Quantum physicist Tatsam Garg has been awarded a prestigious DOC Fellowship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) for his doctoral project “Quantum Metrology with Molecules in an Optical Lattice.” The DOC Fellowship is one of Austria’s most competitive funding programs for doctoral researchers and supports outstanding young scientists working on ambitious and innovative research projects.

The fellowship recognizes the scientific quality and potential impact of the proposed research, which focuses on developing new precision measurement platforms based on ultracold molecules. Molecules with heavy nuclei and large electric dipole moments are exceptionally sensitive probes for fundamental symmetry-violating effects in nature, such as parity and charge–parity violation, making them powerful tools for testing physics beyond the Standard Model. Beyond precision measurements, the project will lay important groundwork for creating dense ensembles of ultracold heavy molecules, where interactions and entanglement can be harnessed to surpass the standard quantum limit.

With this project, the DOC Fellowship supports a significant step toward true quantum metrology with molecules and strengthens Austria’s position in the rapidly developing field of molecular quantum science. The project is being carried out in the [Cold Molecules and Quantum Technologies --- > link to coldmolecules.at] research unit at the Atominstitut and the Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology (VCQ) at TU Wien.