We have put our most recent work on the arxiv, read it here. We demonstrate a new concept to realize an optomechanical microcavity. We unite in-plane and out-of-plane light propagation to increase the optomechanical coupling strength. Wonderful teamwork between experiment and theory!

Our work on magnetically levitated superconducting microparticles in an anharmonic potential on a chip has been published in Phys Rev Applied. Congrats to the team!

Gothenburgs Science Festival (Vetenskapsfestivalen) is currently on-going and Witlef gave a public presentation this Saturday. Young and old were equally fascinated by the pursuit to research the limits of quantum mechanics. It was great fun to present our research to the public and I received many excellent questions and saw kids with curious eyes in the audience!

The ERC has awarded Witlef with a Consolidator Grant. This is great news as it allows our lab to push further the frontiers of quantum physics to more macroscopic objects. The goal of the project is to entangle multiple magnetically levitated superconducting particles – all on a chip. We will start this exciting endeavor on Jan 1st 2024. Stay tuned!

We welcome Hannes Pfeifer as a PostDoctoral researcher in our group. He will join us from the University of Bonn and contribute to our activities in the field of optomechanics. We would also like to congratulate him to be awarded a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie PostDoctoral fellowship from the EU. What a great achievement!