The EU-funded NANOQUESTFIT project has made big leaps in the promising field of quantum optics.
This FET funded project was highly ambitious in scope and its scientific goals, as explained by project coordinator Prof. Markus Arndt of the University of Vienna. It has been the first worldwide team to have seen the quantum delocalisation of complex molecules and nanoparticles, where individual objects could be composed of dozens, up to many hundreds, of strongly bound atoms, and yet be delocalised over micrometer scales and times as long as 10 ms.
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