✨Check out our new theory paper on arxiv, "Topology meets superconductivity in a one-dimensional t-J model of magnetic atoms"! 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2509.03387 💡In a highly controllable version of the iconic t-J model, we uncover a range of exotic phases, including topological superconducting states.

🎉 Congratulations to Dr. Elena Poli! 🎓 Elena from our Theory team has successfully defended her PhD thesis, “Unveiling the Superfluid and Solid Behaviour in Dipolar Supersolids”! 🚀 We wish you all the best for your future, Elena!

🚀 We’re hiring! The Quantum Science Lab at the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) @dipcehu.bsky.social — in collaboration with the Ikerbasque Basque Foundation for Science — is opening an tenure-track position as an Ikerbasque Research Fellow for an experienced experimental physicist.

Congratulations to Eva @evacasotti.bsky.social who was awarded with the 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐳𝐞 of the Euregio Young Researcher Award 2025! 🎉 Find more information about the prize here: www.europaregion.info/euregio/proj... 📸 Land Tirol/Sedlak

🥳Congratulations to Lauritz Klaus who successfully defended his PhD thesis! 🌀 Lauritz did some amazing work on supersolids and vortices in the Er-Dy lab. 🎓 He is now a PostDoc in the Erbium lab of Rob Smith in Oxford. 👏Goodbye and we wish you all the best for your future, Lauritz!

👏 A huge thank you to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and participants of YAO 2025! ⚛️ 📆 Last week was packed with insightful talks, poster sessions, social events, a startup panel, industry presentations, and lab tours — what an amazing experience! 🤩 📸 Photo credit: D. Jordan / IQOQI

▶️ Today, the 2025 edition of the Young Atom Opticians Conference (YAO) has started here in Innsbruck! 🙋‍♀️We thank Clemens Ulm and @evacasotti.bsky.social, PhD students from our group, and Johanna Hennebichler and Alberto Canali, PhD students from Rudi Grimms group, for orgnanizing the event!

🎉 Congratulations to our PhD student Eva Casotti for winning the “Best Student Paper Award 2025” of the @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social! 🏆 The prize was awarded for her excellent paper, “Observation of vortices in a dipolar supersolid” published in the Nature journal. Photo Credit: Universität Innsbruck

📢 Job Opportunity in our group! We invite you to apply for the position as a 🔬 Academy Scientist (f/m/x) in experimental quantum physics focusing on dipolar quantum gases and Rydberg physics. Join us as an advanced scientist that is of great long-term importance in our research strategy.

🚨 Check out our latest paper on "Light-Assisted Collisions in Tweezer-Trapped Lanthanides" on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2506.05123! 💡 In a combined effort of our theory team and the Treqs experiment, we study the tweezer population dynamics during light-assisted collisions and cooling processes.

🎥 Watch Francesca's keynote speech at this year's Stupor Quanti event, hosted by the University of Naples Federico II. The talk dives into some of our group’s most exciting research findings ⚛️ 📺 Watch here 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSyG... #QuantumMechanics #Research #StuporQuanti #ScienceTalk

Francesca Ferlaino: Quantenphysikerin mit Faible für kalte Atome und Kaspressknödel www.derstandard.at/story/300000...

So great to run all together! 4 teams, 16 of us 😉Thanks @atominnen.bsky.social and @iqoqi.bsky.social for organizing it!!

PhD position. PhD Position in Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at DIPC- Donostia International Physics Center https://www.cuantica2025.es/job-market

⚡The future begins now⚡ Innsbruck at the center of quantum research #ORF documentary (in German) with @ferlainogroup, Gregor Weihs, Gerhard Kirchmair, Rainer Blatt, Peter Zoller, Thomas Monz, Serge Haroche, and many more. 👉🏻 on.orf.at/video/142763...

We are very excited to be featured in the docu! 😃

📽️Our group is featured in the ORF Tirol documentary “The Future Begins Now – Innsbruck at the Center of Quantum Research” (in German)! Éric Berdaguer explores Innsbruck’s rise in quantum science, from Zeilinger’s work to today's cutting-edge research.🏆 📺 Sun, May 18, 18:25, ORF 2 – Don’t miss it!

🎓 PhD in the mountains or by the sea? Why choose?Join us at @dipcehu.bsky.social in San Sebastián 🌊 with strong ties to Innsbruck 🏔️! Explore tweezer-based atomic quantum simulation in a brand-new experiment! 👉 Apply here: dipc.ehu.eus/en/dipc/join... #PhD #QuantumPhysics #UltracoldAtoms #Hiring

What do ultracold quantum gases and neutron stars have in common? This is the question Manfred is going to answer at the SciComm event Pint of Science Innsbruck next Monday (May 19)! 🍻🎤 Talk in German – come for science, stay for drinks! 🎟️ pintofscience.at/event/from-s... #SciComm #PintofScience

🎶 Congrats to our PhD student Arfor who turned our research topics into a dazzling music video and won the international "Dance Your PhD" competition in the categories physics and AI/quantum physics! 🏆🕺 📽️ Check out the video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPry... #DanceYourPhD #Science #QuantumPhysics

💡 We’re featured in today’s Quantum Snapshot by QuantA! ⚛️ The spotlight is on IQOQI Innsbruck @iqoqi.bsky.social and the atom*innen initiative @atominnen.bsky.social. Pictured (left to right): Our PhD students Sarah Embacher, Elena Poli, and Eva Casotti. 📸 Photo credit: IQOQI | D. Jordan

📽️ Francesca is featured in the social media campaign #breakthebias of Austria’s Ministry of Education, Science and Research! 👩‍🔬She highlights the importance of women’s perspectives in science and advocates for more women in leading positions to serve as a role model. #breakthebias #equality #bmbwf

Registration is now open for the Long-Range Workshop 2025 taking place Sepltember 21-24 at the Old Castle Stuttgart! Join for an insightful conference in a unique setting. 🗓 Register by July 15 to secure your spot: www.pi5.uni-stuttgart.de/news/longran... #LongRangeWorkshop #UniversitätStuttgart

On Tuesday, the groundbreaking ("Spatenstich") for the new House of Physics took place on our campus. 🏗️ What is still a construction site now, is expected be a finished building in 2028, and we are very much looking forward to our new lab and office spaces! 🤩 #HouseofPhysics #CampusDevelopment

⚠️ Today is the last day to register for YAO 2025! 📅 Join us July 6–11, 2025 in Innsbruck, Austria for talks, poster sessions, industry talks & networking! 🔗 Register by the 31st of March: yao.iqoqi.at Don’t miss out! 🌍⚛ #YAO2025 #QuantumPhysics #AMO @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Exciting to see our research featured in @profil.at! 🚀🔬 Our @ferlainogroup.bsky.social , led by Francesca Ferlaino, shares insights alongside Thomas Monz, Gregor Weihs & Hannes Pichler—plus a glimpse into our lab!

The review “Recent progress on quantum simulations of non-standard Bose-Hubbard models” by Priv. Doz. Dr. Manfred Mark and collaborators has been accepted to Reports on Progress in Physics! Read the full article here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...

‼️Don't forget to sign up for YAO 2025‼️Registration closes on March 31st⌛ If you're a Master's or PhD student in AMO Physics, you don't want to miss this conference - tell all your friends! ⚛️🏃🏃‍♂️

Night Ski with the Group! :-) Very cool

Francesca Ferlaino lives & works in Innsbruck for almost 20 years now. In an interview she explains what inspires her work, how she is advocating for more women in physics and what "aussi" and "ummi" mean in Tyrol. 🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tbt... (in German) @ferlainogroup.bsky.social

These are the last days to apply and work with us in our new labs in san sebastian! Unique opportunity to do your PhD enjoying the beautiful mountains of innsbruck in Austria and the amazing sea coast of San Sebastian in Spain!

The 11th edition of the Quantum Optics Conference (quantumoptics11.confer.uj.edu.pl), a satellite conference of BEC 2025, will be held in Kraków from September 1 to 5, 2025.

I am thrilled to announce the "Challenges in Simulating Quantum Matter" workshop at ETH Zürich, 16-18 June 2025 🎉 Now accepting applications for talks and posters: csqm.org @ethzurich.bsky.social #NeuralQuantumStates #QuantumComputing #TensorNetworks #quantum

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PhD position. Quantum Simulation and Computation with Ultracold Atoms in Tweezers at Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) - Quantum Technology Team Group https://www.cuantica2025.es/job-market

‪Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience!! ⚛️ Today, we celebrate the women in science who inspire us every day with their work, perseverance and determination - despite persistent patriarchal challenges. Thank you for empowering so many of us! 👏 youtu.be/zN7jMEgN9e8?...

🔬 Exciting opportunities at IQOQI-INNSBRUCK!🌟 We are looking for an Academy Scientist + Post-docs to join Prof. Ferlaino's team to work on cutting-edge research in dipolar quantum gases! ⚛️ 🔗Apply now: erbium.at/FF/join-us/ #QuantumScience #ResearchJobs #Physics

🐾 Meet Pintxo, the newest member of the Dipolar Q Group family! 🎉 This adorable little one love snow.. . 🐶 #NewMascot #DipolarQ #PintxoTheQDog

Science Ball 2025- Pretty Amazing experience and this year Dancing into the Q-Year! Our Cluster of Excellence quantA was there! #IYQ @sciball.bsky.social

🚀Big news! The #YAO2025 invited speaker lineup is now live on our website!🎉🎉 Check out the amazing researchers joining us in Innsbruck this July. Don't miss out—registration is still open! 🔗: yao.iqoqi.at #QuantumScience #AtomOptics @iqoqi.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social

Innsbruck is hosting YAO!!!! Are you not yet registered? Hurry up :-) list of speakers AMAZInG! Honestly, YAO is one of the best event the Atomic Physics community has ever created for PhD Students! @yao2025.bsky.social

🚀 Exciting times ahead! Our new Dysprosium Lab is taking shape in San Sebastián at @dipcehu.bsky.social 🧪✨ Join us on this great adventure—PhD, post-docs, and researchers are welcome! Just send us an email! 🌟 RT to spread the word! 🙌 #ScienceInnovation #JoinOurTeam #ultracold

Today, Francesca Ferlaino (@ferlainogroup.bsky.social) took part in a #TechDiplomacyTalk at the Austrian Foreign Ministry discussing the impact of quantum technologies to better understand them, anticipate policy responses & build quantum-ready societies. #IYQ2025 📺: www.youtube.com/live/B2LjcPC...

Calling all PhD and Master's students in AMO Physics - join us in beautiful Innsbruck ⛰️ for the Young Atom Opticians Conference 2025! ⚛️🔬

Hi Bluesky! I'd like to begin my journey in this platform by advertising this school I am currently co-organizing: The Winter School on Ultracold Quantum Many-body Systems ❄️⚛️ (16-22 Feb 2025) is open for registration! The school will take place at the Centro de Ciencias de Benasque Pedro Pascual🏔️.

Congratulations to our Masters student, Sarah Embacher, who defended her thesis today! 🥳 Sarah worked in the ERBIUM lab where she implemented a scanning optical dipole trap and also carried out simulations of how q-plates can be used to create optical potentials. ⚛️🔦

🌟 Welcome to YAO 2025 on Bluesky! The Young Atom Opticians (YAO) Conference is an annual event for PhD & Master’s students in AMO & quantum physics. Join us July 6–11, 2025, in Innsbruck, Austria. 🔗 More info: yao.iqoqi.at #YAO2025 @iqoqi.bsky.social @uniinnsbruck.bsky.social @oeaw.bsky.social

ICYMI, our work on vortices in the dipolar supersolid was named one of the breakthroughs of 2024 by @quantamagazine.bsky.social!

Hello Bluesky! We're very excited to start sharing our research here, and connect with the #quantum #matter community ⚛️ Say hello below if you work on ultracold physics, or let us know who to follow here!