Experiment

Modern quantum materials, such as unconventional superconductors, quantum spin liquids, and topological semimetals, host a wide variety of emergent states of matter. A grand experimental challenge is to determine the broken symmetries and topological structure of these states. The Modic group combines custom-built thermodynamic probes with state-of-the-art sample preparation to answer these questions.

The first quantum revolution yielded lasers and transistors more than half a century ago. These days, a second quantum revolution is unraveling, yielding new quantum-enhanced technologies for information processing, communications and sensing. The Hosten group is interested in developing new protocols and techniques in the sensing branch of these developments using cold atoms and light.

Quantum systems are fragile, constantly altered and disrupted by their environments. The Higginbotham group investigates electronic devices that are exceptions to this rule, aiming to understand the basic principles of their operations and develop future information-processing technology.

The Fink group’s research is positioned between quantum optics and mesoscopic condensed matter physics. The team studies quantum physics in electrical, mechanical, and optical chip-based devices with the goal to advance and integrate quantum technology for simulation, communication, metrology, and sensing.

It is impossible to picture modern life without thinking of the vast amount of microelectronic applications that surround us. However, such development has only become possible with the invention of the transistor in the 1950’s. This – back at that time – few centimeters large device, led to a technological revolution. Today the size of the transistors has been shrunk to 7nm where quantum physics comes into play.

With our research we aim to understand and control strongly interacting atomic many-body systems. We are specialized in single atom resolved detection and control and work with ultracold fermions in optical lattices and Rydberg atoms in optical tweezers. One long-term goal is to contribute to the development of atomic quantum technologies.

The superconducting circuits group is led by Prof. Gerhard Kirchmair and is located at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck as well as the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information - IQOQI of the Austrian Academy of Science. Our research is based on superconducting electrical circuits and Josephson junctions, which are used to realize a circuit quantum electrodynamics system for quantum information processing and quantum simulation as well as to realize quantum-hybrid systems.

The Ultrafast Quantum Optics Group at Imperial College London is led by Provost and Chair of Experimental Physics, Professor Ian Walmsley. Our research concerns the application of ultrafast optics to study quantum phenomena in light and in matter, and at the interface between them.