• In the quantum laboratory...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • Sharing new findings...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • Not even the sky is the limit...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • New ideas...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • Understanding quantum physics...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • Learning...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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  • "Melvin"...

    We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

    Mission Statement

We at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information – Vienna (IQOQI-Vienna) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences are committed to advancing knowledge and enhancing human understanding of nature and its laws. We also actively pursue the vision of quantum information science and the wide range of new possibilities it would open up for humanity. To this end, we conduct theoretical and experimental research on the foundations of quantum physics and the physics of quantum information and develop new quantum technologies.

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News

WEITERE ARTIKEL

Last call for nominations to the 2020 Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Award

The deadline is on September 30th for nominations and self-nominations to the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper award for Quantum Foundations, that recognizes outstanding and influential research contributions to the foundations of quantum physics.

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IQOQI-Vienna publication chosen as research highlight on Nature Physics

A recent work of IQOQI-Vienna’s Mirjam Weilenmann, together with Roger Colbeck from the University of York, has been selected as research highlight and reviewed on Nature Physics.

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Efficient Generation of High-Dimensional Entanglement for a more efficient quantum secured communication

High-dimensional entanglement promises to greatly enhance the performance of quantum communication and enable advantages unreachable by qubit entanglement. In a recent work published in Physical Review Letters, researchers from Hefei in China in collaboration with researchers from IQOQI-Vienna...

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QUANTUM SECURE COMMUNICATION WITH EIGHT FRIENDS

In Bristol, researchers in cooperation with IQOQI-Vienna (Austrian Academy of Sciences) have built a network that allows quantum-encrypted communication between eight participants. The breakthrough is the key that is generated and distributed centrally, as the team now reports in Science Advances.

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Algorithm determines new blueprint for quantum systems

With the help of the computer algorithm Melvin, quantum researchers from the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the University of Vienna have developed a new approach to manipulate complex constellations of entangled light particles in a targeted manner. The method published in the journal "Physical...

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Researchers from IQOQI-Vienna win the FQXi essay contest

Markus Müller and Flavio Del Santo, researchers at IQOQI-Vienna, won the first and third prize respectively of this year's contest on “Undecidability, Uncomputability and Unpredictability”.

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Blogs

Dishonesty in academia: the deafening silence of the Royal Society Open Science Journal on an accepted paper that failed the peer review process

 

Florin Moldoveanu researches the foundation of quantum mechanics with emphasis on quantum mechanics reconstruction and solving the measurement problem. After getting his PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Maryland at College Park in 1999, he pursued a career in industry. Three years...

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Erwin Schrödinger, Professor at the University of Vienna

By Emer. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Herbert Pietschmann, Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna

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JOBS @ IQOQI

| 18.05.2020

Opening for Master Thesis in Quantum Communications

The group of Rupert Ursin at IQOQI is currently looking for motivated master students interested in writing an experimental...

| 29.08.2017

Bachelor’s, Diploma and Master's Theses

We offer diploma and master's theses from following subject areas:

 

Events

Okt
05
11:00

Talk by Josef Pradler

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Sep
07
09:00

Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference

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Recent Publications

  • Does violation of a Bell inequality always imply quantum advantage in a communication complexity problem?
    A. Tavakoli, M. Zukowski, Č. Brukner
    Quantum, 4, 316 (2020)
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  • A trusted node–free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network
    S. Koduru Joshi, D. Aktas, S. Wengerowsky, M. Lončarić, S. Neumann, B. Liu, T. Scheidl, G. Lorenzo, Z. Samec, L. Kling, A. Qiu, M. Razavi, M. Stipčević, J. Rarity, R. Ursin
    Science Advances, 6, 0959 (2020)
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  • Evolution of confined quantum scalar fields in curved spacetime. Part I
    L. Barbado, A. Báez-Camargo, I. Fuentes
    The European Physical Journal C, 80, 796 (2020)
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Zeit - vergeht sie wirklich?
Ursin Group: Quantum secure communication with eight friends
Veronika Baumann: "My work in the foundations of quantum physics"
Mirjam Weilenmann: "How is it to be a quantum physicist"
Zeit - vergeht sie wirklich?
Ursin Group: Quantum secure communication with eight friends
Veronika Baumann: "My work in the foundations of quantum physics"
Mirjam Weilenmann: "How is it to be a quantum physicist"