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Hannspeter Winter Prize for Anna Niggas

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© D. Rath

What happens when you shoot highly charged ions at surfaces? Physicist Anna Niggas is developing new research methods and has now been honoured for…

A new state between metal and insulator

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A kind of ‘umbilical cord’ between different quantum states can be found in some materials. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown that this ‘umbilical…

Seeing with entangled quantum pairs

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© 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…