BBQ of the QI group
Leipzig, 3rd June 2025
Our group members love BBQ, so we organized one and used the chance to welcome several new members to the team. It’s always nice to hang out and enjoy some food together. There were plenty of laughs, and a few funny stories were shared. We also played frisbee and just had a good time. Check out the happy faces of the team below!
Kelly Leiby from Cornell starts her internship with us
Leipzig, 2nd June 2025
We’re happy to welcome Kelly Leiby from Cornell University, who just started her RISE DAAD internship with us. Over the next three months, she’ll be working on our 2D superconductor project. We’re looking forward to having her on the team and wish her a great time in Leipzig, both in and outside the lab!
Visit by Julia Draeger from TU Munich
Leipzig, 28th May 2025
Julia Draeger, a PhD student from Prof. Bucher's group at TU Munich, visited us and gave an insightful talk about her project titled Optical NMR Microscopy using NV-Diamonds. We are very grateful to her for sharing her work and for the engaging discussions that followed.
Inaugural Lecture: Quantum Sensors for the Nanoscale
Leipzig, 13th May 2025
On May 13, 2025, Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam gave his inaugural lecture at Leipzig University. Under the title "Quantum Sensing at the Nanoscale: From Fundamental Physics to Real-World Applications", he presented his research on quantum sensors based on single spins in diamond. The event drew great interest and demonstrated how fundamental physics can translate into innovative technologies.
BQIT:25 – 12th Edition of the Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop
Bristol, 28th April 2025
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam presented the group’s latest research on spin qubits in diamond and their applications in nanoscale nuclear magnetic resonance at the BQIT:25 conference in Bristol. The event marked the 12th edition of the renowned Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, bringing together researchers from academia and industry across the quantum landscape.
Bowling Night with the QI Team
Leipzig, 16th April 2025
We took a break from spin qubits, quantum sensing, simulations and superconductors to see how well all that physics knowledge, we are so proud to possess, translates to the bowling alley. It turns out: not very well.
The pins seemed to be not impressed by our collective knowledge of mechanics, quantum physics and so on. Nevertheless we had a great time with laughs and some accidental spares and strikes. Many thanks to Johanna for organizing it and thanks to everyone who joined.
Quantum Technology to Explore: DiQuaMus Prototype delivered to Phaeno Science Center
Wolfsburg, 8th April 2025
Our team’s work on the BMBF project DiQuaMus – Quantentechnologie zum Anfassen was recently featured in a news article by Leipzig University. The piece highlights the development of our interactive exhibit for the phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, where visitors can experience quantum sensing with NV centers in diamond up close.
Foto: Bei der Präsentation des Prototyps in Wolfsburg v.l.n.r.: Fedor Kolganov, Mokessh Kannah Ciwan und Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam von der Universität Leipzig sowie Olga Novgorodova und Dominik Essing vom Wissenschaftszentrum Phaeno.
Bild: Wissenschaftszentrum Phaeno
Foto: Quantentechnologie zum Anfassen: Mit diesem Prototyp können die Besucher:innen der Ausstellung sehen, wie sogenannte Stickstoff-Fehlstellen-Zentren
Bild: Mokessh Kannah Ciwan/Universität Leipzig
DPG Regensburg conference 2025
Regensburg, 21th March 2025
At this year’s DPG Conference in Regensburg, our group presented our project results and contributed to the scientific discussions.
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam gave an invited talk at the symposium "Spins in Molecular Systems: Strategies and Effects of Hyperpolarization," presenting recent insights from our research. Marcel Martin and Dr. Baha Sakar delivered talks on their latest findings, while Mokessh Ciwan presented a paper.
We appreciate the opportunity to share our work and engage with the community.
QDiamond 25 conference
Hungary, 27th February 2025
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam participated in the QDiamond 2025 conference in Hungary, where he gave a talk on "Exploring Nanoscale NMR with NVs: Quantum Memories, Nanostructures, and 2D Superconductors." The conference brought together researchers from around the world working on quantum technologies based on color centers in diamond. His presentation contributed to the ongoing discussions on advancing nanoscale sensing and quantum applications with NV centers.
https://conferences.weizmann.ac.il/QDiamond25/
The program of the QDiamond conference:
End-of-Year Celebration
Leipzig, 19th December 2024
We celebrated the end of our first year at the Leipzig University with food, drinks and fun activities. Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam gave a lighthearted retrospective on the past year and presented the QI Awards 2024, including categories such as Best Meme Creator and Most Collected Returnable Bottles. Among many other things we appreciated the fact that our lab members come from 11 different nations. We also did a fun trivia quiz and a nintendo switch tournament.
Quantum Futur Status Meeting at Hanover
Hanover, 4th December 2024
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Alsam hold a talk on the advantages of diamond based quantum sensors in NMR at the Quantum Futur Status Meeting in Hannover. This also provided a great opportunity connect and exchange ideas with many other groups from the BMBF funded Quantum Futur funding line.
DiQuaMus Status Meeting at Phaeno Science Center
Wolfsburg, 5th November 2024
We hold our biannual status meeting of the DiQuaMus project at the outstanding phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg.
With its numerous hands-on experiments from different areas of science phaeno wants to spark the visitors’ curiosity and to encourage them to question and to understand scientific phenomena. Our meeting was preceded by a short tour (We could easiliy have spent a day!) where we became familiar with the environment of and the requirements to the exhibit that we are going to develop within the project. We are creating a system of optically-readable colour centres in diamonds to give a low-threshold access to quantum technologies to a broad public. Our new team member Mokessh took over from Dhruv and gave the presentation.
A big thank you to Dominik Essing for hosting the event and for guiding us through the exhibition.
Group Dinner
Leipzig, 29th October 2024
We had another group dinner where we welcomed our new group members and said goodbye to Dhruv, who is taking a break before joining us again next spring.
DiQuaMus at the Quantum effects fair
Stuttgart, October 9th 2024
The DiQuaMus project was launched in March 2024 with the aim to bring quantum technologies to the science center. In this project we collaborate with the TU Braunschweig and the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg and are developing simplified experimental setups that make the intricate concepts and implementations of quantum technologies more accessible and engaging. As part of the QuantumEffects trade fair in Stuttgart there was a networking meeting of the BMBF funding line “Quantum aktiv”. This meeting was held with the aim of getting to know the other projects and to bundle forces in order to enable a low-treshold access to the broad public for pointing out the potential of second-generation quantum technologies for the economy and society. In his presentation, Dhruv stated the general goals of the DiQuaMus project and provided an update on the progress made towards designing the first exhibits for the science center.
Kuldeep joins our team
Leipzig, September 1st 2024
Kuldeep starts his PhD thesis in our group. Welcome to the team!
Summer School on Metrology
Kloster Drübeck, Harz; 6-8th August 2024
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam was invited to give a talk at the Summer School of the Braunschweig International Graduate School of Metrology that was entitled “Optical Nanosystems – Light in Metrology” and was held at the scenic Kloster Drübeck monastery in the range of the Harz mountains. In his talk "Spin qubits based on color centers in diamond" Nabeel discussed several recent advances of NV-based Nanoscale NMR for applications in biochemistry and in biomedicine.
Braunschweig International Graduate School of Metrology was established by TU Braunschweig and Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in order to foster metrological knowledge in alle areas of science and engineering.
More information:
https://www.tu-braunschweig.de/mib/b-igsm
Group BBQ
Leipzig, 8th July 2024
We had a relaxed and enjoyable BBQ together next to the Botanical Garden.
Visit of Nadine Meister and Nicolas Palazzo
Leipzig, 5th July 2024
We had two guest speakers in our group seminar, who both were supervised by Prof. Aslam during his postdoc time at Harvard. Nadine Meister from Harvard University (starting soon at Caltech) gave a talk about Efficient decoders for quantum error correction and detection (work done with John Preskill, more information: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07433). And Nicolas Palazzo (formerly EPFL and Harvard), who is now working for the company Deloitte, talked about his transition from research in physics to investigating financial crimes. The guests were given a tour of the historic city center of Leipzig.
PRL Paper on coupling spin qubits to mechanical resonators
Leipzig, 26th June 2024
Our first paper with Leipzig university affiliation is now out in Physical Review Letters. The paper titled Toward programmable quantum processors based on spin qubits with mechanically mediated interactions and transport shows the first steps on how spin qubits can be coupled to a mechanical resonator. Crucial was here to use a single nuclear spin as quantum memory to store the phase information in a robust way and to bridge the long scanning times required in the protocol.
The link to the paper is: https://link.aps.org/doi/10.
Physics Magazine published an article highlighting our work: https://physics.aps.org/articles/v17/s71
Visit of Dr. Amit Finkler
Leipzig, 18th June 2024
Dr. Amit Finkler from the Weizmann Institute of Science visited our group and gave a Colloqium talk on building blocks for nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging.
Visit of Prof. Masazumi Fujiwara
Leipzig, 14th June 2024
Prof. Masazumi Fujiwara, an associate professor at Okayama University, Japan, was our guest and gave an exciting talk on Nanodiamond quantum thermometers and their applications. In the evening we went for dinner and discussed science and more.
Group dinner in Leipzig
Leipzig, 22nd May 2024
Our fast-grown group came together for an enjoyable meeting off the everyday lab and office routine.
Mitteldeutsches Resonanztreffen in Leipzig
Leipzig, 6th May 2024
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam gave a talk on the topic of Quantum memory assisted nanoscale sensing at the "Mitteldeutsches Resonanztreffen" organised by Prof. Jörg Matysek.
More information:
https://www.hypmol.net/event/mitteldeutsches-resonanztreffen-mdr-53/
DiQuaMus Kick-off meeting in Leipzig
Leipzig, 15th April 2024
We hold our Kick-off meeting of the BMBF funded project “DiQuaMus” which started on March 1st. The project aims to simplify quantum technologies for the public as they offer great potential to revolutionise future applications but often remain complex and challenging for the public. With this project -in which we collaborate with the TU Braunschweig and the Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg- we would like to develop simplified experimental setups that make the intricate concepts and implementations of quantum technologies more accessible and engaging.
More information:
https://www.quantentechnologien.de/forschung/foerderung/quantum-aktiv-outreach-konzepte-und-open-innovation-fuer-quantentechnologien/diquamus.html
DPG conference in Berlin
Berlin, 17th-22th March 2024
At this year's DPG spring meeting for the section of condensed matter physics, we were represented by our PhD student, Marcel. He spent the week enjoying talks about everything solid state, from superconductors and topological insulators to spin-qubit based quantum sensors and how they can be applied to interesting solid-state systems. As always, the DPG spring meetings are a great event to meet old colleagues and friends from science and industry, as well as making new acquaintances from various different fields and backgrounds.
The ever-evolving field of quantum technologies is certainly gaining more recognition at such large conferences, as can be seen - for example - by the great keynote talk by Ronald Hanson on his fascinating vision for a quantum internet and the dedicated quantum communication and sensing sessions. In the latter of the two, Marcel gave a talk on the investigation of two-dimensional superconductors using nanoscale sensing with NV centres in diamond, a project that he is working on in our labs.
Guest group seminar by Dr. Kirill Monakhov
Leipzig, 15th March 2024
Dr. Kirill Monakhov from the IOM Leipzig visited us and gave a talk on the topic of Building a molecular computer from polyoxometalate redox switches powered by electricity and light.
SFB Hyp*Mol Colloquium by Prof. Aslam
Leipzig, 8th March 2024
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam gave the Colloquium talk of the SFB Hyp*Mol on the topic of Single spin qubits in diamond - applied to nanoscale NMR spectroscopy.
Group visit to Stuttgart
Stuttgart, 19th - 20th February 2024 Recently, four of our group members visited the labs of Professor Jörg Wrachtrup and his group at Stuttgart University. For two days, they enjoyed extensive lab tours and insightful discussions with Dr. Vadim Vorobyov and many PhD students of the group. Stuttgart University, and particularly the group of Professor Wrachtrup, are among the leading groups in the field of quantum technologies using NV centers in diamond.
Apart from gaining insight into research and lab work done in Stuttgart, our group members took some time to explore Stuttgart and enjoy some typical Swabian food and drinks.
Thanks to Jörg Wrachtrup, Vadim Vorobyov and the whole group for hosting us. Now we are off to our labs to build our own quantum physics experiments. So next time, maybe we can be the hosts and give a tour through our own labs.
Move to university of Leipzig
Effective September 1st 2023 Lab Aslam is moving to the Felix-Bloch-Institut für Festkörperphysik at the university of Leipzig. You can reach Prof. Aslam at the email address
DPG conference in Hanover
Hanover, March 6th - 10th 2023
Prof. Nabeel Aslam and Marcel Martin participated in the DPG conference in Hannover. Marcel gave a talk on "Advances in Nanoscale NMR with NV centers in diamond".
Nils joins our team
Brunswick, March 1st 2023
Nils Magin starts his master thesis work in our group. Welcome to the team!
Marcel at the Humboldt University in Berlin
Berlin, Februar 16th 2023
Marcel visits the group of Prof. Tim Schröder at the Humboldt University, Berlin.
Our paper in Nature Reviews Physics
Brunswick, February 3rd 2023
Our review article "Quantum Sensors for biomedical applications" gets published in Nature Reviews Physics:
Quantum sensing students go to the PTB
Brunswick, January 13th 2023
All 16 participants of the quantum sensing lecture visited the PTB Braunschweig. After a general introduction into the work of the PTB we got a chance to see the labs of Dr. Hans Schumacher.
Interview with Prof. Nabeel Aslam
Brunswick, January 12th 2023
The TU Magazin interviewed Prof. Nabeel Aslam:
BMBF Funding DiamondNanoNMR
Brunswick, December 1st 2022
The federal ministry of education and research is funding our project on DiamondNanoNMR with 4.9 Million €. Here you can find more information about the project:
https://magazin.tu-braunschweig.de/en/pi-post/single-molecule-mri-through-quantum-sensors/
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Quantum sensing lecture
Brunswick, October 27th 2022
The Quantum sensing lecture begins. After an introduction into quantum information, the basics of quantum sensing will be presented (definition, protocols, sensitivity, quantum enhanced sensing etc.). We will then discuss the different realizations of quantum sensors and their applications (NV centers in diamond, optically pumped magnetometers, SQUID magnetometer, atomic clocks, squeezed light etc.).
Visit to the Goethe University
Frankfurt am Main, October 10th 2022
Prof. Nabeel Aslam visited the group of Prof. Falko Pientka at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main.
Research group starts at TU Braunschweig
Brunswick, October 1st 2022
The research group has officially started its work at the IPKM, TU Braunschweig.
Quantum Futur Meeting
Berlin, September 28-29 2022
Prof. Dr. Nabeel Aslam participated in the Network meeting of all Quantum Futur groups in Berlin and presented the DiamondNanoNMR project.
