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TEQ fullfills the promises to produce a substantial impact at both the scientific and societal levels. The construction of quantum-limited sensing devices achieves a considerable effect on quantum technologies, says EU Report.

TEQ has been featured in a 6-language research result article by CORDIS EU Research Results.

In the frame of the bilateral cooperation between Aarhus University and University of Trieste, a talk on “Bounds to the coupling of bosons beyond the Standard Model to atoms through precise isotope shift measurements”.

The purpose of the project, based on the researches and findings of TEQ, is to generalize the Noise-Gate approach also to measurement-based quantum computing.

The Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts welcomed Brukner.

The experimental success of TEQ with levitated magnets has brought partners to win a 1m€ QuantERA 2021 Grant.

In Nature Physics’ publication, TEQ partners from Queen’s University Belfast, University of Southampton and University of Trieste, describe the present status of the experimental bounds on collapse models,

TEQ partners have won an EIC Pathfinder grant to to demonstrate the proof of concept of a levitated acceleration sensor and its ability detecting gravity of small masses in the quantum controlled regime.

TEQ featured on the Italian newspaper La Repubblica with a longform article in the science section.

As per request of the project partners, the project has been extended till June 2022.

With the aim to make quantum mechanics more accessible to the large public, a set of short lessons was published.

TEQ project was featured on the cover of the German monthly magazine Geo with in-depth interviews to three project partners.

Shooting glass beads across the inside of a satellite could probe the limits of quantum wave behaviour. TEQ partners alongside colleagues explain how in a Comment on Nature.

Space offers a potentially attractive arena for verifying quantum properties of macroscopic objects: a TEQ feasibility study.

Quantum mechanics offers valuable solutions for making communications around the world safer. TEQ has sponsored the video of the first Italian public demonstration of quantum communication.

TEQ’s PI interviewed on Italian popular science magazine Le Scienze on the work on models of spontaneous wave function collapse.

One position is on levitated micromagnets and the other on analogue physics with superconducting microwave circuits.

On March 18th, the European Commission launches the European Innovation Council under Horizon Europe and is suppported by FET grantees in its communication effort.

TEQ supports the launch of the FQXi project “ICON: Novel intertwined theoretical and experimental approach to test the ORCHestrated Objective Reduction theory as physical basis of consciousness”.

The University of Southampton’s Levitated mechanical system for acceleration and force sensing mentioned in the EU InnoRadar.

In the frame of TEQ’s communication activities, we ask a few questions to TEQ members to get to know them better.

“Reinforcement Learning Approach to Nonequilibrium Quantum Thermodynamics” featured on the cover of Physical Review Letters.

“Underground test of gravity-related wave function collapse” published by Angelo Bassi and Catalina Curceanu, among others, has been chosen as second best science news of 2020 by Science.

“The project has fully achieved its objectives and milestones for the period” says the TEQ’s second Review Report delivered by the European Commission.

The ultimate goal of the research project is to realise a platform for ultra-precise sensing of forces such as gravity.

The Vienna node led by Professor Časlav Brukner explored the temporal localisability of events when quantum systems influence space-time according to Einstein’s general relativity.

A recent TEQ-related paper on PRL sheds light on the detection of dark bosons.

Bringing together researchers working on optomechanics theory and experiments within the United Kingdom.

Ultracold multi-layered force sensor probes the CSL noise in the paper by Vinante, Carlesso, Bassi and Ulbricht.

INFN has opened 10 postdoctoral positions in theoretical physics: one of them is associated to TEQ’s research group.

The first Italian public demonstration of encrypted communication using Italian-made optical-fibre quantum technology showcased at ESOF2020 (Trieste).

The New York Times Magazine featured TEQ’s PI, prof. Angelo Bassi, in a article by Bob Henderson.

Three innovations developed within the project have been analysed by the European Commission’s Innovation Radar and chosen for publication.

The University of Trieste offers a unique research project on Quantum Communication in synergy with TEQ.

On February 5, 2020 the Smithsonian Magazine published an article exclusively discussing the TEQ research

The Department of Physics of the University of Trieste has organized a hands-on workshop on “Quantum Software on Real Quantum Computers”

The motion of hovering nanoparticles might reveal that quantum wave functions collapse spontaneously, but three common measurement methods are not ready for prime time as reported by TEQ experimentalists in the latest issue of Physical Review A with Editors suggestion and a Synopsis in Featured in Physics by the American Physical Society. The

Prof. Paternostro (QUB) has been announced as a recipient of the Royal Society Wolfson Fellowship 2018 Round Three.

Dr. Catalina Curceanu has won the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Fundamental Physics Innovation Award.

“The project has fully achieved its objectives and milestones for the period” says the TEQ’s first Review Report delivered by the European Commission.

In the frame of the TEQ project, the University of Trieste co-organizes an Advanced School and a Workshop titled “Ubiquitous Quantum Physics: the New Quantum Revolution” in February/March 2019 in Trieste (Italy).

Dr Catalina Curceanu was recently awarded by the President of Romania for her outstanding scientific work.

TEQ scientist Caitlin Jones appeared in an article in Italian newspaper Il Piccolo about women in physics. The article spoke about the difficulties women face in physics and the inspiration that Donna Strickland recently winning the Nobel prize can give women.

The cover article of the July issue of Scientific American has been picked up by its Italian edition, Le Scienze, for the October 2018 issue featuring Bassi and Vinante.

How does the world crystallise from quantum weirdness? We might just have the answer, says a new article on the cover of the July 14, 2018 issue of the New Scientist. And that answer could be given by the TEQ project.

The TEQ teams work to establish the large-scale limit of quantum mechanics trying to answer questions that are so far unaddressed: why we have no evidence of non-classical behavior in the macroscopic world?

Dr Catalina Oana Curceanu, the PI of the LNF-INFN group of TEQ, was among the winners of the 100 Award for the Centenary of the Romanian Great Union; awarded by the Ministry for Romanians Abroad.

TEQ has launched a Facebook page and a Twitter account. On these accounts all the latest news and updates from results, published papers and activities of the project will be posted. Through these, the project will be able to keep you updated as we work to test the limits of

“The panel considers this proposal to be of excellent quality […] Research methods and approaches developed within this project will provide grounds for further developments in other fields where high precision measurements are required. The results themselves will provide a major breakthrough in our understanding of quantum physics. The project

TEQ will establish the large-scale limit of quantum mechanics by pursuing a novel research programme. This roadmap will enable the test of quantum effects for systems whose mass is orders of magnitude larger than that employed in the most successful quantum experiments to date, thus closing the gap with the