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Quan­tum Infor­ma­tion and Com­pu­ta­tion

Hans J. BRIEGEL

Bio and Nano Phy­sics

Thomas FRANOSCH

Many-Body Quan­tum Optics

Hannes PICHLER

Cavity Quan­tum Elec­tro­dy­na­mics

Helmut RITSCH

Quan­tum Nano­phy­sics, Optics and Infor­ma­tion

Oriol ROMERO-ISART

Quan­tum com­mu­ni­ca­tion and quan­tum net­works

Wolfgang DÜR

Quan­tum Com­pu­ting

Wolfgang LECHNER

Mathe­ma­ti­cal Quan­tum Phy­sics

Gemma DE LES COVES

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Hot Schrödinger cat states cre­ated

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: When nature reveals its nat­u­ral laws

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 Institute for Theoretical Physics is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Innsbruck. With over 80 employees our institute is one of the largest ones of the University of Innsbruck.

The doctoral college „Atoms, Light and Molecules“ installed in the year 2016 and funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF serves as a training center for highly qualified and motivated academic talents from the national and international scientific community and we are glad to be part of it. This further intensifies the cooperation among scientists within the Special Research Program BeyondC (SFB F71), which connects theoretical and experimental research groups from Innsbruck and Vienna. The consortium aims to develop and exploit new methods and tools to describe, characterize, validate, and manipulate quantum systems in order to achieve the experimental regime of quantum systems for quantum superiority, the ability of quantum computing devices to solve problems that their classical counterparts cannot. The Institute of Theoretical Physics is also part of the Quantum Science Austria (quantA) cluster of excellence, which is further advancing fundamental research in the quantum sciences.

Additionally the technological capabilities have been improved recently by jointly used state-of-the-art facilities.

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Institut für Theoretische Physik
ICT-Gebäude
Technikerstraße 21A
A-6020 Innsbruck
Österreich

Institutsleiter:
Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr. Wolfgang Dür
Institutsreferentin:
Birgit Laimer

Tel. +43 512 507 52203
Fax +43 512 507 52299
theoretical-physics@uibk.ac.at
www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik