Quantum Physics and Quantum Technologies - News

Absolute Zero in the Quantum Computer

moving particles, clocks and equations
© IQOQI/ÖAW

Erasing data perfectly and reaching the lowest possible temperature – those two things seem to be completely different, but they are closely…

"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…