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Registration is open: Join the Quantum Career Day on April 11th

nadine — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 09:22:47 +0000

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The Quantum Career Day, which we organize in collaboration with Photonics Austria, aims to connect Master and PhD students and other researchers with alumni and industry experts. Companies are invited to showcase their work, alumni share their career journeys, and all participants engage in networking sessions. This event will make students aware of career opportunities in quantum technology and related fields, while offering the opportunity to build valuable connections for future employment.

PhD Call is NOW OPEN

nadine — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:39:29 +0000

We are looking for excited and excellent candidates for the following research groups in VCQ and quantA:

Hartmut Abele (TU Wien) – Neutron and Quantum Physics

Časlav Brukner (University of Vienna, ÖAW) Quantum Foundations and Quantum Information Theory

Johannes Fink (ISTA) – Quantum Integrated Devices

Yuji Hasegawa (TU Wien) – Neutron and Quantum Physics

Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien) – Atom Interferometry

Julian Leonard (TU Wien) – Experimental Quantum Information

Jörg Schmiedmayer (TU Wien) – Quantum Many Body physics and Atom Chips

Maksym Serbyn (ISTA) – Condensed Matter Theory and Qauntum Dynamics

Sarah Bayer-Skoff (TU Wien) – Solid-state quantum optics and nanophotonics

Philipp Walther (University of Vienna) – Quantum Information Sciences and Quantum Computation

Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna, ÖAW) – Quantum Information and Foundations of Physics

Francesca Ferlaino (University of Innsbruck, ÖAW) – http://www.erbium.at/FF/

Andreas Schell (JKU Linz) – https://www.jku.at/en/institute-of-semiconductor-and-solid-state-physics/research-divisions/semiconductor-physics-division/team/schell/

Philipp Schindler (University of Innsbruck) – AG Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy

To apply for either of those groups please fill out this application form . Here you also have the chance to choose up to 3 research groups.

Also find two supvervisors to submit recommendation letters here

This was the VCQ & TURIS Summer School 2024

nadine — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 09:03:55 +0000

It’s a wrap!

An exciting and fun week is over. We had so many interesting talks by Eduardo Martin-Martinez, Anna Sanpera, Tracy Northup, Gia Dvali, Sougato Bose, Hendrik Ulbricht, Nick Hugget, Chris Overstreet & Ben Elder. Last but not least we had Markus Aspelmeyer give an amazing public talk!

And we had an amazing audience, 150 participants, eager to listen and learn. The lecture hall was cramped up until the last lecture on Friday. Wow.

There were many fantastic discussions, lots of networking. We are happy, exhausted, fulfilled and we promise: We’ll do it again!

The Sound of Entanglement: Anton Bruckner meets Quantum physics

nadine — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 07:10:19 +0000

Premiere in English: Wed 4 Sept. 2024, 10 pm New Cathedral Linz
Second event in German: Fri 6 Sept. 2024, 4 pm New Cathedral Linz

A project of OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 in cooperation with Ars Electronica and with the support of LIT-JKU, Uni Innsbruck, TU Wien, VCQ, SFB-beyondC and the city of Vienna culture.

Anton Bruckner‘s work has written music history and is renowned far beyond the country‘s borders. Austria is also internationally known for its contributions to quantum physics – not least thanks to the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In BruQner these two worlds meet: using a musical interpretation of a so-called “Bell Test”, striking passages from Bruckner‘s Perger Präludium are made audible in a new way.
A sensual symbiosis of music, visuals and modern research is created.

BruQner is one of the first attempts in the world to work musically with genuine quantum mechanics. Entangled photon pairs from lasers will take on the role of a conductor and show the disruptive findings of the second quantum revolution in a performance for the first time. BruQner is completely committed to the festival motto “Tradition, Innovation and Avant-Garde” – marvel with us and hear the future potential in Bruckner‘s music!

You can watch a promotion video here:

A project by:
Clemens Wenger (composer, musical direction)
Enar de Dios Rodríguez (artist, visual design)
Martin Ringbauer (Uni Innsbruck)
Johannes Kofler (JKU Linz)
Richard Küng (JKU Linz)
Alexander Ploier (JKU Linz)
Benjamin Orthner (TU Wien)
Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien, project management)

The Temperal Forest – 1000 years exposure time

nadine — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 13:10:51 +0000

With their video installation ‘The Temporal Forest’ the science-arts project SEEC Photography participates in the celebrations of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl Salzkammergut 2024.

Can our perspective of time change the way we behave towards our surroundings? What if we were to live hundreds of years like a tree? Or just one of the nanoseconds that are crucial for photosynthesis? Can we use cameras to visualize these timescales?

The Temporal Forest combines the fastest and the slowest photographic techniques to date to open up new perspectives on the environment and to think beyond the traditional human horizon of time. The team behind the Temporal Forest consists of the artists Enar de Dios Rodriguez and Jonathan Keats, as well as the physicists Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien) and Thomas Juffmann (Univ. Wien).

https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000229860/kamera-im-salzkammergut-schiesst-foto-mit-1000-jahren-belichtungszeit

Read more about this exciting project here: https://imaging.univie.ac.at/details-news/news/the-temporal-forest/

FWF START Award for Uroš Delić

nadine — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 10:16:40 +0000

photo © FWF/Luiza Puiu

Dr. Uroš Delić will be using the FWF START Award to investigate how interacting quantum systems behave, opening the door to a new field of research.

From individual particles of light to superconductors, quantum physics can describe phenomena on a wide array of scales and dimensions with unrivaled precision. However, physicists usually study systems isolated from their environment – a useful fiction, but one that does not dovetail with reality. Under the project title “QNONREC,” Uroš Delić will be using the FWF START Award to investigate how interacting quantum systems behave, opening the door to a new field of research.

While the quantum physics of individual, well-isolated systems is well understood, many-particle systems have puzzled physicists, despite representing the norm in the world outside of physics labs. The project aims to investigate interacting quantum systems by initiating interaction among several suspended nanoparticles, whose behavior can be precisely controlled and read out using lasers and optical resonators.

Uroš Delić is an experimental physicist. After completing degrees in physics and computer science in Belgrade, Serbia, Delić came to the University of Vienna, where he obtained his doctorate with honors in 2019. This was followed by research stays, for example at the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA. Today, Delić researches and teaches at the University of Vienna and, as part of the FWF START project, he will become a junior group leader at the Austrian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Innsbruck.

Find the full article here

Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Anton Zeilinger

nadine — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 07:55:00 +0000

We are excited that this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to the Austrian quantum physicist Anton Zeilinger (77), Emeritus Professor at the University of Vienna and faculty member of VCQ. This was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences on Tuesday, 4 October 2022, in Stockholm. The Nobel Prize was jointly awarded to Zeilinger, the French physicist Alain Aspect and US physicist John F. Clauser for their experiments with entangled photons.

To read more about the career of Anton Zeilinger and the road to the Nobel Prize, click here.

Photo: Anton Zeilinger © Jacqueline Godany

Quantum Bits

nadine — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 09:02:16 +0000

Quantum Bits is a series of events aimed at university students where you can discover quantum technologies bit by bit.

In each of these online events, after a short introduction to the topic of the session, you will meet three experts from different European institutions that will explain their work and its possible impact on society in just 5 minutes. After that, they will answer the questions coming from the audience.

This edition is dedicated to Quantum Communications.

Date and Time: 23rd February 2022, 17.00-18.00 CET

Introduction and moderation: Robert Sewell, ICFO

Rotem Arnon-Friedman, Weizmann Institute of Science
Rupert Ursin, Quantum Technology Laboratories GmbH
Vanesa Díaz, LuxQuanta

Quantum Bits is organized by the QTEdu pilot “QT5M” within the Quantum Flagship.

The organising entities are:

ICFO – Institute of Photonic Sciences
MCQST – Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology
Center of Quantum Science of Technology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics of Vienna University of Technology
Aarhus University
TU Delft

Quantum superposition of thermodynamic evolutions with opposing time’s arrows

nadine — Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:29:19 +0000

The team of Časlav Brukner at IQOQI Vienna and researchers at the University of Bristol, the University of the Balearic Islands and The University of Vienna have shown how quantum systems can simultaneously evolve along two opposite time arrows — both forward and backward in time

Artistic illustration of a gondolier trapped in a quantum superposition of time flows. Credit:
© Aloop Visual & Science, University of Vienna, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information of the Austrian Academy of Sciences

Paper Abstract

Microscopic physical laws are time-symmetric, hence, a priori there exists no preferential temporal direction. However, the second law of thermodynamics allows one to associate the “forward” temporal direction to a positive variation of the total entropy produced in a thermodynamic process, and a negative variation with its “time-reversal” counterpart. This definition of a temporal axis is normally considered to apply in both classical and quantum contexts. Yet, quantum physics admits also superpositions between forward and time-reversal processes, whereby the thermodynamic arrow of time becomes quantum-mechanically undefined. In this work, we demonstrate that a definite thermodynamic time’s arrow can be restored by a quantum measurement of entropy production, which effectively projects such superpositions onto the forward (time-reversal) time-direction when large positive (negative) values are measured. Finally, for small values (of the order of plus or minus one), the amplitudes of forward and time-reversal processes can interfere, giving rise to entropy-production distributions featuring a more or less reversible process than either of the two components individually, or any classical mixture thereof.

Publication
Contact

Rubino, G., Manzano, G. & Brukner, Č.

Quantum superposition of thermodynamic evolutions with opposing time’s arrows

Commun Phys 4, 251 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00759-1

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Welcome to the VCQ – Julian Lèonard

nadine — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 11:01:54 +0000

We are delighted to welcome Julian Lèonard to our VCQ faculty. He has started working at the Atominstitut of the TU Wien in November 2021. where he is leading the group “Experimental Quantum Information”

Julian Léonard is an experimental physicist working on quantum information and quantum optics. After undergraduate studies at TU Munich and Sorbonne Université Paris, he moved to ETH Zurich for his doctoral research on atom-light interactions. For the past years, he did postdoctoral research at Harvard University on quantum simulations with optical lattices. Awarded the Austrian START prize 2021, he started his own research group at TU Wien in November 2021, where he is building a next-generation quantum processor for applications in quantum computing and quantum materials based on ultracold atoms and optical cavities.