From July 3rd to 5th, nearly 100 quantum physics researchers from around the world will gather in Vilnius. They are attending the international conference Humboldt Kolleg "Synthetic Quantum Matter," organized by the Physics Faculty of Vilnius University in collaboration with the Lithuanian Physical Society. The scientists will share the latest information on synthetic quantum systems, including ultracold atoms, photonic and condensed matter systems.
According to the organizers, the conference theme is closely related to quantum computing, which has recently received significant attention, and the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for outstanding achievements in this field.
"Control of quantum systems is a very important and relevant issue in modern physics due to applications in rapidly advancing fields of quantum informatics, quantum computing, and quantum simulations. In the latter case, the study of well-controlled quantum systems, such as ultracold atoms, helps us better understand the properties of more complex and technologically significant quantum systems and phenomena, such as high-temperature superconductivity," says the main conference organizer, Professor Gediminas Juzeliūnas from the Faculty of Physics at Vilnius University.
The conference will be attended by researchers from Germany, Italy, Austria, Poland, Finland, France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, the United States, Taiwan, and other countries. The majority of them are physicists working at the forefront of synthetic quantum systems. Among them is renowned Professor Reiner Blatt from the University of Innsbruck (Austria), a member of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings Council, who achieved the world's first teleportation of atomic ions and has received numerous prestigious awards for this and other important scientific work.
This year's conference in Lithuania is organizing by a Humboldtian Professor G. Juzeliūnas, along with his colleagues Mažena Mackoit-Sinkevičiene, Domantas Burba, Edvinas Gvozdiovas, Algirdas Mekys, Mantas Račiūnas, and Dzmitry Viarbitski. This is the second Humboldt conference of this kind in Lithuania, the first one was taking place in Vilnius in 2018.
The Humboldt Foundation, which supports science and research, brings together 26,000 Humboldtians who are top specialists from all fields of science from 140 countries. Fifty-one Humboldtians are Nobel Prize laureates. Many Humboldtians are well-known experts in quantum simulations and quantum computing, studying ultracold atoms and ions, and advancing the field of photonics.
The presentations at the Humboldt Kolleg conference will be recorded and made available on the conference website.
