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12/21/2016 | Campus-Meldung

High award for paper by a physicist from Kassel

A research result by a physicist from Kassel has been selected by the specialist journal Physics World as one of the discipline's top ten "Breakthroughs of 2016". It is the Science publication "A single-atom heat engine" by Prof. Dr. Kilian Singer and other authors, which appeared in April 2016 and presents the world's smallest heat engine.

The paper describes experiments conducted under the direction of Singer, head of the Experimental Physics I department at the University of Kassel, while he was still at the University of Mainz, in collaboration with physicists from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The group had built the world's smallest heat engine, using a single atom.

First place as Breakthrough of the Year was awarded to the research results of the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, which had directly observed gravitational waves for the first time in 2016 and was rated "Breakthrough" of the Year by Physics World for this achievement.  

Physics World is the membership magazine of the Institute of Physics, the main professional body for physicists in the UK and Ireland.

 

 

Contact:

Prof. Dr. Kilian Singer
University of Kassel
Experimental Physics I / Light-Matter Interaction
Tel. +49 561 804-4235
Email: ks[at]uni-kassel[dot]de