New IQOQI Prize Fellows 24.10.2025

Photo: David Jordan
Theoretical physicist Francesco Cesa and experimental physicist Peng Yin are the new IQOQI Prize Postdoc Fellows. Both are working on dual-species atom arrays, a promising technology that has been established in Innsbruck in recent years by Hannes Pichler and Hannes Bernien.

Supersolid spins into synchrony 23.10.2025

Illustration: Andrea Litvinov
Supersolids, a state of matter that combines the rigidity of a solid with the frictionless flow of a superfluid, exhibit surprising synchronization when rotated. Innsbruck researchers found that quantum vortices—tiny whirlpools in the quantum fluid— cause the precession and revolution of the superfluid crystal structure to synchronize their motion. This discovery provides a new tool for studying fundamental properties of quantum systems.