Hotel Bayerischer Hof

Conference Room Konstanz 1–2

Access for Nobel Laureates and pre-registered Young Scientists only
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Rainer Blatt
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Serge Haroche
Collège de France

Yusuf Karli
University of Innsbruck, Austria

Anton Zeilinger
University of Vienna, Austria

Moderator: Markus Arndt
University of Vienna, Austria

For more than a century, quantum science has provided us with a plethora of phenomena that defy our classical intuition such as the discreteness of matter, the existence of antimatter or spin, quantum measurement and quantum randomness, quantum superpositions and quantum entanglement.
While these phenomena have triggered intense debates about what we can know about the world, even in principle, quantum science has become our most precise model of nature. Modern quantum experiments achieve a stunning precision for applied metrology and quantum technologies contribute already now substantially to the world economy. Over recent decades, the community has developed stunning capabilities in controlling individual and collective quanta such as electron spins, atoms or molecules, photons or phonons with utmost control. These advances have opened a plethora of novel technologies around quantum sensing, quantum simulation, quantum communication and quantum computing. We will shed light on the state of the art, promising developments and open challenges. We will use the example of quantum science as a paradigmatic example to discuss what is needed to break new grounds in science and in technology.

Moderator: 

Markus Arndt is a Professor of Quantum Nanophysics at the University Vienna. His research is focused on quantum interferometry with macromolecules, giant clusters and dielectric nanoparticles. Driven by an interest in the foundations of physics, his team is developing practical tools for a quantum-enhanced measurement of molecular properties. They explore quantum detectors for biophysical chemistry and matter-wave imaging.