This page contains automatically translated content.
High award for paper by a physicist from Kassel
![](/uni/files/_processed_/d/4/csm_Kilian_Singer-30-b_9c3cb3ec82.jpg)
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.
- Link to Physics World article: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2016/dec/12/ligo-gravitational-wave-discovery-is-physics-world-2016-breakthrough-of-the-year
- Link to Science paper:
Johannes Roßnagel, Samuel T. Dawkins, Karl N. Tolazzi, Obinna Abah, Eric Lutz, Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler, Kilian Singer, A single-atom heat engine, Science 352, 325 (2016)
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/352/6283/325 - Link to the press release "Engine from an atom" from the University of Kassel:
https://www.uni-kassel.de/uni/aktuelles/meldung/post/detail/News/motor-aus-einem-atom/
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