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The Quantum Physics of Forgetting Information

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© Oliver Diekmann, oliver-diekmann.graphics / TU Wien

In a collaboration between TU Wien and FU Berlin, researchers have measured what happens when quantum physical information is lost. This clarifies…

Triumph for the Standard Model of Physics

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

Light from Artificial Atoms

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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

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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…

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…