Prof. Immanuel Bloch

Phone: +49 89 32905 138
Fax: +49 89 32905 313
Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Room: B1.22
Hans Kopfermann Str. 1
85748 Garching b. München
LMU Address
LS Prof. Immanuel Bloch
Fakultät für Physik
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität
Schellingstrasse 4 / 1. & 2. Stock
80799 München
Tel.: +49 (89) 2180 6130
Curriculum Vitae
Invited Talks
Over 158 international invited talks and more than 93 invited national talks.
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Publication List
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Selected Publications fold
Expansion dynamics of interacting bosons in homogeneous lattices in one and two dimensions
Authors: J.P. Ronzheimer, M. Schreiber, S. Braun, S.S. Hodgman, S. Langer, I.P. McCulloch, F. Heidrich-Meisner, I. Bloch and U. Schneider
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 205301 (2013)
Experimental realization of strong effective magnetic fields in optical superlattice potentials
Authors: M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, I. Bloch
Magazine: Appl. Phys. B, 'Online First' (2013)
doi:10.1007/s00340-013-5418-1
Interferometric approach to measuring band topology in 2D optical lattices
Authors: D. Abanin, T. Kitagawa, I. Bloch, E. Demler
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 165304 (2013)
Quantum dynamics of a mobile spin impurity
Authors: Takeshi Fukuhara, Adrian Kantian, Manuel Endres, Marc Cheneau, Peter Schauß, Sebastian Hild, David Bellem, Ulrich Schollwöck, Thierry Giamarchi, Christian Gross, Immanuel Bloch, Stefan Kuhr
Magazine: Nature Physics 9, 235-241 (2013)
Negative Absolute Temperature for Motional Degrees of Freedom
Authors: Simon Braun, Jens Philipp Ronzheimer, Michael Schreiber, Sean S. Hodgman, Tim Rom, Immanuel Bloch, Ulrich Schneider
Magazine: Science 339, 52 (2013)
Direct Measurement of the Zak Phase in Topological Bloch Bands
Authors: M. Atala, M. Aidelsburger, J.T. Barreiro, D. Abanin, T. Kitagawa, E. Demler, I. Bloch
Magazine: arXiv:1212.0572
Observation of Spatially Ordered Structures in a Two-Dimensional Rydberg Gas
Authors: P. Schauss, M. Cheneau, M. Endres, T. Fukuhara, S. Hild, A. Omran, T. Pohl, C. Gross, S. Kuhr, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 491, 87 (2012)
The ‘Higgs’ amplitude mode at the two-dimensional superfluid/Mott insulator transition
Authors: M. Endres,T. Fukuhara,D. Pekker,M. Cheneau,P. Schauβ, C. Gross, E. Demler, S. Kuhr, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 487, 454–458, (2012)
Experimental Realization of Plaquette Resonating Valence-Bond States with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Superlattices
Authors: S. Nascimbène, Y.-A. Chen, M. Atala, M. Aidelsburger, S. Trotzky, B. Paredes, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 205301 (2012)
Quantum simulations with ultracold quantum gases
Authors: Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, Sylvain Nascimbene
Magazine: Nature Physics 8, 267-276 (2012)
Probing the relaxation towards equilibrium in an isolated strongly correlated 1D Bose gas
Authors: Stefan Trotzky, Yu-Ao Chen, Andreas Flesch, Ian P. McCulloch, Ulrich Schollwöck, Jens Eisert, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Nature Physics 8, 325 (2012)
Fermionic transport and out-of-equilibrium dynamics in a homogeneous Hubbard model with ultracold atoms
Authors: Ulrich Schneider, Lucia Hackermüller, Jens Philipp Ronzheimer, Sebastian Will, Simon Braun, Thorsten Best, Immanuel Bloch, Eugene Demler, Stephan Mandt, David Rasch, Achim Rosch
Magazine: Nature Physics 8, 213-218 (2012)
Light-cone-like spreading of correlations in a quantum many-body system
Authors: M. Cheneau, P. Barmettler, D. Poletti, M. Endres, P. Schauß, T. Fukuhara, C. Gross, I. Bloch, C. Kollath, S. Kuhr
Magazine: Nature 481, 484 (2012)
Experimental realization of strong effective magnetic fields in an optical lattice
Authors: M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Nascimbène, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 255301 (2011)
Observation of Correlated Particle-Hole Pairs and String Order in Low-Dimensional Mott Insulators
Authors: M. Endres, M. Cheneau, T. Fukuhara, C. Weitenberg, P. Schauß, C. Gross, L. Mazza, M.C. Banuls, L. Pollet, I. Bloch, S. Kuhr
Magazine: Science 334, 200 (2011)
Effect of Interactions on Harmonically Confined Bose-Fermi Mixtures in Optical Lattices
Authors: M. Snoek, I. Titvinidnze, I. Bloch, W. Hoffstetter
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 155301 (2011)
Landau-Zener sweeps and sudden quenches in coupled Bose-Hubbard chains
Authors: C. Kasztelan, S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, I. Bloch, I. P. McCulloch, U. Schollwöck, G. Orso
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 155302 (2011)
Controlling Correlated Tunneling and Superexchange Interactions with AC-Driven Optical Lattices
Authors: Y.-A. Chen, S. Nascimbène, M. Aidelsburger, M. Atala, S. Trotzky, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 210405 (2011)
Coherent Interaction of a Single Fermion with a Small Bosonic Field
Authors: Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Simon Braun, Ulrich Schneider, and Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 115305 (2011)
Coherent light scattering from a two-dimensional Mott insulator
Authors: C. Weitenberg, P. Schauß, T. Fukuhara, M. Cheneau, M. Endres, I. Bloch, S. Kuhr
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 215301 (2011)
Single-Spin Addressing in an Atomic Mott Insulator
Authors: C. Weitenberg, M. Endres, J. F. Sherson, M. Cheneau, P. Schauß, T. Fukuhara, I. Bloch, S. Kuhr
Magazine: Nature 471, 319 (2011)
Many-body Landau-Zener dynamics in coupled 1D Bose liquids
Authors: Y.-A. Chen, S. Huber, S. Trotzky, I. Bloch, E. Altman
Magazine: Nature Physics 7, 61-67 (2011)
Controlling and Detecting Spin Correlations of Ultracold Atoms in Optical lattices
Authors: S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, U. Schnorrberger, P. Cheinet and I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 265303 (2010)
Suppression of the critical temperature for superfluidity near the Mott transition
Authors: S. Trotzky, L. Pollet, F. Gerbier, U. Schnorrberger, I. Bloch, N.V. Prokof'ev, B. Svistunov, M. Troyer
Magazine: Nature Physics 6, 996-1004 (2010)
Single-atom-resolved fluorescence imaging of an atomic Mott insulator
Authors: J. F. Sherson, C. Weitenberg, M. Endres, M. Cheneau, I. Bloch, S. Kuhr
Magazine: Nature 467, 68 (2010)
Time-resolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals
Authors: Sebastian Will, Thorsten Best, Ulrich Schneider, Lucia Hackermüller, Dirk-Sören Lühmann, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Nature 465, 197-201 (2010)
Anomalous Expansion of Attractively Interacting Fermionic Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Authors: Lucia Hackermüller, Ulrich Schneider, Maria Moreno-Cardoner, Takuya Kitagawa, Thorsten Best, Sebastian Will, Eugene Demler, Ehud Altman, Immanuel Bloch, Belén Paredes
Magazine: Science 327, 1621 (2010)
Exploring strongly correlated quantum many-body systems with ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Authors: Immanuel Bloch, Achim Rosch
Electromagnetically Induced Transparency and Light Storage in an Atomic Mott Insulator
Authors: U. Schnorrberger, J. D. Thompson, S. Trotzky, R. Pugatch, N. Davidson, S. Kuhr, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett., 103, 033003 (2009)
Role of interactions in 87Rb-40K Bose-Fermi mixtures in a 3d optical lattice
Authors: Th. Best, S. Will, U. Schneider, L. Hackermueller, D.-S. Luehmann, D. van Oosten, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 030408 (2009)
Metallic and Insulating Phases of Repulsively Interacting Fermions in a 3D Optical Lattice
Authors: U. Schneider, L. Hackermuller, S. Will, Th. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch, A. Rosch
Magazine: Science 322,1520 (2008)
Expansion of a Quantum Gas Released from an Optical Lattice
Authors: F. Gerbier, S. Trotzky, S. Fölling, U. Schnorrberger, J. D. Thompson, A. Widera, I. Bloch, L. Pollet, M. Troyer, B. Capogrosso-Sansone, N. V. Prokof'ev, and B. V. Svistunov
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 155303 (2008)
Counting atoms using interaction blockade in an optical superlattice
Authors: P. Cheinet, S. Trotzky, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, M. Moreno-Cardoner, S. Foelling, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 101, 090404 (2008)
Quantum Many-Body Dynamics of Coupled Double-Well Superlattices
Authors: P. Barmettler, A.-M. Rey, E. Demler, M.D. Lukin, I. Bloch, V. Gritsev
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 78, 012330 (2008)
Many-Body Physics with Ultracold Gases
Authors: Immanuel Bloch, Jean Dalibard, Wilhelm Zwerger
Magazine: Rev. Mod. Phys. 80, 885 (2008)
Quantum coherence and entanglement with ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 453, 1016 (2008)
Quantum spin dynamics of squeezed Luttinger liquids in two-component atomic gases
Authors: A. Widera, S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Foelling, F. Gerbier, I. Bloch, V. Gritsev, M. D. Lukin, E. Demler
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 140401 (2008)
Achieving the Neel state in an optical lattice
Authors: Arnaud Koetsier, R. A. Duine, Immanuel Bloch, H. T. C. Stoof
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 77, 023623(2008)
Time-resolved Observation and Control of Superexchange Interactions with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Authors: S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, S. Fölling, M. Feld, U. Schnorrberger, A. M. Rey, A. Polkovnikov, E. A. Demler, M. D. Lukin, I. Bloch
Magazine: Science 319, no. 5861, 295 (2008)
State preparation and dynamics of ultracold atoms in higher lattice orbitals
Authors: Torben Mueller, Simon Foelling, Artur Widera, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200405 (2007)
Preparation and detection of magnetic quantum phases in optical superlattices
Authors: A. M. Rey, V. Gritsev, I. Bloch, E. Demler, M.D. Lukin
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 140601 (2007)
Direct Observation of Second Order Atom Tunnelling
Authors: S. Foelling, S. Trotzky, P. Cheinet, M. Feld, R. Saers, A. Widera, T. Mueller, I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 448, 1029-1032 (2007)
Visibility of a Bose-condensed gas released from an optical lattice at finite temperatures
Authors: Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Foelling, Artur Widera, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: arXiv:0701.420
Coherent and incoherent spectral broadening in a photonic crystal fiber
Authors: Christian Gross, Thorsten Best, Dries van Oosten, and Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 200405 (2007)
Free fermion antibunching in a degenerate atomic Fermi gas released from an optical lattice
Authors: T. Rom, Th. Best, D. van Oosten, U. Schneider, S. Fölling, B. Paredes and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 444, 733-736 (2006)
Adiabatic loading of a Bose-Einstein condensate in a 3D optical lattice
Authors: Tatjana Gericke, Fabrice Gerbier, Artur Widera, Simon Foelling, Olaf Mandel, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: J. Mod. Opt. 54, 735 (2007)
Precision measurement of spin-dependent interaction strengths for spin-1 and spin-2 87Rb atoms
Authors: Artur Widera, Fabrice Gerbier, Simon Foelling, Tatjana Gericke, Olaf Mandel, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: New J. Phys. 8, 152 (2006)
Formation of spatial shell structures in the superfluid to Mott insulator transition
Authors: Simon Foelling, Artur Widera, Torben Mueller, Fabrice Gerbier, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Phys Rev. Lett. 97, 060403 (2006)
Quantum information processing in optical lattices and magnetic microtraps
Authors: P. Treutlein, T. Steinmetz, Y. Colombe, B. Lev, P. Hommelhoff, J. Reichel, M. Greiner, O. Mandel, A. Widera, T. Rom, I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch
Resonant control of spin dynamics in ultracold quantum gases by microwave dressing
Authors: Fabrice Gerbier, Artur Widera, Simon Foelling, Olaf Mandel, Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 73, 041602(R) (2006)
Probing Number squeezing of Ultracold Atoms across the Superfluid-Mott Insulator Transition
Authors: F. Gerbier, S. Fölling, A. Widera, O. Mandel, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys Rev. Lett. 96, 090401 (2006)
Interference pattern and visibility of a Mott insulator
Authors: F. Gerbier, A. Widera, S. Fölling, O. Mandel, T. Gericke, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 72, 053606 (2005)
Exploring Quantum Matter with Ultracold Atoms in Optical Lattices
Authors: I. Bloch, M. Greiner
Magazine: Adv. At. Mol. Phys. 52, 1-47 (2005)
Ultracold Quantum Gases in Optical Lattices
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature Physics 1, 23-30 (2005)
Engineering Multi particle entanglement with neutral atoms in optical lattices
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: Braz. J. Phys., (in press)
Coherent collisional spin dynamics in optical lattices
Authors: A. Widera, F. Gerbier, S. Fölling, T. Gericke, O. Mandel, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys Rev. Lett. 95, 190405 (2005)
Phase coherence of an atomic Mott insulator
Authors: F. Gerbier, A. Widera, S. Fölling, O. Mandel, T. Gericke, I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys Rev. Lett. 95, 050404 (2005)
Exploring quantum matter with ultracold atoms in optical lattices
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: J. Phys. B 38, S629-S643 (2005)
Spatial quantum noise interferometry in expanding ultracold atom clouds
Authors: S. Fölling, F. Gerbier, A. Widera, O. Mandel, T. Gericke and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 434, 491 (2005)
State Selective Production of Molecules in Optical Lattices
Authors: T. Rom, T. Best, O. Mandel, A. Widera, M. Greiner, T. W. Hänsch and I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 93, 073002 (2004)
Entanglement Interferometry for Precision Measurement of Atomic Scattering Properties
Authors: A. Widera, O. Mandel, M. Greiner, S. Kreim, T. W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 160406 (2004)
Tonks–Girardeau gas of ultracold atoms in an optical lattice
Authors: B. Paredes, A. Widera, V. Murg, O. Mandel, S. Fölling, I. Cirac, G. V. Shlyapnikov, T. W. Hänsch and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 429, 277-281 (2004)
Experimentieren mit den kältesten Objekten des Universums
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: Forschungsmagazin der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, 42-45 (2004)
Quantum gases in optical lattices
Authors: Immanuel Bloch
Magazine: Physics World, 17, 25-29 (2004)
Controlled collisions for multi-particle entanglement of optically trapped atoms
Authors: O. Mandel, M. Greiner, A. Widera, T. Rom, T. W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature, 425, 937-940 (2003)
Coherent cold collisions with neutral atoms in optical lattices
Authors: I. Bloch, M. Greiner, O. Mandel, and T. W. Hänsch
Magazine: Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. A 361, 1409-1416 (2003)
Beyond Mean Field Physics with Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices
Authors: M. Greiner, O. Mandel, A. Altmeyer, A. Widera, T. Rom, T.W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Proceedings of the XVIII International Conference on Atomic Physics, pp.171-180, World Scientific
Mott-Isolator-Zustand - Perfekte Ordnung am Nullpunkt
Authors: M. Greiner, T.W. Hänsch and I. Bloch
Magazine: Physik in unserer Zeit 33, 51 (2002)
Atomlaser und Phasenkohärenz atomarer Bose-Einstein-Kondensate
Authors: I. Bloch
Magazine: MPQ Report 264 (2001)
Atom lasers and phase coherence of atomic Bose gases
Authors: I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Coherent transport of neutral atoms in spin-dependent optical lattice potentials
Authors: O. Mandel, M. Greiner, A. Widera, T. Rom, T.W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 010407 (2003)
Quantum phase transition from a superfluid to a Mott insulator in an ultracold gas of atoms
Authors: M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T. Rom, A. Altmeyer, A. Widera, T. W. Hänsch and I. Bloch
Magazine: Physica B 329-333, 11-12 (2003)
Collapse and revival of the matter wave field of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Authors: M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T. W. Hänsch and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature, 419, 51-54 (2002)
Bose-Einstein condensates in 1D- and 2D optical lattices
Authors: M. Greiner, I. Bloch, O. Mandel, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Appl. Phys. B 73, 769-772 (2001)
Quantum Phase Transition from a Superfluid to a Mott Insulator in a Gas of Ultracold Atoms
Authors: M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T. Esslinger, T.W. Hänsch, and I. Bloch
Magazine: Nature 415, 39-44 (2002)
Exploring Phase Coherence in a 2D Lattice of Bose-Einstein Condensates
Authors: M. Greiner, I. Bloch, O. Mandel, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 160405 (2001)
Sympathetic cooling of 85Rb and 87Rb
Authors: I. Bloch, M. Greiner, O. Mandel, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 64, 021402(R) (2001)
Optics with an Atom Laser Beam
Authors: I. Bloch, M. Köhl, M. Greiner, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 87, 030401 (2001)
Magnetic transport of trapped cold atoms over a large distance
Authors: M. Greiner , I. Bloch, T. W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 63, 031401 (2001)
Probing first order spatial coherence of a Bose-Einstein condensate
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch and T.W. Hänsch
Magazine: Journal of Modern Optics 14/15, 2725 (2000)
Atomlaser
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch and T.W. Hänsch
Magazine: Physikalische Blätter 56, Heft 2, 47 (2000)
Stimulated light forces using picosecond laser pulses
Authors: I. Bloch, A. Goepfert, D. Haubrich, F. Lison, R. Schutze, R. Wynands and D. Meschede
Magazine: Atom Optics, Proceedings of the SPIE. (1997)
Wenn Materie Quantenwellen schlägt
Authors: I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch und T. Esslinger
Magazine: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, Juli 2000
Measurement of the spatial coherence of a trapped Bose gas at the phase transition
Authors: I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Nature 403, 166 - 170 (2000)
Generating and Manipulating Atom Laser Beams
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch, M. Greiner and T. W. Hänsch
Magazine: Proceedings of the International School of Quantum Electronics (1999)
Materiewellen im Gleichschritt
Authors: I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Physik in unserer Zeit, 30. Jahrgang, Nr. 3, 131 (1999)
The QUIC-trap: A Simple Magnetic Trap for Bose-Einstein Condensation
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch and T.W. Hänsch
Magazine: Proceedings of the International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi" on Bose-Einstein Condensation
From Novel Magnetic Traps to Atom Lasers
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch and T.W. Hänsch
Magazine: Proceeding of the 14th International Conference on Laser Spectroscopy (July 1999)
An Atom Laser with a cw Output Coupler
Authors: I. Bloch, T.W. Hänsch and T. Esslinger
Magazine: Phys. Rev. Lett. 82, 3008 (1999)
Bose-Einstein condensation in a quadrupole-Ioffe-configuration trap
Authors: T. Esslinger, I. Bloch and T.W. Hänsch
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 58, R2664 (1998)
Atom optics with permanent magnetic components
Authors: D. Meschede, I. Bloch, A. Goepfert, D. Haubrich, M. Kreis, F. Lison, R. Schutze and R. Wynands
Magazine: Atom Optics, Proceedings of the SPIE. (1997)
Stimulated focusing and deflection of an atomic beam using picosecond laser pulses
Authors: A. Goepfert, I. Bloch, D. Haubrich, F. Lison, R. Schutze, R. Wynands and D. Meschede
Magazine: Phys. Rev. A 56, R3354 (1997)


