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Paolo Colciaghi wins SPS Award for his PhD thesis
The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) awards prizes to young physicists for outstanding research in the early stages of their careers. In 2024, Dr. Paolo Colciaghi has won the SPS Award in all Physics Domains, sponsored by ABB. Paolo is a former student of the QCQT PhD school who carried out his project in the group of Prof. Philipp Treutlein. Paolo and his colleagues observed for the first time the famous Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox between two spatially separated, massive many-particle systems. Their results shows that the conflict between quantum mechanics and local realism does not disappear as the system size increases to more than a thousand massive particles and open up new opportunities for quantum metrology.