Our mission is ...

  • Universal matter-wave interferometry & the foundations of physics
    • Demonstrated quantum interference of atoms & molecules:
      Fullerenesvitamins,  macromolecules, molecular clusters, antibiotic polypeptides, and massive metal clusters. already exceeding 170'000 atomic mass units. 
    • Exploring new materials, complexity classes & internal dynamics in quantum interferometry:  
      proteins, metal clusters, dielectric nanoparticles.
    • Quantitative experiments on dephasing and decoherence.
  • Cooling and quantum optomechanics 
    • Optical cooling to trapped rotational quantum ground states.
    • Trapping & cooling of nanobiological matter
  • Enabling technologies for quantum experiments
    • Molecular beam sources for cold metallic, dielectric and biological nanomaterials.
    • Universal coherent beam splitter technologies
  • Quantum sensing
    • Matter-wave assisted force measurements with < 10-26 N sensitivity.
    • Trapped nanorotors for torque & rotation sensing on the micron scale.  
    • Superconducting quantum detectors for mass spectrometry & molecule analysis.

 Latest News

19.10.2022
 
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.