Gerard Higgins

Dr.

Member of the Young Academy since 2025

Marietta-Blau-Institute for Particle Physics of the OAW
Institute of Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Vienna, Austrian Academy of Sciences (OeAW)

gerard.higgins(at)oeaw.ac.at

Orcid-ID:

0000-0003-0946-8067

Research Areas:

Physics, Astronomy
Quantum mechanics
Quantum optics
Experimental physics
Particle physics

Profile:

CV/Website

Publications:

Website

Selected Memberships:

Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

Selected Prizes:

ERC Starting Grant 2024
Austrian Science Fund (FWF) ESPRIT Grant 2023
Swedish Research Council (VR) International Postdoc Grant 2020
"Physics World" (magazine) top 10 breakthroughs of the year 2020
Springer Thesis Award 2019

Selected Publications:

High-Q magnetic levitation and control of superconducting microspheres at millikelvin temperatures, Joachim Hofer, Rudolf Gross, Gerard Higgins, Hans Huebl, Oliver F. Kieler, Reinhold Kleiner, Dieter Koelle, Philip Schmidt, Joshua A. Slater, Michael Trupke, Kevin Uhl, Thomas Weimann, Witlef Wieczorek, Markus Aspelmeyer, Physical Review Letters 131, 043603 (2023).
Superconducting microsphere magnetically levitated in an anharmonic potential with integrated magnetic readout, Martí Gutierrez Latorre, Gerard Higgins, Achintya Paradkar, Thilo Bauch, Witlef Wieczorek, Physical Review Applied 19, 054047 (2023).
Coherent control of a single trapped Rydberg ion, Gerard Higgins, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Quentin Bodart, Markus Hennrich, Physical Review Letters 119 220501 (2017).
Submicrosecond entangling gate between trapped ions via Rydberg interaction, Chi Zhang, Fabian Pokorny, Weibin Li, Gerard Higgins, Andreas Pöschl, Igor Lesanovsky, Markus Hennrich, Nature 580 345 (2020).
Single strontium Rydberg ion confined in a Paul trap, Gerard Higgins, Weibin Li, Fabian Pokorny, Chi Zhang, Florian Kress, Christine Maier, Johannes Haag, Quentin Bodart, Igor Lesanovsky, Markus Hennrich, Physical Review X 7, 021038 (2017).

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