Awarded the Rudolf Kaiser Prize: - (from left) Julian Schmitt from the Institute of Applied Physics and Rainer Lüdtke from the German Foundation Center in the Stifterverband.
Awarded the Rudolf Kaiser Prize: - ( from left ) Julian Schmitt from the Institute of Applied Physics and Rainer Lüdtke from the German Foundation Center in the Stifterverband. Photo: Barbara Frommann/University of Bonn all images in original size . Dr. Julian Schmitt from the Institute of Applied Physics at the University of Bonn is to receive the 2023 Rudolf Kaiser Prize, one of the most prestigious accolades in Germany for early-career natural scientists working in the field of physics. The researcher is being recognized for "developing methods for monitoring quantum gases and measuring the compressibility and equation of state of a photon gas in the quantum range". "Studying how quantum gases behave under readily controllable experimental conditions is key to understanding fascinating quantum phenomena such as room-temperature superfluidity," Dr. Julian Schmitt says. By combining an innovative method for nanostructuring mirrors with material-filled optical resonators, the physicist has demonstrated that thermodynamic concepts of atomic systems can be extended to photon gases at room temperature, allowing fundamental predictions of statistical physics to be validated for low-dimensional quantum gases. This has enabled him and his team to measure both the compressibility and the equation of state of a photon gas at quantum level for the first time.
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