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…

Researchers at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences develop a new theoretical framework to describe how causal structures in quantum mechanics transform. They analyse under which conditions quantum mechanics allows the causal…

Light can propagate with complex spatial structures, which allow for encoding information beyond one bit per photon. This could significantly increase data rates compared to today's communication technology. To exploit this, however, new methods must…

Vienna, 24-27 September

Whether there exists something ‘real’ to be described by science is one of the oldest question in philosophy of science, and it is one of the fundamental pillars on which scientific disciplines are built. In particular, are theoretical entities…

Communication requires to embody information into a physical system, the so-called information carrier. Classically, the information carrier can only travel from a sender to the receiver, resulting in a “one-way” communication. Theoretical physicists…

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