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ERC Starting Grant for Jad C. Halimeh
13 Sept 2024
Dr. Jad C. Halimeh, MCQST member and group leader at LMU München and the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics, has won a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC).
The scope and success of Halimeh’s project hinges on a two-pronged approach, addressing both technological and phenomenological aspects: Gauge theories, a fundamental framework of modern physics, have been notoriously hard to probe out of equilibrium because of the challenges posed by entanglement. Continuing his previous scientific work, Halimeh and his team aim to propose the next generation of experimentally feasible and reliable large-scale quantum simulators of gauge theories in higher spatial dimensions and with non-Abelian gauge groups. In addition, the research project will include extensive collaboration with experimental groups to implement these proposals on existing quantum hardware.