Bilkent University National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) hosted “Bilkent UNAM—Quantum Day” as part of a global scientific initiative to honor the 100-year legacy of quantum science.
During the event held on Wednesday, May 14, 2025, Chair of the Department of Physics at Bilkent University Prof. Ceyhun Bulutay, Assoc. Prof. Serkan Ateş from İzmir Institute of Technology and Asst. Prof. İbrahim Sarpkaya from UNAM delivered talks on the fundamentals and future directions of quantum technologies.
UNAM was also selected as one of the official stops on QuanTour. QuanTour is a scientific journey across Europe established by the Quantum 2025 initiative under the United Nations and UNESCO’s designation of 2025 as the “International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.”
As part of QuanTour, a quantum light source developed by Dr. Tobias Heindel’s research group at the Technical University of Berlin is travelling to select laboratories across more than 12 countries in Europe, including the prestigious Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge.
The project aims to raise awareness in fields such as quantum optics, semiconductor physics, photonic quantum technologies and quantum metrology, while promoting collaboration and knowledge exchange among researchers. After its first stop in Turkey at the İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE), the quantum light source continued to the Quantum Photonics Laboratory of Asst. Prof. İbrahim Sarpkaya at Bilkent University UNAM. Here, Dr. Sarpkaya and his research group conducted g²-correlation experiments using the quantum light source and their Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT) interferometer setup.