Experts from the Joint Laboratory of Optics of Palacký University and the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences are assisting restorers with the ongoing renovation of the Holy Trinity Column in Olomouc, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Over the past several weeks, chemists, physicists, and geoinformatics specialists have conducted a detailed examination of the monument’s gilded sections. The data collected will guide restorers in carrying out a sensitive and scientifically informed restoration of this Baroque landmark.

In September, the installation of mirrors on three large telescopes (Large-Sized Telescope – LST) was completed on the Canary Island of La Palma. These telescopes will become part of the future Cherenkov Telescope Array observatory.

Scientists from the Joint Laboratory of Optics have become the first in the world to experimentally confirm a link between the uncertainty of a quantum state and quantum entanglement — a connection theoretically predicted by physicists from Japan and Taiwan. The results of their scientific work, published in a prestigious journal by Springer Nature, offer a completely new perspective on previously unknown relationships governing the functioning of nature at the quantum level.

In 2024, the ATLAS experiment published in Nature the first observation of quantum entanglement at the highest energies, specifically in a system of top quark pairs produced in proton-proton collisions at the LHC accelerator at CERN.