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

01.08.2023
 

Congratulations to Lorenz Hummer on defending his Master thesis with distinction.

03.07.2023
 

Giovanbattista Favorito has joined the LUMI team as a summer intern, coming from Rome.

 

03.07.2023
 

Ernest Dokudowiec has joined the BIOTIMA team as a summer intern, coming from Cambridge.

03.07.2023
 

Théo Pelletier has joined the SuperMaMa team as a summer intern, coming from Paris.

15.06.2023
 

Bradley May has joined the SuperMaMa team as a summer intern, coming from Chicago.

22.05.2023
 

A talk by Bodil Holst about Scientific Paper Writing!