Prof. Immanuel Bloch

Phone: +49 89 32905 138

Fax: +49 89 32905 313

immanuel.bloch(at)mpq.mpg.de

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

since 2009
Chair for Experimental Physics - Quantum Optics
at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich

since 2008
Scientific Director of the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division
at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Garching

2003-2009
Full Professor for Experimental Physics & Head of QUANTUM Group
at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz

2000-2003
Project Leader Ultracold Quantum Gases
at the Max-Planck Institute for Quantum Optics & Ludwig-Maximilians University in the Group of Theodor W. Hänsch

1998-2000
PhD Student
at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich in the group of Theodor W. Hänsch

1997-1998
Research Visit
Stanford University in the group of Mark. A. Kasevich

1995-1997
Diploma Thesis
University of Bonn in the group of Dieter Meschede

1991-1995
Physics studies
University of Bonn

Awards & Scholarships

2011 Elected member of the German National Academy of Sciences (Leopoldina)
2011 EPS Senior Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics
2008 Distinguished Lecturer (Technion)
2007 Philip-Morris Research Prize 2007
2005 International Commission for Optics Prize 2005
2005 National Merit Medal (Bundesverdienstorden)
2004 Arkadi Aronov Memorial Lecturer (Weizmann Institute of Science)
2004 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Prize 2005 of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)
2004 Marie-Curie Excellence Grant (EU) (predecessor of ERC Junior Grant)
2003 Rudolf-Kaiser-Prize 2002
2002 Otto-Hahn Medal of the Max-Planck Society
2001 PhD Prize of the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich
2000 Research Prize of the Faculty of Physics
of the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
2000 Philip-Morris research prize 2000
(together with mit T. W. Hänsch und T. Esslinger)

Invited Talks

Over 147 international invited talks and more than 87 invited national talks.
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Selected Publications fold

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)

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 (Advanced online publication)

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)

Probing the relaxation towards equilibrium in an isolated strongly correlated 1D Bose gas

Authors: S. Trotzky, Y.-A. Chen, A. Flesch, I. P. McCulloch, U. Schollwöck, J. Eisert, I. Bloch

Magazine: arXiv:1101.2659v1

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)

Paired in one dimension

Authors: I. Bloch

Magazine: Nature 467, 535-536 (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

Magazine: Physica Status Solidi B 247, No 3, 530-536 (2010)

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)

Quantum Gases

Authors: Immanuel Bloch

Magazine: Science 319, 1202(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

Magazine: Fortschr. Phys. 54, No.8-10, 702-718(2006)

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

Magazine: RIKEN Review on Coherent Science 33, 6 (2001)

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)

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