Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

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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…

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…

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…

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© 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…

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.…