Each year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. This year, the candidates submitted numerous articles which appeared in high-impact journals between October 16, 2012 and October 15, 2013. With this award, remarkably successful cooperation projects within CeNS as well as outstanding research of an individual research group of CeNS are distinguished.

The winning publications (random order):

 

Oliver Viehmann, Jan von Delft, and Florian Marquardt
Observing the Nonequilibrium Dynamics of the Quantum Transverse-Field Ising Chain in Circuit QED
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, pp 030601 (2013)

 

G. J. Schinner, J. Repp, E. Schubert, A. K. Rai, D. Reuter, A. D. Wieck,
A. O. Govorov, A.W. Holleitner, and J. P. Kotthaus
Confinement and Interaction of Single Indirect Excitons in a Voltage-Controlled Trap Formed Inside Double InGaAs Quantum Wells
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, pp 127403 (2013)

 

Christof B. Mast, Severin Schink, Ulrich Gerland, and Dieter Braun
Escalation of Polymerization in a Thermal Gradient
PNAS 110(20), pp 8030-5 (2013)

 

Stahl, S. W., Nash, M. A., Fried, D. B., Slutzki, M., Barak, Y., Bayer, E. A., and Gaub, H. E.
Single-molecule dissection of the high-affinity cohesindockerin complex
PNAS 109(50), pp 20431-20436 (2012)

 

D. Doennig, W. Pickett, and R. Pentcheva
Massive Symmetry Breaking in LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃(111) Quantum Wells: A Three-Orbital Strongly Correlated Generalization of Graphene
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 126804 (2013)

 

T. Faust, J. Rieger, J. P. Kotthaus, and E. M.Weig
Coherent control of a classical nanomechanical two-level system
Nature Physics 9, pp 485488 (2013)

 

Lidiya Osinkina, S. Carretero-Palacios, Joachim Stehr, Andrey A. Lutich, Frank Jäckel, and Jochen Feldmann
Tuning DNA Binding Kinetics in an Optical Trap by Plasmonic Nanoparticle Heating
Nano Letters 13(7), pp 31403144 (2013)

 

Z. Fei, A. S. Rodin, W. Gannett, S. Dai, W. Regan, M. Wagner, M. K. Liu, A. S. McLeod, G. Dominguez, M. Thiemens, Antonio H. Castro Neto, F. Keilmann, A. Zettl, R. Hillenbrand, M. M. Fogler and D. N. Basov
Electronic and plasmonic phenomena at graphene grain boundaries
Nature Nanotechnology 8, pp 821825 (2013)

 

Florian Bauer, Jan Heyder, Enrico Schubert, David Borowsky, Daniela Taubert, Benedikt Bruognolo, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, Jan von Delft, and Stefan Ludwig
Microscopic origin of the 0.7-anomaly in quantum point contacts
Nature 501, pp 7378 (2013)

 

Björn Sbierski, Markus Hanl, Andreas Weichselbaum, Hakan E. Türeci, Moshe Goldstein, Leonid I. Glazmann, Jan von Delft, and Ataç mamolu
Proposed Rabi-Kondo Correlated State in a Laser-Driven Semiconductor Quantum Dot
Phys. Rev. Lett. 111, 157402 (2013)

 

Adriano de Andrade Torrano, Julia Blechinger, Christian Osseforth, Christian Argyo, Armin Reller, Thomas Bein, Jens Michaelis, and Christoph Bräuchle
A fast analysis method to quantify nanoparticle uptake on a single cell level
Nanomedicine 8(11), pp 1815-1828 (2013)

 

Stephan Mackowiak, Alexandra Schmidt, Veronika Weiß, Christian Argyo, Constantin von Schirnding, Thomas Bein, and Christoph Bräuchle
Targeted Drug Delivery in Cancer Cells with Red Light Photoactivated Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles
Nano Letters 13(6), pp 25762583 (2013)

 

Christian Westermeier, Matthias Fiebig, and Bert Nickel
Mapping of Trap Densities and Hotspots in Pentacene Thin-Film Transistors by Frequency-Resolved Scanning Photoresponse Microscopy
Advanced Materials 25(40), pp 57195724 (2013)

 

Johannes Knebel, Torben Krüger, Markus F. Weber, and Erwin Frey
Coexistence and survival in conservative Lotka-Volterra networks
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, pp 168106 (2013)

 

Matthias S. Hofmann, Jan T. Glückert, Jonathan Noé, Christian Bourjau, Raphael Dehmel, and Alexander Högele
Bright, long-lived and coherent excitons in carbon nanotube quantum dots
Nature Nanotechnology 8, pp 502505 (2013)

 

Thomas Sirtl, Stefan Schlogl, Atena Rastgoo-Lahrood, Jelena Jelic, Subhadip Neogi, Michael Schmittel, Wolfgang M. Heckl, Karsten Reuter, and Markus Lackinger
Control of Intermolecular Bonds by Deposition Rates at Room Temperature: Hydrogen Bonds versus Metal Coordination in Trinitrile Monolayers
JACS 135(2), pp 691695 (2013)

 

Katharina Schwinghammer, Brian Tuffy, Maria B. Mesch, Eva Wirnhier, Charlotte Martineau, Francis Taulelle, Wolfgang Schnick, Jürgen Senker, and Bettina V. Lotsch
Triazine-based Carbon Nitrides for Visible-Light-Driven Hydrogen Evolution
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52(9), pp 24352439 (2013)

 

Stephan Heucke, Fabian Baumann, Guillermo Acuna, Philip Severin, Stefan Stahl, Mathias Strackharn, Ingo Stein, Philipp Altpeter, Philip Tinnefeld, and Hermann E. Gaub
Placing Individual Molecules in the Center of Nanoapertures
Nano Lett. (2013)  [Epub ahead of print]

 

Mirjam Dogru, Matthias Handloser, Florian Auras, Thomas Kunz, Dana Medina, Achim Hartschuh, Paul Knochel, and Thomas Bein
A Photoconductive Thienothiophene-Based Covalent Organic Framework Showing Charge Transfer Towards Included Fullerene
Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 52(10), pp. 29202924 (2013)

 

Jürgen J. Schmied, Carsten Forthmann, Enrico Pibiri, Birka Lalkens, Philipp Nickels, Tim Liedl and Philip Tinnefeld
DNA Origami Nanopillars as Standards for Three-Dimensional Superresolution Microscopy
Nano Letters 13(2), pp 781785 (2013)