The Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) (
German: Institut für Quantenoptik und Quanteninformation) is a member institute of the
Austrian Academy of Sciences and was founded in November 2003, to create an Austrian research center for the newly developing fields of theoretical and experimental quantum optics and quantum information.
The Innsbruck site has seven research teams led by
Rainer Blatt,
Francesca Ferlaino,
Rudolf Grimm, Gerhard Kirchmair, Hannes Pichler, Oriol Romero-Isart and
Peter Zoller. The Vienna site has seven teams, led by
Markus Aspelmeyer,
Časlav Brukner, Marcus Huber, Markus Müller, Miguel Navascues,
Rupert Ursin, and
Anton Zeilinger, as well as the recently established YIRGs (Young Independent Researcher Groups), led by Ämin Baumeler, Costantino Budroni, and Yelena Guryanova.[1]
The two sites are independent research centers with strong links to the
University of Innsbruck and the
University of Vienna. Thereby a close exchange of students and postdocs is established, and the members of the institute can be integrated into teaching at the universities.
IQOQI-Innsbruck
The main research areas of IQOQI-Innsbruck include quantum computation with trapped ions, quantum gases of strongly magnetic atoms, complex quantum many-body behavior, superconducting quantum circuits, many-body quantum optics, quantum nanophysics and quantum information processing.
IQOQI-Innsbruck is located at the Campus Technik of the University of Innsbruck in the western part of Innsbruck.
IQOQI-Vienna
The main research achievements of IQOQI-Vienna include the up-to-now longest
quantum teleportation (over 144 km),[2] the highest photon
angular momentum states that are
entangled,[3] the coldest temperature of a
nano-mechanical resonator[4] and the first proposal for testing general relativistic time dilation in a quantum experiment.[5] IQOQI-Vienna is a member of the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ).[6]
IQOQI-Vienna is located in a historical building at Boltzmanngasse 3. In May 2015, the
European Physical Society has designated the building as an EPS Historic Site,[7] among the sites that are significant to physics and its history. The building was previously the location of the
Institute for Radium Research, now Stefan-Meyer-Institute for Subatomic Physics, initiated by Karl Kupelwieser and opened by
Archduke Rainer of Austria.[8]