"Award of Excellence" und Anerkennungspreis für Simon Gröblacher
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.
"Von einigen Größen in der kleinen Welt der Quanten"
Last week several national quantum physicists published in international renowned journals. Not that unusal shows a glance to the community.
Laser Light to Cool Object to Quantum Ground State
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. The achievement paves the way for the development of exquisitely sensitive detectors as well as for quantum experiments that scientists have long dreamed of conducting.
Quantum behavior with a flash
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. A collaboration of scientists led by researchers from the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at the University of Vienna report this new scheme in the forthcoming issue of PNAS.
PhD Thesis prize by the EPS to Simon Gröblacher
Simon Gröblacher has been awarded with the 2011 PhD Thesis Prizes and Topics (Fundamental) for his work "Quantum opto-mechanics with micromirrors".
Inaugural Lecture of the “Erwin Schrödinger Distinguished Lecture Series"
On Friday, March 18th, 2011 the inaugural lecture of the "Erwin Schrödinger Distinguished Lecture Series" took place. Sir Anthony J. Leggett (Nobel Prize in Physics 2003), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) gave his lecture on "Schroedinger's Cat and her laboratory cousins" at the "Großer Festsaal" of the University of Vienna. - Video of the lecture now available.
"How long does a tuning fork ring?"
Researchers at the University of Vienna and Technical University Munich have solved a long-standing problem in the design of mechanical resonators: the numerical prediction of the design-limited damping.
APART fellowship has been awarded to Rainer Kaltenbaek
Rainer Kaltenbaek receives the prestigious fellowship APART of the Austrian Academy of Science.
Start of the “Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology”
On Wednesday, 15 December 2010, the Presidents of the University of Vienna, Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Academy of Sciences signed a cooperation agreement which aims to pool the expertise of the three Viennese institutions in the area of quantum physics. The agreement marks the starting point for the "Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology" (VCQ).