Gerhard Rempe is scientific Director of the Quantum Dynamics Group at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. He and his team investigate the quantum world - in the form of individual atoms and molecules - and its effects for future applications, in particular the processing of information. Their experiments follow two different strategies: one is devoted to finding new interfaces between the classical and the quantum world, like ever better optical resonators or novel light sources. The other focus is to gradually increase the size of quantum systems, connecting several atoms and photons as qubits in a larger quantum network, to at some point maybe even a global quantum internet.
The interview and lab tour with Gerhard Rempe was recorded in November 2021 at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics. The video was produced with the support of ScienceRelations.
Camera: Franz Lindinger
Editing: Krischan Dietmaier
Concept: Katharina Jarrah, Dirk Hans
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