Many thanks to Andrea Trioni for designing our first group logo!

Our new paper shows how a mechanical oscillator can deterministically generate stationary entangled microwave radiation.

Nature 570, 480–483 (2019)
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The new institution size normalized nature index ranks IST Austria at second place worldwide in terms of research output: ranking, article, IST press release

Alfredo’s new article on electro optic frequency combs and related work from Harvard just appeared in Nature.

Resonant electro-optic frequency comb
Alfredo Rueda, Florian Sedlmeir, Madhuri Kumari, Gerd Leuchs, Harald G. L. Schwefel
Nature 568, 378–381 (2019)

The new special research program (SFB) “Quantum Information Systems Beyond Classical Capabilities (BeyondC)” funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) just started!

New paper in Nature Nanotechnology: Quantum electromechanics of a hypersonic crystal by Mahmoud Kalaee, Mohammad Mirhosseni, Paul B. Dieterle, Matilda Peruzzo, Johannes M. Fink and Oskar Painter.

With a news and views by Guido Burkard.

Shabir won the “Outstanding Scientific Achievement award 2018” at IST and more recently the best poster prize at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on “Scalable Hardware Platforms for Quantum Computing”, Bad Honnef, Germany, 13 – 17 January, 2019.

Congratulations!

APA Dossier about quantum technologies (in German) with a guest commentary by myself: Die ersten Quantencomputer nehmen Gestalt an.

Nature portraits IST Austria (and Matilda) (and our pretty much empty fridge) as part of the Nature Index 2018 Rising Stars supplement in this article about young Universities: Green Shots. This is the full list of the top 30 under 30.

Also interesting, Austria’s natural sciences output in high quality journals seems to grow more than 20 times slower than that of China but still faster than that of any other country: Challenger States.