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.
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