by Manca Žitnik | Apr 1, 2025 | 2025
The presentation will review the fundamental functional principles of quantum information processing and provide an update on the status of the Innsbruck trapped-ion quantum computer. Using strings of trapped ions, a quantum information processor is implemented to...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 27, 2025 | 2025
Perovskites comprise a vast family of materials with many important applications in areas such as dielectrics, superconductivity and photovoltaics, among others. From a structural chemical perspective, the basic perovskite, ABO3, is the parent of a large variety of...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 26, 2025 | 2025
Technological advances have enabled humans to have a permanent presence in space in this century, but with unwanted consequences of weightlessness, which can be dangerous on return to Earth. Despite current exercise methods, astronauts suffer a loss of muscle and bone...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 25, 2025 | 2025
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease of the upper and lower motor neurons leading to death from respiratory failure. About 50% of patients die within 3 years of first symptoms, and 80% within 5 years. The disease typically affects...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 24, 2025 | 2025
The self-organisation of many-body quantum systems has been of great fundamental interest in different areas of science, from cosmology to life sciences. The temporal evolution of quantum systems is choreographed by symmetry, topology, causality and spatio-temporal...
by Manca Žitnik | Mar 5, 2025 | 2025
In 2020, more than 2.7 million people were diagnosed with cancer in the European Union (EU), whereas 1.3 million people died from cancer. By 2035, the number of cancer cases is expected to increase by 24%, making cancer the leading cause of death in the EU. Currently,...
