• Markus Aspelmeyer starts his Humboldt Award Fellowship, welcome!
  
  
  
• Andreas Nunnenkamp from Yale visits the group.
  
  
• "Real-space renormalization yields finite correlations" goes into press at Physical Review Letters.

• Tomaz Prosen starts his Humboldt Award Fellowship, and first fun joint projects start.
  
  
• Carlos Pineda is back in the group full time (and marries, congratulations!).
  
  
• Robert Huebener (Innsbruck) visits the group.
  
  
• Arnau Riera starts a postdoctoral post, warm welcome.
  

• Martin Kliesch is awarded a fellowship of the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes. Congratulations!
  
  
• Earl Campbell (University College London) and Sabrina Maniscalco (Turku) visit the group.
  
  
• Joint work with the experimental quantum optics group in Oxford and the theory group in Ulm is published as "Entanglement quantification from incomplete measurements: Applications using photon-number-resolving weak homodyne detectors" in New Journal of Physics 12, 033042 (2010).
  
  
• All reversible dynamics in maximally non-local theories are trivial", is published as Physical Review Letters 104, 080402 (2010).
  

• The special issue on "Quantum information and many-body theory", edited by J. Eisert and M.B. Plenio, goes to press at the New Journal of Physics.

• Martin Kliesch starts his PhD programme. Warm welcome!
  
  
• "Area laws for the entanglement entropy" is (finally) published as Reviews of Modern Physics 82, 277 (2010).
  
  
• Anna Gustavsson, Tobias Grass, and Dominik Hörndlein visit the group.
  
  
• Alioscia Hamma from the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo visits.
  
  
• Live blogging from QIP2010.
  
  
• Sadly, Dong Yang leaves the group and reenters his permanent job in China. Was great to have you here!
  

November 2009:

• Oliver Viehmann and Arnau Riera visit the group.
  
  
• Christian Gogolin visits the group.
  

October 2009:

• Fellowship of Jens Eisert at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin starts.
  
  
• Markus Aspelmeyer wins Bessel Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation to work with the group for a year.
  
  
• Tomaz Prosen wins Bessel Prize of the Humboldt-Foundation to work with the group for a year.
  
  
• Alexey Trubarov and Rouven Frassek visit the group.
  
  
• Volckmar Nebendahl visits.
  

September 2009:

• Andrea Mari wins a prestigious award for his master's thesis. Congratulations!
  
  
• "Measuring measurement" appears as New Journal of Physics 11, 093038 (2009).
  
  
• A2 meeting takes place again.
  

May 2009:

• The work "Most quantum states are too entangled to be useful as computational resources" in published as Physical Review Letters 102, 190501 (2009), and is selected as a Physics Viewpoint, in Physics 2, 38 (2009).
  

April 2009:

• The work "Most quantum states are too entangled to be useful as computational resources" gets coverage in Science, ScienceNews, The Quantum Times, and Physics World.
  
  
• Fabian Furrer from the ETH Zurich visits the group.
  

March 2009:

• Steve Flammia from the Perimeter Institute is a long-time visitor of the group.
  

February 2009:

• Dong Yang, Niel de Beaudrap and Thomas Barthel join the group, welcome!
  
  
• Miguel Aguado from the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics visits the group.
  
  
• Pablo Paz from Buenos Aires is long-time visitor.
  
  
• A second installment of the A2 meeting takes place in Braunschweig.
  

January 2009:

• "Tomography of quantum detectors" appears as Nature Physics 5, 27 (2009), and gets coverage in a News and Views article in "Measured measurement", Nature Physics 5, 11 (2009).
  
  
• "Renormalizion algorithm with graph enhancement" appears as Physical Review A 79, 022317 (2009).
  

December 2008:

• The informal A2 meeting to keep the academic link between the Potsdam- Braunschweig/Hannover- Duesseldorf groups is revived and a first meeting is held in Potsdam.
  

October 2008:

• "Assessing non-Markovian dynamics" appears as Physical Review Letters 101, 150402 (2008).
  
  
• Matthias Ohliger, Andrea Mari, Markus Mueller and Holger Bernigau join the group, welcome!
  
  
• Seth Lloyd from MIT group visitor.
  

August 2008:

• "Exploring local quantum many-body relaxation by atoms in optical superlattices", appears as Physical Review Letters 101, 063001 (2008). 
  

July 2008:

• "Quantum Margulis expanders" appears as Quantum Information and Computation 8, 722 (2008).
  
  
• Alexey Trubarov is a long-time visitor.
  

June 2008:

• "Correlated entanglement distillation and the structure of the set of undistillable states", appears as Journal of Mathematical Physics 49, 042102 (2008).
  

May 2008:

• Relocation of main part of group to Potsdam.
  
  
• Carlos Pineda starts his postdoc in the group.
  
  
• Start of COMPAS Strep of the EU, to do work on continuous-variable quantum information processing.
  

April 2008:

• "Unifying simulation methods of quantum many-body systems", appears as Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 130501 (2008).
  
  
• "Exact relaxation for a class of quantum many-body systems" has been selected as a Research Highlight on the web page of the EU Integrated Project "QAP - Qubit Applications",
  
  http://www.qubitapplications.com/default.asp.
   
  
• "Do mixtures of bosonic and fermionic atoms adiabatically heat up in optical lattices?" appears as Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 140409 (2008).
  

February 2008:

• J. Eisert accepts invitation to become editorial board member of Quantum Information Processing.
  
  
• Our work "Dynamics and manipulation of entanglement in coupled harmonic systems with many degrees of freedom", New J. Phys. 6, 36 (2004), has been selected as one of the five articles of NJP on quantum physics in their news coverage and brochure to celebrate 10 years of the New Journal of Physics.
  
  
• "Gaussian marginal problem" published in the Commun. Math. Phys. (2008).
  

January 2008:

• "Quenching, relaxation, and a central limit theorem for quantum lattice systems" published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 030602 (2008).
  

December 2007:

• "General linear-optical quantum state generation scheme" published in Phys. Rev. A 76, 063808 (2007).
  

November 2007:

• J. Eisert accepts invitation to become member of the editorial board of the Physical Review A.
  
  
• "Measurement-based quantum computation beyond the one-way model" published in Phys. Rev. A 76, 052315 (2007).
  
  
• "Creating and probing macroscoping entanglement with light" published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 250401 (2007).
  
  
• News coverage on our work on models for measurement-based quantum computing on the web page of the QIP-IRC.
  
  

October 2007:

• "Covariance matrices and the separability problem" published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 130504 (2007).
  

September 2007:

• "Percolation, Renormalization, and Quantum Computing with Nondeterministic Gates" published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 130501 (2007).
  
  

• The PAQ conference at the Royal Society concludes with an event in honour of Sir Peter Knights career to date. more>>
  
  The PAQ conference was locally organized by a collective effort of many people at the Imperial College group, in an organization team led by Jens Eisert. This list notably includes David Gross, Konrad Kieling, Terry Rudolph, as well as Alvaro Feito, Doug Plato, Nicholas Harrigan, Fernando Brandao and Marcus Cramer. Many thanks for their extraordinary effort!
  

July 2007:

• "Cluster state preparation using gates operating at arbitrary success probabilities" appears in New J. Phys. 9, 200 (2007).
  
  
• Fernando Brandao is awarded the Valerie Myerscough prize. Congratulations.
  
  
• "Statistics dependence of the entanglement entropy" published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220603 (2007).
  
  
• "Novel schemes for measurement-based quantum computation" published as Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 220503 (2007).
  
  
• "Evenly distributed unitaries: on the structure of unitary designs", published as J. Math. Phys. 48, 052104 (2007).
  

• Jens Eisert talks about quantum information theory on 3Sat, the German television channel.
  
  http://www.3sat.de/3sat.php?http://www.3sat.de/nano/cstuecke/105790/index.html
  
  

• "Non-negative Wigner functions in prime dimensions" published in Appl. Phys. B 86, 367 (2007).
  

• "Hudson's Theorem for finite-dimensional quantum systems" published in J. Math. Phys. 47, 122107 (2006).
  
  

• "Minimal resources for linear optical one-way computing" published in J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24 (184), 2006.
  

• "Computational Difficulty of Global Variations in the Density Matrix Renormalization Group", published in the 31 December issue of the Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 260501 (2006).
  
  

• "Potential and limits to cluster-state quantum computing u sing probabilistic gates" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 74, 042343 (2006).
  
  

• "General Entanglement Scaling Laws from Time Evolution" has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 150404 (2006).
  

• D. Gross has been awarded the Wilhelm and Else Heraeus Award for his Diploma thesis, entitled "Finite Phase Space Methods in Quantum Information", submitted in Potsdam under the supervision of J. Eisert. Congratulations!
  
  
• "Correlations, spectral gap, and e ntanglement in harmonic quantum systems on generic lattices", has been published in New J. Phys. 8, 71 (2006).
  
  
• "Half the entanglement in critical systems is distillable from a single specimen" has been published in Phys. Rev. A 73, 060303 (2006).
  
  
• Dr Chris Dawson and Dr Kenneth Pregnell join the group.
  
  
• "Optimal entanglement witnesses for continuous-variable systems", has been published in New J. Phys. 8, 51 (2006).
  

• "An entanglement-area law for general bosonic harmonic lattice systems" appears in Phys.Rev. A 73, 012309 (2006).
  

October 2005:

• David Gross and Konrad Kieling start PhD, working with Jens Eisert.
  
  
• Fernando Brandao starts PhD, working with Martin Plenio, Koenraad Audenaert and Jens Eisert.
  
  
• "Single-copy entanglement in critical spin chains" appears in Phys. Rev. A 72, 042112 (2005).
  
  

August 2005:

• Martin Plenio and Jens Eisert are award ed EPSRC research grant to pursue work on optical quantum information processing in collaboration with Ian Walmsley (Oxford) and Peter Smith (Southampton).
  
  
• "Optimizing linear optics quantum gates" appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 040502 (2005).
  
  
• Award of 4 year EU-Integrated project QAP.
  
  

May 2005:

• Philipp Hyllus starts a postdoctoral fellowship in the group, working with J. Eisert.
  
  
• Press coverage: Our work on entanglement-area-theorems has been the topic of a news headline on the web page of the QIP-IRC (Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC) in the field of QIP between leading research universities and industrial laboratories in the UK).

  
  http://www.qipirc.org/oldnews.php
  
  

• Jens Eisert has been awarded a grant from Microsoft Research
  
  

• J. Eisert contributes to the strategic report on "Quantum Information Processing and Communication: strategic report on current status, visions and goals for research in Europe" of the European Commission, coordinated by P. Zoller of the University of Innsbruck.
  
  http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/qipc-sr.htm
  

April 2005:

• J. Eisert starts EURYI Award.
  

February 2005:

• "Entropy, Entanglement, and Area: Analytical Results for Harmonic Lattice Systems" appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 060503 (2005).
  
  
• Coverage of our work: Paper on entanglement in nanoelectromechanical devices taken as "Success story" in network QUPRODIS, on the web page of the European Commission, Cordis, ISTWeb: http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fet/ qipc-eu.htm
  

December 2004:

• "Complete hierarchies of efficient approximations to problems in entanglement theory", a paper on a global optimization approach to the separability problem, appears in Phys. Rev. A 70, 062317 (2004).

November 2004:

• "Towards Quantum Entanglement in Nanoelectromechanical Devices" appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 19402 (2004).
  
  Press coverage in Nature: "Nanobridges do the quantum quickstep" by Philip Ball, article in Nature, Materials, nanozone news, about our work on entanglement in nanoelectromechanical devices.
  
  http://www.nature.com/materials/nanozone/news/041118/portal/m041118-2.html
  
  
• "Inhomogeneous Atomic Bose-Fermi Mixtures in Cubic Lattices" appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 19405 (2004). 
  

October 2004:

• Jens Eisert interviewed for the New Scientist.
  

August 2004:

• EURYI Award to J. Eisert, a research grant award scheme for all subjects by the European Research Councils.
  
  http://www.esf.org/esf_genericpage.php?section=8&domain=0&genericpage=1879
  

June 2004: 

• "Multiparty entanglement in graph states" appeared in Phys. Rev. A 69, 062311 (2004).
  
  

May 2004:

• "Exact Decoherence to Pointer States in Free Open Quantum Systems is Universal" appeared in Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 210401 (2004).