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In the quantum laboratory...
...we ask Nature questions
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...
...leads to 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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Not even the sky is the limit...
...Telescopes, satellites and quantum communication
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...
...are often conceived in discussions
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...
...means to make sense of its phenomena
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...
...takes place in the classroom - and anywhere else
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"...
...automatically searches for new quantum experiments
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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Paul Ehrenfest Award 2020

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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”.

Markus Müller, group leader at IQOQI Vienna, has published a paper that suggests a novel unified approach to a class of old problems in the foundations of physics.

Open call in Experimental and Theoretical Quantum Science and Technology - Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ)

Nominations and self-nominations are now open for the present call of the Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper award for Quantum Foundations, that recognizes outstanding and influential research contributions to the foundations of quantum physics.

We are used to the fact that events are sharply localised in time. In a cuckoo clock, the cuckoo always calls at a precise time. Everybody looking at the clock would agree on this. However, a team of physicists led by Caslav Brukner from the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences...

By Friedrich Stadler, Institute Vienna Circle, University of Vienna, Vienna Circle Society, Vienna, Austria

and Flavio Del Santo, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria

Ernst Mach (1838-1916) has been one of the most prominent,...

| 22.07.2020

PhD positions in the Aspelmeyer group

| 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...

Events

Oct

11:00

Talk by Josef Pradler

Sep

09:00

Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference

Law without law: from observer states to physics via algorithmic information theory
M.P. Müller
Quantum, 4, 301 (2020)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB
Connector Tensor Networks: A Renormalization-Type Approach to Quantum Certification
M. Navascués, S. Singh, A. Acín
Physical Review X, 10, 021064 (2020)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB
Quantum clocks and the temporal localisability of events in the presence of gravitating quantum systems
E. Castro-Ruiz, F. Giacomini, A. Belenchia, Č. Brukner
Nature Communications, 11, 2672 (2020)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB

Paul Ehrenfest Award 2020

News

Researchers from IQOQI-Vienna win the FQXi essay contest

A physical version of idealism

PhD Fellowships

PhD positions in the Aspelmeyer group

Now Open: The 2020 Paul Ehrenfest Best Paper Selection

Quantum times: when did the cuckoo sing?

Blogs

A forgotten Viennese physicist: Friedrich Hasenöhrl

Transgressing the disciplinary boundaries: Ernst Mach

JOBS @ IQOQI

PhD positions in the Aspelmeyer group

Opening for Master Thesis in Quantum Communications

Events

Talk by Josef Pradler

Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference

Recent Publications

Zeit - vergeht sie wirklich?

Scientific Realism - lecture by Prof. Carlo Rovelli

Veronika Baumann: "My work in the foundations of quantum physics"

Mirjam Weilenmann: "How is it to be a quantum physicist"

Zeit - vergeht sie wirklich?

Scientific Realism - lecture by Prof. Carlo Rovelli

Veronika Baumann: "My work in the foundations of quantum physics"

Mirjam Weilenmann: "How is it to be a quantum physicist"

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