Research
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 Computing
Wolfgang LECHNER
Mathematical Quantum Physics
Gemma DE LES COVES
News
Two new faces
On Tuesday evening, experimental physicist Hannes Bernien and theoretical physicist Hannes Pichler gave their inaugural lectures at the University of Innsbruck. They presented their research programs to a large audience. The two quantum physicists share a common past at Harvard University, which has resulted in a long-standing and successful scientific collaboration, now being continued in Innsbruck.
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.
Events
Current Guests
Apr.1 - Oct.31: Thomas Müller, University of Konstanz, Germany
Contact: Hans Briegel |Topic: Scientific collaboration
Apr.14 - Sept. 30: Ruiyi Wang, SISSA Trieste, Italy
Contact: Glen Mbeng |Topic: erasmus+ cooperation
Jul. 4 - Jul. 9: Jan Broersen, Utrecht University, Netherlands
Contact: Hans Briegel |Topic: Scientific collaboration
Jul. 7 - Jul. 10: Nathan Leitao, Quantum Optics Laboratory, Harvard University, USA
Contact: Hannes Pichler|Topic: Scientific collaboration
Talks & Seminars
Workshops & Conferences
About us
The Department of Theoretical Physics is part of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics at the University of Innsbruck. With over 80 employees our department 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 Department 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.
Contact
Department of Theoretical Physics
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