Events | The Helen Diller Quantum Center

Events

Jan

2026

17:00

Open Day 11.1.2026

11 Jan 2026

17:00

19:00

The Helen Diller Quantum Center at the Technion invites you, undergraduate and graduate students, to discover advanced degree options and projects in the fascinating and diverse fields of quantum science. Program Highlights: Research presentations by faculty members from various departments (Che

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Dec

2025

14:30

Prof. Netanel Lindner: "Quantum Advantage: Hype, Progress, and How Far We Still Have to Go"

Colloquium

15 Dec 2025

14:30

Quantum computing has reached a stage where quantum processors are beginning to challenge state-of-the-art classical methods on carefully chosen tasks, yet significant obstacles remain on the path to broadly useful quantum advantage.

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Dec

2025

14:30

Prof. Aharon Blank - "Quantum electronics – resurrected"

Seminar

11 Dec 2025

14:30

“Quantum electronics,” a term coined in the 1960s, originally referred to the use of natural quantum systems, atoms and molecules, to generate, amplify, and detect RF and microwave signals in maser devices.

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Nov

2025

14:30

Prof. Boulat A. Bash from the University of Arizona "Quantum-Enhanced Transmittance Sensing"

Weekly seminar

16 Nov 2025

14:30

We consider the problem of estimating unknown transmittance θ of a target bathed in thermal background light.

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Nov

2025

14:30

Prof. Gregor Jotzu from EPFL: " Creating Dynamic Quantum Materials: The Light-Induced Meissner Effect , Floquet Engineering, and Future Prospects"

Weekly seminar

05 Nov 2025

14:30

Changing the properties of materials on demand is crucial both for understanding the conditions which allow for the appearance of emergent order and for generating new functionalities.

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Sep

2025

14:30

Prof. Alex Retzker (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): "Efficient Magic State Cultivation on the Surface Code"

Weekly seminar

11 Sep 2025

14:30

15:30

Magic state generation is a key ingredient in quantum computing, and until recently it was believed to consume a large amount of computational resources.

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Jul

2025

14:30

Gefen Baranes (MIT and Harvard University) :"Designing Fault-Tolerant Scalable Blind Quantum Computation: Architecture and Experiment"

Weekly seminar

24 Jul 2025

14:30

Blind quantum computing (BQC) allows a client to delegate quantum computations to a server while keeping both data and algorithms private. However, practical BQC faces major challenges when scaling to fault-tolerant regimes due to losses, overhead, and limited client capabilities.

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Jul

2025

14:30

Prof. Israel Klich (University of Virginia): "Swaps, displacements, non-stabilizerness and entanglement"

Weekly seminar

22 Jul 2025

14:30

In this talk, I will present a beautiful—yet seemingly little-known—relation that expresses the SWAP operator in quantum mechanics as an average over Heisenberg-Weyl displacements. This relation holds for qubits, qudits, and even continuous-variable systems in quantum optics.

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Jun

2025

14:30

POSTPONED!!! Prof. Or Sattath from Ben Gurion University: "The interplay between modern quantum cryptography and quantum physics"

Weekly seminar

19 Jun 2025

14:30

Our understanding of the foundations of (quantum) cryptography has changed in the past couple of years. Arguably, the most important problem in computer science, the P vs.

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Jun

2025

08:30

symposium on Quantum Phenomena in Molecules

Symposia

05 Jun 2025

08:30

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International Calendar of Events

Research

Meet our new faculty-Dr. Ron Tenne

Dr. Ron Tenne who joined the Technion in 2025 as a member of the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry and the Helen Diller Quantum center, has been awarded a prestigious starting grant from the European Research Council (ERC)

Meet our new faculty-Prof. Avi Zadok

Unlike most new faculty members, Prof. Avinoam (Avi) Zadok recently joined the Technion’s Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the pinnacle of an impressive career as the ...

Who Moved My Atom?

11 Nov 2024

An experimental setup built at the Technion Faculty of Physics demonstrates the transfer of atoms from one place to another through quantum tunneling between optical tweezers. Led by Prof. Yoav Sagi and doctoral student Yanay Florshaim from the Solid State Institute, the research was published in Science Advances.

How does light propagate in integrated circuits on chips?

Researchers at the Technion are answering this question and paving the way to new applications in communication, imaging, and quantum computing. The field of photonic integrated circuits focuses on the miniaturization of photonic elements and their integration in photonic chips – circuits that carry out a range of calculations using..

Yuval Shagam won an ERC grant

Assistant Professor Yuval Shagam from the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry is a member of the Helen Diller Quantum Center. He focuses on understanding molecular chirality: a molecule or ion that cannot be superposed on its mirror image. Such molecules are often distinguished as either “right-handed” or “left-handed.” Molecular chirality plays a central role in many fields, ranging from reaction dynamics to drug development. Molecules of opposite-handedness, known as enantiomers, can have different smells and different medicinal properties among other things.