The European Physical Society honors the scientist from the University of Stuttgart as a pioneer of solid-state quantum physics [Picture: David Ausserhofer / private]
The European Physical Society honors the scientist from the University of Stuttgart as a pioneer of solid-state quantum physics [ Picture: David Ausserhofer / private] Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup, Head of the 3rd Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, receives the "Europhysics Prize Award 2020" of the European Physical Society in the category "Condensed Matter". The internationally renowned award honors Wrachtrup's pioneering work in the field of quantum coherence in solid state systems and its applications in quantum information processing and sensor technology. The research of Jörg Wrachtrup has established a completely new and very successful field of research at the interface between solid state physics and quantum optics, ranging from materials science to biomedical research and based on groundbreaking work on the optical detection of single spins in solids. Already in the early 1990s Wrachtrup succeeded in precisely controlling single electron and nuclear spins in solids. These methods later became the basis of quantum control in solids. Jörg Wrachtrup and his team made great progress with the identification of individual paramagnetic nitrogen vacancies in diamond, so-called NV centers, which provided a promising platform for quantum nanoscience. Jörg Wrachtrup's groundbreaking contributions in this field include the proof of entanglement between nanopositioned defects and electronic and nuclear spins, the first non-destructive quantum measurements on solid-state spins, and error correction based on nuclear spin clusters.
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