Immanuel Bloch receives the 2026 Wolf Prize in Physics
Immanuel Bloch has been awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize for his pioneering research with ultracold atoms.
Immanuel Bloch · MPQ & LMU Munich
Quantum matter,
light and information.
We investigate many-body physics and develop quantum simulators and processors with ultracold atoms and molecules, optical lattices and tweezer arrays.
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Our group
Quantum physics
in Munich.
We control atoms, molecules and photons to explore quantum many-body physics, light–matter interactions and quantum information.
Our group brings together the Quantum Many-Body Systems Division at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Quantum Optics Group at LMU Munich.
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Norman Yao joins us on sabbatical
Norman Yao is spending his sabbatical with us in Munich.
Department of Physics, Harvard University
Congratulations to Naman Jain on his PhD!
Congratulations to Naman Jain on his PhD, assembling fermionic quantum matter atom by atom in a lithium tweezer-array quantum gas microscope.
Programmable Assembly of Ground State Fermionic Tweezer Arrays
Programmable spin and density patterns are assembled in an 8 × 8 array of fermionic lithium atoms, with motional ground-state fidelities above 98.5%.
Image: Jain et al. · Fig. 1c, cropped · CC BY 4.0
Selected recent publications
Kinetically Constrained Cavity QED: From Blockaded Ferromagnetism to Long-Range Quantum Scars
Hossein Hosseinabadi et al. · PRX Quantum 7, 020357 (2026)
A theoretical model of Rydberg–cavity systems connects blockade-constrained magnetic order with long-range quantum scars.
Programmable Assembly of Ground State Fermionic Tweezer Arrays
Naman Jain et al. · Physical Review Letters 136, 223402 (2026)
Programmable spin and density patterns are assembled in an 8 × 8 array of fermionic lithium atoms, with motional ground-state fidelities above 98.5%.
Universal Global Gates for a Fine-Structure Qubit in Strontium-88
Renhao Tao et al. · Physical Review Letters 136, 153602 (2026)
A universal gate set for a strontium fine-structure qubit combines single- and two-qubit control with detection of qubit loss and mid-circuit erasure conversion.
High-fidelity collisional quantum gates with fermionic atoms
Petar Bojović et al. · Nature 652, 602–608 (2026)
Controlled collisions between fermionic atoms realize high-fidelity entangling gates in optical superlattices.
Observation of emergent scaling of spin–charge correlations at the onset of the pseudogap
Thomas Chalopin et al. · PNAS 123, e2525539123 (2026)
Spin–charge correlations reveal a common temperature scale at the onset of the pseudogap in the doped Fermi–Hubbard model.
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