The international doctoral school Exploring Quantum Matter (ExQM) focusses on a topic of growing impact on future technologies as is also reflected by the emerging EU Flagship on Quantum Science. In view of quantum-enabled technologies, the near future promises significant progress in insight into superconductivity, quantum phase transitions, quantum time-evolutions, design of quantum materials, quantum interfaces and integrated circuits thus attracting best students. A key step in this direction is simulating many-body quantum systems (with large-scale correlations) in the lab. A teaching goal is to unite the unique competences of quantum physics in Munich and extend them into an international excellence network of doctoral training centres with partners at the Austrian Academy of Science in Vienna and Innsbruck, at ETH Zurich, ICFO Barcelona, Imperial College London, Caltech, Harvard and others. In a novel format, students receive training specifically tailored to the needs of next generation scientists. New media are systematically used in the curriculum for building up an international e-library of tutorials and seminars (video recordings, some of which shall ultimately be made available as apps or itunesU).

The programme of ExQM is organised in different Research Focus Areas centred on quantum optics, numerical tensor network methods and the study of open quantum systems. ExQM is in close collaboration with the Munich Quantum Centre as well as the IMPRS doctoral school QST all within the DFG-funded excellence cluster Munich Centre for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST).