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Welcome to Kelvin Ho!
Kelvin graduated with his master's in Theoretical Physics from University College London, United Kingdom.
Welcome to Jamie Morley!
Jamie completed his master's at the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
Svenja and Miriam attend a Winter School in Les Houches!
The Winter School in Physics of Trapped Charged Particles, held in Les Houches, France, covered various topics of physics with trapped charged particles.
Physics Day at CERN!
This week, our PhD students Florian, Jamie, Svenja, Miriam, Mooming, and Kelvin joined the DK-ALM Physics Day.
Welcome to Viktorija Stevanoska!
Viktorija is a Master's student at the University of Maribor, currently finishing her degree in Computer Science and Information Technologies.
QIG in the MIP Day!
The Quantum Interfaces Group is taking part in the MIP Day, an event organized by the Physics Department in collaboration with the Computer Science and Mathematics Institutes, where a wide range activities is offered to secondary education students. Hope we see you here!
Our ultra-high quality factor paper is now available!
We are pleased to anounce that out work on a levitated nanomechanical oscillator with an ultra-high quality factor is now published in Physical Review Letters.
Welcome to Santiago Gliosca!
Santiago is a PhD student at the University of Buenos Aires and he is joining the Nanospheres team for a 3-months stay.
Integrating a fiber cavity into a wheel trap
The cavity-QED team reports on their novel ion-cavity system designed for coupling a fiber cavity to multiple ions in the strong coupling regime.
Welcome to Leo Walz!
Leo is a master's student at Heidelberg University. He has joined the group for an internship project with the nanosphere experiment.
Entangled atoms across the Innsbruck quantum network
Trapped ions have previously only been entangled in one and the same laboratory. Now, teams led by Tracy Northup and Ben Lanyon from the University of Innsbruck have entangled two ions over a distance of 230 meters. The experiment shows that trapped ions are a promising platform for future quantum networks that span cities and eventually continents.
The wheel trap and fiber cavity were featured on the front page!
Our article “Integrating a fiber cavity into a wheel trap for strong ion–cavity coupling" was featured on the cover of AQS's March 2023 issue.
Welcome, Abderrahmane Kassid!
Abderrahmane is a master's student from the École normale supérieure in Paris. He has joined the group for an internship project with the nanosphere experiment.
3D sympathetic cooling and detection of levitated nanoparticles
The nanosphere team reports on how to cool and detect a nanoparticle without direct laser illumination. The research was published in the journal Optica.
Welcome to Svenja Müller!
Svenja received her Master from the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, Germany. Now she has joined the cavity QED experiment as a PhD student.
Welcome to Miriam Martínez!
Miriam received her Master in Nanoscience from the University of the Basque Country, Spain. Now, she has joined the Nanospheres team as a PhD student.
Max receives his master degree!
Congratulations to Max Meusburger on his Master's Thesis! Max's thesis is titled "A UHV-compatible method for trapping SiO2 particles with an optical trap".
Simon Explores 'Die Entstehung des Quanteninternets' at Pint of Science
We are excited to announce that Simon, a postdoc from our group, gave a talk titled 'Die Entstehung des Quanteninternets' at the Pint of Science event in Innsbruck. Thank you, Simon, for sharing your knowledge and creating such a fantastic atmosphere during the session.
Tracy Wins Gordon Memorial Speakership Prize
We are delighted to announce that Tracy has been awarded the prestigious Gordon Memorial Speakership Prize in recognition of her talk titled "Levitated optomechanics: towards quantum control of mechanical motion" presented at CLEO 2023. Congratulations Tracy on this well-deserved achievement!
QXtreme Group Retreat in Männedorf
We are thrilled to share that our nanosphere team recently attended the group retreat of the QXtreme project in Männedorf, Switzerland, as guests. It was an enriching experience where we had the opportunity to present and discuss our exciting results. Thank you to everyone involved in making this retreat a success!
Welcome back to Leo Walz!
After a successful internship in the group, Leo, a master's student from the University of Heidelberg, is starting his master's thesis on "Spin control of NV centers."
Simon Wins the Carl Zeiss Research Award for Young Researchers
We are thrilled to congratulate our postdoc, Simon, on being awarded the prestigious ZEISS Research Award for Young Researchers 2023 for his outstanding research achievements in optics and photonics.
Welcome to Moomin Jia!
Moomin graduated with her Master’s in Physics from King’s College London, United Kingdom. Now, she has joined us as a PhD student. She will be working on the creation of a quantum deployable network node in collaboration with Ben Lanyon’s group and AQT.
Luca receives his master's degree!
Congratulations to Luca Mastrangelo on his Master's Thesis titled "Towards absorption of single photons for an ion-cavity interface". Luca, it has been an absolute pleasure to have you as a member of our team. We wish you every success in your journey ahead!
Welcome to Paola Savarese!
Paola is a PhD student from the University of Naples Federico II. She works on quantum simulations and topological photonics, in the group of Filippo Cardano. She has joined the cavity QED experiment as a intern for 3 weeks.
Welcome to Nicolas Leto!
Nicolas is a bachelor's student from the University of Naples Federico II. He is doing his bachelor's thesis under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Aloisio, and now he has joined the cavity QED experiment as an intern for 3 weeks.
QIG Retreat in Coburger Hütte
This year our group gathered for a retreat at the Coburger Hütte.
Ricardo receives his master's degree!
Congratulations to Ricardo Conzatti on his master's thesis titled "A new control system for a quantum network node."
Katharina Heidegger is awarded the student prize from the ÖPG for her master's thesis
We are thrilled to announce that Katharina Heidegger has been awarded the prestigious Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG) Student Prize for her master's thesis.
Welcome to Žiga Pušavec!
Žiga works as a PhD student at University of Ljubljana, in the group of Rainer Kaltenbaek.
Attendance to the DK Summer School 2023
Last week, our PhD students from the DK-ALM program (Doctoral Programme Atoms, Light, and Molecules) Svenja, Florian and Roberts attended the DK Summer School at Starnberger See.
Lorenzo receives his PhD!
Congratulations to Lorenzo Dania on his PhD titled "Levitodynamical experiments with nanoparticles and ions trapped in Paul traps."
The Quantum Interfaces Groups is part quantA!
The Quantum Science Austria (quantA) brings together over 60 research groups in Austria and is intended to strengthen research in quantum science.
Welcome to Jolan Tissier!
Jolan has joined the group for an internship project with the fiber cavity experiment. In particular he will join the effort of developing and conducting the measurement of the vacuum Rabi splitting, a way to directly extract the coupling strength between the ion and the cavity.
Welcome to Luca Mastrangelo!
Luca has joined the Big cavity experiment for his master thesis. He will work on the absorption of single photons for quantum network experiments.
Katharina receives her master degree!
Congratulations to Katharina Heidegger on her Master's Thesis! Katharina's thesis is titled "Self-homodyne position detection of a levitated silica nanoparticle".
A mirror tracks a tiny particle
Sensing with levitated nanoparticles has so far been limited by the precision of position measurements. Now, researchers at the University of Innsbruck led by Tracy Northup, have demonstrated a new method for optical interferometry in which light scattered by a particle is reflected by a mirror. This opens up new possibilities for using levitated particles as quantum mechanical sensors.
Nanosphere a hot topic at ICAP 27
Tracy will talk about our recent results in the nanosphere and ion experiment.
Simon receives an ESPRIT grant by the FWF
Congratulations to Simon Baier on receiving an ESPRIT grant within the research initiative Quantum Austria!
Microparticle transfering from an ion to an optical trap, and vice versa
The nanosphere team demonstrates how to transfer a microparticle back and forth between an ion trap and a dual-beam optical trap. The research was published in the journal Review of Scientific Instruments.
Build an advanced European quantum internet ecosystem
The Quantum Internet Alliance has started a seven-year program to build an innovative Quantum Internet ecosystem in Europe. The first phase has a budget of 24 million euros. The research groups led by Tracy Northup and Benjamin Lanyon at the Department of Experimental Physics of the University of Innsbruck and the quantum computer spin-off AQT will be involved in the project.
Dario receives his PhD!
Congratulations to Dario Alessandro Fioretto on his PhD thesis! Dario's thesis is titled "Towards a flexible source for indistinguishable photons based on trapped ions and cavities".
How to build the next quantum computers
Tracy is co-author of a review article now published in Science about how recent progress in material science could help physicists in building better quantum computers
Simon interviewed by the Austrian broadcaster ORF
Simon Baier talks to the Austrian broadcaster ORF about the three-node quantum network that he helped to build in Delft and how it connects to our quantum network goals in Innsbruck
Austrian Quantum Fiber Network kickoff meeting
The Austrian Quantum Fiber Network (AQUnet) will enable new research in quantum communication and quantum metrology.
Insulators turn up the heat on quantum bits
Physicists have long suspected that dielectric materials may significantly disrupt ion-trap quantum computers. Now, researchers led by Tracy Northup have developed a new method to quantify this source of error for the first time. For the future operation of quantum computers with very many quantum bits, such noise sources need to be eliminated already during the design process.
Lorenzo wins the UniKORN poster prize!
Lorenzo Dania won the prize for Best Contributed Poster at today's UniKORN Virtual Poster Session.
Jakob receives his master degree!
Jakob's thesis is titled "Resonant state expansion applied to fiber Fabry-Pérot resonators".
Welcome to Roberts Berkis!
Roberts received his master’s in physics at the University of Latvia’s Faculty of Physics, Mathematics and Optometry, where he studied whispering-gallery-mode microresonators and their applications. His PhD research in our group will focus on integrating fiber-based optical cavities into trapped-ion quantum networks.
Markus receives his PhD!
Congratulations to Markus Teller on his PhD thesis! Markus's thesis is titled "Measuring and modelling electric-field noise in an ion-cavity system".
Welcome to Nina Erhart!
Nina has joined the nanosphere experiment as a master's student. She will work in the design and fabrication of "wheel" Paul traps for our experiments.
Welcome to Riccardo Conzatti!
Riccardo has joined the Big cavity experiment for his master thesis. He will work on the automatization of ion-photon entanglement for quantum network experiments.
Tracy interviewed on the Nature podcast
Tracy was interviewed about the quantum internet on the Nature podcast, which was reporting on entanglement of remote quantum memories in Jian-Wei Pan's group.
Welcome to Jakob Wahl!
Jakob has joined the fiber cavity experiment as a master's student. Some of our fiber cavity properties can't be explained using existing mathematical models, and Jakob is developing new models to investigate this question.
Our group has received funding from the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
The funding will be used to develop nodes for trapped-ion quantum networks based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), as part of an Austrian research initiative on Quantum Research and Technology (QFTE).
Klemens receives his PhD!
Congratulations to Klemens Schüppert on his PhD thesis! Klemens's thesis is titled "Quantum Interface - A fiber cavity perpendicular to a linear ion trap".
Dmitry receives an ESQ Discovery Project grant
Congratulations to Dmitry Bykov on receiving an ESQ Discovery Project grant! Dmitry was awarded a grant by the Erwin Schrödinger Center for Science and Technology for his upcoming project on sympathetic detection and cooling of nanoparticles levitated in a Paul trap.
Welcome to Katharina Heidegger!
Katharina has joined the nanospheres experiment as a master's student. She will study and implement a novel optical imaging technique for enhancing our particle’s detection efficiency.
Welcome to Pritom Paul!
Pritom has studied his Master at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology and he has joined the group as PhD student. He will work on the project "Mems-based devices for trapped-ion quantum network nodes".
Welcome to Simon Baier!
Simon finished his PhD study at the University of Innsbruck in 2018. As an Erwin-Schrödinger Fellow in the project “Spins in Diamond for a Quantum network” he moved to TU Delft. During the return year of his fellowship he now joins the group to work on remote ion-ion entanglement.
Welcome to Florian Goschin!
Florian received his Master in Physics at the LMU Munich, where he developed a technique to perform temperature measurements on the nanoscale using plasmonic particles. Now he has joined the nanospheres experiment as a PhD student. His focus is on studying the coupling of the ion - nanoparticle hybrid system to an optical cavity to achieve cooling towards the quantum ground state.