Welcome to the Institute for Theoretical Physics

The scientific spectrum of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at TU Wien is extraordinarily broad and ranges from the smallest building blocks of matter, condensed matter and the so-called complex systems to cosmic dimensions. From the point of view of the scientific activities of TU Wien, the institute provides essential contributions to the research focal areas Computational Science and Engineering, Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies, and Materials and Matter.

News

a lattice of particles, a wave emerging from it, and a symbolic stopwatch
© TU Wien

An exotic quantum phenomenon manifests itself under conditions where one would not normally expect it, show scientists at TU Wien (Vienna).

researcher smiling
© FWF/Der Knopfdrücker

Gerben Oling conducts research on the geometry of space and time. He develops novel methods that make open questions accessible. For this, he has been…

Aerial view of a particle accelerator: a round blue structure with people and measuring instruments in the center.
© Fermilab, CC BY-SA 4.0

After years of research into the magnetic dipole moment of muons, theory and experiment have finally been compared with precision – with excellent…

Schematic illustration of the experimental setup that was used to measure the flow of information.

Waves pick up information from their environment through which they propagate. A theory of information carried by waves has now been developed at TU…

[Translate to English:] Tobias Schaefer

With an ESPRIT grant from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Tobias Schäfer is developing new computational methods to solve previously intractable…

visualization of the method

Tailor-made laser light fields can be used to slow down the movement of several particles and thus cool them down to extremely low temperatures - as…