Uncategorized – SuperMeQ

2024-10-022024-10-03

Micromechanics Conference, February 2025, Obergurgl

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/

2024-03-19

SuperMeQ attends Gordon Research Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime

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!

2023-09-222023-09-22

2nd consortium meeting 19-21 September 2023

The SuperMeQ team met at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden. Here you can read more: https://www.supermeq.eu/events/

2023-06-08

Magnetic trap keeps a superconducting microsphere levitated and stable

Enjoy reading today’s news article in PhysicsWorld.

Magnetic trap keeps a superconducting microsphere levitated and stable

2023-05-242023-05-31

Gerhard explains the world of quanta

You may have heard of transistors, capacitors and coils as components of a classic computer. But how do you turn it into a quantum computer? What does all this have to do with superconductors? What can quantum computers actually do better than a classic computer and why are Google, IBM and Intel interested in it?

At the Pint of Science Festival in Innsbruck on 22-24 May 2023, Gerhard Kirchmair (OAEW.V) explains how to elicit quantum phenomena from electrical circuits with the help of superconductors and how to use them to build a quantum computer that can do “some things” better than a classical computer. The research conducted in SuperMeQ is used as a practical reference.

2023-04-24

Witlef from Chalmers presented at Göteborgs Vetenskapsfestivalen

Gothenburgs Vetenskapsfestivalen is one of the leading popular science events in Europe. Witlef Wieczorek from Chalmers gave a public presentation this Saturday. Young and old were equally fascinated by the pursuit to research the limits of quantum mechanics. It was great fun to present this research to the public and we received many excellent questions and had kids with curious eyes in the audience!

2023-03-21

SuperMeQ contribution at APS March 2023

SuperMeQ presented results on its levitation platform at the APS March meeting in Las Vegas: Towards quantum magnetomechanics – chip-based magnetic levitation of a superconducting microsphere at session B66: DAMOP: Hybrid Quantum Systems I.

2023-01-292023-01-29

Cool with a nonlinear cavity

The OEAW Innsbruck team together with the team from KIT have demonstrated a new way of cooling mechanical motion. This novel method exploits the nonlinearity of a superconducting flux-tunable microcavity, which is coupled to the motion of a mechanical cantilever. By driving the cavity in the nonlinear regime, enhanced cooling of the center-of-mass motion was demonstrated. All the details can be read here, with a synopsis here and a news article here. Congrats to the OEAW Innsbruck and KIT teams for this excellent work!

2022-11-132022-11-25

Chalmers news about start of SuperMeQ

Have a look at this news article from Chalmers about the start of SuperMeQ.

2022-11-092023-04-27

Project kick-off meeting 10 and 11 November 2022

SuperMeQs kick-off meeting has taken place at UAB campus in Barcelona, hosted by Carles Navau Ros from SuperMeQ’s UAB node. We had two days full of presentations, discussions and getting together. This was a great way to kick start the project!