We are fascinated by and working on ...

  • Universal matter-wave interferometry & the foundations of physics
    • Towards metal cluster interferometry:
      a new material class in quantum physics to probe the interface to the classical world.  
    • From Polypeptide towards Protein interferometry:
      a new material class to study complexity & dynamics of biomolecules in quantum physics.   
  • Cooling and quantum optomechanics 
    • Optical cooling of non-spherical nanoparticles to explore their rotational quantum states.
    • Trapping & cooling of nanobiological matter to harvest their internal complexity. 
  • Enabling technologies for quantum experiments
    • Sources of metal clusters, dielectric and biological nanomaterials: for matter-wave interferometry.
    • Single-photon charge control and coherent beam splitting of proteins & metal clusters. 
    • Interfeormeter concepts for complex nanomatter.
  • Quantum sensors
    • Matter-wave deflectometers with high better than yocto-Newton force sensitivity:
      ... to measure electro-magnetic, optical & dynamical properties of molecules of interst to biology and chemistry.
    • Trapped nanorotors: 
      ... to realize highly sensitive torque & rotations sensors on the micron scale.  
    • Superconducting nanowire detectors:
      ... for mass spectrometry and molecule analysis, harvesting the sensitivity of quantum phase transitions.

 Latest News

18.10.2022
 

Josef Reisinger will focus in his Master project on slow biomolecular beams

 

18.10.2022
 

Stefan Schrems will focus in his master project on high mass particle sources.

18.10.2022
 

Tim Kostersitz will focus in his master thesis on quantum tools for mass spectrometry.

29.09.2022
 

Congratulations to Martin Mauser on defending his Master thesis with distinction.

17.09.2022
 

"Frontiers of Matterwave Optics" is the largest biannual matter-wave meeting. This year at ICTP/Triest.

15.09.2022
 

Nanoscale Magnetism Probed in a Matter-Wave Interferometer