News - Quantum Optics and Spectroscopy

Philip Holz receives his PhD

Details: Published: Monday, 11 May 2020

Congratulations, Philip!

Thesis Title: Towards ion-lattice quantum processors with surface trap arrays

Daniel Heinrich receives his PhD

Details: Published: Thursday, 07 May 2020

Congratulations, Daniel!

Thesis Title: Ultrafast Coherent Excitation of a ⁴⁰Ca⁺ Ion

Kirill Lakhmanskiy receives his PhD

Details: Published: Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Congratulations, Kirill!

Thesis Title: On heating rates in cryogenic surface ion traps

Welcome Christian Marciniak

Details: Published: Tuesday, 17 March 2020

Christian completed his PhD at the University of Sydney, Australia, where he built a Penning trap setup for analog quantum simulation experiments with hundres of qubits in a 2D Coulomb crystal of beryllium ions.

In Innsbruck he is joining the AQTION project where he hopes to deploy his expertise to deliver Europe's first compact trapped-ion quantum computer demonstrator.

Welcome Tuomas Ollikainen

Details: Published: Wednesday, 05 February 2020

Tuomas completed his PhD in Aalto University, Finland, where he worked on topological excitations in Bose-Einstein condensates. He did part of the PhD work in Amherst College, USA, where he worked on BEC experiments.

In Innsbruck, Tuomas will join the 2D crystals project with the goal of trapping, cooling, and performing experiments on two-dimensional ion crystals.

Rainer Blatt erhielt Ehrendoktorat der Universität Madrid

Details: Published: Tuesday, 04 February 2020

Für seine wissenschaftlichen Leistungen auf dem Gebiet der Quantenphysik erhielt der Experimentalphysiker Rainer Blatt am Freitag in Madrid ein Ehrendoktorat der Universität Complutense Madrid. Bereits am Mittwoch wurde Blatt als ausländisches Mitglied in die Spanische Akademie der Wissenschaften aufgenommen.

Benchmarking scalability and performance of quantum computers

Details: Published: Monday, 25 November 2019

Researchers at the University of Innsbruck and the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), Waterloo, Canada have demonstrated a new method to benchmark different quantum computer platforms.

Welcome Benjamin Wilhelm

Details: Published: Friday, 15 November 2019

Benjamin joined our group as a master student. He will join the SQIP team for setting up a Raman laser system

New group page for Quantum Interfaces

Details: Published: Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Tracy Northup and her team have now their own group page. News about their research in interfaces between light and matter can be found at https://www.uibk.ac.at/exphys/quantum-interfaces/

Entanglement sent over 50 km of optical fiber

Details: Published: Tuesday, 03 September 2019

For the first time, the PhiNet team has sent a light particle entangled with matter over 50 km of optical fiber. This paves the way for the practical use of quantum networks and sets a milestone for a future quantum internet.