"40h pro Woche arbeiten. Das ist doch weniger als ein Viertel! Da geht doch mehr!" Man hört das Argument von Wirtschaftstreibenden, jetzt auch vom deutschen Kanzler. Das Missverständnis dahinter: Viel arbeiten ist in erster Linie ein Privileg - das für viele einfach außer Reichweite liegt (Thread)

What started as informal discussions on the Danube beach in Vienna during QTD2023 has been published at last. Trying to come up with an experimentally feasible quantum clock we came across a rich model – the ring clock – that overturned a common wisdom in the community. doi.org/10.1038/s415...

🔥 🕰️ Read our new paper on the thermodynamics of clocks 🔥🕰️https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00096 @mitchison.bsky.social @entangledanarchist.bsky.social

Now that our recent work on the emergence of a 2nd law of thermodynamics in isolated quantum systems has been published, I thought it may be a good opportunity to share some animations outlining the intuition for the principle behind it. doi.org/10.1103/PRXQ... See thread below 👇

This is now out in the journal Physical Review X Quantum! Super excited to be able to share this piece of work with everyone. I'm incredibly proud of it journals.aps.org/prxquantum/a...

New preprint! Here QuITters Pharnam and Fabien look at optimal quantum thermodynamic resource costs for state transformation processes such as ground state cooling: arxiv.org/abs/2412.07291

Cool article and video from ORF talking about our work in free-space quantum key distribution (auf Deutsch!) noe.orf.at/stories/3280...

In addition to research work, many members of our team do outreach and science communication. Here's a new article by QuITter Phila for the FWF on how quantum technology is being used in an ESA mission to Jupiter! (Also available in English) scilog.fwf.ac.at/magazin/jupi...

Hello science/physics/quantum blueskyers! We're the theory division of TU Wien's Atominstitut in Vienna. We do Quantum Information and Thermodynamics, as well as Q. foundations, computing, optics, many-body physics & more! Looking forward to connecting with other keen physics nerds here 🤓🧑‍🔬👩🏽‍🔬⚛️