Katarina Cicak

It is entitled Low-temperature Collective Transport and Dynamics in Charge Density Wave Conductor Niobium Triselenide.

[3] Cicak has contributed to a mechanical "micro-drum" resonator that can couple to microwave radiation in operation at 40 milliKelvin in a superconducting cavity.

[4] The team took the strong coupling a step further using sideband cooling to lower the temperature to below 400 microKelvin toward a quantum ground state.

"[7] In 2021, she was awarded the Physics World 2021 Breakthrough of the Year for "entangling two macroscopic vibrating drumheads, thereby advancing our understanding of the divide between quantum and classical systems.

"[8] In 2020, she was awarded the NIST Technology Partnership Office Patent of the Month for "Reticulated resonator, the process for making and use of same”.