Jörg Schmiedmayer

Hannes-Jörg Schmiedmayer (born August 13, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian physicist and professor of quantum physics at the Vienna University of Technology . From September 2009 to March 2013 he was the head of the Atomic Institute of the Vienna University of Technology .

Life

Jörg Schmiedmayer studied physics at the Technical University of Vienna and astronomy at the University of Vienna from 1978 to 1983 . Since 1978 he has been a member of the Catholic student association KaV Norica Vienna in the ÖCV . Like his studies, he completed his doctoral studies in experimental physics under Helmut Rauch with distinction. Afterwards, his studies took him to CERN , Harvard University and MIT for several years .

In 1997 he completed his habilitation in experimental physics with Anton Zeilinger at the University of Innsbruck and in 2000 accepted a position as professor for experimental physics at the University of Heidelberg . With his work group he developed a method for the control and manipulation of cold atoms with the help of structured surfaces, so-called atom chips . This was the first time in 2003 that a Bose-Einstein condensate was produced on an atomic chip. He was also a visiting professor at Peking University in China from 2003 to 2006 .

In 2006 he accepted a professorship at the Vienna University of Technology. Based on "Mr. Beam - Anton Zeilinger" he is often referred to as "Mr. AtomChip" by the Austrian media.

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Schmiedmayer has been working on the development of the atom chip for the controlled manipulation of cold atoms since 1992. In 2003 a Bose-Einstein condensate was produced on an atom chip for the first time. He demonstrated the use of such chips for ultra-precise magnetic field sensors and a matter wave interferometer (analogous to the double slit experiment ).

He is mainly concerned with the manipulation of ultra-cold atoms and BECs using atom chips, as well as with ultra-cold atoms as qubits and quantum memories, in order to make them accessible for quantum information technologies such as quantum computers and quantum cryptography . His scientific work includes more than 180 publications in international, refereed journals.

Awards

• Viktor Hess Prize of the Austrian Physical Society , 1988
• Excellence in Research and Development award: Oak Ridge National Laboratory , 1992
• European Optics Prize, European Optical Society (with Anton Zeilinger and colleagues), 1996
• Wittgenstein Prize , 2006
• Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , 2010
• City of Vienna Prize for Natural Sciences , 2012
• ERC Advanced Grant from the European Research Council , 2013
• full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences , 2013

Web links

• Working group webpage
• Webpage of the Atomic Institute of the Vienna University of Technology
• Curriculum vitae on the website of the Atomic Institute of TU Wien (PDF file; 65 kB)
• Article on science.ORF.at

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ResearcherID.com: Jörg Schmiedmayer B-4717-2008