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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.

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A subradiant optical mirror formed by a single structured atomic layer

July 24, 2020

Versatile interfaces with strong and tunable light–matter interactions are cornerstones for quantum science as they enable the mapping of quantum properties between light and matter. Single atoms are…

Robust Bilayer Charge Pumping for Spin- and Density-Resolved Quantum Gas Microscopy

July 14, 2020

Methods to control and readout multilayer systems are scarce and unreliable, but highly desirable to access quantum simulation of layered materials or to improve detection and manipulation of…

Realization of an anomalous Floquet topological system with ultracold atoms

July 02, 2020

Topological phases of matter have attracted a lot of interest due to their unique electronic properties that often result in exotic surface or boundary modes, whose existence is rooted in the…

Floquet Prethermalization in a Bose-Hubbard System

May 27, 2020

The periodic driving of both classical and quantum systems can reveal new phenomena without an analog in non-driven systems. Nonetheless, periodically driven systems do not fulfill energy…

Group Seminar via Zoom: Non-ergodicity in the tilted 1D Fermi-Hubbard model due to kinetic constraints

August 04, 2020

Sebastian Scherg, LMU
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, August 4th, 09:00 (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: Realizing All-to-All Spin Models with Ultracold Atoms in an Optical Cavity

July 28, 2020

Julian Wienand, Stanford University/LMU
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday July 28th, 9:00 (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: Realization and characterization of an anomalous Floquet topological
system with ultracold atoms

July 21, 2020

Karen Wintersperger, LMU
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, July 21st, 09:00 (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: Clock-line photoassociation of strongly bound dimers in a magic-wavelength lattice

July 14, 2020

Oscar Bettermann, LMU
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, Tuesday July 14th, 09:00 (MEZ)

Group Seminar via Zoom: Freely Configurable Holographic Trap Arrays for the Trapping of Single Atoms

June 30, 2020

Philip Osterholz, MPQ Masters work
Group meeting via video conference (Zoom)
Tuesday, June 30th, 09:00 (MEZ)