Quantum Hub Thuringia

The emergence of quantum technology, using the fundamental quantum effects of superposition and entanglement, is holding solid promise for a range of breakthrough applications with high societal impact. Spe­cific examples are the encoding of unbreakable messages using quantum cryptography or orders-of-magnitude faster quantum computers. These potentials are recognized world­wide, leading to great strategic funding initiatives, and particularly in the European Union and Germany.

From 2021 until 2023, the Quantum Hub Thuringia pursued the mission to work on fundamental scientific questions in the areas of quantum communication, quantum sensing and quantum imaging and thus to shape the upcoming technological upheaval in quantum technology for the Free State of Thuringia as a future perspective. The consortium of the Quantum Hub Thuringia was formed by

• the Abbe Center of Photonics of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena,
• the Technical University of Ilmenau,
• the DLR Institute of Data Science Jena,
• the Helmholtz Institute Jena,
• the Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology IPHT Jena,
• the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF Jena,
• the Fraunhofer Institute for Digital Media Technology IDMT Ilmenau,
• the Fraunhofer IOSB, Institutsteil Angewandte Systemtechnik AST, Ilmenau,
• the Fraunhofer Project Hub for Microelectronic and Optical Systems for Biomedicine Erfurt,
• the IMMS Institut für Mikroelektronik- und Mechatronik-Systeme gGmbH in Ilmenau,
• the Cis Research Institute of Microsensing GmbH Erfurt.