Lukaš Podhora has joined the Barium team for the next six months. Lukaš is studying for a PhD at Olomouc university. During his internship in our lab, he will help setting up the new Barium trap experiment, which includes a hemispherical mirror, and work on measurements of ion motion using a fast camera.

An international group of researchers has achieved the world’s first multi-qubit demonstration of a quantum chemistry calculation performed on a system of trapped ions, one of the leading hardware platforms in the race to develop a universal quantum computer.

Congratulations, Gerard!

Thesis Titled: A single trapped Rydberg ion

Welcome Dominik Kiesenhofer!
Domink has joined the team of SPICY. He got his masters's degree in biophysics from the TU Vienna for simulations on a single-molecule spectroscopy technique. In Innsbruck, he will work as PhD student at the new experiment SPICY, which aims at realising a two-dimensional quantum simulator with full quantum control of 100 particles. 

A team led by experimental physicist Rainer Blatt has succeeded in characterizing the quantum entanglement of two spatially separated atoms by observing their light emission. This fundamental demonstration could lead to the development of highly sensitive optical gradiometers for the precise measurement of the gravitational field or the earth's magnetic field.

 In an interview with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Rainer Blatt talks about the current status and the future of quantum computing, as well as the role of Europe in the development of this technolgy. Read the article titled "Wann kommt der Quantenrechner?: Verliert Europa den Anschluss an die Weltspitze?" here (german only).

"Revista Española de Metrología" (Spanish journal of metrology), has recently published an interview with Prof. Rainer Blatt on his webpage "e-medida". There he talks about the second quantum revolution and the future of quantum technologies in Europe. Read the interview here.

In an experiment realized in our laboratories at IQOQI Innsbruck, and in collaborations with scientists from Vienna and Ulm, we have demonstrated the largest entangled quantum register of individually controllable systems to date, consisting of a total of 20 quantum bits. 

Aurélien has joined the group for an internship. He is doing his masters at École Polytechnique in Paris, France. He will work on implementing Sisyphus cooling at the QSIM experiment.