Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

Getting Photons into Shape for Reliable Quantum Communication

14. September 2026

a visualization of the photon's wave shape — © Oliver Diekmann / TU Wien

Photons can carry quantum information from one qubit to another – but the transfer does not always succeed. Researchers at TU Wien have now shown how…

The Quantum Computer Microscope

18. August 2026

Illustration of an electron microscope with a magnified inset: A focused blue electron beam interacts with a row of trapped ions above a chip. One of the ions is shown inside a parabolic electromagnetic trapping field. — © TU Wien

A new invention is set to significantly improve electron microscopy: a small quantum computer is integrated directly into the microscope.

ASTRA Award for Fangyuan Yang

24. June 2026

Fangyuan Yang, smiling — © FWF / der Knopfdrücker

Physicist Fangyuan Yang has been awarded the ASTRA Award by the Austrian Science Fund FWF. Her research focuses on material effects that play an…

ERC Grant for Thorsten Schumm

23. June 2026

Thorsten Schumm at an optical bench with green illumination — © Matthias Heisler / TU Wien

Manipulating atomic nuclei with lasers: Thorsten Schumm has founded a new field of research that long seemed almost impossible – and has now been…

Quantum Entanglement: Schrödinger’s Anthill

16. June 2026

Computer visualization of quantum effects in a 3D crystal — © TU Wien / Harald Ritsch

At TU Wien, a high degree of quantum entanglement has been detected for the first time in a centimetre-sized crystal of a strange metal.

A new “uncertainty relation” for quantum measurement errors

02. March 2026

two researchers in front of a board with diagrams — © TU Wien

Researchers at TU Wien and IASBS have shown that the way different quantum measurements influence one another can be captured in a surprisingly simple…

Discovered by chance: the refractive-index microscope

29. January 2026

two people in white coats in a dark lab — © TU Wien

A remarkable success has been achieved at TU Wien: by combining two fundamentally different microscopy techniques, researchers can now measure the…

ERC Grant: Polar Molecules – a New Quantum Technology

26. January 2026

A new ERC Proof of Concept Grant now enables the team led by Jörg Schmiedmayer to develop a prototype for an entirely new quantum technology.

Artificial intelligence makes quantum field theories computable

26. January 2026

Symbolic representation of three particles in a lattice, in different versions with different lattice constants — © TU Wien

An old puzzle in particle physics has been solved: How can quantum field theories be best formulated on a lattice to optimally simulate them on a…

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