Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

A motion freezer for particles

28. February 2023

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 new, better technology for X-ray laser pulses

18. January 2023

two people wearing laser safety goggles in the lab

Simpler and much more efficient than ever before: A new technology for producing X-ray laser pulses has been developed at TU Wien.

Cleverly planned circuits: Small microchips become more robust

10. January 2023

Is the miniaturisation of electronics reaching its limits because smaller structures lead to more errors? TU Wien (Vienna) has shown that the problem…

Wie das Chaos der Quantenwelt eine Temperatur verleiht

12. December 2022

spherical atoms, one of them marked with a thermometer

Zwei scheinbar völlig unterschiedliche Bereiche der Physik hängen auf subtile Art zusammen: Quantentheorie und Thermodynamik. Wie die Chaostheorie…

A Quantum of an Angle

21. November 2022

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

10. October 2022

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

19. September 2022

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…

Eine perfekte Falle für Licht

26. August 2022

graphical scheme of the experimental setup

An der TU Wien und der Hebräischen Universität Jerusalem wurde eine „Lichtfalle“ entwickelt, in der ein Lichtstrahl sich selbst am Entkommen hindert.…

Spin Fluctuations in Focus

17. August 2022

[Translate to English:] Portrait von Alessandro Toschi, im Hintergrund eine Tafel.

A method developed at TU Wien has now allowed to identify which mechanism holds the electron pairs together in unconventional superconductors.

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