Conspiracy Theories Influence Our Behavior – Even if We Do Not Believe in Them!
Not least because of the COVID-19 pandemic, conspiracy theories are more topical than ever. They are reported and discussed in almost all media and communication…
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Crystals Reveal Early Humans in the Kalahari 105,000 Years Ago Were As Innovative as Their Coastal Neighbors
Archaeological evidence in a rock shelter at the edge of the Kalahari Desert, South Africa, is challenging the idea that the origins of our species…
Exotic Ice XIX: New Crystalline Ice Form Decoded
Ice is a very versatile material. In snowflakes or ice cubes, the oxygen atoms are arranged hexagonally. This ice form is called ice one (ice…
Error Protected Quantum Bits Entangled: A Milestone in the Development of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computers
Even computers can miscalculate. Already small disturbances change stored information and corrupt results. That is why computers use methods to continuously correct such errors. In…
Giants of Madagascar Driven to Extinction by Humans and Climate Change
The entire endemic megafauna of Madagascar and the Mascarene islands was eliminated during the past millennium. To investigate possible drivers of this extinction, an international…
New Protocol Identifies Fascinating Topological Quantum States
Method can be directly applied in existing experimental platforms Nowadays, modern quantum simulators offer a wide range of possibilities to prepare and investigate complex quantum…
Atoms Don’t Like Jumping Rope: Breakthrough in Using Nanooptical Traps for Quantum Technologies
Scientists have removed an important obstacle to the practical use of nanooptical traps. Nanooptical traps are a promising building block for quantum technologies. Austrian and…
Physicists Hunt for Nitrogen Containing Molecules in Space
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck are on the hunt for nitrogen containing molecules in space. Using terahertz spectroscopy, they directly measured two spectral lines…
Physicists Develop Data Bus for Quantum Computers
The quantum world is fragile; error correction codes are needed to protect the information stored in a quantum object from the deteriorating effects of noise….
Physicists Demonstrate Probing Topology by “Heating”
Physicists reveal an intriguing manifestation of topology, which appears in the depletion rate of topological states of matter in response to an external drive. In…
Research Shows Human Contribution to Glacier Mass Loss Has Steadily Increased
By using computer simulations of the climate, researchers have found evidence for anthropogenic glacier mass loss in recent decades. In a paper published in the…
Physicists Encode One Qubit in Entangled States Distributed Over Several Particles
Physicists have experimentally encoded one qubit in entangled states distributed over 7 trapped-ion qubits and demonstrate the capability of the code to detect one bit…
Quantum Physicists Measure the Second Triatomic Resonance in Efimov’s Scenario
Quantum Physicists measure the second Efimov resonance of three particles in an ultracold quantum gas, providing the most accurate demonstration to date of the discrete…
Entanglement Enhanced Detection of Single Photons
In a newly published study, physicists from the University of Innsbruck detail a technique to detect the scattering of a single photon on a broad…
Physicists Realize New Quasiparticle in Ultracold Quantum Gas
Physicists at the University of Innsbruck have succeeded for the first time in experimentally realizing a new quasiparticle, a repulsive polaron, in an ultracold quantum…
Physicists Create a Condensate of Erbium
A research team at the University of Innsbruck is the first to successfully create a condensate of the element erbium, making it the third chemical…