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Our work features frequently in the academic press.

Our work features frequently in the academic press.

Our work frequently finds its way into the acacemic press and is discussed in PhysOrg, Science, PhysicsWorld, Physics, Nature, or other scientific magazines. The subsequent list collects articles written by others about published work of ours, sorted according to the original scientific work which is stated first.


  • Fundamental limits of quantum error mitigation
    Nature Physics (2024)
    • I. Fadelli, "Study unveils limits to how much quantum errors can be ‘undone’ in large systems"
      PhysOrg, August 12, 2024
    • Y. Quek, J. Eisert, "Fundamental limits of quantum error mitigation", 
      BehindThePaper, SpringerNature Communities, July 5, 2024

  • Unravelling long-time quantum dynamics using flow equations
    Nature Physics (2024)
    • Xanadu Pennylane, "Top quantum algorithms papers — Summer 2024 edition", honorable mention, October 1, 2024
    • S. Thomson, J. Eisert, "Unravelling quantum dynamics using flow equations: A behind-the-scenes look at a new numerical method for the simulation of complex quantum systems on classical computers",
      BehindThePaper, SpringerNature Communities, July 5, 2024

  • Pseudomagic quantum states
     
    Physical Review Letters 132, 210602 (2024)
    • T. Gururaj, "Pseudomagic quantum states: A path to quantum supremacy"
      PhysOrg, June 11, 2024

  • An in-principle super-polynomial quantum advantage for approximating combinatorial optimization problems via computational learning theory
    Science Advances 10, eadj5170 (2024) 

    • "Quantum computers can solve combinatorial optimization problems more easily than conventional methods, research shows"
      PhysOrg, March 18, 2024
    • A. Rötger, "Where quantum computers can score"
      Press release of the HZB, March 15, 2024

  • Understanding quantum machine learning requires rethinking generalization
    Nature Communications 15, 2277 (2024) 


  • Towards provably efficient quantum algorithms for large-scale machine-learning models
    Nature Communications 15, 434 (2024) 


  • Shadow estimation of gate-set properties from random sequences
    Nature Communications 14, 5039 (2023)

    • C.X. Müller, "Ein TÜV für Quantencomputer"
      Press release of FU Berlin, August 24, 2023
    • J. Johnstone, "Physicists develop series of quality control tests for quantum computers"
      PhysOrg, August 29, 2023

    • "Ein Qualitätstest für Quantencomputer"
      ProPhysik, August 28, 2023

    • "A TÜV for quantum computers"
      MyScience, August 24, 2023

    • E. Murašov, T. Warnecke, "Forschung zu Quantencomputern: Ein Tüv für die Zukunftsrechner"
      Tagesspiegel, August 25, 2023


  • Quantum simulation of thermodynamics in an integrated quantum photonic processor
    Nature Communications 14, 3895 (2023)

    • M. Boerkamp, "Quantum mechanics and thermodynamics can both be true, say physicists"
      PhysicsWorld, July 28, 2023
    • K. W. Wesselink, "Photonics experiment resolves quantum paradox"
      Phys.Org, July 5, 2023
    • "Twente photonics experiment resolves longstanding quantum paradox"
      Optics.org, July 5, 2023
    • D. Orf, "Paradox, solved: Thermodynamics and quantum mechanics CAN be true at the same time"
      Yahoo, July 10, 2023
    • "Time-reversal photonics experiment solves quantum paradox"
      NewsBeezer, July 9, 2023
    • "Breakthrough experiment at university of Twente demonstrates coexistence of quantum mechanics and thermodynamics"
      Europawire
      , July 3, 2023
    • "Twents fotonoca experiment als oplossing voor kwantumparadox"
      Emerce, July 4, 2023

  • Experimental observation of curved light-cones in a quantum field simulator
    PNAS 120, e2301287120 (2023)
    • M. Gluza, "Curved spacetime in a quantum simulator"
      Phys.Org, May 17, 2023

  • Exploiting symmetry in variational quantum machine learning
    PRX Quantum 4, 010328 (2023)

    •  I. Fadelli, "Study tests the potential of two quantum machine learning algorithms for malware classification"
      Techxplore, May 25, 2023

  • Linear growth of quantum circuit complexity
    Nature Physics 18, 528 (2022)
    • A. Rötger, "Quantum complexity grows linearly for an exponentially long time"
      Press release of the HZB, March 28, 2022
    • "Research group proves quantum complexity grows linearly for an exponentially long time"
      Phys.Org, March 28, 2022
    • "Bridging the chasm between quantum physics and the theory of gravity – we have found a surprisingly simple solution"
      SciTechDaily, April 2, 2022

  • Transparent reporting of research-related greenhouse gas emissions through the scientific CO2nduct initiative
    Communications Physics 5, 150 (2022)
    • A. Rötger, "Calculating the carbon footprint of publications"
      Press release of the HZB, May 15, 2023

    • L. Klöckner, "CO₂-Bilanz wie ein Flug: Die Treibhausgase der Wissenschaft"
      Tagesspiegel, July 4, 2023

  • Quantum field thermal machines
    PRX Quantum 2, 030310 (2021)
    • "How quantum fields could be used to break low-temperature records"
      PhysOrg, July 2021
    • "Quantenkühlschrank für extreme Kühlung"
      ORF Science, July 2021
    • "Kühlen mit Quanten"
      ProPhysik, July 2021
    • "The quantum refrigerator"
      ChemEurope, July 2021
    • "The quantum refrigerator"
      ScienceDaily, July 2021

  • Decay and recurrence of non-Gaussian correlations in a quantum many-body system
    Nature Physics 17, 559 (2021)
    • "How complex oscillations in a quantum system simplify with time"
      Phys.Org, January 25, 2021

  • Easing the Monte Carlo sign problem
    Science Advances 6, eabb8341 (2020)
    • A. Rötger, "Mathematical tool helps calculate properties of quantum materials more quickly"
      Press release of the HZB, August 18, 2020

  • Dynamical structure factors of dynamical quantum simulators
    PNAS 117, 26123-26134 (2020)
    • A. Rötger, "Modelling shows which quantum systems are suitable for quantum simulations"
      Press release of the HZB, August 14, 2020

  • Quantum certification and benchmarking
    Nature Reviews Physics 2, 382–390 (2020)

  • Entanglement-ergodic quantum systems equilibrate exponentially well
    Physical Review Letters 123, 200604 (2019)
    • Viewpoint: Equilibration in quantum systems"
      Physics 12, 123 (2019)
    • "Wie Quantensysteme zur Ruhe kommen"
      pro-physik, Nov 21, 2019

  • Sample complexity of device-independently certified quantum supremacy
    Physical Review Letters 122, 210502 (2019)
    • L. Zyga, "Quantum supremacy and its efficient certification difficult to achieve simultaneously"
      Phys.Org, June 5, 2019

  • Holography and criticality in matchgate tensor networks
    Science Advances 5, eaaw0092 (2019)

  • A tensor network annealing algorithm for two-dimensional thermal states
    Physical Review Letters 122, 070502 (2019)
    • "An efficient tensor network algorithm for capturing thermal states of 2D quantum lattice systems"
      MappingIgnorance, April 4, 2019

  • The quantum technologies roadmap: a European community view
    New Journal of Physics 20, 080201 (2018)
    • "Mapping the future direction for quantum research"
      PhysOrg, August 15, 2018
    • H. Johnston, "European quantum-technologies roadmap is updated by leading physicists"
      PhysicsWorld, August 18, 2018
    • "State of quantum imaging set out in European roadmap"
      Imaging and machine vision Europe, August 23, 2018

  • Statistical ensembles without typicality
    Nature Communications 9, 1022 (2018)
    • "Insgesamt kanonisch"
      ProPhysik, March 19, 2018
    • "Statistische Mechanik und Thermodynamik besser begreifen"
      Press release of the FU Berlin, March 12, 2018

  • Experimental quantum compressed sensing for a seven-qubit system
    Nature Communications 8, 15305 (2017)
    • "Ein TÜV für die Quantentechnologien"
      ORF, Austrian public news, May 18, 2017
    • "Neues Prüfverfahren vereinfacht Quantenforschung"
      Futurezone, May 18, 2017
    • "Quantentechnologien auf dem Prüfstand"
      Press release
      of the University of Innsbruck, May 18, 2017
    • "Testing quantum technologies"
      Press release
      of the FU Berlin, May 17, 2017

  • Advances in quantum teleportation
    Nature Photonics 9, 641 (2015)
    • "Scientists produce status check on quantum teleportation",
      Phys.Org
      , September 30 (2015)
    • "Why teleportation is no longer science fiction",
      Futurity, October 1 (2015)
    • "Teleportation isn't stuff of science fiction anymore",
      redOrbit, October 2 (2015)
    • "Quantum teleportation",
      FrogHeart, October (2015)


  • Cellular-automaton decoders for topological quantum memories
    Nature PJ Quantum Information 1, 15010 (2015)
    • "Ein Kühlschrank für die Quantenmechanik"
      Press release of the FU Berlin, October 28, 2015

  • An exponential time upper bound for quantum Merlin-Arthur games with unentangled provers
    arXiv:1510.08447

  • Towards experimental quantum field tomography with ultracold atoms
    Nature Communications 6, 7663 (2015)
    • "Von guten und schlechten Quantenzustaenden",
      ProPhysik
      , July 3, 2015
    • "Good quantum states and bad quantum states"
      Phys.Org, July 2015
    • "Rekonstruktion von Quantenfeldern",
      Press release
      of the FU Berlin, July 6, 2015

  • Limits to catalysis in quantum thermodynamics
    New Journal of Physics 17, 085004 (2015)

  • Observation of non-Markovian micro-mechanical Brownian motion
    Nature Communications 6, 7606 (2015)
    • "Mechanik zwischen den Welten",
      press release
      of the FU Berlin, July 28, 2015

  • Emergence of coherence and the dynamics of quantum phase transitions
    PNAS 112, 3641 (2015)

  • Quantum many-body systems out of equilibrium
    Nature Physics 11, 124 (2015)

  • Matrix product operators and states: NP-hardness and undecidability
    Physical Review Letters 113, 160503 (2014)
    • S. Hebden, "Searching for the impossible",
      FQXI
      , January 16, 2015
    • R. J. Lipton and K.W. Regan, "The halting no-go thoerem"
      RJLIptonBlog, 2020

  • Precisely timing dissipative quantum information processing
    Physical Review Letters 110, 110501 (2013)
    • C. Muschik, "Dissipative stopwatches",
      Physics
      6, 29 (2013)
    • E. S. Reich, "Noisy quantum computations",
      Nature 495, 284 (2013)
    • "Notes from the Editors: Highlights of the Year",
      Physics 6, 29 (2013)

  • Quantum measurement occurrence is undecidable
    Physical Review Letters 108, 260501 (2012)
    • L. Zyga, "Classical problem becomes undecidable in a quantum setting",
      PhysOrg
      , July 9, 2012

  • Extracting dynamical equations from experimental data is NP hard
    Physical Review Letters 108, 120503 (2012)
    • K. McAlpine, "It's official: Physics is hard",
      Science
      , ScienceNow, February 2012
    • D. Voss, "The unbearable hardness of Physics",
      Physics, March 22 (2012)
    • D. Bacon, "More on the NP-hardness of inferring dynamics",
      The Quantum Pontiff, March 24 (2012)

  • Probing the relaxation towards equilibrium in an isolated strongly correlated 1D Bose gas
    Nature Physics 8, 325 (2012)

  • Cooling by heating
    Physical Review Letters 108, 120602 (2012)
    • M. Schirber, "Cooling with a warm glow",
      Physics
      5, 36 (2012)
    • H. Johnston, "Cooling with heat",
      PhysicsWorld, April 2011

  • Experimental unconditional preparation and detection of a continuous bound entangled state of light
    Physical Review Letters 107, 240503 (2011)

  • Dissipative Church Turing theorem
    Physical Review Letters 107, 120501 (2011)
    • D. E. Browne, "Quantum simulation hits the open road",
      Physics
      4, 72 (2011)

  • A derivation of quantum theory from physical requirements
    New Journal of Physics 13, 063001 (2011)
    • "And thus the quantum", research highlights,
      Nature Physics
      7, 519 (2011)

  • Entanglement combing
    Physical Review Letters 103, 220501 (2009)
    • M. Christandl, "Straightening messy correlations with a quantum comb",
      Physics
      2, 99 (2009)
    • J. Riordon, "Combing out quantum knots",
      Eurekalert 18524 (2009)

  • Most states are too entangled to be useful as computational resources
    Physical Review Letters 102, 190501 (2009)
    • A. Cho, "Oddly, too much weirdness slows a quantum computer down",
      Science
      323, 1658 (2009)
    • D. Bacon, "Too entangled to compute one-way",
      Physics 2, 38 (2009)
    • H. Johnston, "Is entanglement always good for quantum computers?",
      Physics World, News, Nov 20, 2008
    • I. M. Vargas, "Quantum entanglement can be too much of a good thing",
      Science News, March 23, 2009
    • I. Durham, "Bad news for quantum computers?",
      The Quantum Times (American Physical Society, topical group on quantum information theory), quantum news and notes, Autumn, Winter 2008
    • R. Scharf, "Verschraenkung bremst Quantenrechner",
      pro-physik, 20 May 2009
    • M. Marquit, "Most quantum states are too entangled to be useful as  computational resources",
      Phys.Org, May 2009
    • "Most quantum states are too entangled to be useful as computational resources",
      Research highlight, IP Qubit Applications, September 2009

  • Tomography of a detector
    Nature Physics 5, 27 (2009)
    • M. Aspelmeyer, "Measured measurement",
      Nature Physics
      News and Views 5, 11 (2009)
    • D. Reeves, "Quantum calibration paves way for super-secure communication",
      Phys.Org.com, 2008
    • "Forschungsergebnisse auf dem Gebiet der Quantenphysik in Nature Physics",
      idw-online, 2008

  • New schemes for measurement-based computing
    Physical Review Letters 98, 220503 (2008)
    • News headline, QIP-IRC, 1 Nov 2007
    • "Exact relaxation in a class of quantum many-body systems",
      Physical Review Letters 100, 030602 (2008)
    • Research highlight, IP Qubit Applications, May 2008

  • Entropy, entanglement, and area: analytical results for harmonic lattice systems
    Physical Review Letters 94, 060503 (2005)
    • "Entanglement, entropy and area",
      News headline, QIP-IRC, May 23, 2005

  • Towards mechanical entanglement in nano-electromechanical devices
    Physical Review Letters 93, 190402 (2004)

  • Distilling Gaussian states with Gaussian operations is impossible
    Physical Review Letters 89, 137903 (2002)
    • "Refining quanta: distilling Gaussian states with Gaussian operations is impossible",
    • Nature, Research Highlights, Physics Portal, September 4, 2002
    • G.J. Mayer, "How to distill continuous-variable states by optical means",
    • Complexity Digest, June 2003

  • Quantum and classical correlations in quantum Brownian motion
    Physical Review Letters 89, 137902 (2002)
    • "Quantum Brownian Motion: Quantum and Classical Correlations",
      ScienceWeek
      6, October 11, 2002

  • Quantum games and quantum strategies
    Physical Review Letters 83, 3077 (1999)
    • G. Musser, "A new enlightenment",
      Scientific American
      307, 76 (2012)
    • S.E. Landsburg, "Quantum Game Theory",
      Notices of the American Mathematical Society
      , Cover story, April 2004
    • C.-F. Lee and N. Johnson, "Let the quantum games begin",
      Physics World
      feature, October 2002
    • G. Mitchell, "Quantum Games and the Prisoner's Dilemma",
      BBC Radio 4
      , radio interview, January 31, 2002
    • A. Cho, "Multiple choice",
      New Scientist
      , January 5, 2002
    • E. Klarreich, "Playing by quantum rules",
      Nature
      414, November 15, 2001
    • G. Collins, "Quantum Game Theory, Schroedinger's Games",
      Scientific American
      , January issue, 2000
    • P. Ball, "Everyone wins in quantum games",
      Nature
      , Science News, October 18, 1999
    • I. Peterson, "Quantum Games, Taking Advantage of Quantum Effects to Attain a Winning Edge",
      Science News
      21, November 20, 1999
    • R. Scharf, "Spielen mit Quantenstrategien",
      Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
      , Mittwoch, July 21, 1999
    • M. Rauner, "Quanten im Spiel",

      Physikalische Blaetter, December issue, 1999

    • Internet pages of a training school on quantum mechanics for high school teachers



Further mentioning in the academic press


  • Article about Martin Kliesch in Campus, 2015


  • Articles about group work after winning EURYI award in the following newspapers:

    Manager Magazin, Berliner Zeitung, Potsdamer Neueste Nachrichten, Berlinews, Maerkische Allgemeine Zeitung, publication: Potsdam, Stadt der Wissenschaft 2006, Scienzz Ticker, Eurekalert, BerlinOnline, Pro-Physik.de, Interconnections.de, Innovations-Report, 100Versicherungen.de, Physik-Journal, Portal, Uni-Protokolle, Deutsche Universitaetszeitung, Deutscher Hochschulverband Aktuell, About Imperial, web pages of the ESF, GermanyFG, and EPSRC

  • Television programme in German public TV channel
    3SAT in "Generation Zukunft" (Generation Future),
    science programme "Nano", first broadcast March 2007


  • Portrait of work in university newspapers:
    • "Ueber Barrieren hinweg denken",
      Portal, Oktober 2008
    • "Prestigious EU-fellowship winner returns to Imperial",
      Imperial College Web page, September 6, 2004
    • "Ein Jubelfest fuer die Physik",
      Portal, September 2004
    • "Aus Respekt vor der Tradition der Wissenschaft",
      Portal, April 2003