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We are engaged in research on

• Quantum phenomena with bio/molecules & nanoparticles 
• Quantum decoherence & the limits of quantum linearity
• Matter-wave technologies: novel beam splitters & interferometer schemes  
• Quantum-enhanced molecule metrology: assessing electro-magnetic & optical properties
• Cavity cooling and rotational optomechanics of dielectric nanospheres and nanorods  
• Molecular beam methods: to prepare, cool & detect neutral biomolecular beams
• Quantum tools for research and applications in chemistry and biology

 QNP News Update

May 2020

• Start of the EU ATTRACT Project SUMO, a pathfinder project on quantum detectors for molecular physics, together with Single Quantum, Delft. 

April 2019

• Congratulations to Stephan Troyer on Completing his Master thesis with distinction.
• Congratulations to Philipp Rieser on Completing his Master thesis with distinction.
• G. Wachter, S. Kuhn, S. Minniberger, C. Salter, P. Asenbaum, J. Millen, M. Schneider, J. Schalko, U. Schmid, A. Felgner, D. Hüser, M. Arndt, M. Trupke, Silicon microcavity arrays with open access and a finesse of half a million, Light: Science & Applications 8:37,  1-7 (2019).
• Web of Science Highly cited paper: As of <token>November</token>/<token>December</token> <token>2018</token>, our paper Testing the limits of quantum mechanical superpositionst received enough citations to place it in the top 1% of its academic field based on a highly cited threshold for the field and publication year.

February 2019:

• Congratulations to Christian Knobloch on sucessfully completing his PhD  on February 27th
• C. Brand, M. Debiossac, T. Susi, F. Aguillon, J. Kotakoski, P. Roncin, M. Arndt,
  Coherent diffraction of hydrogen through the 246 pm lattice of graphene,
  New J. Phys. (2019). doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/ab05ed

December 2018:

• J. Schätti, P. Rieser, U. Sezer, G. Richter, P. Geyer, G. G. Rondina, D. Häussinger, M. Mayor, A. Shayeghi, V. Köhler, M. Arndt
  Pushing the mass limit for intact launch and photoionization of large neutral biopolymers
  Commun. Chem. 1, 93 (2018), nature.com/articles/s42004-018-0095-y
• Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on receiving an Award of Excellence
• B. A. Stickler, B. Papendell, S. Kuhn, B. Schrinski, J. Millen, M. Arndt and K. Hornberger
  Probing macroscopic quantum superpositions with nanorotors
  New J. Phys. 20, 122001 (2018).

November 2018:

• Congratulations to Ugur Sezer on defending his PhD with distinction
• F. Kiałka, B. Stickler, K. Hornberger, Y.Y. Fein, P. Geyer, L. Mairhofer, S. Gerlich, M. Arndt, Concepts for long-baseline high-mass matter-wave interferometry, Phys. Scr.   (2018) 
• We welcome Pietro Vahramian from Milan as a new Master student on the nanoparticle cooling experiment.
• Markus Arndt receives the Robert-Wichard-Pohl Prize of the German Physical Society DPG 

October 2018:

• C. Brand, B.A. Stickler, C. Knobloch, A. Shayeghi, K. Hornberger, M. Arndt, Conformer Selection by Matter-Wave Interference, Phys. Rev. Lett. 121,  173002 (2018).

July 2018:

• L. Mairhofer, S. Eibenberger, A. Shayeghi, and M. Arndt, A quantum ruler for magnetic deflectometry. Entropy 20, 516 (2018).

June 2018:

• Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn to the ESG Nanoprize 2018 by the Erwin Schrödinger Society

April 2018

• M. Debiossac, J. Schätti, M. Kriegleder, P. Geyer, A. Shayeghi, M. Mayor, M. Arndt and V. Köhler, Tailored photocleavable peptides: Fragmentation and neutralization pathways in high vacuum.,  Phys Chem Chem Phys 20, 11412 (2018).
• QNP on BBC World Service, Bringing Schrodinger's Cat to Life, by Roland Pease
• Congratulation to James Millen on his new Lecturer position at Kings College London, where he is now starting a new optomechanics group. 

March 2018:

• QNP present at the annual "ERC Talks" at UNIVIE
• B. A. Stickler, B. Papendell, S. Kuhn, J. Millen, M. Arndt, and K. Hornberger, Orientational quantum revivals of nanoscale rotors,  arXiv:1803.01778v1

February 2018:

• QNP on Austrian Radio Broadcast Ö1: Magie im Makrokosmos
• Rodewald et al., Isotope selective high-order interferometry with large organic molecules in free fall, New J. Phys. 2018, doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aaade2

January 2018:

• Congratulations to Stefan Kuhn on completing his PhD with distinction

December 2017: 

• Kuhn et al., Nanoparticle detection in an open-access silicon microcavity, Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 253107 (2017), selected as Editor's Pick, DOI: 10.1063/1.5008492, arxiv.org/abs/1712.01533,
• 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:

• S. Kuhn et al., Optically driven ultra-stable nanomechanical rotor. Nature Communications 2017, 8 (1).
• 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
• Brand et al. : Conformer-selection by matter-wave interference. ArXiv 1710.01035 (2017)
• James Millen showcasing nanoparticle opto-mechanics at the European Researchers Night,
  with support by Lana Rauch & Ugur Sezer 

September 2017:

• Congratulations to James Millen on receiving the IOP Bates Award 2017
• Congratulations to Franz Wieser on completing his Masters degree with distinction
• Mairhofer et al. , Quantum-Assisted Metrology of Neutral Vitamins in the Gas Phase, 
  Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 56, 10947 (2017),  DOI: 10.1002/anie.201704916'; 
  Angew. Chem. Deutsch 56, 11088(2017),  DOI: 10.1002/ange.201704916, & High-lighted in ChemistryViews 

August 2017: 

• Science Advances 3, e1602478 (2017), In search of multipath interference using large molecules, High-lighted in Physics World

July2017:

• J. Mass Spectrom. 52,  550-556 (2017), Tailoring the volatility and stability of oligopeptides
• Sezer et al. , Nanoscale 9, 9175-9180 (2017) 

May 2017:

• Austrian Radio on Macroscopic Quantum Science in the QNP group

April 2017:

• EU Seal of Excellence to Armin Shayeghi  

March 2017:

• FWF Project COLMI granted
• Kuhn et al. Optica 4,  356-360 (2017), Full rotational control of levitated silicon nanorods
• Les Houches Lecture Notes (2017) on the ArXiv, Matter-wave physics with nanoparticles and biomolecules
• Jonas Rodewald completes his PhD with distinction

February 2017:

• Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 8, 325(2017), Selective Photodissociation of Tailored Molecular Tags as a Tool for Quantum Optics, 
• Appl. Phys. B 123,3 (2017) : DOI 10.1007/s00340-016-6573-y, New avenues for matter-wave-enhanced spectroscopy
• Nadine Dörre receives a Loschmidt Prize 2016, by the Chemical Physical Society , Austria

December 2016:

• Nadine Dörre receives an Award of Excellence 2016, by the BMWFW 
• 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 ...