The Austrian Science Fund (FWF) has approved a new special research area on quantum systems of neutral atoms. Research groups led by Hannes Bernien, Francesca Ferlaino, and Hannes Pichler from IQOQI Innsbruck are participating in this project. The FWF will fund the new research network with approximately €4 million over a period of four years.
Every year, the data company Clarivate publishes a list of the most cited—and therefore most influential—scientists. The latest list, published on Wednesday, includes 6,868 “Highly Cited Researchers” from 60 countries—3 of whom are from IQOQI Innsbruck: Rainer Blatt, Hannes Pichler, and Peter Zoller.
Austria is a real hotspot on the international quantum physics map. To mark the end of the UNESCO Year of Quantum Theory, the Austrian physics community celebrated the achievements of its research and invited the public to an event at Vienna City Hall under the motto “Welcome to the Quantum World.”
This week, Jay Gambetta, Director of IBM Research, visited IQOQI Innsbruck and the University of Innsbruck. Gambetta, a physicist, is one of the world's leading experts in the field of quantum information and quantum computing.
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.