Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

"Unsolvable" is no excuse

Tobias Schäfer

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

A motion freezer for particles

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…

A Quantum of an Angle

schematic picture of the experiment
© Graphik: Tatiana Lysenko / TU Wien

The fine structure constant is one of the most important natural constants of all. At TU Wien, a remarkable way of measuring it has been found – it…

Topological Materials Become Switchable

Symbolic representation of two particles with connections in between
© Raphael Bühler

Because they are extremely stable, so-called "topological states" play an important role in materials research. Now, for the first time, it has been…

Designing New Quantum Materials on the Computer

two people outdoors, trees in the background
© Tommy LaVergne/Rice University)

A new design principle can now predict the properties of quantum materials that have hardly been explored so far. For the first time, a strongly…