Quantum Physics
Otto-Stern award for Johannes Knörzer
15 December 2015
Johannes Knörzer has been awarded the Otto-Stern Award for the best master thesis of the summer term 2015 of the physics department of the University of Hamburg. The prize-giving will take place during the Christmas party of the physics department on 16 December 2015. His thesis aimed at unraveling the possibilities for studying highly correlated many-body excitation dynamics around segmented carbon nanotubes. The resulting edge-localized electronic excitations lead to series of Rydberg states which are attracted to the metallic or semiconducting nanotube by their image charges. This work has recently been published in Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP 143, 204309 (2015)).