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A Molecule of Light and Matter

01. August 2022

Several atoms and a beam of light — © Harald Ritsch / TU Wien

Using light, atoms can be made to attract each other. A team from Vienna and Innsbruck was able to measure this binding state of light and matter for…

Wellen im Labyrinth ohne Wiederkehr

14. July 2022

a wave is sent from the left onto the medium with impurities inside. the transmitted and the reflected parts oft the light are shown on screens

Vom Mobilfunk bis zur trüben Glasscheibe: Oft stören lästige Reflexionen die ungehinderte Ausbreitung von Wellen. Eine verblüffende Lösung des…

One particle on two paths: Quantum physics is right

11. May 2022

dark lab with experimental equipment — © Laurent Thion, ILL

An old "flaw" of the famous double-slit experiment has now been corrected at TU Wien in a cooperation with Hiroshima University: A single neutron…

Die Höchstgeschwindigkeit der Quanten

24. March 2022

An ultra short laser pulse (blue) creates free charge carriers, another pulse (red) accelerates them in opposite directions.

Halbleiterelektronik wird immer schneller – aber irgendwann erlaubt die Physik keine Steigerung mehr. Die kürzest mögliche Zeitskala…

ERC Grant for Marcus Huber

17. March 2022

Marcus Huber mit spiegelndem Kristall — © IQOQI-Vienna, by Mateusz Kotyrba

Quantum theory, complexity and thermodynamics: Marcus Huber finds new ways to link very different areas of physics. He is now awarded an ERC…

Künstliche Intelligenz für die Teilchenphysik

25. January 2022

Two colored blobs corresponding to the remnants of a particle collision

Kann man mit machine learning den Geheimnissen des Quark-Gluon-Plasmas auf die Spur kommen? Ja – aber nur mit ausgeklügelten neuen Methoden.

New Nanostructure could be the key to quantum electronics

06. October 2021

scientist wearing protecitve gear in the lab

Using a completely new synthesis approach, nanostructures made of aluminium single crystals and the semiconductor germanium are explored at TU Wien…

Quantum cryptography Records with Higher-Dimensional Photons

21. September 2021

Marcus Huber in front of a blackboard — © IQOQI Vienna

A research team at TU Wien developed a new quantum transmission protocol that allows a higher data transmission rate and is much more robust against…

The Quantum Refrigerator

27. July 2021

Researcher with protective glasses works on optical device

A completely new cooling concept has been invented at TU Wien (Vienna): Computer simulations show how quantum fields could be used to break…

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