Author: Sofia Minero

The 3rd SuperMeQ consortium meeting took place on 27-29 November 2024 in Vienna.

The SuperMeQ partners met at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information for three days filled with insightful discussions, idea exchanges, and plenty of opportunities to reconnect and collaborate. The updates from the project’s partners were complemented by inspiring presentations from guest speakers Salambô Dago (University of Vienna), Daniel Platz (TU Wien), Nicolas Díaz Naufal (Freie Universität Berlin) and Markus Arndt (University of Vienna).

The partners will meet again in February at the International Conference on Micromechanics while the next project’s meeting will take place in Munich on 6-8 October 2025.

The SuperMeQ project is pleased to announce the International Conference on Micromechanics 2025, taking place in Obergurgl (Austria) on February 2-7, 2025.

The conference is organized by Gerhard Kirchmair (IQOQI Innsbruck), Witlef Wieczorek (Chalmers University), Michael Trupke and Markus Aspelmeyer (University of Vienna), Hans Huebl (Walther Meißner Institute Munich), Anja Metelmann (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) and Carles Navau (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

The conference focuses on the recent progress in the field of quantum-micromechanics with a special focus on levitated systems and circuit QED implementations. Levitated systems allow for extremely high mechanical Q factors while circuit QED systems provide large coupling strength between the mechanics and the resonator. Combining both of these approaches open the door towards controlling the quantum state of the mechanical system.

More information, the conference program and registration are available here: https://www.uibk.ac.at/en/congress/micromechanics/

SuperMeQ was participating in the recent Gordon Research Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime that was held March 3 – 8, 2024 in Ventura, US. We had a lot of discussions at the posters presenting our work on levitating superconducting microparticles and coupling clamped mechanical systems to superconducting circuits. Inspiring!