Big step toward quantum computing: Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks
23 May 2012, 3:17 pm
Quantum computers may someday revolutionize the information world. But in order for quantum computers at distant locations to communicate with one another, they have to be linked together in a network. While several building blocks for a quantum computer have already been successfully tested in the laboratory, a network requires one additonal component: A reliable interface between computers and ...

Elusive quasiparticles realized: Repulsive polarons in an ultracold quantum gas
23 May 2012, 2:18 pm
In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. For the first time physicists have succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle – a repulsive polaron -- in an ultracold quantum gas.

Elusive quasiparticles realized
23 May 2012, 12:32 pm
In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In innsbruck, Austria, for the first time Rudolf Grimm's team of physicists has succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle - a repulsive polaron - in an ultracold quantum gas. The scientists have published their results in the online edition of the ...

Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks
23 May 2012, 11:59 am
(Phys.org) -- Quantum computers may someday revolutionize the information world. But in order for quantum computers at distant locations to communicate with one another, they have to be linked together in a network. While several building blocks for a quantum computer have already been successfully tested in the laboratory, a network requires one additonal component: a reliable interface between ...

Repulsive polaron: Austrian physicists realize elusive quasiparticles
23 May 2012, 11:59 am
(Phys.org) -- In quantum physics physical processes in condensed matter and other many-body systems can often be described with quasiparticles. In innsbruck, for the first time Rudolf Grimm’s team of physicists has succeeded in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle – a repulsive polaron – in an ultracold quantum gas. The scientists have published their results in the online issue of the ...

Austrians Top Podium; Puccio, McColl in Top Four
22 May 2012, 11:57 am
5/22/12 - Kilian Fischhuber and Anna Stöhr took first in the latest Bouldering World Cup in their local town of innsbruck, Austria, on May 19.

Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind
22 May 2012, 8:56 am
( University of innsbruck ) Francesca Ferlaino's research team at the University of innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.

First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium: Quantum condensate of the thirteenth kind
22 May 2012, 8:32 am
Scientists have created a condensate of the exotic element erbium. Ultracold quantum gases have exceptional properties and offer an ideal system to study basic physical phenomena. Erbuim is a very exotic element, which due to its particular properties, offers new and fascinating possibilities to investigate fundamental questions in quantum physics.

First Bose-Einstein condensate of erbium produced
22 May 2012, 3:49 am
Francesca Ferlainos research team at the University of innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the exotic element erbium. The innsbruck experimental physicists hold the world record in attaining the first Bose-Einstein condensates of different chemical elements.

Grugger ends ski career after near-fatal crash
24 April 2012, 7:04 am
innsbruck, Austria (AP) Austrian skier Hans Grugger has ended his career, 15 months after sustaining life-threatening head injuries during a training crash on the World Cup downhill course in Kitzbuehel.