Quantum Physics Group, University of Vienna

Quantum Physics Group, University of Vienna

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Welcome to the Official Bluesky Page of the Quantum Physics Group from @univie.ac.at. 🔬

795 Followers 453 Following 180 Posts Joined Dec 2024
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🎓🎊 Dies Academicus 2026 – Happy 661st Birthday, @univie.ac.at!

We are proud to celebrate this special day — and proud to be part of the #UniVienna community.

#DiesAcademicus #University #Birthday #AcademicExcellence

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⚛️👩🏽‍🔬 The diversity, enthusiasm and commitment of our female scientists are driving forces behind innovation and research in Vienna.

🎊 Happy International Women’s Day to everyone! Join Team Science >>> physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/wome...

📸: © Ian Ehm

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🧮🎂 This year the Schrödinger Equation turns 100!

🔗 To celebrate the centenary, the Faculty of Physics has launched a website about the equation and its legacy at #UniVie. Read more here: schroedinger100.univie.ac.at

📸: © Lee Rozema

#Schrödinger100 #Physics #Schrödinger #Legacy #Research

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🥘👩🏽‍🔬 Have you heard about the Lunchbreak Talks at the Faculty of Physics?

⚛️ The Lunchbreak Talks introduce female researchers from the Faculty as role models for young academics.

🔗 Previous events: physik.univie.ac.at/en/about-us/...

#UniVienna #STEM #Diversity #WomenInPhysics #Networking

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📜⚖️ Treasures from the Archive: 100 Years of Schrödinger's Equation!

🎂 The Faculty of Physics (@univie-physik.bsky.social) has opened a fascinating window into history.

🔎 Explore the archive highlights here: schroedinger100.univie.ac.at/treasures-fr...

📸: © Helen Piel | Erwin Schrödinger Archive

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⚛️🎙️ Join us for the Physics Colloquium in the Summer Semester of 2026!

🔗 Follow the link for more information on the talks: physik.univie.ac.at/events/collo...

📸: © Friederike Otto | Andrew Broadhead | Gerd Kortemeyer | Viatcheslav Mukhanov

#UniVie #Physics #Colloquium #PodiumTalk

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⚛️🚀 Quantum #Breakthrough: New measurement method enables efficient real-time verification of quantum technologies!

🔗 Read more here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

📸: © Lee Rozema (AI generated)

#UniVie #VCQ #ScienceMagazine #Publication #QuantumComputer #ScientificBreakthrough

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⚛️👩‍🔬 Women* in Science Day 2026 at the Faculty of Physics!

🙌 Science is fascinating, impactful, multifaceted - and female, too!

Read more about the female scientists at #UniVie ⤵️

🔗 physik.univie.ac.at/en/news/wome...

#WomenInScience #IDWGS2026 #QuantumPhysics #WomenInPhysics #STEM

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📄🔬 We have a new publication in #AVSQuantumScience!

🚀 The Scilight, "Quantum tools for classical sensing: Moiré fringes of megadalton clusters as a force probe" is now online: quantumnano.at/detailview-n...

#ScientificPaper #Scilight #AIPPublishing #QuantumScience

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⚛️🎓 E-STEEM: Empowering women in STEM and Economics!

🗓️ Applications open from 7 January to 2 March 2026 at 2:00 p.m. CET
👩🏻‍🏫 Start of employment: October 2026

🔗 Info and application: careers.univie.ac.at/en/postdoc/e...

© Ian Ehm

#Empowerment #WomenInSTEM #OpenPositions #PostDoc #FemaleResearcher

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1 month ago

On this day 100 years ago, January 27, 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published the first of a series of seminal papers introducing the Schrödinger equation, the cornerstone of #quantum mechanics. ⚛️
How did a single equation reshape our understanding of nature, driving innovation a century later? ⤵️

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⚛️🔬 Quantum Year 2025: More than 100 events introduced #QuantumPhysics to the Austrian public!

🙌 From school workshops to a quantum gala, Austria was all about quantum sciences in 2025. Read more here: url-shortener.me/AI1D

© Matthias Heisler

#UniVie #QuantumScience #Austria #UNESCO #QuantumYear

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🌌🎙️ Join us for the Quantum Information and Quantum Many-Body Physics Seminar Series!

⚖️ The next event:
Thursday, 29. January at 14:30
Ken Shiozaki from Kyoto University
"Higher Berry curvature and group action on parameter space in spin chain systems"

🔗 schuch.univie.ac.at/news/detailv...

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🏆🎊 Times Higher Education Ranking: @univie.ac.at with 6 subjects among the top 100 worldwide!

Alongside four other subjects, Physical Science has improved since last year, entering the top 100 at rank 95 (2025: 101–125).

🔗 More info: www.univie.ac.at/en/news/deta...

📸: © Ian Ehm

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⚛️💡 GROUNDBREAKING RESEARCH: Physicists from the Arndt Group put 7,000 atoms in superposition!

🏆 The experiment is currently one of the best tests of quantum mechanics on a macroscopic scale.

🔗 Press release and Nature Podcast: quantum.univie.ac.at/news/details...

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🎙️💡 Next Monday, on 26 January, our guest speaker Jun Ye from @jila.colorado.edu will present a talk entitled "Light a quantum path for clock and fundamental physics".

🥘 A light lunch buffet will be offered before the talk.

🔗 More info here: physik.univie.ac.at/events/event...

📸: © R. Jacobson

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Lots of interest tonight for the panel discussion "Physicist at the Forefront of the AI Revolution" at @esivienna.bsky.social.
We have a great panel of alumni of @univie-physik.bsky.social, who came back to discuss with current students about the opportunities (and perhaps dangers) of AI.

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⚛️🎂 Yesterday we celebrated the birthday of Paul Ehrenfest (1880–1933) – a brilliant Austrian physicist who helped shape quantum mechanics and the theory of phase transitions.

📸: © Wikimedia Commons

#Physics #QuantumMechanics #PaulEhrenfest #Legacy #Birthday

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🌍🌱 Next Monday, on 19 January, our guest speaker Diana Ürge-Vorsatz from the Central European University will ask the question, "Can we energy transition the world into carbon neutrality?"

More info: physik.univie.ac.at/events/event...

© Kriszta Falus

#Physics #Colloquium #PodiumTalk #Networking

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⚛️🏆 Congratulations to our former researcher Dr. Anne-Catherine de la Hamette on winning the Hans Thirring Prize 2025!

🎊 She was awarded the annual prize for the best PhD thesis by the Faculty of Physics during our Christmas Meeting, together with Sabri Koralthan from @tuwien.at.

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🌌🎙️ Join us for the Quantum Information and Quantum Many-Body Physics Seminar Series!

⚖️ Next event: Monday, 19 January at 11:30, where Daniel Burgarth will give a talk entitled "Error bounds for quantum dynamics with scale separation".

🔗 More info: schuch.univie.ac.at/news/detailv...

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⚛️⚖️ 100 years old — and still shaping our world!

In 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published a series of seminal papers introducing the Schrödinger equation, the cornerstone of quantum mechanics. ✨

#QuantumMechanics #SchrodingerEquation #Schrödinger #QuantumScience #Centenary

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🎂🥳 The World in One Line – Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100!

〰️ To celebrate this milestone, ESI Vienna and the Universität Wien are bringing together leading international experts for a two-day symposium.

🔗 More about the symposium: www.esi.ac.at/events/e596/

@esivienna.bsky.social @univie.ac.at

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🎆🔐 Group leader Philip Walther and Mathieu Bozzio have co-authored a new paper, which has been published in the #APSphysics journal #ReviewsOfModernPhysics.

ℹ️ "Quantum cryptography beyond key distribution: Theory and experiment"

🔗 Read more: walther.univie.ac.at/detailview-n...

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🎄🎆 The Quantum Physics Group at the University of Vienna wishes you a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, and a successful 2026!

#UniVie #QuantumScience #MerryChristmas #HappyNewYear

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🏆🎊 Congratulations to Group Leader Andreas Nunnenkamp on being part of the new Special Research Programme (SFB), "Neutral-atom quantum systems with high connectivity", funded by the FWF!

🔗 Further information on the project: nunnenkamp.univie.ac.at/news/news/ne...

📸: © Paulina Sliwa / iStock

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📝🔬 Group leader Norbert Schuch is the co-author of a new paper in #PRXQuantum!

🔗 More info on the paper "The Product Structure of Matrix Product States under Permutations": schuch.univie.ac.at/news/detailv...

#ScientificPaper #PhysicsResearch #OpenAccess #APSPhysics #MatrixProductStates

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🖥️🛰️ On the Austrian radio show "Punkt eins" by Ö1, Philip Walther discussed innovative ideas and the insights gained from scientific research into quantum computers. Listen in — the episode is in German: oe1.orf.at/programm/202...

📸: © Alexander Bachmayer | Walther Group

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🎙️⚛️ 24th Einstein Lecture Dahlem!

🐈 Markus Aspelmeyer took to the stage to explore one of the most intriguing questions in physics:

"Quantum Physics and Gravity: How does Schrödinger's cat's clock tick?"

📸: © Freie Universität Berlin | Max-Planck-Gesellschaft | Stefanie Loos

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🟠🔶 Today marks the start of the #OrangeTheWorld campaign against Gender-Based Violence. #UniVienna joins the global call for a future without violence.

🍊 On 27 Nov: Online lecture “Who Gets to Feel Safe? Who Gets to Speak Up?” with Bontu Lucie Guschke: personalwesen.univie.ac.at/en/culture-e...

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