FWF 

Multi-Scale Cluster Interference (MUSCLE)

MUSCLE was granted by the FWF on SEpt 2019 and allows the preparation and manipulation of large metal clusters, aiming to push matter-wave interference by another order of magnitude in mass and complexity over the state of the art.

Duration: 11/2019-10/2023
Project Number: 32542-N 

EU FET-OPEN

Superconducting Mass Spectrometry & Molecule Analysis (SuperMaMa)

SuperMaMa is an interdisciplinary research project by the European Commission, developing new technologies in macromolecule detection and mass spectrometry. Integrated superconducting nanowire arrays with advanced cryogenic onboard electronics are being developed by Single Quantum/Delft and EPFL Lausanne, integrated into an advanced mass spectrometer machine developed by MSVISION/Almere and QNP/UNIVIE. New photocleavable tags, developed by the University of Basel, are explored by QNP/UNIVIE for in ultra-fast high power neutralization and ionization of protein beams.  

Duration: 1/2020-6/2023
Project Number: 860713

FWF DK Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS)

The Vienna Doctoral Program on Complex Quantum Systems (CoQuS) selects students from an international pool of applicants, based on their academic excellence, scientific success and ambition. The programme is supported by the Austrian Science Funds FWF, the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Technology.

  • Speaker 2013-2019: Markus Aspelmeyer (Uni Vienna)  
  • Speaker 2007-2013: Markus Arndt (Uni Vienna)
  • Vice-Speaker 2007-2019: Jörg Schmiedmayer (TU Vienna) 
  • Vice-Speaker 2013-2019: Markus Arndt (Uni Vienna) 

FWF No. P 30176

Coherent Optics for Long-Baseline Molecule Interferometry (COLMI)

COLMI was granted by the FWF on March 12th 2017 and allows the exploration of a unique long-base line matter-wave interferometer for macromolecules and clusters.

Duration: 5/2017-4/2020

Partners, with independent funding and Cotutelle supervision  

  • Prof. Klaus Hornberger & Dr. Benjamin Stickler, University of Duisburg-Essen

 

 

EU ATTRACT, No. 97

SUPERCONDUCTING MOLECULE DETECTOR (SUMO)

We have explored superconducting detectors for lowly charged, low energy particles with prospective applications in mass spectrometry.

Duration: 5/2019-9/2020

Scientific Partners: Single Quantum , Delft/NL

  • Dr. Mario Castaneda
  • Dr. Andreas Fognini
  • Dr. Sander Darenbos

 

 

ERC Advanced Grant (No. 320694)

Processing Biomolecular Targets for Interferometric Quantum Experiments (PROBIOTIQUS)

We develop new source, detector and quantum control methods for the exploration of quantum coherence physics at the interface to the life sciences and for quantum interference enhanced physical chemistry of biomolecules.

Duration: 4/2013-3/2018

Scientific Partners (independent funding)

FWF CAVICOOL (No. P 27297)

Cavity Cooling of Dielectric Nanoparticles 

CAVICOOL was granted by the FWF on October 6th 2014 and allows the exploration of cavity cooling of silicon nanoparticles in interaction with light in high-finesse cavities.

Project Partner: Michael Trupke, Now University of Vienna 

Duration: 10/2014-10/2017

Partners, with independent funding

  • Prof. Klaus Hornberger & Dr. Benjamin Stickler, University of Duisburg-Essen
  • Prof. Fernando Patolsky & Prof. Ori Cheshnovsky, Tel Aviv University

EU ICT FET Open: NANOQUESTFIT (No. 304886)

NANOQUESTFIT was dedicated to prepare nanoparticles in highly non-classical quantum states and utilize them to test the linearity of quantum physics over mesoscopic distances and time scales in a mass range that has remained hitherto unexplored. This goal was realized in an interdisciplinary effort of European experts in quantum optics, nanotechnology, chemistry, and cluster physics. NANOQUESTFIT lays the scientific ground for a better understanding of practical and fundamental limits of future quantum technologies and will generate the basis for new quantum-enhanced sensing devices with matter waves composed of atoms, molecules and nanoparticles.  

Project partners:

QuNaBioS, Quantum Phenomena and Nanoscale Biological Systems

This project was a joint venture between the Quantum Nanobiology Team (QNB) of Alipasha Vaziri and the Quantum Nanophysics Team (QNP) of Markus Arndt. It was selected by the University of Vienna to enable high-risk/high-gain research in the largely unexplored and interdisciplinary scientific territory between the two fields. The project was completed with the call of Dr. Vaziri on a Professorship at Rockefeller University, New York.

Wittgenstein Prize, FWF

In 2008 Markus Arndt received the Wittgenstein Award of the Ministry of Science and the Austrian Science Funds FWF for his research in Quantum Nanophysics. The programme was  successfully completed in December 2013. 

ESF CRP MIME: Molecule Interferometry and Metrology

MIME united groups from Switzerland, Germany, Austria and the UK in a joint effort in exploring the new field of quantum assisted molecule metrology.

Coordinator: Prof. Markus Arndt, University of Vienna

Project partners: 

  • Prof. Klaus Hornberger, now Univ. Duisburg Essen,
  • Prof. Horst Hahn / Prof. Herbert Gleiter, KIT Karlsruhe,
  • Prof. Marcel Mayor, University of Basel,
  • Dr. Hendrik Ulbricht, University of Southampton (now Professor there) 

FWF START Prize 2001-2008

In 2001 Markus Arndt received the FWF START Prize for his research on molecule diffraction. The programme was  successfully evaluated and extended in 2004. It was successfully completed in 2008.

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