A team of scientists from the Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Informatics at the University of Nicolaus Copernicus in Torun will receive PLN 1.7 million for the project “The cryogenic system for the development of new optical quantum technologies”.

Torun researchers from the team headed by Dr Piotr Wcisła received a grant for the purchase of a cryogenic installation for controlling the temperature of experimental systems, such as an ultra-stable optical cavity or a confocal microscope. The investment enables to start new research programs in the areas of atomic and molecular physics, simple molecules chemistry, quantum information, ultra-precise optical metrology, and the search for new physics going beyond the Standard Model- as informs the University on its website.

Dr Piotr Wcisło is a graduate of the Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in Mathematics and Natural Sciences (specialization in atomic physics) at the Jagiellonian University. He has completed an internship at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge.