On Tuesday evening, experimental physicist Hannes Bernien and theoretical physicist Hannes Pichler gave their inaugural lectures at the University of Innsbruck. They both presented their research programs to a large audience. The quantum physicists share a common past at Harvard University, which has resulted in a long-standing and successful scientific collaboration, now being continued in Innsbruck.
Experimental physicist Yusuf Karli, a former PhD student in the research group of Gregor Weihs, has been awarded the IQOQI Dissertation Prize 2024. Worth 1,000 EUR, it has been awarded since 2013 as a recognition for outstanding scientific achievements in the field of quantum physics. We warmly congratulate Mr. Karli on his success!
Arfor Houwman from Francesca Ferlaino's team turned his research topic into a music video and won the international “Dance Your PhD” competition in the categories physics and AI/quantum physics with his entry “Collective Phenomena in Ultracold Dipolar Quantum Gases”.
Innsbruck physicists have presented a new architecture for improved quantum control of microwave resonators. In a recently published study, they show how a superconducting fluxonium qubit can be selectively coupled and decoupled with a microwave resonator and without additional components. This makes potentially longer storage times possible.
Quantum states can only be prepared and observed under highly controlled conditions. A research team from Innsbruck, Austria, has now succeeded in creating so-called hot Schrödinger cat states in a superconducting microwave resonator. The study, recently published in Science Advances, shows that quantum phenomena can also be observed and used in less perfect, warmer conditions.