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Welcome! We are carrying out research in the field of quantum optics and quantum many-body systems using ultracold atomic and molecular quantum gases at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics and the Ludwig Maximilians University. Furthermore, our group is part of the Munich Quantum Center.

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Our entire group: Bachelor, Master and PhD Students, Postdoctoral Researchers and Senior Scientists as well as Technical and Administrative staff.

Our Labs

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NEWS

Microscopic evolution of doped Mott insulators from polaronic metal to Fermi liquid

October 01, 2021

The competition between antiferromagnetism and hole motion in two-dimensional Mott insulators lies at the heart of a doping-dependent transition from an anomalous metal to a conventional Fermi liquid…

"It’s great to see the passion, the verve, with which the work is done here“

September 15, 2021

German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder visited the MPQ and got a lab tour at our Rubidium Quantum Gas Microscope experiment.

Observing non-ergodicity due to kinetic constraints in tilted Fermi-Hubbard chains

July 30, 2021

It has been predicted that even in the absence of disorder many-body systems may fail to thermalize.
In this work we observe non-ergodic dynamics in the 1D tilted Fermi-Hubbard model that is distinct…

Collisions of ultracold molecules in bright and dark optical dipole traps

July 05, 2021

What happens when two molecules collide with each other? This seemingly simple question remains unanswered in many cases. Specifically, when two molecules collide in such a way that chemical reactions…

Group Seminar via Zoom: NMR studies of quantum thermalization

October 12, 2021

Pai Peng, MIT
Group Seminar via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, October 12, 3:00 p.m (MEZ)

Group Seminar: Low-energy dynamics in correlated Fermi superfluids

October 05, 2021

Prof. Francesco Scazza, University of Trieste and CNR-INO, Italy
Hybrid group seminar at LMU (Schellingstr. 4, Seminar room H 107) and via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, October 5th, 9:00 am (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: Entanglement in non-classical spin states and realisation of a Laughlin charge pump with ultracold dysprosium

September 21, 2021

Tanish Satoor, Laboratoire Kastler Brossel
Group Seminar via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, September 21st, 9:00 am (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: A Polarization Synthesizer for sublattice-dependent imaging of ultracold atoms in a Honeycomb lattice

September 14, 2021

Valentin Weyerer, LMU Munich
Group Seminar via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, September 14th, 9:00 am (MEZ)

Special Groop Seminar via Zoom: Fractal-like nanomechanical resonators with ultralow dissipation
Quantum gas microscopy of highly dipolar gases of Erbium

September 02, 2021

Robin Groth, Greiner Lab, Harvard University
Group Seminar via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, September 2nd, 4:00 p.m (MEZ)