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#SeasonsGreetings to our students, staff, alumni, and friends! ✨ In the International Year of #QuantumScience, our picture features a beam splitter from the laboratory of the Semiconductor Nanostructures and #QuantumSystems group: http://go.tum.de/276363

📷 A. Eckert

Her Maths Story Dec 19

As we march towards the end of 2025, we reflect on the amazing mathematical journeys that our contributors have transported us to! In total, we published 11 stories and 4 blogs this year. Our contributors' mathematical backgrounds range from #PureMathematics to #AppliedSciences including #MathematicalBiology. These stories and blogs by amazing women also encompass their wide-ranging mathematical careers from penning #MathematicalPoetries to working in #QuantumScience. Please give these inspiring articles a read! We’ll be back on the 7th of January 2026! We wish you Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year!

📜 Blog by Jessy Randall on “Poetry as Lens: Two Historical Women Mathematicians”: https://hermathsstory.eu/poetry-as-lens-two-historical-women-mathematicians/
🤝 Blog by Jamie Haddock & Anna Little on “Association for Women in Mathematics at the SIAM/CAIMS 2025 Annual Meeting”: https://hermathsstory.eu/association-for-women-in-mathematics-at-the-siam-caims-2025-annual-meeting/
🧭 Blog by Rosie Evans & Ashleigh Ratcliffe on “The Piscopia Initiative & How to Train Your Allies present: What Can You Do?”: https://hermathsstory.eu/the-piscopia-initiative-how-to-train-your-allies-present-what-can-you-do/
🎥 Blog by us on “Reflecting on ‘Counted Out’: A Conversation About Maths, Power, and Inclusion”: https://hermathsstory.eu/reflecting-on-counted-out-a-conversation-about-maths-power-and-inclusion/

Photo by Giulia Bertelli on Unsplash

Scientific Frontline Dec 9

Linking #quantum #computers to create powerful, high-speed quantum #networks involves entangling #atoms through a fiber cable. The longer the time those entangled atoms maintain quantum coherence, the longer the distance those quantum computers can link to each other.
#QuantumScience #ComputerScience #MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/qs12092501.html

Breakthrough could connect quantum computers at 200 times longer distance

Quantum computers are powerful, lightning-fast and notoriously difficult to connect to one another over long distances.

Scientific Frontline Dec 2

The world of tiny #particles is described extremely well by #quantum theory, while the world of #gravitation is captured by #Einstein’s general theory of relativity. But combining the two has not yet worked – the two leading theories of theoretical physics still do not quite fit together.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/12/qs12022501.html

A new approach links quantum physics and gravitation

It is something like the “Holy Grail” of physics: unifying particle physics and gravitation.

Scientific Frontline Nov 28

Researchers have created a one-dimensional “quantum wire” made from a #gas of #ultracold atoms, where #mass and #energy flow without friction or loss.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/qs11282501.html

When Quantum Gases Refuse to Follow the Rules

Confining thousands of rubidium atoms to move along a single line using magnetic and optical fields

Scientific Frontline Nov 13

A pulse of #light sets the tempo in the material. #Atoms in a #crystalline sheet just a few atoms thick begin to move—not randomly, but in a coordinated rhythm, twisting and untwisting in sync like dancers following a beat.
#Physics #QuantumScience #MaterialScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/phy11132502.html

Light causes atomic layers to do the twist

When made with atomically thin layers, moiré materials exhibit quantum properties including superconductivity

José - Luis Gutiérrez Villanue Nov 13

As 2025 comes to an end, we celebrate the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology.
A year of genuine progress — from theory to applications — reminding us how deeply quantum mechanics shapes modern science.
Explore more: https://quantum2025.org

#IYQ2025 #QuantumScience #QuantumFuture #STEM

Universität Wien Nov 7

⚛️ Willkommen Quantenwelt - ein Fest für die Forschung! Am 6. November feierte die österreichische Quantencommunity im Wiener Rathaus das Internationale Jahr der Quantenforschung, mit Kabarett, Science-Slam und rund 1.000 Gästen aus Wissenschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.

Von Stermann & Grissemann bis zu jungen Forscher*innen im Quanten-Science-Slam: das Event des Exzellenzclusters Quantum Science Austria (quantA) zeigte, wie inspirierend und zugänglich Quantenforschung sein kann und wie stark Österreichs Rolle als internationaler Quanten-Hub ist. ✨

#Quantenforschung #QuantumScience #quantA #univie #Forschung

Scientific Frontline Nov 6

#Electricity powers our lives, including our cars, phones, #computers and more, through the movement of electrons within a circuit. While we can’t see these electrons, electric currents moving through a #conductor flow like water through a pipe to produce electricity.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/11/qs11062501.html

Physicists discover new state of matter in electrons, platform to study quantum phenomena

At certain densities, electrons in two-dimensional systems are expected to form Wigner crystals, which were first theorized in 1934

Scientific Frontline Oct 20

What happens when #electrons leave a solid material? This seemingly simple phenomenon has eluded accurate theoretical description until now. Researchers have found the missing piece of the puzzle.
#QuantumScience #Physics #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2025/10/qs10202501.html

The Quantum Door Mystery: Electrons That Can’t Find the Exit

Solids from which relatively slow electrons emerge play a key role in physics