ParadoQc/Machines
Augmented Reality livestream immersive installation, Tamiko Thiel and /p, 2025Commissioned by the ERES Foundation in celebration of the 2025 International Year of Quantum Science and Technology for their exhibition:
"Seeing the Unseen: Quantum physics and art as entangled worlds."
Exhibition: 04 December 2025 - 26 September 2026
In the ERES Foundation main gallery, Römerstrasse 15, Munich
ParadoQc/Machines AR livestream immersive installation. Installation view, ERES Foundation, 2025.
Immersive yourself in a deep dive into the quantum levels of the atom, and how the quantum properties of superposition and entanglement are now used to build computers out of these quantum states.
In the ERES Foundation, ParadoQc/Machines is being shown as a two-part exhibit. Part 1, shown above, takes visitors in a deep dive into the quantum levels of the electrons of a strontium atom, bringing these into superposition and entanglement.
Part 2 is shown as a video next to a model of the core of a planqc neutral atom quantum computer. The video take us through the process of using individual strontium atoms as a quantum computer. The atoms are cooled, trapped in a lattice, and then excited by laser pulses into superposition and entangled states, which are the actual logical operations of a quantum computer.
ParadoQc/Machines, Part 2: neutral atom quantum computing. Top left and right: blue laser
cooling, then infrared laser trapping lattice with green „optical tweezers“. Bottom left and right:
superposition and entanglement, then blue flouresence read-out of result.
Although there are many types of quantum computers, we chose the neutral atom quantum computer as the subject of our artwork, as we can show these quantum properties clearly in the structures of the atoms and their electron probability clouds.
Many thanks to Prof. Dr. Steffen Glaser (TUM) and Prof. Dr. Johannes Zeiher (LMU, planqc), of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology MCQST for their extremely generous time and patience as we peppered them with questions on the intimate details of quantum physics and quantum computing! (Note: All errors are exclusively the fault of the artists themselves!)