In the video, Korbinian Rubenbauer dives into his doctoral research at the Walther-Meißner-Institute and Technical University of Munich (TUM), in the group of Prof. Hans Huebl.
Korbinian is building what might be the world’s smallest violin – a nano-sized string resonator, just a few hundred nanometers wide. This tiny violin string is coupled to a superconducting quantum circuit, forming a hybrid quantum system. He investigates how the string’s vibration interacts with microwave photons inside the circuit – all at the quantum level. His research could help realize a quantum memory, enable ultra-sensitive quantum sensors for force and acceleration, and open new doors to fundamental experiments at the boundary between classical and quantum physics.