Mariya Gabriel ist in der EU-Kommission zuständig für digitale Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Am 13. Juni war sie in Vorbereitung des österreichischen EU-Vorsitzes in Wien und besuchte auch Quantenphysiker/innen der Österreichischen Akademie der…

In the Foundational Questions Institute's essay contest on "What is fundamental", a 4th prize has been awarded to Dr. Markus Müller - IQOQI junior group leader.

Dr. Giuseppe Vitagliano from the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI-Vienna) collaborated with the Quantum Information Theory and Quantum Metrology group led by Prof. Geza Toth at the Unversity of the Basque Country, on…

The global quantum hands-on physics experiment "Big Bell Test" conducted in 2016 disproved Albert Einstein's verdict on the phenomenon of entanglement. With success, as the experiment’s publication in the science magazine "Nature" now confirmed.

Quantum communication (QC) offers numerous advantages to classical communication, one of which is unbreakable security. To provide global access to QC in the near future, quantum-compliant satellites are essential, however extremely expensive until…

At the „Lange Nacht der Forschung 2018“, Austria’s biggest public science event, researchers of the IQOQI Vienna explained what we know about the nature of light.

Do we really understand our detectors?

The 2018 Entropy Young Investigator Award was granted to Dr. Nicolai Friis, senior postdoc at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.

Entanglement is of central importance for the new quantum technologies of the 21st century. A German-Austrian research team is now presenting the largest entangled quantum register of individually controllable systems to date, consisting of a total…