We are fascinated by ...

  • Universal matter-wave interferometry
    • 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.
    • 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 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:
      ... to open new avenues to mass spectrometry, molecule analysis by harvesting the sensitivity of quantum states.

 Latest News

02.04.2019
 

As of January/February 2019, our paper "Testing the limits of quantum mechanical superpositions" received enough citations to place it in the top 1%...

15.03.2019
 

"Coherent diffraction of hydrogen through the 246 pm lattice of graphene", has been published in New Journal of Physics!

24.01.2019
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Concepts for long-baseline high-mass matter-wave interferometry" in Physica Scripta

 

17.12.2018
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Pushing the mass limit for intact launch and photoionization of large neutral biopolymers" in...

06.12.2018
 

... by the Ministry of Science for his dissertation!

05.12.2018
 

The Arndt Group published a new article on "Probing macroscopic quantum superpositions with nanorotors" in New Journal of Physics