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.
Quantum simulators are a completely new tool for research: quantum physics is studied by other kinds of quantum physics. Research teams from Innsbruck and Vienna are developing a new method that will allow this new technology to be reliably verified.
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The University of Concepción in Chile has awarded a honorary doctorate to quantum physicist Peter Zoller for his scientific achievements in quantum optics and quantum information. The honor was also in recognition of his long-standing ties with the Latin American university.