February 2019:
- Congratulations to Christian Knobloch on sucessfully completing his PhD on February 27th
November 2018:
- Congratulations to Ugur Sezer on defending his PhD with distinction
April 2018:
- Congratulation to James Millen on his new Lecturer position at Kings College London, where he is now starting a new optomechanics group.
January 2018:
- Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on completing his PhD with distinction
December 2017:
- Congratulations to Lukas Mairhofer on successfully completing his PhD thesis
- Congratulations to Armin Shayeghi on being awarded an FWF Lise-Meitner Postdoc Fellowship
November 2017:
- Congratulations to Mathias Tomandl on successfully defending his PhD thesis
October 2017:
- International PCT Patent application published PCT/EP2017/059113
- Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on being awarded an ESQ Discovery Grant
- James Millen showcasing nanoparticle opto-mechanics at the European Researchers Night, with support by Lana Rauch & Ugur Sezer
September 2017:
- Congratulations to Franz Wieser on completing his Masters degree with distinction
March 2017:
- Jonas Rodewald completes his PhD with distinction
December 2016:
- Nature Nanotechnology selects our 2012 Nature Nanotechnology paper
among the "Favourite figures of Nature Nanotechnology of the last 10 years"
October 2016:
- Ronny Barnea as a visitor for two months, coming from Tel Aviv University.
September 2016:
- Prog. Phys., 1–8 (2016). Arxive
- Christian Brand revceives EPS Young Scientist Prize
- Phys. Rev. A 94, 033818 (2016)
Rotranslational cavity cooling of dielectric rods and disks
August 2016:
- Yaakov Fein joins us as a PhD student, with a Master's from the University of Melbourne
July 2016:
- Moritz Kriegleder completed his Bachelor's degree
June 2016:
- Group Retreat 2016: Frauenberg/Bavaria
May 2016:
- Phys. Scr. 91, 063007 (2016): Perspectives for quantum interference with biomolecules and biomolecular clusters
Apr 2016:
- Armin Shayeghi receives the dissertation award by the TU Darmstadt, where he completed his thesis in chemistry with Prof. Rolf Schäfer, before joining our group.
March 2016:
- Nadine Dörre completed her PhD with distinction.
- Lukas Mairhofer receives a Doc Award for his PhD in philosophy, in parallel to his PhD in physics with us in physics.
January 2016:
- Nadine Dörre selected for FORBES 30 under 30 in the category Science and Healthcare in Europe
- Ugur Sezer selected for "NaturTalente"
- QNP Research on Hyperraum TV
- New publication Rise of the Quantum Machines in Physics World.
December 2015:
- Philipp Geyer successfully completed his PhD .
- Sandra Eibenberger receives an Award of Excellence 2015 by the BMWFW.
- Maxime Debiossac arrives from Laboratoire Aimé Cotton, Orsay to join us as a postdoc.
November 2015:
- Congratulations to Nadine Dörre for being awarded a L'Oréal Fellowship for Women in Science.
- Group visit to Anton Paar's headquarters in Graz
October 2015:
- Ann. Phys. 527, 580 (2015)
A Green's function approach to modeling molecular diffraction in the limit of ultra-thin gratings - Sandra Eibenberger receives a FWF Schrödinger Fellowship to work at Harvard University.
- Our molecular diffraction experiments discussed in FORBES
September 2015:
- Scientific Reports 5, 14108 (2015),
highlighted in Austria: ScienceAPA, Der Standard, Science ORF - QNP Group Retreat in Retz
- C. Brand and M. Arndt: Perspective in Science (2015)
August 2015:
- Nature Nanotechnology (2015): Highlighted in Physics World (by T. Commissariat), News & Views in Nature Nanotechnology
July 2015:
- Kuhn et al. Nano Letters 15, 5604 (2015)
June 2015:
- QNP at the University Campus days
- Cotter et al.,
Nature Communications 6, 7336 (2015)
May 2015:
- Sezer et al., Anal. Chem. 87, 5614 (2015), Featured in Advances in Engineering
April 2015:
- James Millen, PhD, joins us as a postdoc, arriving from UCL London.
March 2015:
- Sandra Eibenberger completes her doctorate with distinction.
- QNP Research on Austrian Television ORF TV
- QNP Research on Austrian Television SERVUS TV
January 2015:
- Journal of Mass Spectrometry (2015)
- Publication in JOSA B (2015)
- Moritz Hambach joins our team from Imperial College London
December 2014:
- Philipp Schmid completes his doctorate with distinction.
- Peter Asenbaum is awarded the Hans-Thirring Prize
- Stefan Nimmrichter receives an Award of Excellence 2014 for his doctoral thesis
- Lukas Mairhofer completes his doctorate in philosophy with distinction
- Philipp Haslinger receives an FWF Erwin Schrödinger Fellowship for UC Berkeley
November 2014:
- Phys. Rev. Lett. 113, 233001 (2014),
Editor's Choice & Viewpoint in Physics 7, 122 (2014) - Christian Knobloch successfully completes his Master degree
October 2014:
- New publication:
Phys. Rev. A 90, 042114-1 (2014)
September 2014:
- Peter Asenbaum completes his doctorate with distinctions.
- Sandra Eibenberger receives a CoQuS Poster award
August 2014:
- Sandra Eibenberger is awarded the BOLOGNA 2014 Josef Pliva Prize at the HRMS 23
July 2014:
- Ugur Sezer completed his master's degree with distinctions.
- Christian Brand has been awarded a Feodor Lynen Postdoc Fellowship by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- Group Retreat in Weissenkirchen.
June 2014:
- Publication in Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 250402 (2014)
- Publication in Phys. Today 67, 30-36, (2014)
selected for PARITY by the Japanese Editors
May 2014:
- Markus Arndt has been elected Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).
April 2014:
- Sandra Eibenberger in a report on Austrian Television ORF ZIB
- Markus Arndt & Klaus Hornberger:
Insight review in Nature Physics 10, 271-277 (2014) - Stefan Nimmrichter's PhD thesis selected as a
Springer thesis: 'Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research' - Welcome Stephan Pribitzer from ETH Zürich for a 4 month internship.
March 2014:
- Video Clip on Cavity Cooling by Peter Asenbaum and Stefan Kuhn highlighted in the video gallery of the APS spring meeting.
February 2014:
- Congratulations to Nadine Dörre on her SASP 2014 Poster prize
January 2014:
- Stefan Gerlich in Atomium Culture
- Markus Arndt selected as an Outstanding Referee for the journals of the American Physical Society.
December 2013:
- Nadine Dörre in the science magazine 'Falter, Heureka'
- Publication in Praxis der Naturwissenschaften 8, 31 - 36 (2013)
- Markus Arndt receives the Prize of the City of Vienna for Natural Sciences and Technology.
November 2013
- Publication in Nature Communications 4, 2743 (2013)
- 4 years after publication Quantum Meets Biology is still the most read article of HFSP journal (article views)
October 2013:
- Congratulations to Stefan Nimmrichter on completing his PhD with distinction
- Christian Brand joins the team as a postdoc, coming from the University of Düsseldorf
September 2013:
- Music for an optical interferometer An outreach activity for Matter-waves and and Music
- Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on his CoQuS Poster prize
- Congratulations to Michele Sclafani on completing his doctorate with distinction
August 2013:
- Publication: Rep. Prog. Phys. 76 086402
- Publication: New J. Phys. 15, 083004 (2013)
See the video abstract
July 2013:
- Congratulations to Philipp Haslinger on completing his doctorate with distinction.
- Publication: Phys.Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 14696 (2013)
- Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on completing his Master with distinction.
- The project Quantum Interactive has been granted by the Vienna ZIT
June 2013:
- welcome Sasha Sproch, from Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, Boston/MA
- Lisa Wörner joins the group as a postdoc, coming from the MPI for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching
May 2013:
- In the news of Imaging & Microscopy
- Joseph Cotter joins the group as a postdoc, coming from Imperial College London
- Publication: Physik Journal 5, 20 (2013)
- Publication: Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 160403 (2013)
Highlighted by APS Physics, Physics World, New Scientist
March 2013:
- Congratulations to our 2 new Masters: Lukas Mairhofer & Johannes Horak.
- Congratulations to Stefan Gerlich on his Bank Austria Prize 2013
- Publication: J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom. (2013)
- Publication: Physics 6, 23 (2013)
- Publication: Nature Physics 9,144–148 (2013)
Nature Physics News & Views, by Cronin & Holmgren
Click here: An introduction to the experiment for the general public
January 2013:
- Congratulations to Thomas Juffmann on completing his Doctorate with distinction!
December 2012:
- ERC Advanced Grant awarded to Markus Arndt
- QNP molecule interferometry among the pro-physik highlights of 2012
- Award of Excellence to Stefan Gerlich
- Publication of a New. J. Phys. Editorial on matter waves
- Cover Story of Spektrum der Wissenschaft
September 2012:
- The animation Quantum-Invader is online
- Quantum Nanophysics Group at the "Day of science films",
July 2012:
- Thomas Juffmann receives a Poster Award at the ICAP 2012
May 2012:
- Sandra Eibenberger on the Cover of Heureka
- Publication in:
Nature Nanotechnology 7, 297–300 (2012),
News & Views & Cover
April 2012:
- Feature on SSPD detection in Superconductor Week
- Congratulations to Thomas Juffmann on his 2012 AMMRF micrograph award
- Feature on SSPD detection of low-energy particles in http://nanotechweb.org/cws/article/lab/48672
- Publication: Rev. Mod Phys. 84, 157-173 (2012) ,
Featured in Nature Physics 2/2012 by Mark Buchanan
January 2012:
- Article in irishtimes.com, Atomium Culture,
- Discover Magazine Top 100 Science News of 2011
- Publication: Nanotechnology 23, 065501 (2012)
- Publication: Procedia Computer Science 2011, doi:10.1016/j.procs.2011.12.024
- Spotlight on molecule and atom interference
News: Spektrum der Wissenschaft 1/12, 50-44 (2012)
November 2011:
- NJP focus issue complete
Have a look at the NJP focus issue on matter wave interferometry - Our proposal for testing Spontaneous Collapse in matter-wave tests, featured by The Telegraph
September 2011:
- Publication in Optics Letters Vol. 36, 3720-3722 (2011)
- Publication in Physics 4, 74 (2011)
- Publication in Eur. J. Org. Chem., 25 4823 - 4833 (2011)
Highlighted by ChemistryViews, ...
July 2011:
- Publication in New J. Phys. 13, 075002 (2011).
June 2011:
- Congratulations to Sandra Eibenberger on her Dr. Maria Schaumayer prize for women in science
May 2011:
- ESF meeting on Casimir forces with 20 participants from 7 countries, hosted by QNP in Vienna
April 2011:
- Publication in Phys. Rev. A 83, 043621 (2011).
- Publication in New J. Phys. 13, 043033 (2011), chosen as 'IOP select'
- Publication in Nature Communications 2, 263 (2011),
Highlight in Nature, Nature Asia, Science Daily ...