to meet the people shaping Singapore's quantum landscape and ask them all your career questions. Register for the in-person Quantum Qareer Day, 20 August, 6-8pm buff.ly/6LsTW6i

🍾💐 Celebrating a successful thesis defence by Josep Lumbreras Zarapico!! 🍉🧀🍪 Advised by @marcotomamichel.bsky.social, Josep defended his thesis "Bandits Roaming Hilbert Space". He will next join Mile Gu’s group as a research fellow. Congrats and all the best, Dr Josep!

A team led by CQT’s Dimitris Angelakis has invented a new method to optimise variational quantum algorithms and have demonstrated its effectiveness for the important problem of simulating fluid flows. Read our highlight on the work here: buff.ly/ezib7Zz

🔆✉️ CQT's Alexander Hue, Samyak Pratyush Prasad, Joanne Chu and Shaik Muhammad Abdillah Bin Hanifah Marican were at Science Centre Singapore to present about the polarisation of light and how it is used in various quantum technologies. 📆 Join us again at Science Centre on 23 August!

CQT Principal Investigator Alexander Ling has been appointed as the Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) Professor in Quantum Communication and Security at @NUSingapore. The Professorship is enabled by a generous gift from the Dieter Schwarz Foundation to NUS. buff.ly/rhRAsg2

CQT's May Chee Loke, Nayanthara Prathap, Peter Sidajaya and @ValerioScarani bravely stepped in front of a different crowd to read their quantum poems at the finale of the Poetry Festival Singapore on 27 July. Thanks to the Festival for the invite! Read their poems here: buff.ly/BslD8vY

Topics discussed at QTD2025 included the limits to the precision of clocks imposed by thermodynamics, measurements as a thermodynamic resource, and the quantum thermodynamics of many-body systems. buff.ly/wL632e2

We'll be at Science Centre Singapore to take up their monthly "Show Us Your Science" slot on 26 July! We're going to be bringing our polarisation demo 🔆 Join us to learn about polarisation and create art with light! buff.ly/fadDZml

Congratulations to the seven graduates from the CQT PhD programme who are now officially quantum doctors! Their degrees were bestowed at a commencement ceremony at the National University of Singapore on 18 July, with five graduates attending to collect their degrees in person. buff.ly/DK5FJI3

CQT's Gan Beng Yee defended his thesis, "Foundations of Near-Term Quantum Machine Learning: Expressivity, Classical Learnability, and Generalization Ability"! 👏🍾 His advisor was Patrick Rebentrost. He will next join @horizonquantum.bsky.social as Senior Scientist. All the best Dr Gan!

“It is a very natural connection to ask – can the sensitivity of the dynamics be used for quantum sensing,” says CQT Principal Investigator Gong Jiangbin. buff.ly/qQwykH1

CQT was a supporting institution for the 2025 Quantum Thermodynamics conference held from 7 to 11 July. The conference featured over 40 scientific talks and 60 poster presentations, drawing some 150 researchers from 17 countries. buff.ly/wL632e2

The group of CQT Principal Investigator Gong Jiangbin has proposed a new strategy to enhance the performance of quantum sensors using the collective dynamics of a quantum system. The paper: buff.ly/NDBaBnH Our story: buff.ly/qQwykH1

🚨 Job alert 🚨 We are looking for a Research Assistant to support the management of the Dieter Schwarz Professorship on Quantum Communications and Security. 📥 Apply: careers.nus.edu.sg/job/Research...

CQT is featured in an Emmy-winning documentary on quantum computing! The episode of The Future with Hannah Fry by Bloomberg Originals has won for Outstanding Science and Technology Coverage 👏 It also features an interview with CQT's Alexander Ling. buff.ly/wMw7d3a

👏 Congratulations to Sreedevi Athira Krishnan who successfully defended her thesis! 🍾 Her thesis was on "Ultracold Fermions in Disordered 2D Optical Lattices" and she was advised by CQT Principal Investigator Kai Dieckmann.

Zhang Xingjian on "Quantum Key Distribution over deployed fiber with room-temperature telecom-band single photon source" for our lunchtime seminar series: www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCIq...

Now online: 📹 "Tokenizing the language of complexity in science", CQT Colloquium by Duane Loh www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-bI... 📹 "Quantum Sensor Networks", CQT Colloquium by Alexey Gorshkov www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVSq...

🚨 Job alert 🚨 We are looking for a research assistant to work on the National Quantum Safe Network testbed. If this sounds interesting to you, apply here: buff.ly/t2rsII9

🚨 Job alert 🚨 The group of Principal Investigator @ValerioScarani is looking for a Research Fellow! Find more information and apply here: t.co/PwKZfN6eTA

Some of the research areas CQT Fellow Young-Wook Cho is working on are quantum optics, making photon pair sources using 2D materials and quantum memory. Find out more about his work in this interview:

CQT PhD student Guo Naixu works on quantum algorithms 💬 "CQT gives you a lot of opportunities and platforms for me to discuss and to make connection with other people to deepen my understanding" Read more about Naixu's experience in this interview: bit.ly/3GgmkmM

We end the week with another successful PhD defence! 🥂 Congratulations to Du Jinyi! 👏 His thesis was on "Silicon chip-based polarization entanglement: Generation, optimization, and long-distance distribution" and he was advised by CQT Principal Investigator Alexander Ling.

Meet CQT Fellow Young-Wook Cho, whose love for quantum optics began when he was an intern at university. "I didn’t know anything about quantum at that time but thought it sounded cool," he says. Read his interview:

We have a colloquium tomorrow! Andrzej Grudka from the Adam Mickiewicz University will speak on "Absolutely Maximally Entangled States: Their Relation to Quantum Error Correction and the Effect of Noise" Find the abstract here: buff.ly/hGLHtSA

CQT PhD student Park Kun Hee successfully defended his thesis! 👏👏 Congratulations! Kun Hee's thesis was on "Engineering Noise-Protection in Superconducting Qubits" and he was advised by Principal Investigator Rainer Dumke.

Some 80 students chose to spend their June school holidays at CQT learning about quantum physics. CQT hosted these curious youths from 9 to 13 June for QCamp and on 18 June for Flash QCamp. buff.ly/B1aQxDI