Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

Seeing with entangled quantum pairs

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…

How fast is quantum entanglement?

atom and electrons

The emergence of quantum entanglement is one of the fastest processes in nature. Scientists at TU Wien (Vienna) show that using special tricks, this…

New technology produces ultrashort ion pulses

two researchers in the lab
© David Rath, TU Wien, IAP

TU Wien (Vienna) has succeeded in generating laser-synchronised ion pulses with a duration of well under 500 picoseconds, which can be used to observe…

The World's First Nuclear Clock

Nuclear clock
© Oliver Diekmann, TU Wien

Atomic clocks have been used for decades – but now, even greater precision has become possible: TU Wien (Vienna) and JILA/NIST are presenting the…

A Time Crystal Made of Giant Atoms

Rydberg-Atom

Researchers from TU Wien (Vienna, Austria) and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) have created an extremely exotic state of matter. Its atoms have a…