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Quantum Freezing at Room Temperature

A laser between two mirrors is hitting a particle
© Lorenzo Dania (ETHZ)

An astonishing world record has been set at ETH Zurich with support from TU Wien: glass particles reveal their quantum properties – without having to…

When light collides with light

Colorful waves and particles
© TU Wien

Light-on-light scattering is an exotic process with surprising significance for particle physics. Researchers at TU Wien have shown that a previously…

The Quantum Physics of Forgetting Information

Decorative image with streams of zeros and ones.
© 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

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…