The paper “General relativistic effects in quantum interference of photons” by M. Zych, F. M. Costa, I. Pikovski, T. Ralph, Č. Brukner has been selected by the Editorial Board of “Classical and Quantum Gravity” to be one of the Journal's Highlights…

Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften zeichnet elf junge Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler für ihre hervorragenden Leistungen aus.

Der Best Paper Award des Jubiläumsfonds der Stadt Wien für die ÖAW geht an zwei Doktoranden, die jeweils…

Die renommierte Uraniamedaille wird heuer gemeinsam von der Urania Berlin und Berlins Regierendem Bürgermeister, Klaus Wowereit, an den Quantenphysiker Anton Zeilinger verliehen. Die Auszeichnung erhält er für seine beispielhafte Verbindung von…

A cost-effective architecture for quantum cryptography has been demonstrated in which a single receiver positioned at a network-hub node is shared by many end users to exchange secret encryption keys.

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Anton Zeilinger, Robert Fickler and colleagues at the University of Vienna have been named in Physics World magazine’s list of top 10 breakthroughs for 2012.

The "American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)" has elected Prof. Anton Zeilinger to be a fellow. The Austrian physicist has been elevated to this rank because of his pioneering contributions to quantum physics, including quantum…

The Vienna research team led by Anton Zeilinger has achieved a new milestone in the history of quantum physics: The scientists were able to generate and measure the entanglement of the largest quantum numbers to date. To this end, the researchers…

One of the most deeply rooted concepts in science and in our everyday life is causality; the idea that events in the present are caused by events in the past and, in turn, act as causes for what happens in the future. If an event A is a cause of an…

Physicists at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences have achieved quantum teleportation over a record distance of 143 km. The experiment is a major step towards satellite-based quantum communication. The results have now been…

An international collaboration led by a team of Viennese researchers shines new light on the question of the resources required for achieving quantum information processing. The scientists demonstrate that less demanding resources, which are easier…