Light from artificial atoms: Advancing quantum systems with superconducting circuits

Many objects that we normally deal with in quantum physics are only visible with special microscopes--individual molecules or atoms, for example. However, the quantum objects that Elena Redchenko works with at the Institute for Atomic and Subatomic Physics at TU Wien can even be seen with the naked eye (with a little effort): They are hundreds of micrometers in size. Still tiny by human standards but gigantic in terms of quantum physics.