Prof. Jörg Wrachtrup, Head of the 3rd Institute of Physics at the University of Stuttgart, receives the "Europhysics Prize Award 2020" of the European Physical Society in the category "Condensed Matter". The internationally renowned award honors Wrachtrup’s pioneering work in the field of quantum coherence in solid state systems and its applications in quantum information processing and sensor technology.
The research of Jörg Wrachtrup has established a completely new and very successful field of research at the interface between solid state physics and quantum optics, ranging from materials science to biomedical research and based on groundbreaking work on the optical detection of single spins in solids. ...
