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moving particles, clocks and equations
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Erasing data perfectly and reaching the lowest possible temperature – those two things seem to be completely different, but they are closely intertwined. At TU Wien, a quantum…

Vier Personen im Labor

Tiny structures made of gold can be specifically manipulated by ion bombardment at TU Wien (Vienna) – surprisingly, the decisive factor is not the force of the impact.

Drei Personen im Labor

A new type of battery has been invented at TU Wien (Vienna): The oxygen-ion battery can be extremely durable, does not require rare elements and solves the problem of fire…

Tobias Schäfer

With an ESPRIT grant from the Austrian Science Fund FWF, Tobias Schäfer is developing new computational methods to solve previously unsolvable quantum physics problems in…

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 shown by a team from TU…

Montage aus einem Gruppenfoto und zwei zusätzlich angefügten Einzelportraits.

Sometimes, chemical reactions do not solely run stationary in one direction, but they show spatio-temporal oscillations. At TU Wien, a transition to chaotic behavior on the…