Prof. Immanuel Bloch

Research teams

Rubidium quantum gas microscope
Rydberg dressing, atomic mirrors and constrained dynamics. How does complex quantum many-body behaviour emerge from interactions between individual atoms?

Lithium quantum gas microscope
Doped Fermi-Hubbard model, pseudogap and fermionic gates. How do spin and charge correlations evolve when a Mott insulator is doped?

FermiQP
Fermionic quantum simulation and computing. How can controlled motion and collisions turn a fermionic quantum simulator into a programmable processor?

Dipolar quantum gases of NaK molecules
Microwave-shielded polar molecules and dipolar Fermi gases. What happens to a Fermi gas when its particles interact through strong, long-range and anisotropic dipolar forces?

Strontium Rydberg lab
Large atom arrays, fine-structure qubits and Rydberg gates. How can large, continuously refilled arrays of strontium atoms become programmable quantum processors?

Ytterbium lab

MQV lab
Strontium optical qubits for the Munich Quantum Valley demonstrator. How can the optical clock transition of strontium become a fast, high-fidelity qubit for a neutral-atom quantum computer?

Caesium quantum gas microscope
Bosonic flux ladders, gauge theories and quantum dynamics. What can site-resolved images of currents and fluctuations tell us about strongly interacting bosons in optical lattices?

Sr Cryo Lab
Cryogenic strontium tweezer arrays with two-hour trap lifetimes. Can a simple cryogenic apparatus hold large strontium atom arrays for hours and turn them into a quantum simulator for XXZ magnets?

About

Immanuel Bloch is scientific director at the Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics, Garching and professor for experimental physics at the Ludwig-Maximilians University (LMU) in Munich. He is also one of the spokespersons of the Munich Center for Quantum Science and Technology (MCQST) . Immanuel Bloch obtained his PhD in physics in 2000 from LMU. From 2003-2009 he was full professor at the University of Mainz. In 2009 he returned to Munich, where his research focus lies on the investigation of quantum many-body systems, quantum simulations, quantum information processing and quantum optics. Immanuel Bloch received several prizes for his work, among them the Gottfried-Wilhelm-Leibniz prize of the German Science Foundation (DFG), the German National Merit Medal in 2005, the international commission of optics prize, the Senior Prize for Fundamental Aspects of Quantum Electronics and Optics of the European Physical Society, the Körber European Science Prize, the Senior BEC Award and the Harvey Prize of the Technion. Recently he received the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2021, the highest distinction in Bavaria for outstanding contributions in these two disciplines and was named Clarivate Citation Laureate in 2022.

Over 370 international invited talks and more than 160 invited national talks.

Contact

Phone

+49 89 3 29 05 - 238 (MPQ)