Today, the BPS 2023 research-campaign white paper for NASA’s Decadal Survey appeared on the arXiv.
Read more → ShareToday we submitted a MAQRO whitepaper for a research campaign to the BPS 2023 Decadal Survey of NASA. Here is the PDF. For this purpose, we involved colleagues from the US, Europe and Australia to discuss possible updates of MAQRO, the possibility to address additional science objectives, and possible technology demonstrations, proof-of-principle experiments and in-orbit demonstrators in order to increase the technological maturity of MAQRO, to investigate the deep space environment and how we can harness it ...
Read more → ShareThere currently is an opening for a postdoctoral researcher for 12 months to perform research with Rainer Kaltenbaek at the IQOQI Vienna related on MAQRO. Here a PDF with details about the position opening.
Read more → ShareThis is very short notice, but R. Kaltenbaek is looking for a postdoc candidate to apply for a EUTOPIA fellowship to work with him and in collaboration with Animesh Datta (Warwick) on topics related to the MAQRO mission proposal.
In particular, candidates are invited to apply for a prestigious 2-year EUTOPIA-SIF Post Doctoral Fellowship (https://eutopia-university.eu/2020/09/24/eutopia-sif/) based in the group of Rainer Kaltenbaek at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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Read more → ShareThermal shielding of macroscopic quantum experiments in space
Testing the relationship between quantum and classical physics and, in particular, quantum decoherence in space was identified by the European Space Agency (ESA) as an area of interest for future space missions in the course of ESA’s call for New Science Ideas. ESA is currently performing a detailed engineering study at its Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) to investigate the possible design and the required core technologies and challenges for potentially realizing ...
Yesterday, the second of two meetings aimed to involve the scientific community and to prepare for the upcoming CDF study was successfully concluded. In particular, there was a meeting in Bratislava on March 20-22, which focused on the theoretical aspects of performing tests of quantum physics, and there was a follow-up meeting on April 10-11 on the experimental challenges we face in such endeavors as well as the state-of-the-art experimental efforts on ground.
Read more → ShareFollowing the meeting at Trento in June 2017, R. Kaltenbaek met at the end of June 2017 with ESA at ESTEC in the Netherlands to discuss the further proceeding. It was agreed that there would be an ESA study of MAQRO at the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) of ESA within the first half of 2018. To this end, we assembled a core team to work on MAQRO. For now, the team was agreed to have the following structure:
Principal Investigator: Rainer ...
Read more → ShareMAQRO, along with three other proposals, has been identified in line with the spirit of ESA’s call for New Science Ideas to be investigated more closely in collaboration with the community. In particular, there will be a meeting of the lead proposers of the four New Ideas identified and representatives of ESA in Trento, Italy, from June 6-7.
Read more → ShareWe submitted MAQRO as a proposal to ESA’s call for New Science Ideas. If we are successful, this will allow us to discuss MAQRO with ESA in order to better identify critical issues and a technology roadmap towards a potential future implementation of MAQRO. We decided to submit a proposal in this form rather than submitting a proposal for the "M5" call in order to better prepare for an anticipated future "M6" call, which will ...
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The article "Thermal performance of a radiatively cooled system for quantum optomechanical experiments in space" by A. Pilan Zanoni, J. Burkhardt, U. Johann, M. Aspelmeyer, R. Kaltenbaek, and G. Hechenblaikner just got published (Applied Thermal Engineering 107, 689 (2016), doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2016.06.116). The image above is the corresponding graphical abstract.
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