Quantum Physics

31. January 2024

Quantum entanglement in bent space

Between gravity and the quantum world

Physicists in the team of Philip Walther at the University of Vienna investigate how gravity works in the bizarre realm of quantum physics. Watch the video for a glimpse into their lab and their ambitions and read on to learn about a new precision experiment on the influence of gravity on quantum entanglement.

3. October 2023

Nobel Prize in Physics 2022

Nobel Prize for Anton Zeilinger and his revolutionary "crazy ideas"

One year ago, on 4 October 2022, Anton Zeilinger (78) was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, which he accepted in Stockholm on 10 December together with his colleagues Alain Aspect and John F. Clauser. Read and watch highlights of the eventful year here, with the award ceremony as, according to Zeilinger, "an unbeatable highlight".

13. December 2022

Audimax Podcast with Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Lee Rozema

Working on questioning essentially everything

Quantum physicists Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Lee Rozema work on challenging the fundamental principles of physics and how we think of our everyday life. In this podcast, they talk about their work life: They discuss how experimentalists and theoreticians are entangled, how they deal with their own uncertainties and the current trajectories of their fields.

7. December 2022

Presenting... Experimental physicist Iurie Coroli

Quantum mechanics of mesoscopic objects

Iurie Coroli, PhD candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates quantum properties of so called "mesoscopic objects”, a scale between microscopic atoms and macroscopic everyday objects. Together with his team the experimental physicist builds a system using a high powerful laser beam to study the regime of quantum mechanics, as he explains in the video.

29. November 2022

Quantum Physics

Researching the Quantum World: What our universe is built of

At the University of Vienna, quantum physicists from different countries, ages and career levels, have one thing in common: Genuinely curious, they try to understand the fundamental building blocks of the universe. In the video, three researchers from the research group Quantum Optics, Quantum Nanophysics and Quantum Information tell us what drives them and take us on a tour of their workplace.

5. May 2021

Presenting... Physicist Valeria Saggio

Using quantum physics for machine learning

Valeria Saggio, doctoral candidate at the Vienna Doctoral School in Physics, investigates the bridge between quantum physics and artificial intelligence. Her team was able to demonstrate that the learning time of agents can be reduced when quantum physics is used in the machine learning protocol.