After the PhD Thesis Prize in Quantum Electronics and Optics of the European Physical Society Simon Gröblacher received two more prizes for his work "Quantum opto-mechanics with micromirrors": the "Award of Excellence" of the Austrian Federal ministry of Science and Research (BMWF) and the recognition award for Science of Lower Austria.
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Last week several national quantum physicists published in international renowned journals. Not that unusal shows a glance to the community.

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For the first time, researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), in collaboration with a team from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ), have managed to cool a miniature mechanical object to its lowest possible energy state using laser light.

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Just as a camera flash illuminates unseen objects hidden in darkness, a sequence of laser pulses can be used to study the elusive quantum behavior of a large, ‘macroscopic' object. This method provides a novel tool of unprecedented performance for current experiments that push the boundaries of the quantum world to larger and larger scales.

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