Simon has been awarded a prestigious Starting Grant by the European Research Council (ERC), the highest award for successful young scientists in Europe. We will

Our new paper on „Minimization of micromotion for nanoparticles in a Paul trap“ is now on arXiv! In this work, we demonstrate methods for efficient

We demonstrate for the first time coherent microwave control of NV center spins inside our Paul trap. Here, the NV center spin ensemble is hosted

Utku received his bachelor’s degree in physics from the İzmir Institute of Technology. He is now joining our diamond levitation team for his master’s thesis.

This night we have reached a new record in diamond levitation at the highest vacuum so far! We feedback cool the translational motion of the

We’re excited to announce that we’ve successfully trapped our first diamond particles and observed the characteristic fluorescence spectrum of the embedded NV centers! This marks

Congratulations, Leo! Our master’s student Leo Walz has finalized his thesis with the title „Room Temperature Spin Control in High Temperature High Pressure Nanodiamonds„, where

We’ve finished building our vacuum chamber for diamond levitation experiments! The setup includes a linear Paul trap, high-NA lenses, and a metal target for laser

This week, we’ve been celebrating 20 years of the Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information in Innsbruck. It’s been an incredible week filled with

This year, the Quantum Interfaces group had the pleasure of gathering for a group retreat at the cozy Meissner Haus. We spent three wonderful days

Exciting news from the lab! We’ve made a milestone by successfully controlling the spin state of 1000s of Nitrogen-Vacancy centers inside commercial nanodiamonds at room

Leo Walz is joining us for an external master’s thesis from the University of Heidelberg. He will be focusing on establishing spin control of Nitrogen-Vacancy

On Monday evening, Simon received the Carl Zeiss Award for Young Researchers, which is awarded to outstanding up-coming scientists in optics and photonics by the

Yesterday, together with Prof. Gerhard Kirchmair, Simon had the pleasure of speaking at the Pint of Science event in Innsbruck. We had a great time

Trapped ions are a promising platform for the realization of future quantum networks, as they combine high quality local quantum operations with an efficient spin-photon

Node-to-node entanglement is the crucial resource in a quantum network and it is therefore of prime importance to have its fidelity and efficiency well under

Our paper on quantum teleportation across a three-node quantum network based on solid state spins was selected as one of the research higlights in 2022

Simon has received an ESPRIT grant by the Austrian Science Fund within the research initiative Quantum Austria. The CoolQuanD project will allow us to build

Our most recent Nature paper has attracted media coverage all around the world. Below you can find a list of the most important coverages: ORF

At QuTech (Delft University of Technology) we have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network – between network nodes that do not share

The Tsinghua University has invited Simon to give a seminar on recent advances on Quantum Networks within the Quantum Internet Alliance in Europe at the

Simon has been been interviewed by Schäffler Tomorrow on the developement of the Quantum Internet, and has tried to give insights on the road ahead.

Here is an interview on our effort to build quantum networks in Europe based on our recent progress in Delft. To learn more see here:

At QuTech (Delft University of Technology) we have built and demonstrated the first entanglement-based network connecting multiple quantum processors. Our quantum network is composed of