Our proof of principle demonstration of quantum radar is out now. It shows that an entangled source of microwave radiation can result in a relative object detection advantage compared to a classically correlated noise source.
Science Advances 6 eabb0451 (2020)
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Alfredo made it to the cover of our new institute annual report in his last week at IST before moving on to Scantinel Photonics. We are sad and wish him good luck!

We are excited to start working on superconducting quantum local area networks (SuperQuLAN) together with TU Wien, ETH Zurich, MPQ, CSIC and Zurich Instruments.

Check out the article at IST news.

Alfredo won the “IST Outstanding Scientific Achievement award 2019” for his experimental work on electro-optic frequency combs and his theoretical (and experimental) work on  microwave optical state transfer last year.

Congratulations!

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 third 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.