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Light from Artificial Atoms

17. February 2025

Superconducting circuits are being used at TU Wien and ISTA to create new types of quantum systems that are much easier to control and much more…

Quantum cryptography for everyday use

13. February 2025

TU Wien, the University of Innsbruck and the company qtlabs are working together on a major FFG-funded project to make quantum cryptography secure and…

Dr. Rodrigo Rosa-Medina Honored with ETH Medal for Doctoral Thesis

05. February 2025

Dr. Rodrigo Rosa-Medina, a postdoctoral researcher in the quantum information group at the Atominstitut (ATI), has been awarded the prestigious ETH…

Even Quantum Physics Obeys the Law of Entropy

29. January 2025

Is there a contradiction between quantum theory and thermodynamics? On the surface, yes - but at TU Wien, researchers have now shown how the two fit…

Quantum simulators: When nature reveals its natural laws

07. January 2025

[Translate to English:] Quantensimulator — © Oliver Diekmann/TU Wien

Quantum simulators are a completely new tool for research: quantum physics is studied by other kinds of quantum physics. Research teams from Innsbruck…

Seeing with entangled quantum pairs

09. December 2024

Colorful light ball — © Dominik Hornof/TU Wien

Zooming in to the “pixels of reality”: the electron microscope helps us to do that. However, it is unsuited for particularly sensitive targets. A…

The Neutron Lifetime Problem - and its Possible Solution

16. October 2024

[Translate to English:] Zerfallender Atomkern und Neutron — © Oliver Diekmann

How long do neutrons live? Different measurement results contradict each other. A possible explanation has now been proposed at TU Wien (Vienna).

The hunt for the owl is over – These are the winners of the 8th Best Teaching Awards!

04. October 2024

group picture — © TU Wien / Matthias Heisler

An evening dedicated to teaching and teachers at TU Wien

Presentation of the institute’s courses in the winter semester 2024/25

03. October 2024

ASC 2024

13. September 2024

At the beginning of September 2024 scientists from all around the globe gathered in Salt Lake City for the Applied Conference on Superconductivity at…

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