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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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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.

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.

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...

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.

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...

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”.

By Dr. Florin Moldoveanu, George Mason University, College of Science, USA

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

| 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

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Talk by Josef Pradler

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Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference

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)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB
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)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB
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)
DOI Website RIS ENW BIB

Paul Ehrenfest Award 2020

News

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

IQOQI-Vienna publication chosen as research highlight on Nature Physics

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

QUANTUM SECURE COMMUNICATION WITH EIGHT FRIENDS

Algorithm determines new blueprint for quantum systems

Researchers from IQOQI-Vienna win the FQXi essay contest

Blogs

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

Erwin Schrödinger, Professor at the University of Vienna

JOBS @ IQOQI

Opening for Master Thesis in Quantum Communications

Bachelor’s, Diploma and Master's Theses

Events

Talk by Josef Pradler

Vienna Quantum Foundations Conference

Recent Publications

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"

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