Furusawa Lab

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We made a demonstration of our optical quantum computer in NTT!! (Nov. 2024)

Prof. Furusawa attended the Japanese-German Symposium on Applications of Quantum Computers! (Nov. 2024)

Ultra-fast generation of Schrödinger's cat states!! (Nov. 2024)

OptQC's website is now available! (Sept. 2024)

Only Japanese for now

We have launched OptQC which is working on developping optical quantum computers! (Sept. 2024)

Czech-Japan Workshop on Quantum Information was held on May 21-23 !! (May 2024)

We succeeded in creation of logical qubits in traveling light. A start-up company OptQC will be launched this year. (Jan. 2024)

●Palacký University Olomouc ●Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw) ●VEDA NA DOSAH ●Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz ●AlphaGalileo ●EurekAlert! by AAAS ●EE Times Europe

Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, visited our lab! (October 2023)

Successfully "multiplied" by optical quantum computer, real machine to be developed! (July 2023)

●Palacký University Olomouc (1) ●Palacký University Olomouc (2)

Prof. Furusawa attended the Czech - Japan Intergovernmental Meeting as a representative of Japan! (June 2023)

Prof. Eugene Polzik and Jan Thomsen, director of the Niels Bohr Institute, visited our lab! (May 2023)

UT-ANU Workshop was held on April 12-13!! (2023)

Selected for the cover of Appl. Phys. Lett.!! (March 2023)

Establishment of the technology for 43GHz-clock and 100 multi-core super quantum computer!! (March 2023)

Meeting with representatives of Czech academia at the Japanese embassy residence in Prague!! (Sep. 2022)

Press conference with NTT on Quantum arbitrary waveform generator (Q-AWG)!! (Oct. 2022)

●The University of Tokyo・School of Engineering

K. Takase et al., Optics Express 30, 14161 (2022), "Generation of Schrödinger cat states with Wigner negativity using continuous-wave low-loss waveguide optical parametric amplifier" is selected for promotion to the media via a news release by OPTICA！！(April 2022)

Featured in ScienceDaily！

Featured in Phys.org！

MOONSHOT Working Group 6, Furusawa Project "Development of Large-scale Fault-tolerant Universal Optical Quantum Computers"（March 2022）

W. Asavanant and A. Furusawa's co-authored book "Optical Quantum Computers: A Route to Practical Continuous Variable Quantum Information Processing" was published by AIP Publishing!! (Jan. 2022)

Press conference with NTT on Module Squeezer!（Dec. 2021）

●The University of Tokyo・Nano Quine ●The University of Tokyo・School of Engineering

Group photo in Autumn at the large ginkgo tree in Hongo campus（Dec. 2021）

Prof. Furusawa gave a talk titled "Large-Scale Fault-Tolerant Universal Quantum Computing with Quantum Teleportation" at IEEE photonics SOCIETY（Nov. 2021）

The RIKEN Center for Quantum Computing (RQC) has been established, and Prof. Furusawa has been appointed as Deputy Director!

In addition, he has become the team leader of Optical Quantum Computing Research Team which has been also established in the center. (Apr. 2021)

Prof. Furusawa gave a talk at Caltech Physics Colloquium. (Oct. 2020)

High-performance quantum light source for an optical quantum computer chip: Collaboration with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) (Mar.2020)

Group photo in Autumn at the large ginkgo tree in Hongo campus (Dec.2019)

Japan-Denmark seminar @Copenhagen (Nov.2019)

Furusawa Lab attended a seminar at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen as a representative of Japan. It was held in the historical room which is seen in the framed photo. We believe that quantum mechanics was born in the room. Prof. Furusawa sits at Niels Bohr's desk.