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4 octobre 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 for Anton Zeilinger | the ILL congratulates

© Nobel Prize Outreach The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 jointly to Alain Aspect, John F. Clauser and Anton Zeilinger “for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneeri…

Nuclear and Particle physics General news PF2 S18 Austria

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18 juillet 2022 A Quantum Wave in Two Crystals

Breakthrough in neutron physics: A team from TU Vienna, INRIM Turin and ILL Grenoble has succeeded for the first time in building a neutron interferometer from two separate crystals.

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5 juillet 2022 Prof. Hofmann and Dr. Lemmel experiment with reality

Quantum Mechanics is a strange theory. Richard Feynman said “I think it is safe to say nobody understands quantum mechanics”. So why is it so popular if nobody understands it? How is this the basis for all of our physical knowledge of particles and their interactions? An interview The Rational View

Nuclear and Particle physics S18 Austria

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16 mai 2022 One particle on two paths: Quantum physics is right

An old "flaw" of the famous double-slit experiment has now been corrected at TU Wien in a cooperation with Hiroshima University: A single neutron moves along two paths simultaneously, in clearly quantifiable proportions. Courtesy of TU Wien.

Nuclear and Particle physics Scientific news S18 Austria

7 août 2019 Experimental demonstration of direct path state characterisation by measuring weak values in a matter-wave interferometer.

schematic illustration of the interferometric setup A letter published in Physical Review Letters, by a group of scientists of the Atominstitut - Institute of Atomic & Subatomic Physics of TU Wien (Austria), after an experiment on S18 at ILL. Nuclear spin tomo…

S18 Austria Nuclear and Particle physics Press releases Scientific news

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29 juillet 2014 Scientists separate a particle from its properties

The Cheshire cat. © darren whittingham, fotolia.com 29.07.2014First experimental observation of a 'Quantum Cheshire Cat‘ could help to perform high precision measurements of quantum systems. Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have performed the fi…

Nuclear and Particle physics Press releases Scientific news S18 Austria