Our group focuses on developing methods to distribute, store and grow entanglement between remote quantum systems. Our physical platforms are trapped ions and photons. To learn more about our research, click here.
Latest news
Tatjana won the ÖPG Students' Award 2026
Tatjana Runggaldier received the Students' Award 2026 from the ÖPG (Austrian Physical Society) for her Master's thesis entitled "Ion-photon entanglement over a 17 km-long optical fibre deployed across Innsbruck".
Quantum Ground Station Opens
Today marked the official opening of the new Marietta Blau Quantum Ground Station on the mountain overlooking Innsbruck.
Final CIFAR meeting
Ben Lanyon has just returned from the final CIFAR Quantum Information Science (QIS) Program meeting in Banff, Alberta.
Welcome Thomas!
Thomas Lafenthaler has now joined the Distributed Quantum Systems group as a PhD student, where he will be working on entanglement growth between remote atomic quantum processors.
Team of the day!
Our team was featured on Radio Tirol as team of the day.
In the german-language interview, team member Armin Winkler summarised our research for a general audience.
A recording is available
Congrats, Tatjana! Tatjana Runggaldier receives her master's degree
Tatjana's thesis is titled "Ion-photon entanglement over a 17 km-long optical fibre deployed across Innsbruck".
Paper on Linking Cavity-Coupled Ions and Rare-Earth Quantum Repeaters published!
Our paper with the title 'Uniting Quantum Processing Nodes of Cavity-Coupled Ions with Rare-Earth Quantum Repeaters Using Single-Photon Pulse Shaping Based on Atomic Frequency Comb' got published in Physical Review Letters.
Distributed quantum sensing paper published!
Our paper with the titled 'Experimental Distributed Quantum Sensing in a Noisy Environment' got published in Physical Review Letters.