PhD student wins prize for her groundbreaking research achievements. This year the Quantum Technology Finland Centre of Excellence (QTF) annual discovery prize is being awarded to Bayan Karimi. She was first author on this year’s Nature Communications paper “Reaching the ultimate energy resolution of a quantum detector” (https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-14247-2). In the work, Bayan as part of…
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For fundamental achievements in quantum thermodynamics, metrology and cryogenics based on nanoscale electronic devices. https://www.iop.org/physics-community/special-interest-groups/low-temperature-group/simon-memorial-prize
Aalto School of Science Best Doctoral Thesis 2016 Award PhD Jonne Koski from PICO group was awarded for the best doctoral thesis in 2016 by the Aalto School of Science (SCI). The award was granted for three exceptionally distinguished dissertations on 16 March, 2017. Jonne Koski currently works at the ETH Zurich. Others awarded were…
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Best Physics Doctoral Dissertation 2016 Award PhD Jonne Koski from PICO group was awarded for the best physics doctoral dissertation in 2016 by the Department of Applied Physics. The award was granted for the third time for three outstanding doctoral dissertations in physics in Aalto University on 14 December, 2016. Jonne Koski currently works at…
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The video about the successful collaboration of PICO group members, namely, Jonne Koski, Ville Maisi, and Prof. Jukka Pekola with Prof. Dmitri Averin (Stony Brook University) and Prof. Takahiro Sagawa (Tokyo University) in realization of Maxwell Demon has been published on YouTube. Please see video below: For more information please see the underlain papers: Jonne…
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Best Doctoral Physics Dissertation Awards 2014 PhD Ville Maisi from the O.V. Lounasmaa Laboratory was awarded for the best physics doctoral dissertation in 2014 by the Aalto School of Science (SCI). The award was acknowledged for the first time for three outstanding doctoral dissertations in physics in Aalto University on 18 December, 2014. Ville Maisi…
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Doctoral Dissertation Awards 2013 at Aalto SCI PhD Olli-Pentti Saira from the O.V: Lounasmaa Laboratory was awarded for the best doctoral dissertation in 2013 by the Aalto School of Science (SCI). The award is presented in the annual get together of the Doctoral Programme of SCI on 18 March, 2014. Saira currently works at the…
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Our paper entitled “Distribution of Entropy Production in a Single-Electron Box” has been published as a Letter in Nature Physics. Congratulations to Jonne Koski and co-authors! Here is the paper abstract: Recently, the fundamental laws of thermodynamics have been reconsidered for small systems. The discovery of the fluctuation relations has spurred theoretical and experimental studies.…
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On Thursday, March 28, 2013 Olli-Pentti Saira will defend his doctoral thesis entitled “Electrostatic control of quasiparticle transport in superconducting hybrid nanostructures”. The defence will take place in room TU1 of TUAS-talo at 12:15. Olli-Pentti’s opponent is Prof. Dr. Gerd Schön from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. Olli-Pentti’s thesis is available here. Congrats Olli-Pentti on…
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Our guest Philip Wollfarth, graduate student from Alexander Shnirman’s group at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, will give a talk at our weekly group meeting. Time: 25.3.2013, 9am Place: Micronova, small lecture hall Title: Full counting statistics applied to Cooper pair pumping Abstract: We investigate geometric charge pumping in superconducting Josephson devices using the method of…
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