Qubiz – Quantum Innovation Center
A next quantum era is to start in Copenhagen. A new organizational platform, Qubiz, has just been launched. Qubiz is a center and a meeting place where on-going businesses as well as those who have an interest in starting new high-tech companies can come and learn, discuss and interact with leading quantum scientists.
About Qubiz
Quantum theory was developed in Copenhagen in the 1920’ies and 1930’ies. Leading scientists came to Copenhagen from all over the world to learn, discuss and interact with Niels Bohr and co-workers. This was how quantum theory was developed.
Business Development
Research activities at universities in quantum technology are approaching a level of maturity where applications of quantum technology are becoming significant and furthermore have the potential as the technology that will ensure a continuation in growth.
Vision of Qubiz
Quantum Technologies (QT) enable disruptive solutions to central technological and societal challenges of our time. When fully developed, QT will revolutionize computing, communication, sensing, materials science, and much more.
Research at the Quantum Innovation Center
The vision for Qubiz is to become a globally leading player in the development and commercialization of quantum technologies.
The key objective and the mission of Qubiz is to exploit the very strong Danish research positions within quantum technology for value creation by commercialization of strongholds in Danish quantum technology.
Quantum Communication
Quantum communication research focuses on developing a completely new system for high-rate quantum key distribution [QKD] that efficiently solves all the challenges in a single system for the first time.
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Quantum Sensing
Qubiz researchers have pioneered fundamentally new approaches to sensing in proof-of-principle demonstrations of magnetic-field detection beyond quantum limits.
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Photonic Quantum Technology
Photonic quantum technology concerns novel QT based on photonics and encompasses the development of hardware for photonic quantum simulators, quantum networks, quantum cryptography, and novel light…
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Quantum Electronic Computing
Quantum science promises an entirely new kind of information processing, in which quantum parallelism is used as a resource to greatly accelerate the computation speed.
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Quantum Electronic Materials
Quantum materials research covers synthesis and characterization of the essential material platforms. The revolutionizing developments in classical information technology have gone hand-in-hand with…
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Our Academic and Industrial Partners
Our main sponsor, the publicly funded Innovation Fund Denmark invests in new knowledge and technology creating growth and employment in Denmark. The Fund made its largest single investment to date, when it allocated 80 million DKK to Qubiz. The ambition is that this investment, along with collaboration and co-financing from other partners, will allow Qubiz to put Denmark on the map as the world centre of modern quantum technology.
Qubiz is hosted by the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) at University of Copenhagen. NBI includes a number of research groups in quantum physics in both quantum electronics and photonics encompassing theory and experiment. NBI has about 500 employees (academic, technical, PhD students). About 100 employees currently work on topics related to Qubiz.
At the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Qubiz is involved with DTU Physics, where the Quantum Physics and Information Technology Group (QPIT) under the direction of Prof. Ulrik L. Andersen, has a key focus on translating the basic principles of quantum physics into practical applications and devices. DTU Physics has 170 employees and the QPIT group consists of about 15 employees. In addition, the Departments of Photonic Engineering, Nano- and Microtechnology and Energy are involved in Qubiz activities.
At Aarhus University (AU), the Department of Physics and Astronomy is a Qubiz partner. AU Physics covers research areas like astrophysics and cosmology, optical physics, biophysics, etc. A key focus of the Qubiz team at AU is to the basic principles of optical physics into practical applications and devices. AU Physics has 230 employees. The groups involved in Qubiz comprise about 30 employees.
