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Bank Austria Award for young researchers |  | [2010-03-17] The research project „Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical resonator and an optical cavity field“ by Simon Gröblacher, Michael Vanner and Klemens Hammerer has been awarded as innovative research project 2010. | Bild: IQOQI Wien | Every year the Bank
Austria foundation for science
and research at the University of Vienna promotes young researches and
their innovative projects from different kinds of research fields. These
projects should be of high actuality, handle an innovative topic and be
of practical relevance.
For 2010 Simon Gröblacher, Michael
Vanner – both
PhD-Students at the University of Vienna and Klemens Hammerer – postdoc
at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) in
Innsbruck – have been awarded with the main prize for the research
project „Observation of strong coupling between a micromechanical
resonator and an optical cavity field". This project was carried out in
the Group of Prof. Markus Aspelmeyer at the University of Vienna and was
published in the prestigious journal Nature in September last year.
With this work they set a milestone
in the research
field of quantum-opto-mechanic. For the first time they observed
optomechanical normal mode splitting, which provides unambiguous
evidence for strong coupling of cavity photons to a mechanical
resonator. This paves the way towards full quantum optical control of
nano- and micromechanical devices and will be essential for future
preparation of mechanical quantum states such as squeezed or entangled
states and also for using mechanical resonators in the context of
quantum information processing, for example, as quantum transducers.
The award ceremony took place on
the “Dies
Academicus” on 12th March 2010 at the University of Vienna. | | | |
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