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

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

21.11.2018
 

The German Physical Society (DPG) awarded Markus Arndt with the Robert-Wichard-Pohl Prize 2019

01.11.2018
 

Welcome Pietro!

We welcome Pietro Vahramian from Milan as a new Master Student on the nanoparticle cooling experiment.