📰Research News🚨 Breakthrough in magnon research paves the way for mini-#quantum computers ⚛️ An international team of physicists led by Andrii Chumak from the University of Vienna discovers #Magnons with a lifespan of a hundred times longer. 🔍 🔗 a29.at/4ZzHj8

More than a hundred thanks to all researchers who participated in the Lange Nacht der Forschung. And a couple of thousand thanks to the many visitors who came to the activities offered by the Faculty of Physics all over many locations at @univie.ac.at ! 🔗 a29.at/ZsFN9R 📸 derknopfdruecker

Today!! #LNF26 at the Faculty of Physics of @univie.ac.at From 17:00: lab tours, interactive stations, talks, walks with scientists, and PROPULSED PROFESSORS.

⚛️Quantum Physics in the Museum🏛️ Researchers from the Faculty of Physics are bringing a state-of-the-art quantum optics laboratory to the Vienna Technical Museum. The story👇 🇦🇹🔗 a29.at/e1OoW0

⚛️VERA Seminar💫 Cosmogenic ²⁶Al/¹⁰Be burial age determination of cave sediments – results and challenges of low and high concentration 🗣️ Zsófia Ruszkiczay-Rüdiger (HUN-REN) 🗓️ Thursday, 23rd April 2026 16:30 📍Victor-Franz-Hess Hörsaal, Währinger Str. 17, 1. Stock Kavalierstrakt 🔗 a29.at/Zyo7Ea

⚛️Quantum Information & Quantum Many-Body Physics seminar⚛️ "Towards the continuum: Algebras in Infinite Tensor Networks and Holographic Codes" 🗣️Leo Shaposhnik (FU Berlin) 📆 Thu, 16 April 2026, 11:30 am 📍 Erwin Schrödinger HS, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th Floor, Vienna 🔗 a29.at/DEkiih

Itching to explore the archive in person? Here's your opportunity! On Friday, 24 April 2026, 17:00 - 23:00, the @univie-physik.bsky.social will open its doors for the first time to Austria's Long Night of Research. #LNF26 Register in advance for lab and guided tours here: ⤵️

Happy #WorldQuantumDay! ⚛️ iℏ ∂ψ(x,t)/∂t = (−ℏ²/(2m) ∇² + V(x)) ψ(x,t) Celebrate 100 years of #Schrödinger 's Equation with #univienna. 🔍 Read articles from senior researchers at @univie-physik.bsky.social on a century of discovery and the frontiers of the wave equation here: ⤵️ 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬

💫Associate professorship for Andreas Nunnenkamp 🎉 His research focuses on synthetic quantum many-body systems, aiming to understand and control complex quantum matter for future technologies. 🔗News: a29.at/VdRPnA 🔗Nunnenkamp's group: nunnenkamp.univie.ac.at

➗Mathematical Physics Seminar✖️ An Informal Introduction to Higher Dagger Structures 🗣️ Tim Lüders (University of Vienna) 📆 Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 14:00 📍Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th Floor, Vienna 🔗 a29.at/GubVlM

📢 Bridging Physics Theory and Teacher Education Marianne Korner & Christos Likos share lessons from their prize-winning course "Theoretical physics I for teacher students" in Phys. Rev. Phys. Educ. Res. (2026). Read more: 🔗 a29.at/NZzK63 #physics #teachers #education

Physicists from our Faculty just moved us closer to testing quantum reality without trusting the devices doing the measuring! Using optical switches, they can verify quantum behavior in real time—a key step toward secure quantum networks and scalable quantum tech. Intrigued? 🔗 a29.at/uaLzlB

➗Mathematical Physics Seminar✖️ Is Flat-Space Holography Renormalizable? 🗣️ Arnaud Delfante (University of Vienna) 📆 Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 14:00 📍Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th Floor, Vienna 🔗 a29.at/vNUf1k

A successful @fwf-at.bsky.social funding round for our Faculty! Up to six different projects have been chose from a wide range of research directions in Physics. Congratulations to our researchers! 🔗 a29.at/vXTSp5

💡 Open Position at the Faculty ⚛️ Tenure-Track Professorship in Theoretical Gravitational Physics We seek an outstanding researcher to advance fundamental understanding of gravity through analytically rigorous, conceptually driven, or high-precision computational approaches. ℹ 🔗 a29.at/MsU2oC

🧬 Polymers that crawl like worms? The finding: a polymer chains can start moving in a preferred direction without external guidance. Different fluctuation strengths along the chain create an “entropic tug-of-war” that makes the material crawl. Learn about this from the Likos Group 🔗 a29.at/JDy3wT

Schrödinger’s Equation Turns 100 🎉 On 27 Jan. 1926, the journal Annalen der Physik received Schrödinger’s manuscript for the first of his four papers on “Quantisation as an Eigenvalue problem”. 🐈 Follow the journey from the original papers to the laboratories & technologies shaping the next century.

🔢 Mathematical Physics Seminar 🎓 👉 Matrix Theories and Holography 🗣️ Shota Komatsu (CERN) 🗓️ Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 2:00 p.m. 📍Erwin Schrödinger Lecture Hall, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor Link: physik.univie.ac.at/events/event... #Physics #mathphys #Holography #MatrixTheories

⚛️ Particle Physics Seminar 🎓 "Old dog, new tricks: how the Standard Model could be the TOE" 🗣️ Paul Romatschke (TU Wien) 🗓️ Tuesday, 10 March 2026, 4:15 p.m. 📍 Erwin-Schrödinger Lecture Hall, Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor Link: a29.at/FnyxYB

📜⚖️ Treasures from the Archive: 100 Years of Schrödinger's Equation! 🎂 The Faculty of Physics (@univie-physik.bsky.social) has opened a fascinating window into history. 🔎 Explore the archive highlights here: schroedinger100.univie.ac.at/treasures-fr... 📸: © Helen Piel | Erwin Schrödinger Archive

Gravitation Physics Literature Seminar ⚛️The Semiclassical Limit of the Dirac Equation⚛️ 🗣️ Jakob Möller (Palaiseau) 🗓️ Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 2:15 p.m. 📍 Seminarraum A, Währinger Str. 17, 2nd floor 🔗 a29.at/us5zOH

🌞 Summer Semester Physics Colloquium Lineup Is Here! 🗣️ From science education to AI, cosmology, and human-driven climate change, explore timely topics with world-class speakers. Don’t miss out—save every date ➡️ a29.at/a4f0Fp #physics #vienna #colloquium #science

🎓 Doctoral Project Day 🎓 🗣️ 1st Year PhD Students (Vienna Doctoral School in Physics) 🗓️ Wednesday, 25 February 2025, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 📍 Ernst Mach Lecture Hall (2nd floor), Faculty of Physics, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1090 Vienna 🔗 a29.at/V6I1jb

🔷Unveiling the Electronic Nature of Two-Dimensional Materials at the Surface🔷 🗣️ Bogdana Borca (Bucharest) 🗓️ Friday, 20 February 2026, 10:30 a.m. 📍 Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor 🔗 a29.at/iTdT0Q #Physics #Seminar #2DMaterials #SurfaceScience #Vienna

⚛️ Breakthrough through the use of optical switches for certifying quantum states 💿 This decisive step forward in the development of robust quantum computers and quantum networks has been conducted in Philip Walther's lab. Read the whole story 👉 a29.at/iD3zvl #physics #quantum #vienna

Neue Messmethode ermöglicht effiziente Überprüfung von Quantentechnologien in Echtzeit ⚛️ Durchbruch durch Einsatz von optischen Schaltern zur Zertifizierung von Quantenzuständen. Mehr dazu hier: ⤵️ @univie-physik.bsky.social

The Faculty has recently opened a wide variety of PhD positions dealing with fascinating physical phenomena, from isotopes to spin waves and carbon nanotubes to low-dimensional materials! ⁉️Want to know more?⁉️ All the information in the link below 👇 🔗 a29.at/3k85aW

Today is the 👩‍🔬International Day of Women and Girls in Science🔬 This UN-established day promotes gender equality in science fields. Many of the scientists from our Faculty have joined to give a clear message to all interested girls and young women: ⚛JOIN TEAM SCIENCE!👩🏽‍💻 🔗 a29.at/Q50Zsl

Higher Berry curvature and group action on parameter space in spin chain systems 🗣️ Ken Shiozaki (Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University) 🗓️ Thursday, 29 January 2026, 2:30 p.m. 📍 ESI, Boltzmanngasse 9, 1090 Vienna 🔗 a29.at/FhB1tU

On this day 100 years ago, January 27, 1926, Erwin Schrödinger published the first of a series of seminal papers introducing the Schrödinger equation, the cornerstone of #quantum mechanics. ⚛️ How did a single equation reshape our understanding of nature, driving innovation a century later? ⤵️

AG Gravitation Literaturseminar 💡The Improved Quantum Null Energy Condition⚛️ 🗣️Ido Ben-Dayan (Ariel University, Palestine)
 🗓️Wednesday, 28 January 2026, 2:15 p.m. 📍Seminar Room A, Währinger Str. 17, 2nd floor 🔗 a29.at/2CSaqQ

Metal clumps in quantum state: Vienna research team breaks records ⚛️ Physicists from the University of Vienna and @unidue.bsky.social show that even massive nanoparticles consisting of thousands of sodium atoms follow the rules of #quantum mechanics. 🧑‍🔬 Find out more in @nature.com ⤵️

💡Light a quantum path for clock and fundamental physics⚛️ Our University of Vienna Physics Colloquium will dive into quantum metrology. 🗣️ Jun Ye (JILA, USA) 🗓️Monday, 26 January 2026 13:30 📍 Christian-Doppler-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 3rd floor 🔗 a29.at/8EqMJb #physics #physics #quantummetrology

Our Alumni initiative organizes many events where graduates meet students! Learn more about it here and follow them to discover more events and projects: physikalumni.univie.ac.at

🌍 Can we energy transition the world into carbon neutrality?⚡️ Join our University of Vienna Physics Colloquiums next Monday. 🗣️ Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (CEU, Austria) 🗓️Monday, 19. January 2026 13:30 📍 Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal, Strudlhofgasse 4 🔗 a29.at/OEqjG8 #physics #Vienna #climatechange #energy

🌟Hans-Thirring-Preis 2025🏅 Dr. Anne-Catherine de la Hamette and Dr. Sabri Koraltan were awarded the annual prize for best PhD thesis, given by the Faculty, during our Christmas Meeting. Congratulations to them and all awardees this year! ⬇️Read more⬇️ 🔗 a29.at/I7VAeA

⭐️ Christos Likos and Marianne Korner named Teaching Stars 2025🌟 The Faculty of Physics shone at the “Teaching Inspires 2025” event, with two of its teams making it to the top 5 after competing against more than 20 other award-winning courses. 🔗 a29.at/CTC1EV #physics #lehramt #education

🏅Andrii Chumak is awarded the IEEE Magnetics Society Mid-Career Award 2026 🏆 The head of the Nanomagnetism and Magnonics group is recognized for his foundational contributions to magnonics, spintronics, and magnon-based computing. a29.at/uIxiMw #magnetism #ieee #physics #vienna

✨New FWF-funded projects for the Faculty✨ We congratulate Andreas Zöttl (Einzelprojekt International), Alessandro Broggio (Einzelprojekt), David Fajman (Einzelprojekt) and Andreas Nunnenkamp (participation in a SFB) for their success! More about these and other projects ➡️@fwf-at.bsky.social

⚛️Understanding phase transitions under the microscope 🔬 Researchers at the University of Vienna have now succeeded in directly observing the exotic hexatic phase in an atomically thin crystal. 👇Discover more about this exciting breakthrough ⬇️ 🔗 a29.at/aOQt3y #physics #univie #atomicscale

Our @univie.ac.at Physics Colloquium is happening next Monday! #physics #vienna #quantum #colloquium #quantumyear Find all information ⬇️ 🔗 a29.at/kAYnEX

Physical Chemical Society 🗣️ Dr. Peter van Oostrum (BOKU): Colloids through the lens of lensless in-line holographic microscopy 🗓️Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 17:30 📍 Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 1st floor 🔗 a29.at/c5Dqou

Particle physics seminar 🗣️ Ryan Plestid (CERN): Heavy particle EFT methods for precision beta decays 🗓️Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 16:15 📍 Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor 🔗 a29.at/zKWECU

Mathematical Physics Theory Seminar 🗣️ Andrea Zanetti (U of Milan): S-duality, Black Holes and Integrability 🗓️Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 14:00 📍 Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor 🔗 a29.at/HYBGJd #physics #Vienna #blackholes #mathematics

Gravitation Literature Seminar 🗣️ Francesco Giovinetti (UNINA): Measuring general relativistic effects by means of ring laser gyroscopes 🗓️ Monday, November 24, 2025, 14:00 📍 Seminarraum A, Währinger Str. 17, 2nd floor 🔗 a29.at/aJHYn3

🏅 EPS Early Career Award for Vittoria Sposini 🏆 The former REWIRE Fellow at the group of Prof. Likos and current MSCA Fellow at the University of Padova (Italy), has been awarded the European Physical Society Early Career Award. Learn more about her outstanding work: 🔗 a29.at/p4uJji

🗣️ Dominik Stöckinger (TU Dresden) Gamma5 in dimensional regularization - progress on non-anticommuting gamma5 and gauge-invariance restoration 🗓️Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 14:00 📍 Erwin-Schrödinger-Hörsaal, Boltzmanngasse 5, 5th floor 🔗 a29.at/SaU4NQ #physics #particle #univie

💫Research update🔬 Did you know that in quantum theory it is possible to encounter superpositions of causal orders? Learn more about this mind-bending research in this new publication from the @quantumunivie.bsky.social Brukner group. #quantum #physics #vienna 🔗 a29.at/NrMo5K

💫Research update🔬 A new step towards better understanding and designing new ultra-thin materials for future electronics. A publication from @kotakoski.fi group. #4D-STEM #Ptychography #2Dmaterials #physics 🔗 a29.at/E4n1jB

👩‍🔬Women in Quantum Physics: Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow⚛️ 🗓️Thursday, 27.11.2025, starts at 18:20. 📍Christian Doppler Lecture Hall (Boltzmanngasse 5, 3rd floor) Join us at the Faculty of Physics to celebrate and explore the contributions of women in quantum physics! 🔗 a29.at/ccy9ON