Historical Roots
The historical roots of WMI go back to Walther Meißner who founded the "Commission for Low Temperature Research" in 1946 when he was president of BAdW (1946 - 1950). The first
In the following we provide a brief overview of some historical facts about the WMI, its scientific directors, important discoveries made at WMI, as well as the key research directions over the
The Scientific Directors of WMI
Prof. Dr. Walther Meißner (1946 - 1952) Prof. Dr. Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (1952 - 1980) Prof. Dr. Klaus Andres (1980 - 2000) Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gross (2000 - 2025)
According to paragraphs 18 and 19 of the Statutes of BAdW the research program of WMI is decided on by its Scientific Directors and supervised by its Scientific Advisory Board. The members of the
The WMI is headed by a Board of Scientific Directors, which is responsible for the development of the Research Program of WMI. The Scientific Directors hold full professor positions at one of the
The scientific goals of MOQS are to perform experimental and theoretical quantum simulations of comparatively complex molecular structures as well as electron and energy transfer in molecular
Discover what moves the world! This was the motto of the Münchener Wissenschaftstage 2021, taking place at the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum from October 08 to 10. WMI supported the scientific
For approximately 10 years, superconducting quantum circuits printed on silicon chips are used to study the fundamental laws of quantum mechanics. Two prototypical examples for such circuits are
Peter Rabl Joins WMI as a New Scientific Director
01 January 2023
We heartly welcome Peter Rabl at WMI as a new Scientific Director.
Peter Rabl, who previously was affiliated with the Technical
The new theory group at WMI is also an important cornerstone of the Munich Quantum Valley e.V. (MQV). It particularly aims at strengthening the theory activities in the field of interdisciplinary
Peter Rabl has been appointed full professor for Applied Quantum Theory at TUM and Scientific Director at WMI
In information technology, nonreciprocal devices are of key importance. They let information carriers only move forward and not backward or let them circulate only clockwise and not
Andreas Wallraff receives MCQST Distinguished Lecturer Award 2023. The prize acknowledges scientific achievements in the field of QST.
Rudolf Gross becomes new Scientific Director of the Munich Quantum Valley (MQV) and Managing Director of Munich Quantum Valley e.V.
Rudolf Gross retires as Scientific Director of the WMI after shaping the institute for 25 years.
Our former Bachelor and Master student Johanna Fischer (now at Spintec Grenoble, France) receives the 2025 EMA Young Scientist Award.
Johanna Fischer was working as a Bachelor and a Master student in the Gross group between 2014 and 2017. She was supported by a Deutschlandstipendium.
In her Master thesis, Johanna was investigating
The Walther-Meissner-Institute has a long tradition in training and fostering young talents. To this end we are aiming at attracting the best students and young scientists from all over the world
Building quantum processor with novel properties based on superconducting qubits - this is the aim of the four year project GeQCoS ('German Quantum Computer based on Superconducting Qubits') funded
WMI scientists provide insight into present quantum research
In the joint Lighthouse Projects NeQuS and IQSense scientists from different MQV institutions will work on basic aspects of quantum systems.
| M. v. Sivers, C. Ciemniak, A. Erb, F. v. Feilitzsch, A. Gütlein, J.-C. Lanfranchi, J. Lepelmeier, A. Münster, W. Potzel, S. Roth, R. Strauss, U. Thalhammer, S. Wawoczny, M. Willers, A. Zöller
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Technical Description of the WMI Helium Pump
A vertical cross-section, a horizontal cross-section along the line A-B and a vertical cross-section of part of the pump systems is shown in the
Dr. Matthias Mergenthaler - IBM Research - Zurich
Effects of surface treatments and UHV packaging on flux tunable transmon qubits
The last two decades have seen significant advances in the
Effects of surface treatments and UHV packaging on flux tunable transmon qubits
The last two decades have seen significant advances in the coherence times of superconducting qubits. However, further
A Submersible Pump for Liquid Helium
Because the storage vessels for liquid helium only have small openings for installing a pump, small dimensions at large pump capacity are key requirements.
New-generation direct searches for low mass dark matter feature detection thresholds at energies well below 100 eV, much lower than the energies of commonly used x-ray calibration sources. This
Recently low-mass dark matter direct searches have been hindered by a low-energy background, drastically reducing the physics reach of the experiments. In the CRESST-III experiment, this signal is
| U. Ehrke, A. Sears, L. Alff, D. Reisinger
| Matthias Pernpeintner, Akashdeep Kamra, Sebastian T.B. Goennenwein, Hans Huebl
| Tobias Wimmer, Birte Coester, Stephan Geprägs, Rudolf Gross, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Hans Huebl, Matthias Althammer
| Lukas Liensberger, Akashdeep Kamra, Hannes Maier-Flaig, Stephan Geprägs, Andreas Erb, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Rudolf Gross, Wolfgang Belzig, Hans Huebl, Mathias Weiler
| Matthias Althammer, Sebastian T.B. Goennenwein, Rudolf Gross
| Stefan Klingler, Vivek Amin, Stephan Geprägs, Kathrin Ganzhorn, Hannes Maier-Flaig, Matthias Althammer, Hans Huebl, Rudolf Gross, Robert D. McMichael, Mark D. Stiles, Sebastian T.B. Goennenwein,
| Hannes Maier-Flaig, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Ryo Ohshima, Masashi Shiraishi, Rudolf Gross, Hans Huebl, Mathias Weiler
