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Elena wins the UIBK Best Student Paper Award!

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Congratulations to Elena for winning the UIBK Best Student Paper Award in the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics! This prize was awarded for her paper, “Glitches in Rotating Supersolids” published in the journal Physical Review Letters. You can find a general overview of this research about the connection between glitches in the supersolid and neutron stars in our writeup, and the press releases by UIBK and Phys.org.

The ceremony for this award took place on Friday, June 28, 2024 in the Auditorium, at Innrain 52, 6020 Innsbruck. You can find more details about the ceremony and the other award winners here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/events/info/2024/sommerfestakt-vizerektorat-fuer-forschung.

 

 

 

 

 

 

NewScientist Feature: Quantum ‘supersolid’ matter stirred using magnets!

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Our latest research on the observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid has been featured in NewScientist! You can read the article,  ‘Quantum ‘supersolid’ matter stirred using magnets‘, here.

For a general overview of this paper and its connection to our previous research, see our writeup here.

For all the details, see the pre-print here: arXiv:2403.18510.

LFUI Guest Professorship granted

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Luca Barbiero
Politecnico di Torino, Italy

Our group is very happy to announce that Dr. Luca Barbiero, currently Asssistent Professor at Politecnico di Torino, will visit us for a LFUI Guest Professorship for two months during October and November 2023. During his stay we will together work on new ideas on how to use our experimental dipolar platforms for the quantum simulation of Bose- and Fermi-Hubbard models with strong dipolar interactions. He will also give a special lecture on equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium properties of dipolar lattice systems to interested Master- and PhD-students.

Summer 2023: Aurora Excellence Fellowship Program

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OPEN CALL – The Aurora Excellence Fellowship Program for Visiting Bachelor, Master and PhD Students is now accepting applications. This internship program aims to enhance scientific collaboration and exchange in the field of quantum science and technology between the University of Naples Federico II and Universität Innsbruck, both members of the Aurora European Universities Alliance.

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Call for PhD students

Call for Bachelor/Master students

Cluster of Excellence Quantum Science Austria granted

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Quantum Science Austria
University of Innsbruck, University of Vienna, Vienna University of Technology, University of Linz, IST Austria, Austrian Academy of Sciences

The Second Quantum Revolution – the breathtaking development of modern quantum science – would not have been conceivable without the pioneering contributions from Austria. Based on them, quantum technologies are being developed today that surpass classical technologies in many areas. The Cluster of Excellence Quantum Science Austria, which has now been approved by the Austrian Science Fund FWF, is advancing basic research in the quantum sciences, aims to expand the frontiers of knowledge and thus be the engine for future innovations. The focus is on fundamental questions regarding the quantum nature of space, time and gravity, new paradigms in quantum information science and the physics of quantum many-body systems. The scientists* in Innsbruck, Vienna, Linz and Klosterneuburg are asking innovative fundamental questions that can only be solved by combining the unique know-how available in Austria. With well-controlled model systems based on trapped ions, ultracold atoms, long-range interaction systems, photonic systems, superconducting quantum circuits, and nanoscopic solid-state systems, they aim to unravel the most challenging puzzles of the quantum world.

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