Quantum gas turns supersolid

25-Apr-2019 - Researchers led by Francesca Ferlaino from the University of Innsbruck and the Austrian Academy of Sciences report in Physical Review X on the observation of supersolid behavior in dipolar quantum gases of erbium and dysprosium. In the dysprosium gas these properties are unprecedentedly ...

Particle Zoo in a Quantum Computer

First experimental quantum simulation of particle physics phenomena

24-Jun-2016 - Physicists in Innsbruck have realized the first quantum simulation of lattice gauge theories, building a bridge between high-energy theory and atomic physics. In the journal Nature, Rainer Blatt‘s and Peter Zoller’s research teams describe how they simulated the creation of elementary particle ...

The "great smoky dragon" of Quantum Physics

Physicists evaluated the quantum delayed-choice experiments for the first time

15-Mar-2016 - Physicists around Anton Zeilinger have, for the first time, evaluated the almost 100-year long history of quantum delayed-choice experiments – from the theoretical beginnings with Albert Einstein to the latest research works in the present. Since the 17th century, science was intrigued by the ...

ERC-Grant for quantum physicist Jörg Schmiedmayer

Looking for special quantum states using atom chips: Jörg Schmiedmayer from the Vienna University of Technology receives an ERC Advanced Grant.

28-Jan-2013 - With his research on quantum states in the realm between order and disorder, Professor Jörg Schmiedmayer's work has raised quite a stir; ultra cold atom clouds with a high degree of order approach a disordered thermal equilibrium. During this transition they spend some time in an astonishingly ...

Ultra-cold chemistry

First direct observation of exchange process in quantum gas

05-Feb-2010 - Considerable progresses made in controlling quantum gases open up a new avenue to study chemical processes. Rudolf Grimm's research team has now succeeded in directly observing chemical exchange processes in an ultracold sample of cesium atoms and Feshbach molecules. Complex processes, which to ...