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Congrats to QuITter Phila Rembold on being awarded an FWF ESPRIT award! Among other things, she'll be using her expertise in quantum optimal control to develop new techniques for entanglement estimation, sensing and metrology 🥳🥳 fwf.ac.at/forschungsrada…

This has now been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.! Congrats! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

New preprint from Alberto: how long do quantum systems take to thermalise? Here the authors show that quantum theory imposes a fundamental lower bound on this time! arxiv.org/abs/2506.19188

New preprint, featuring Jake, Alberto, Marcus, and Pharnam, along with two people who worked with us here at the Atominstitut. They find that the sorting involved when cooling a quantum system using another one is dictated by a simple set of inequalities arxiv.org/abs/2506.10666

New preprint: Moha and colleagues get into the swing of things with a study of the thermodynamics of... pendulum clocks? ...oh, right! QUANTUM pendulum clocks! arxiv.org/abs/2506.10666

Florian, Yuri, Pauli, and Marcus have a new paper out in Nature Physics! The snappy title says it all: Precision is not limited by the second law of thermodynamics! nature.com/articles/s4156…

This paper is now out in PRL! journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

This paper is now out in Nature Communications! nature.com/articles/s4146…

And here you can read Yuri explain the result in his own words to Der Standard (auf Deutsch!) derstandard.at/story/30000002…

Congrats to Yuri for having his new PRL be an Editors' Suggestion! A model of boson transport with dissipation turns out to have surprising connections to a fermionic scenario, via its link to a universality class for surface growth models journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/1…

To us, every year is the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, but it's nice that it's official now... And this week, Marcus spoke to esteemed science journo Emily Conover about the future of quantum theory, with some hot takes 👀 sciencenews.org/article/quantu…

New preprint: Marcus joins a team which managed to produce strongly entangled, high-dimensional quantum states of photons in a lab, expanding the range of entangled states that it's possible to study and use arxiv.org/abs/2505.10035

Time crystals! There's been a lot of hype around them recently. In this new preprint, Marcus and others explore an overlooked aspect of them: how good are they as (quantum) clocks? The answer: potentially very good! arxiv.org/abs/2505.08276

Finally, Philipp and his collaborators study the theory of high harmonic generation using quantum optics, and in particular the notion of optical coherence arxiv.org/abs/2504.13287

Third, Phila has a preprint working with experimentalists to verify entanglement between position and momentum degrees of freedom in electron-photon pairs using a transmission electron microscope arxiv.org/abs/2504.13163

Next, Florian has a preprint on quantum key distribution, where he and colleagues succeed in transmitting quantum keys 10 km aways at over 1.2 Gbits per second arxiv.org/abs/2504.08298

Here's a preprint roundup from the last 10 days while admin was away 😎 First, the first preprint of PhD student Julia (along with Giuseppe) is out: They looked at entanglement monotones for many-body systems, including near phase transitions arxiv.org/abs/2504.07814

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This paper has now been published in the journal Quantum! quantum-journal.org/papers/q-2025-…

🪄Do you believe in magic? In this enchanting preprint, new PhD student Patrick conjures up a proof that Bell Inequalities can witness an arcane quantum computing resource called non-stabilizerness, also known as magic! 🧙✨🤩 arxiv.org/abs/2503.18734