Projects

International

SCALES – Superfluid Condensates in Astrophysics and Laboratory Experiments
Superfluid Condensates in Astrophysics and Laboratory Experiments
Program: COST
Project leader: RNDr. Človečko Marcel, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2025 – 31.12.2027
skQCI – skQCI
skQCI
Program: Digital Europe Programme
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Project webpage: https://skqci.qute.sk/sk/slovencina/
Duration: 1.1.2023 – 30.6.2026
EMP – Europská Mikrokelvinová Platforma
European Microkelvin Platform
Program: Horizon 2020
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Project webpage: https://emplatform.eu/
Duration: 1.1.2019 – 31.12.2023
Microkelvin – Európska mikrokelvinová spolupráca
European Microkelvin Collaboration
Program: FP7
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Project webpage: www.microkelvin.eu
Duration: 1.4.2009 – 31.3.2013

National

Fázovo koherentné fyzikálne systémy
Phase coherent physical systems
Program: Plán obnovy EÚ
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.12.2024 – 30.6.2026
Dekoherencia v mechanických rezonátoroch pri nízkych teplotách
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Človečko Marcel, PhD.
Duration: 1.1.2022 – 31.12.2025
MIKROKELVIN – Kvantové materiály pri ultra-nízkych teplotách – MIKROKELVIN
Quantum matters at very low temperatures – MICROKELVIN
Program: Štrukturálne fondy EÚ Výskum a inovácie
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2020 – 30.6.2023
Klasicko-kvantový prechod v mechanických rezonátoroch
Classical to quantum crossover in mechanical resonators
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Človečko Marcel, PhD.
Annotation: The material variability and dimensional diversity of mechanical resonators allows us to deliberately change their physical and geometric properties. Thus by reducing their mass / energy content (i.e. by decreasing their size)while simultaneously cooling them to temperatures close to absolute zero, it is possible to use them as a tool tostudy the crossover between classical and quantum dynamics. The ambition of our project is (i) the study of nonlinear processes in macroscopic resonators based on piezomaterials, (ii) the study of the transition between classical and quantum dynamics by using our custom made mechanical micro and nanoresonators and (iii) to deepen the understanding of fundamental processes of the energy exchange between these resonators and thethermal reservoir leading to the decoherence.
Duration: 1.1.2018 – 31.12.2021
PSI – Prechod supravodič – izolant
Superconductor – insulator transition
Program: SRDA
Project leader: Mgr. Szabó Pavol, CSc.
Annotation: The project aims at understanding the problem of how superconductor transforms to insulator at increaseddisorder. The questions of what is the force driving the superconducting transition temperature to lower values inultrathin superconducting films and what is the mechanism of the quantum phase transition betweensuperconducting and insulating states will be addressed experimentally as well as theoretically. Thesuperconducting films of various content with thicknesses down to few atomic layers as well as thenanostructures and resonators on their basis will be prepared. Transport, microwave and optical properties ofthese objects will be investigated. By means of the subkelvin scanning tunnelling microscope the spectral mapsof the quasiparticle density of states at ultralow temperatures and in high magnetic fields will be measured. Wewill explore possibilities to prepare sensitive photon detectors and amplifiers based on ultrathin disorderedsuperconducting films for the spectroscopy in physics, chemistry and biology.Dynamics of the surface states in another macroscopic quantum object, the superfluid 3He which is thetopological insulator at ultra low temperatures, will be investigated experimentally as well as theoretically. Theobjective is to elucidate the dynamics of surface bound excitations in superfluid 3He by means of mechanicalresonators and resolve if the excitations can be identified with the long searched Majorana fermions.By experiment the recent question if samarium hexaboride is a topological insulator will be addressed.
Duration: 1.7.2015 – 30.6.2019
Supratekuté hélium-3 ako topologický izolátor
Superfluid helium-3 as topological insulator
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2015 – 31.12.2017
Andrejev-Majorana excitácie v supratekutom 3He-B
Andreev-Majorana excitations in superfluid 3He-B
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2012 – 31.12.2014
Bose-Einsteinova kondenzácia magnónov v supratekutom 3He
Bose-Einstein condensation of magnons in superfluid 3He
Program: VEGA
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.1.2009 – 31.12.2011
Sizyfos – Makroskopické kvantové javy a detektory
Macroscopic quantum phenomena and detectors
Program: SRDA
Project leader: RNDr. Skyba Peter, DrSc.
Duration: 1.6.2008 – 31.3.2011